Re: dhclient changes IP address
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I have a system which comes up with one IP address 192.168.178.87 via > dhclient, then after one day it gets eventually a different address > 192.168.178.88 from my fritz.box, which runs the dhcp server: > > Any hint what is going on here or how to debug this issue is very welcome. > hello rainer! i would like to repay the help you gave me on the kde thread with kmail, nepomuk and baloo ... but i don't know if i can. we had a similar problem where the ip address of one of our virtual machines kept being reset because the mac address on the bridge was being changed to the veth address right after we started the firewall. we solved this problem by setting the bridge's mac: ip link set br0 address 00:1c:f0:a1:b5:23 (different from the veth address) http://backreference.org/2010/07/28/linux-bridge-mac-addresses-and-dynamic-ports/ we found this out of course using ifconfig. i came across this article which may be of some use because it talks about extending and reserving your lease: Reduce or Eliminate Inconvenient DHCP Address Changes http://www.practicallynetworked.com/howto/032708_printer_issues_pt2.htm hope you get the answer you are looking for, if mine don't suffice. -- in friendship, prad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lo21bv$6kb$1...@ger.gmane.org
kmail search and email completion problems
i'm running sid with kmail 4.12.4 everything works well except: 1. i can't Find Messages because i get "Nepomuk cannot make search. Errors found: All folders selected are empty or were not indexed." even though akonadiconsole's agent akonadi nepomuk feeder says "indexing completed". in fact, it even shows email indexing taking place when there is new mail. when i manually force it to happen through folder properties, nothing seems to happen and in there it claims "Still not indexed". 2. email address autocompletion doesn't work from kaddressbook (though it does from recent addresses). after researching, i am led to believe from various postings that these issues are both somehow related to nepomuk and akonadi. for instance, nina steiger writes in the "Kmail address completion from addressbook" (debian.user.kde): "I have Mail indexing activated as well as nepomuk and the address completion is now 10 fold faster than before. (Debian wheezy and kde 4.11 from jessie)" so some people have things working properly. i have kde-full installed, but had separately installed virtuoso, nepomuk and strigi (before which kmail couldn't send email). what can be done to solve these two issues? (crossposted to debian.user, debian.kde.talk, debian.user.kde) -- in friendship, prad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lns92l$scq$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: dealing with bad file permissions.
atar writes: > Hi there!! > > I have in my machine a directory that has the value of '000' as its > permissions and even when I switch to the root account (using the 'su' > command), I'm not able to 'chown' it nor to 'chmod' it nor to delete > it. so my question is simply how can I deal with such a directory or > file? (I have no idea how were these permissions changed to '000'). > hi atar! i've never come across this, so i looked up a couple of threads on the matter: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/46013-file-permission-000-a.html http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/programming-scripting/147666-how-delete-directory-000-permission-any-idea.html though neither deal with your specific issue at hand, what i did was make a directory with root and chmod 000. then i changed it back to 755. so i'm not sure why you can't do this yourself. what you might try doing is copying any files out of the it to some other directory and then deleting it. i was able to do all this, so may be you can too. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87a9fyq6br@psinom.home
upgrade dist from squeeze to wheezy
we have been on squeeze for a couple of years and run a server using openvz. we also have some backports and some software in /usr/local we compiled (so we could use more updated versions). we want to do a dist upgrade to wheezy. is the correct process: 1. uninstall backports and /usr/local software 2. run aptitude dist-upgrade on main system 3. run aptitude dist-upgrade on openvz server are there any issues we should be aware/cautious about or do things go pretty smoothly? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87haa6q908@psinom.home
Re: videos not playing ... sometimes
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:38:43 -0700, prad wrote: > >> i'm using squeeze stable and gnome. >> >> sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play >> at all through firefox, but will through epiphany. > > What do you mean by "don't play"? What's showed instead the video? > it loads up, but nothing plays. it freezes and you just see a black window for movieplayer or mplayer. >> if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or >> mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so >> the download is obviously fine). > > Are these videos also flashplayer based movies or different media files > (mpeg, avi...)? Anyway, if you launch the video from command line > probably you will get more information on why it fails to load. > they are whatever i convert it to. none of them work. right now it's working again. i will take your suggestion and see what i can find from the command line when it stops. thx camaleon! -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87has0hhuh@psinom.home
videos not playing ... sometimes
i'm using squeeze stable and gnome. sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play at all through firefox, but will through epiphany. if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so the download is obviously fine). it's almost as though some cache or other gets filled up and vids stop playing. the machine i use is a quad core with 7G memory. any ideas on what the problem might be? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87628k2bek@psinom.home
Re: dwww can't read some files
Camaleón writes: > dwww: can't access postgresql-8.1 page for alter_table > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399366 > > Explanation on the why (although I'm not sure if that still remains true) > at comment #10. > fantastic, camaleon! thanks very much! it never occurred to me to think this might be discussed as a bug (as robert suggests in the post), so i never examined those referring to bugs. i added: DWWW_DOCPATH=/usr/share/postgresql/8.4/man/ and everything works beautifully! -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87ehr93v89@psinom.home
dwww can't read some files
once in a while i get dwww will not allow you to read the file for instance, when i look for clusterdb by searching for postgresql and choosing the clusterdb link the error message is Access denied dwww will not allow you to read the file /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/man/man1/clusterdb.1.gz the permissions are rw-r-r yet these items all show up on a straight man: man clusterdb and will work even with dwww if i go a circuitous route: click Manual pages click C click clusterdb so it seems that there are 2 sets of man pages because the latter reads fine from: http://localhost/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/man/man1/clusterdb.1.gz?type=man which is a softlink to /etc/alternatives/clusterdb.1.gz is there a way i can get dwww to work from the postgresql directory? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87zk9x4st3@psinom.home
Re: hp tc4200 tablet pen input howto?
Camaleón writes: > How are you running "xinput"? Are you inside an X session? > extremely foolishly! i was doing it remotely from the ssh terminal. :( i eventually went to ubuntu because the pen worked right away, but i might return to debian just to get things to work. :D thx for your question or i could be wandering around cyberspace still. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87fwcsfg9x@psinom.home
hp tc4200 tablet pen input howto?
i'm running debian squeeze stable and according to this: Instructions for Debian Squeeze (Xorg >= 1.7) Both Xorg and the Linux Wacom project have changed DRASTICALLY in Debian Squeeze (for example Xorg 1.7 eliminated its configuration file "xorg.conf" file). The instructions on this page are limited to older systems. However, if you have Squeeze then you can easily get your Wacom working by installing the Debian packages "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" and "xinput". After plugging in your tablet you can configure it using the "xinput" command (note that the utility "xsetwacom" is no longer necessary). http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/wacom.html i should be able to get the tablet to work. xserver-xorg-input-wacom xinput hal are all installed. however, whenever i try to do something with xinput i get: Unable to connect to X server i got the impression that xinput will help me configure the tablet so the pen will work? i tried the tablet on ubuntu live and the pen worked right away. what do i need to do? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/871uodh1fz@psinom.home
Re: LaTeX to HTML converters and comments.
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > tth converts LaTeX to HTML nicely but strips the comments. > The manual remarks "% Comments. Simply removed." Can anyone > suggest a converter which encloses each comment in ? > what's tth as in debian? i did aptitude search tth but only got this showing up: p libmatthew-debug-java p libmatthew-io-java p libmatthew-java-doc p tthsum what is it called? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/871uxivu5n@psinom.home
hard drive configuration
in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to do. now we've been experimenting with xfs on which there will be openvs containers to run the web/mail servers. containers go into /var/lib/vz and we're thinking of keeping them in a separate partition too. additionally, we've split things up so there are partitions for /usr /usr/local /tmp /home and so on. so i'm musing over whether to have a /data partition as before - it doesn't seem to make quite the same sense at this stage. however, when it comes time to change to the next debian, i keep thinking having the data separate may be an advantage. do people have favorite partitioning schemes with appropriate justifications for them? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/8762ojlyj7@psinom.home
xfs backup system vs rsynce
xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump and restore on freebsd. the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? my feelings are slanted towards using xfs tools since i'm using xfs, though i would appreciate hearing what people have to say before leaving rsync behind (though i may use it locally for quick stuff). -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87boyju5st@psinom.home
Re: gnus info manual
Sven Joachim writes: > Install the emacs23-common-non-dfsg package from non-free, it also > contains all the other Emacs manuals. > ah perfect! thx sven! i knew this had something to do with the non-free repository from doing the About Gnus in the Help section, but didn't know what to do about it. i kept looking for something under gnus, when actually it was an emacs addition that i needed! -- in friendship, prad -- 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/8739kfpzs0@psinom.home
gnus info manual
this doesn't seem to exist on debian so when i C-c TAB i get the message: Info-find-file: Info file gnus does not exist i couldn't figure out how to get the info manual either though i did come across something like this: apt-get source -t stable gnus to install the (old) gnus info manual into my etch system http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/11/msg00329.html what is the best way to get the gnus info manual onto the system? (i know i can access it via the web or download html, pdf etc versions of it). -- in friendship, prad -- 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/877h9rq2a7@psinom.home
Re: file systems
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > On 05/01/2011 04:34 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> That 'opinion' is based, in part, on the following facts, many of >> which are in my previous posts to this list. If you would like, to >> avoid expressing 'opinion' in the future, I could simply paste the >> following huge ass text into every email dealing with XFS, instead of >> using short hand subjective phrases such as 'XFS is the overall best >> Linux FS'. The following, and additional evidence freely available, >> demonstrates this 'opinion' to be fact. >> >> All four US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) labs: >> LANL, LLNL, Oak Ridge, and Sandia, as well as NASA Ames and the US Air >> Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, have all used, or still >> use, XFS and/or CXFS on large scale storage, dozens of petabytes of >> XFS disk total. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority > this isn't an ipse dixit, eduardo. stan is not arguing xfs should be used because NNSA uses it. he is simply demonstrating that there are reputable organizations who use xfs. this fact provides evidence in support of the accolades bestowed on the fs. it doesn't make the fs 'right' and neither is the argument presented that it is 'right'. >> NASA Ames has been using XFS for 16+ years, and still do, on the >> 10,240 processor (originally) Columbia super and the archival >> servers. They're currently running an 800TB CXFS filesystem on SAN >> storage, and local XFS filesystems on 215TB, 175TB, and 65TB direct >> fiber attached storage. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition > neither is this an argumentum ad antiquitatem. again all that is being shown is that xfs has a long history of use again with a reputable organization. again, it is merely supporting evidence and it is not being argued that because the organization has used this for x years, it should necessary continuous to do so because of this fact. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87tydemjn6@psinom.home
Re: file systems
Chris Brennan writes: [snip] > No worries, couldn't hurt to read up on CDDL[1], *BSD[2] Licences and > GNU/GPL [3]. As for your general Filesystem needs, XFS or XFS-LVM is > probably the smart way to go. > > You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) > storage? You might want to also consider reading up on USB's general > policy about write few, read many. In a nutshell, most USB devices > don't like to be written to many many times (such as a busy *primary* > FS). They have a limited shelf-life of writes )wear leveling) before > they go bad (I have an OCZ ATV rubber thumb drive that has suffered > this.) This is why they tell you defragmenting SSD's is a *VERY* bad > idea, you significantly reduce the write ability of the device.[4] > [5][6] > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses > [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License > [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Advantages_and_disadvantages > [5] http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/ > 114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.html > [6] http://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FAQ_flash_drive_wear_leveling.pdf > many thx chris for the links. i was surprised to read this: "one of the reasons for basing the CDDL on the Mozilla license was that the Mozilla license is GPL-incompatible." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License looking further i saw: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) considers the license a free software license, albeit one with a weak copyleft. However, "unlike the X11 license" (MIT License) the license has "some complex restrictions" making it incompatible with the GNU GPL. They urge people not to use the license because of this incompatibility unless the provision in section 13 of the MPL is exercised to provide the work under either the GPL or any other GPL-compatible license.[2] For these reasons, the Mozilla Suite and Firefox have been relicensed under multiple licenses, including the MPL, GPL and LGPL." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License#Compatibility_with_GPL so that might be why firefox is called iceweasel on debian and nakamoura on arch. also, thx for the tips regarding my usb idea. i agree it isn't a good one for several reasons. we'll stick to regular hard drives for now when we switch from freebsd to debian in june. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87bozori3r@psinom.home
Re: file systems
Ron Johnson writes: > On 04/29/2011 01:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 4/26/2011 5:40 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> But not being able to fsck the fs that I just created is unacceptable. >> >> Again, 'xfs_repair -n' is functionally equivalent to 'xfs_check'. They >> are two methods (paths) that (should) arrive at the same result. Either >> will let you know if the filesystem has errors. >> >> Have you run 'xfs_repair -n' yet to see if it trips over your per >> process memory limit? If it doesn't, you have your fsck and can eat it >> too. ;) >> > > I already converted to ext4. > and i have converted to xfs! i am very impressed so far and will try to document my experiences with it as a sort of 'noob guide' ... if only to help myself out. :D thx again stan! i'm looking forward to learning about the filesystem, something i never bothered with in the past. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87fwp0riw9@psinom.home
Re: file systems
Chris Brennan writes: > CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun > Microsystems and is now Oracle. > sorry my mistake for thinking zfs was bsd (even after you said it was cddl)! i was confusing it with the fact that you can use zfs via freebsd). thx for the correction. i looked it up and the key point for me is that "The Free Software Foundation considers it a free software license that is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License > The BSD Licence and GNU can co-exists quite > well and have for a very long time. > i'd forgotten this largely i think due to some of the hostility demonstrated on the excellent freebsd mailist towards gpl (a few years ago). i guess this is also why you can actually have debian/freebsd then. furthermore, we bridge the incompatibilities perhaps: zfs --> cddl||bsd --> bsd||gpl --> debian(gpl)/freebsd(bsd) i'm not up on the licensing protocols so i'm just guessing here. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87tydrdpqa@towardsfreedom.com
Re: file systems
Stan Hoeppner writes: > I'd steer clear of USB disk storage for a server environment. I've seen > too many reports of USB links resetting spuriously for no apparent > reason. If you have your root filesystem and swap on such a device and > this happens, you're in trouble. > ok thx stan. i hadn't seen any such issues when i looked into this, but that's probably because people use usb drives mainly for bkp and portability instead of as a platform for serving though i did come across one such tip #9: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-cool-things-you-can-do-with-a-usb-flash-drive/931 however, the idea seems to be just a 'temporary' demo utility. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87y633dt6c@towardsfreedom.com
Re: file systems
Chris Brennan writes: >> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using >> debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, >> so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. >> >> i'm curious as to feelings on this combo vs xfs with straight debian >> (which is really what we are leaning to) as we start our research on >> the matter. >> > > You also need to take into account that CDDL (The Sun/Oracle Licence) > is not compatible with the GNU Licence, so there are legal issues as > well (see the ZFS link I initially posted a few days ago.) The whole > point of the rewrite project is to have a native (in-kernel) solution > that is legally compatible as well as stable (which it's not right > now.) > ok this pretty well seals things. we aren't thinking about doing debian to support the BSD license (not that i have anything personal against it, but if we're talking 'free', we need to 'stay free' and not play with the idea, imho). so thanks for eliminating the final brick, chris - xfs here we come! -- in friendship, prad -- 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/8739lbf8ow@towardsfreedom.com
Re: file systems
prad writes: > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? > one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. i'm curious as to feelings on this combo vs xfs with straight debian (which is really what we are leaning to) as we start our research on the matter. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/877hanflrp@towardsfreedom.com
Re: file systems
Stan Hoeppner writes: > prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: > >> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a >> total departure from what we've done over the years. so might as well >> throw in a new fs too. :D > > Why USB? > since our volume is pretty small we only require around 10G. the idea is to keep bkps on usb drives, so that if one fails, it's just a simple plug-in to get things going again. we were thinking that we avoid any possibility of hd failure/replacement this way and likely reduce power requirements too. i've read that usb3 has faster write access than hd (though usb2 apparently didn't). read access though is apparently just as good with usb2. we haven't evaluated the idea fully yet though and are just contemplating the possibility as a sort of poorman's solid state drives. -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87bozzfmcn@towardsfreedom.com
Re: file systems
Stan Hoeppner writes: > you left out the best, most mature, highest performance Linux > filesystem of them all: XFS > that i did stan! i'd completely forgotten about it ever since i heard it was good only for big files many years ago (i never really investigated it either back then). we don't have a need for better performance since we aren't running a high production server. on the other hand, the possibility of learning and using a different fs is appealing to both my son and myself since we setup our system as an educational venture. we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a total departure from what we've done over the years. so might as well throw in a new fs too. :D this is a wonderful list and there are so many informative answers to my original post! i very much appreciate yours in particular, stan! we will do as you say and start reading up about fs and especially about xfs! -- in friendship, prad -- 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/878vv4gqoq@towardsfreedom.com
file systems
we are thinking of redoing our existing servers and workstations in june. our servers is low volume and run out of our home via cable. right now the servers are running freebsd and our personal machines use arch linux, but we'd like to unify everything onto debian because a) we've liked it in the past b) we like the social contract c) we appreciate the no-nonsense attitude about 'free' we are contemplating the fs to use: ext4 (which we've used for a couple of years) zfs (we've heard this is really good) btrfs (ditto - though it's still 'new' and 'lacking' features) are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? -- in friendship, prad -- 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/87wriqjd0t@towardsfreedom.com
how to get numdisplay to work
we are using python-pyfits to try to work through a scipy tutorial: http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/Tutorial it requires import numdisplay, but there is no python-numdisplay on debian (as there is on fedora, for instance). on the web we can get numdisplay, but it produced this same error: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/numdisplay-wont-display-anything-in-debian-720425/#post3515151 unfortunately, there isn't a solution on that forum, so i was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: emacs22 and version control
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:08:58 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Do I have to do anything special for emacs22? > no > File is under version-control; use C-x v v to check in/out [2 times] > > without getting into the vc log message buffer. > rcs is working fine for me. when i check in i get to add a comment (is this what you are not seeing?) if i want to see the log messages i C-x v l -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
strange app start-up slowness
using lenny, some apps particularly gnome-terminal starts slowly 1s or more - new tabs here can take nearly 2s. emacs takes 1-2s on initial startup and then about 1s afterwards. (firefox starts slowly but new instances appear very quickly - so not a problem.) it is peculiar because the behaviour isn't consistent. the machine is a compaq presario sr1920nx (amd64), with 512M (2 matched 256M) ram. graphics card is nvidia ge-force 6150 128M, but the fan is broken - seems to work fine though. we run compiz, but metacity isn't any faster. running tops with out any apps open show memory usage at 494M without any applications being open. gnome-terminal is the biggest problem and i couldn't find anything all over the net about startup slowness. also, sometimes exiting the system (restart or shutdown) can take several minutes just to get out of the desktop screen (though things seem to speed up if i ctrl-alt-F1 into a terminal) - sometimes it happens within a few seconds. any ideas as to why gnome-terminal is so slow? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bash Session
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:27:08 +0530 Kurian Thayil wrote: > Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will > make them more interesting and love command line. > to do this, i think it is a good idea to contrast cl and gui. for instance, say you have a bunch of .txt files in a folder and want to copy them to another folder. show them how you would have to select the .txt using gui (either 1 by 1 or by sorting by extension, if possible) and drag to the other folder ... or cp *.txt otherfolder/ this sort of concrete demo should make using the less familiar cl approach more desirable. then of course, you create a few simple exercises which they can try using gui and cl, so they have to problem solve for themselves. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
debian and ubuntu
we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for using one or the other. are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer hardware)? what's better for use on a server? ubuntu has a server edition (with an excellent guide), but is it any different from debian? i personally like debian's slow cycle - i don't like to upgrade if i can help it. my son, on the otherhand, likes to try the new stuff whenever possible. i would like to see some opinions and personal experiences regarding these 2 excellent systems! -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64 vs 32 lenny
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:20:16 +0100 Chris wrote: > I went ahead and installed the 64 bit version. I'm actually very happy > at the performance. > ya i went to 64 last night too and we're sure that things are working faster - particularly starting applications! this discussion has been very enlightening, even though i don't understand some of it yet. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64 vs 32 lenny
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > I recommend 64-bits for new installs, but for existing setups, there > is no need to update, unless you have specific needs. > this is good advice. however, since i have just installed lenny with the intent of experimenting with it (came from freebsd7), i think i will go with 64 based on what you (and roger) have written (at least on a separate partition to start with). > Oops, make that *3* GB or less ... > this is very interesting. i had no idea about the hardware end of it. thx. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
64 vs 32 lenny
i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit apps that require extra processing power like number-crunching. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:40:05 +0100 Robert Hodgins wrote: > Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. > ok this is good to know since we have several older machines we want to install debian on. does it ever make sense to install older versions on older machines? or is it better to just go with the latest? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
