Re: problems with radeon driver

2007-06-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 > (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this card, > after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported this > problem in the past. The only workaround

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher Nelson
On 2007-06-19, j j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have only made backups of /home, but nothing else. I havent found > anything in /tmp nor /lost+found. i am not sure how i could have been > attacked; maybe when I boot winXP on the same box. Do you have any services running (ssh, apache, etc) a

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:58:13PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > j j wrote: > >Hello > > > >I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just > >discovered that /etc directory is missing. I dont think i deleted it, > >but it seems that I must have. > > > Unless you have a backup you

Re: Virtual Interface problem

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
david robert wrote: > Today i have added one virtual interface to my server with eth0:1 > with ip address and all other details after testing i have removed > this from /etc/network/interfaces file and restarted the networking > service but when i check ifconfig command still it is showing both > i

Re: Intel pro100 NIC problem in Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Yuwen Dai
On 6/19/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yuwen Dai([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Dear all, > > I have a Intel pro100 network card in my PC. The system loads kernel module > `e100' automatically when booting. But ifconfig eth0 up failed. If I > manually load `eepro100'

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread j j
I have only made backups of /home, but nothing else. I havent found anything in /tmp nor /lost+found. i am not sure how i could have been attacked; maybe when I boot winXP on the same box. jj6419 On 6/18/07, Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew K Poer wrote: > That's rough. An

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread Julian De Marchi
Matthew K Poer wrote: That's rough. Any idea what could have caused that? It almost sounds like a malicious attack, has anyone had access to your computer and root account? On Monday 18 June 2007 8:54 pm, j j wrote: Hello I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discove

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread Matthew K Poer
That's rough. Any idea what could have caused that? It almost sounds like a malicious attack, has anyone had access to your computer and root account? On Monday 18 June 2007 8:54 pm, j j wrote: > Hello > > I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered > that /etc dire

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread Kent West
j j wrote: Hello I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered that /etc directory is missing. I dont think i deleted it, but it seems that I must have. Unless you have a backup you can restore, or can copy over an /etc from a fairly similar box, you're pretty

/etc is gone

2007-06-18 Thread j j
Hello I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered that /etc directory is missing. I dont think i deleted it, but it seems that I must have. jj6419

Re: Upgrading thousands of boxes via APT

2007-06-18 Thread Ben
I strongly recommend going with a pull process. Bob I believe that I'm trying to create a push/pull method. The pull method (cron-apt) would be for minor updates/releases, but push would be used for special cases (critical rollouts, individual adjustments). In addition, the tool that I wa

Re: New LCD monitor problem : VESA Can't handle it.

2007-06-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I am attempting to get a Samsung 204BW 20" LCD monitor setup for a > new amd-64 system I have ordered, but am having problems setting it > up. > > I have spent the weekend goggling for answers but was unable to > locate anything that worked

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread s. keeling
Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish. Others have suggested disabling pango if you've no need for foreign language support. "ex

Migration - what is?

2007-06-18 Thread andy
Hello Debianistas Wandering through 'top' (as one does) I stumbled across: 2 root RT 0 000 S0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 [snip] 2 root RT 0 000 S0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 I can't find any reference to this on the system docs. Can someone

Script to rotate virtual-server logs Apache2

2007-06-18 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I the Apache 1.3 servers there was a way to rotate logs in the log directories for each of the virtual servers. I could not find a way to do this in the New Apache2 server. So I hacked up the old apache cron script and put this into the /etc/cron.weekly/ directory and it seems to do the tr

How to change the default GTK input method?

2007-06-18 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have been working around this situation for a while, but it is sometimes very annoying. Here is the problem. I am brazilian, but hate brazilian ABNT2 keyboards, and have had a US one for many years. Since always, I have typed ´ + c (accute

New LCD monitor problem

2007-06-18 Thread Wayne Topa
I am attempting to get a Samsung 204BW 20" LCD monitor setup for a new amd-64 system I have ordered, but am having problems setting it up. I have spent the weekend goggling for answers but was unable to locate anything that worked here. The monitor has a top resolution of 1680x1050 but I am able

Re: kqemu on Sid

2007-06-18 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Hugo. Hugo Vanwoerkom, 18.06.2007 17:33: > I installed qemu on Sid. > > But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18 > kernel. You can built the correct module for your kernel at any time using the following commands: # apt-get install module-assistant kqemu-source kq

Re: Intel pro100 NIC problem in Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Yuwen Dai([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Dear all, > > I have a Intel pro100 network card in my PC. The system loads kernel module > `e100' automatically when booting. But ifconfig eth0 up failed. If I > manually load `eepro100', ifconfig also failed. This is some output: > > #

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Thilo Six
Carl Fink wrote the following on 18.06.2007 19:19 > I've noticed that if I open multiple tabs in iceweasel, firefox-bin bloats > significantly, but xorg bloats ENORMOUSLY. I mean, it bloats from 200 megs > or so to 1.7 gigabytes of RAM footprint. Three times now, after very large > numbers of tab

filtering processes

2007-06-18 Thread pol
I would like to display running processes together with their time elapsed since they were launched (real time, not the time spent by the cpu) and sort them with time. Any hints? thank you -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Setting permissions to new files?

2007-06-18 Thread Oscar Blanco
From konsole use these: chmod chown Chmod changes permissions. Type "$ man chmod" to know how to change them. Chown changes owner. Type "$ man chown" to know how to change them. E.g. # mkdir /home/temp # ls -l /home/temp # chmod 777 /home/temp # ls -l /home/temp # chown bruno /home/temp # ls -l

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish. > > I typically keep open several instances of Fi

Re: Subinterface within a same VLAN

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:49:01AM +0800, Rachel Seok wrote: > Is there anyone familiar with VLAN on debian?? probably > Can someone help me?? surely > Looking for solution for "subinterfaces within a same VLAN" a few things Rachel. 1) your initial email was buried in an unrelated discu

Re: Audio control problem

2007-06-18 Thread Oscar Blanco
Have you tried running alsamixer from a konsole. It shows sliders for microphone too. You might need it, not sure. Kind regards, -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain -- Oscar Blanco García Ingeniero Electrónico - Universidad Nacional

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Shams Fantar
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Russell L. Harris wrote: Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" show

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:26:17AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Some time ago I found this following rant on the topic. It is quite > well written and informative. Good reading. > > http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php > nice. thanks A signature.asc Descrip

problem with grace

2007-06-18 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running etch in a amd64 system with the fglrx driver from the fglrx-driver package. Each time I want to run grace I get the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmgrace X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 12 (

problems with radeon driver

2007-06-18 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this card, after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported this problem in the past. The only workaround I've found was to install the fglrx-driv

adduser: Only one or two names allowed.

2007-06-18 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, I want to add another user to my system, but adduser won't let me. It complains with the error msg: adduser: Only one or two names allowed. I wanted to add a user with the user name "guest", but other names are also rejected. My guess is these two users are root & me (manon). BTW: I'm not run

Re: Problems with tg3 driver in 2.6 kernel

2007-06-18 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 18, 2007, at 10:06 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: I have a dual Opteron system with a Broadcom Tigon 3 NIC. It's running Debian Sarge 3.1. When I boot the 2.4.27-2-386 kernel, everything works. When I boot the 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel, the NIC is unable to talk to the network. The driver

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Carl Fink
I've noticed that if I open multiple tabs in iceweasel, firefox-bin bloats significantly, but xorg bloats ENORMOUSLY. I mean, it bloats from 200 megs or so to 1.7 gigabytes of RAM footprint. Three times now, after very large numbers of tabs were open in iceweasel (like 100), xorg has crashed. I

Problems with tg3 driver in 2.6 kernel

2007-06-18 Thread David Brodbeck
I have a dual Opteron system with a Broadcom Tigon 3 NIC. It's running Debian Sarge 3.1. When I boot the 2.4.27-2-386 kernel, everything works. When I boot the 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel, the NIC is unable to talk to the network. The driver loads without throwing any errors, but no packets ar

Re: problem with fuse-utils ( ntfs-3g )

2007-06-18 Thread tombs
Bob Thanks for your reply! ;) Well, I cannot do anything with this package. I really don't understand. Manhattan:/home/tombs# aptitude purge fuse-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading t

[BUG] mounting a cd & 'norock' : missing files

2007-06-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, I am having a very strange issue. I have received a CD where I have to mount it this way: sudo mount -r -t iso9660 -o norock /dev/hda /tmp/cdrom Note that I am forcing the 'norock' option. If I mount it without norock, I have noticed that I am missing 2 files ! Has anyone seen something

Virtual Interface problem

2007-06-18 Thread david robert
Hi Guys, Today i have added one virtual interface to my server with eth0:1 with ip address and all other details after testing i have removed this from /etc/network/interfaces file and restarted the networking service but when i check ifconfig command still it is showing both interfaces et

Re: Setting permissions to new files?

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Felipe Sateler wrote: > Bruno Buys wrote: > > Konsole and yakuake needed a 'umask 02' added to ~/.bashrc (there > > was none) to behave well. Neither once was reading ~/.bash_profile, by > > the way. > > That is because ~/.bash_profile is read on login shells only (unless you > source it from ~/.b

Re: I would like know if someone use or have used NFS v4 ? It's stable, usable ?

2007-06-18 Thread Shams Fantar
KLEIN Stéphane a écrit : Hi, I would like know if someone use or have used NFS v4 ? It's stable, usable ? Thanks for your information. Stephane Yes, I think. But I have never used this version of NFS. -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish. > > I typically keep open several instances of Fi

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Liam O'Toole: > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a fix for Firefox, or should I learn to like Epiphany? > > Try creating a fresh profile for yourself using the command 'firefox > -ProfileManager'. It may be that your current profile is to blame. Which is, of course, j

kqemu on Sid

2007-06-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I installed qemu on Sid. But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18 kernel. So I compiled/installed http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz and that went uneventful. *However...* when I try to boot XP with: qemu -m 256 -localtime -hda /hda7

Re: problem with fuse-utils ( ntfs-3g )

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
tombs wrote: > Manhattan:/home/tombs# aptitude reinstall fuse-utils The '#' in the prompt causes me to assume that you are root. > The following packages will be REINSTALLED: > fuse-utils > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 232 > not upgraded. Good. > Need

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Russell L. Harris wrote: Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" showed Firefox consuming most

Re: Upgrading thousands of boxes via APT

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
s. keeling wrote: > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > I am not sure to which you direction you are referring. Why would > i. Thousands of machines updating from repositories. > ii. Thousands of machines updating from one/some local mirror(s). Ah, yes, definitely u

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Shams Fantar
Russell L. Harris a écrit : Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" showed Firefox consuming m

firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I typically keep open several instances of Firefox/Iceweasel. The utility "top" showed Firefox consuming most of the CPU cycles, even aft

Re: Upgrading thousands of boxes via APT

2007-06-18 Thread s. keeling
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Ben wrote: > > > I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate > > > managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would > > > recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master,

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Mark wrote: > As a FLOSS person, I always like to know what make *BSD more attractive > than Linuxes. If you get a change to blog or comment here about things > you notice, I'm sure I and the other list folks would be interesting in > your observations. Hopefully keeping flameage too a minimu

Re: Upgrading thousands of boxes via APT

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Maybe, dsh -distributed shell- is a good starting point? Using dsh illustrates a push-method. For a small number of machines pushing works and for when you are monitoring the process manually then pushing to machines work pretty well. But when setting up hundreds or th

Re: Is Etch still stable?

2007-06-18 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:03 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:41:28 +0100 > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:52 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:27:18 -0400 > > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Is Etch still stable?

2007-06-18 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:41:28 +0100 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:52 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:27:18 -0400 > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:48:07PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > > H

Re: Is Etch still stable?

2007-06-18 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:52 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:27:18 -0400 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:48:07PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > I visited http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ > > > I

Re: Am I missing something in my understanding here?

2007-06-18 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Bob Proulx wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: The first time I run "/etc/init.d/networking restart" after a reboot I get the same message I would if I ran "ifdown eth0" about eth0 releasing its dhcp address, and I no longer have network connectivity, i.e. the /etc/init.d/networking script does

offertissime Ischia - Italia - Praga

2007-06-18 Thread staff
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Re: Is Etch still stable?

2007-06-18 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:27:18 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:48:07PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I visited http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ > > It used to show 8 bugs "concerning the current stable release", > > that is

Re: supported hardware for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread csanyipal
Hello! On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:15:36PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:34:26PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > I see that Asus EN7300GT silent is an excellent choice, isn't? > > Works just fine for me; 1600x1200 at 85 Hz (the monitor's limitation) > with great DV

I would like know if someone use or have used NFS v4 ? It's stable, usable ?

2007-06-18 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Hi, I would like know if someone use or have used NFS v4 ? It's stable, usable ? Thanks for your information. Stephane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-18 Thread Rick Thomas
It's starting to look like you have firewall problems. Is port 123 (ntp) allowed through your organizational firewall? If not, you may need to talk to your network administrators. Rick On Jun 18, 2007, at 12:53 AM, anup wrote: Yes I am in Asia. I picked up three server from the script as fal

Re: Upgrading thousands of boxes via APT

2007-06-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, dsh -distributed shell- is a good starting point? -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]