Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
jerome moliere a écrit : Bonjour à tous, je m'occupe un peu de mes machines donc mes questions fusent..Navré Sur une box (debian Lenny 64 bits) j'ai 5 disks (1To chaque ) et j'ai créée un RAID 5 dessus... Seulement voilà je trouve bizarre qu'il me parle d'un disk en spare et d'un

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread jerome moliere
Le 10 août 2008 09:39, Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : jerome moliere a écrit : Bonjour à tous, je m'occupe un peu de mes machines donc mes questions fusent..Navré Sur une box (debian Lenny 64 bits) j'ai 5 disks (1To chaque ) et j'ai créée un RAID 5 dessus... Seulement

Re: lenny : pb avec flash

2008-08-10 Thread Grégory BULOT
Gaëtan PERRIER a écrit : Bizarre chez moi en testing quand je lui demande de retirer swfdec-mozilla il me dit juste que ça va supprimer le paquet gnome mais pas ce qui dépend du paquet gnome... Tu utilises quoi pour le faire? Gaëtan aptitude remove swfdec-mozilla les réponses suivantes

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread jerome moliere
Rebjr, je reviens après lecture aveec la tête pleine de questions: - j'ai 5 jolis disques flambants neufs et je veux un volume de stockage important et de la sécurité (robustesse),les perfs sont peu importantes pour moi (disons d'importance très secondaire) je ne sais plus quoi mettre en place du

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
jerome moliere a écrit : Rebjr, je reviens après lecture aveec la tête pleine de questions: - j'ai 5 jolis disques flambants neufs et je veux un volume de stockage important et de la sécurité (robustesse),les perfs sont peu importantes pour moi (disons d'importance très secondaire) je ne sais

Re: LaCie big Disk 1To Linux

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
jerome moliere a écrit : Je pensais à quelque chose: puis je imaginer d'exploser les partitions créées par LaCie de manière à recréer un RAID soft sous Linux? non: c'est le boîtier qui s'en charge et c'est une *très* mauvaise idée de laisser la chose en RAID-0... JY -- elmo Joy:

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Thomas Harding
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:39:00AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: 2- si tu lis l'Anglais correctement, va faire un tour sur baarf.com: suite à une discussion avec Sylvain Sauvage, il m'a orienté sur ce site qui explique très bien pourquoi il faut éviter le RAID-5 aujourd'hui. J'ai

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Thomas Harding a écrit : On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:39:00AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: 2- si tu lis l'Anglais correctement, va faire un tour sur baarf.com: suite à une discussion avec Sylvain Sauvage, il m'a orienté sur ce site qui explique très bien pourquoi il faut éviter le

update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Grégory BULOT
bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? mon idée est de recevoir un mail de mon serveur lorsqu'il y a uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) je m'oriente donc vers cron-apt, mais comme j'ai pas de maj en attente je sais pas si cela

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Bonjour, Le dimanche 10 août 2008, Grégory BULOT a écrit... uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) je m'oriente donc vers cron-apt, mais comme j'ai pas de maj en attente je sais pas si cela fonctionne - je ne veux pas de lancement de maj, juste la

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Strange Fruit
Le dimanche 10 août 2008 18:37, Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, existe-t-il un update-notifier pour la ligne de commande ? mon idée est de recevoir un mail de mon serveur lorsqu'il y a uniquement des maj disponible (un aptitude upgrade est trop bavard) je m'oriente donc vers cron-apt,

Re: lenny : pb avec flash

2008-08-10 Thread Gaëtan PERRIER
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:04:16 +0200 Grégory BULOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaëtan PERRIER a écrit : Bizarre chez moi en testing quand je lui demande de retirer swfdec-mozilla il me dit juste que ça va supprimer le paquet gnome mais pas ce qui dépend du paquet gnome... Tu utilises quoi

Re: LaCie big Disk 1To Linux

2008-08-10 Thread jerome moliere
Le 10 août 2008 12:29, Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : jerome moliere a écrit : Je pensais à quelque chose: puis je imaginer d'exploser les partitions créées par LaCie de manière à recréer un RAID soft sous Linux? non: c'est le boîtier qui s'en charge et c'est

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread jerome moliere
Rebonjour a tous et merci pour votre aide et surtout pour vos retours d'expérience qui s'avèrent une fois de plus précieux Je suis en train de créer un RAID 10 avec 4 disks et j'hésite à utiliser l'option spare pour signaler que j'ai déjà le disque de rechange ... Quelqu'un a déjà validé cette

Re: LaCie big Disk 1To Linux

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
jerome moliere a écrit : ... Bonjour jean yves, sans etre trop insistant peux etre plus explicite et te placer dans un mode plus verbeux pour les loulourds aux neurones peu efficients ? merci d'avance le 0 est du striping (on coupe le fichier en strips et on écrit alternativement sur hd0

Re: LaCie big Disk 1To Linux

2008-08-10 Thread jerome moliere
Le 10 août 2008 20:10, Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : jerome moliere a écrit : ... Bonjour jean yves, sans etre trop insistant peux etre plus explicite et te placer dans un mode plus verbeux pour les loulourds aux neurones peu efficients ? merci d'avance le 0 est

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
jerome moliere a écrit : Rebonjour a tous et merci pour votre aide et surtout pour vos retours d'expérience qui s'avèrent une fois de plus précieux Je suis en train de créer un RAID 10 avec 4 disks et j'hésite à utiliser l'option spare pour signaler que j'ai déjà le disque de rechange ...

Re: Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Thomas Harding
(je repèche le post via le waibe : mon doigt a glissé. Désolé si le formattage est aléatoire) Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: pour plusieurs raisons (d'ailleurs expliquées dans le texte): Ce n'était pas une question, mais une affirmation. Ceci dit, merci pour les autres pour le résumé attendu :)

Re: RAID 5 fonctionnel?

2008-08-10 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Thomas Harding a écrit : .. J'ajouterai même: pourquoi ne pas plutôt envisager une solution *LVM par-dessus des mirroirs RAID1*, _beaucoup_ plus souple ? par ce que ça rajoute une couche (logicielle) au RAID, et donc une proba de panne plus élevée (j'ai aussi eu le PB: perte de toutes

[Mutt] transferer le contenu d'une boite mail vers une autre boite ?

2008-08-10 Thread Thomas Harding
Bonjour, J'ai assez récemment fait l'acquisition d'un micro serveur (NSLU2), sur lequel j'ai monté un serveur cyrus. J'aimerais y transférer le contenu de mes boîtes mail locales (n boîtes au format mbox dans ~/Mail, et n est assez grand...). Mon mua est Mutt. Y-a-t'il un moyen simple de

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Jacques L'helgoualc'h
Strange Fruit a écrit, dimanche 10 août 2008, à 19:23 : Le dimanche 10 août 2008 18:37, Grégory BULOT a écrit : bonjour, [...] Bonjour, bonjour, Je ne sais ce qui existe au juste mais ce n'est pas bien compliqué à faire soit même. +1 Ci-dessous, voici un script bash que j'utilise à

Re: [testing] plus de montage auto dans Gnome

2008-08-10 Thread Gaëtan PERRIER
Le Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:36:12 +0200 Gaëtan PERRIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Bonjour, Depuis 3/4 jours je n'ai plus de montage auto des périph (clé usb, appareil photo, etc.) dans Gnome. Il m'affiche bien une entrée dans nautilus mais il ne la monte pas alors que j'ai pourtant tout ce qu'il

Re: [testing] plus de montage auto dans Gnome

2008-08-10 Thread Gaëtan PERRIER
Le Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:50:48 +0200 Gaëtan PERRIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Le Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:36:12 +0200 Gaëtan PERRIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Bonjour, Depuis 3/4 jours je n'ai plus de montage auto des périph (clé usb, appareil photo, etc.) dans Gnome. Il m'affiche bien une

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Strange Fruit
Le dimanche 10 août 2008 23:20, Jacques L'helgoualc'h a écrit : Ci-dessous, voici un script bash que j'utilise à cette fin. [...] S'il y a des propositions pour l'améliorer... [...] nbretest=10 # nbre de lignes de la réponse de la commande upgrade # au-delà duquel il y a

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread Strange Fruit
Le dimanche 10 août 2008 19:23, Strange Fruit a écrit : echo Il suffit de taper la commande echo maj echo dans un terminal pour mettre le système à jour. Je précise pour ceux qui se demanderait quoi : sur mes machines il y a dans le bash des

Re: update-notifier pour la ligne de commande

2008-08-10 Thread boushi
Le Monday 11 August 2008 00:46:10 Strange Fruit, vous avez écrit : Tiens j'ai vu que dans une Ubuntu aptitude safe-upgrade ( ? de mémoire) doit être préféré à aptitude upgrade. C'est une modif d'ubuntu ou est-ce pour les prochaines versions Debian ? Qu'en est-il dans Lenny ? La version

Re: Como se une las partes de un fichero partido con Winrar en Debian

2008-08-10 Thread Jonay Domingo Ruiz
Maximiliano Marin Bustos escribió: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:09 PM, José Manuel (EB8CXW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me podéis indicar que paquete, programa, me uniría un fichero (en este caso comprimido), que esta partido en

Re: Como se une las partes de un fichero partido con Winrar en Debian

2008-08-10 Thread Emilio
El Sunday 10 August 2008 01:09:16 José Manuel (EB8CXW) escribió: Hola a [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Me podéis indicar que paquete, programa, me uniría un fichero (en este caso comprimido), que esta partido en trozos con WinRar, gracias de antemano. -- Un saludo, José Manuel Gran Canaria/España

Wifi USB de Tele2

2008-08-10 Thread Alejandro
Hola! Pues tengo un wifi usb de telsys (el que regalan con Tele2) y lamentablemente no logro que funcione (seguí este [http://blindstation.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/como-configurar-mi-tarjeta-wifi-con-ndiswrapper/] jautu, entre otros muchos). He notado que un dmesg | grep ndis me tira esto:

Re: Wifi USB de Tele2

2008-08-10 Thread Jose Luis Gómez
El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 18:14 +0200, Alejandro escribió: Hola! Pues tengo un wifi usb de telsys (el que regalan con Tele2) y lamentablemente no logro que funcione (seguí este [http://blindstation.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/como-configurar-mi-tarjeta-wifi-con-ndiswrapper/] jautu, entre otros

Re: Wifi USB de Tele2

2008-08-10 Thread Alejandro
El día 10 de agosto de 2008 21:47, Jose Luis Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: No es necesario que abras post nuevos sobre el mismo tema. Ve desarrollando el hilo que abriste inicialmente. Ahí, se te contestó dandote ideas (yo mismo) y no has hecho aportación de lo que has probado y los fallos

Re: Wifi USB de Tele2

2008-08-10 Thread Jose Luis Gómez
El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 22:02 +0200, Alejandro escribió: El día 10 de agosto de 2008 21:47, Jose Luis Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: No es necesario que abras post nuevos sobre el mismo tema. Ve desarrollando el hilo que abriste inicialmente. Ahí, se te contestó dandote ideas (yo

Cuentas de Correo en Postfix

2008-08-10 Thread Oswaldo Sandoval
Buenas noches, Al tratar de crear buzones de correo en desde Cyrus admin de la siguiente manera: localhost cm user.soporte.tecnico createmailbox: Permission denied o de la siguiente manera: localhost cm [EMAIL PROTECTED] createmailbox: Permission denied Genera el error de Permiso denegado...

Re: Backport frågor

2008-08-10 Thread Mikael Rudberg
Tusen tack för svaren, nut fattar jag hur det hänger ihop /Mikael Peter Krefting wrote: Mikael Rudberg: 1) Finns det nån apt-get command line för att uppgradera ett stable packet till ett från backports? Jag kollade på backports.org och där sa dom att man skulle använda pinning men det

Bluetooth

2008-08-10 Thread fredrik
Hej Om någon är intresserad så har jag fått igång blåtanden på min nya Toshibalaptop och testar Wammu för att styra mobiltelefonen. Verkar fungera. Problemet med pinkoder för bt-enheter kan man lösa enkelt på följande sätt: http://www.sange.fi/~atehwa/cgi-bin/piki.cgi/how to quickfix

Re: Bluetooth

2008-08-10 Thread Karl Hammar
Fredrik: ... En bonus blev att jag fick en preemptible kärna. Debiankärnorna verkar vara non-preemptible vilket märktes då jag testkörde Zynaddsubfx ;) Det sägs vara problem med realtime och ZynaddsubFx: http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2008/6/21/146438 Hälsningar, /Karl -- To

DebConf 8

2008-08-10 Thread Martin Bagge
Hejhej Tänkte bara påminna om att just nu pågår Debconf 8 i Argentina. Även om man inte kan åka dit så kan man följa med i vad som diskuteras via nätet, dels på IRC men också via live video. Schema: https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/ Video: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams

Re: Drag n drop iceweasel X openoffice

2008-08-10 Thread Luiz Carcerelli
Consigo copiar e colar com drag'n'drop do konqueror para o OO, mas não do iceweasel, o que parece descartar a hipótese seguinte: Talvez seja uma coisa do window manager/desktop manager, ou do proprio X... Ou seja é possível copiar e colar com drag'n'drop do Firefox para o Gimp, do

Re: Receptor de TV USB MultiLaser (Yuan?)no Debian

2008-08-10 Thread Vinicius De Mario
Caro Paulino, Paulino Kenji Sato escreveu: 2008/8/9 Vinicius De Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Meu Debian (Lenny): Linux vdm-deb 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Jul 18 17:46:56 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Estou com um receptor de TV Digital da Multilaser (DVB-T), cujo firmware é da Yuan. Você quer

Mutt e cor do menu de općõ es

2008-08-10 Thread Caio Abreu Ferreira
Lista Por acaso alguém na lista é usuário do mutt? Estou tentando mudar a cor do menu de općões, q:Quit d:Del, e até agora não encontrei as variáveis correspondentes a este menu de općões. Por acaso alguém saberia me dizer o que tenho que alterar?

Re: VMWARE - Duas placa de rede

2008-08-10 Thread Brivaldo Junior
Boa tarde galera, 2008/8/5 Leandro Moreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rodolfo, Não acho seguro rodar firewall sobre maquina virtual, pois para firewall devemos adotar uma maquina dedicada que rode esse serviço especifico para não haver quebra de segurança na rede, pois a tentação, já que é uma

Re: Abrir varias instancias do squid

2008-08-10 Thread Brivaldo Junior
Entendi, O que você quer é: No SQUID1 rodá-lo com autenticação. No SQUID2 rodá-lo para o resto da rede. Filtros separados? Cara, eu posso te dizer que você pode rodar 1 dos squids enjaulados num ambiente chroot e o outro da forma que mais te convier.. ou em outro chroot ou

erro atualizar pacotes no aptitude

2008-08-10 Thread Márcio Pedroso
aconteceu de uma hora para outra, fui atualizar a lista de pacotes do aptitude(aptitude update) no debian lenny(testing) e ele esta me retornando o seguinte erro E: Metodo /usr/lib/apt/methods/ ftp nao inicio corretamente method ftp has died unexpectedly tento usar o apt-get mas da erro tambem

DebConf8 video streams

2008-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, in seven hours DebConf8 will officially begin, you can participate by watching the live video streams as described on http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams - have fun! The schedule for tomorrow/today is available at https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/day_2008-08-10.en.html -

rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-10 Thread Brian Wells
Hi. I'm using svn-fast-backup (in the subversion-tools package) to make rsync backups of my subversion repository. The place I'm backing up to is on an ext3-formatted usb flash drive, and I'm wondering if this is a wise thing to do. I know that flash drive blocks wear out after a certain number

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 16:41:40 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging information to your terminal which you can then paste into a mail to

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-10 01:41 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but think maybe I see what *is* happening. The code that I wrote to use the apt resolver as a fallback option is accidentally resetting every hold state in the database. Does

Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-10 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:06:20 -0600 Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't been able to get USB working on the guest, neither shared folders... I've searched with

Re: DebConf8 video streams

2008-08-10 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, in seven hours DebConf8 will officially begin, you can participate by watching the live video streams as described on http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams - have fun! Have a great conference out there! Too

FireGPG

2008-08-10 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Hello, Anybody using FireGPG[1] here? I am having problem. I've created the gpg file with gpg. Here's my .gnupg directory consist of: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.gnupg$ ls -l total 32 -rw--- 1 za za 9154 2008-08-10 14:08 gpg.conf -rw--- 1 za za 636 2008-08-10 14:10 pubring.gpg -rw--- 1 za

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 07:35 +0100, Bob Cox escribió: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 16:41:40 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:46:36 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Come on, the debian people made patching software a children game. These are the simple steps you should follow: As root: aptitude install build-essential fakeroot apt-get build-dep aptitude As normal

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:11:18 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 2008-08-10 01:41 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but think maybe I see what *is* happening. The code that I wrote to use the apt resolver

Re: FireGPG

2008-08-10 Thread Dale
Hi, 2008/8/10 Zaki Akhmad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Anybody using FireGPG[1] here? I am having problem. I've created the gpg file with gpg. No I have not used it, but below is what I see happening from the error. Here's my .gnupg directory consist of: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.gnupg$ ls -l

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like a charm. if [ $TERM == linux ]; then startx exit fi

Re: Fwd: Re:how to make a boot disk and ...

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.Aug.08, 00:46:18, darren naidoo wrote: ...Which important directories to tar/gzip. Want to make a custom system image on dvd for me. Thanks Your question is not very clear [1], but I think you need Debian Live [2]. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html [2]

Re: Dúvida sobre cds de i nstalação.

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.Aug.08, 19:02:19, consultores1 wrote: El mié, 06-08-2008 a las 06:28 -0700, wagner Duarte escribió: Bom dia! Nos site Debian.org, na seção de obter os cds de instalaçao me surgiu uma duvida. Tem um post da nova versao do Debian em cd para I386 onde as ultimas ISO sao do dia 03 de

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 10 August 2008 11:56, Bob Cox wrote: Gabriel - thank you very much for your extremely useful reply. It all worked perfectly and having now successfully applied the patch, I can confirm that I cannot reproduce the bug. Ahuh! Great. This is what we are made of. Very good job

Re: How do I enable UUID in Debian? (Thanks!)

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Aug.08, 00:01:30, Aniruddha wrote: Thanks all for the help! I've added the following line to my grub.conf and all works fine now :) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem root(hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem

ftp.au.debian.org down?

2008-08-10 Thread Daniel Dalton
Does anyone else have problems when trying to connect to ftp.au.debian.org. I can't even ping it however, I can ping the Us one ftp.us.debian.org. If the server is down, could a debian developer fix it if possible? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ [EMAIL

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: [...] My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife connects to the same router via wireless from her laptop (running XP) it shows up on the router page,

How can populate local pkgconfig paths to other packages?

2008-08-10 Thread hce
Hi, I like to build FFMPEG and QT4 to my local directory and to compile VLC based on those local packages. But my PKG_CONFIG_PATH is pointing to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. How can I pass those local pkgconfig paths to other packages? One solution I can think of is to copy all local installed packages

RE: ftp.au.debian.org down?

2008-08-10 Thread James Harper
Does anyone else have problems when trying to connect to ftp.au.debian.org. I can't even ping it however, I can ping the Us one ftp.us.debian.org. Me too. It doesn't appear to be reachable via IPv4 or IPv6. If the server is down, could a debian developer fix it if possible?

Re: Problems with an old nvidia 6100 GO

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat August 9 2008, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: The script seems to add a few option (besides installing the driver) to the xorg.conf file, in the driver section. I don't remember those options, because I'm not on my laptop now. on the box, you will probably find it saved the old xorg. If you

Re: Creation of custom debian-cd

2008-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:23:58PM -0400, André Yves wrote: Hi, I am wondering where can I find the better documentation about debian-cd. I am trying to make my own custom debian-cd. If you have any other tool for or any idea about the process of building custom debian-cd, it will be really

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:46:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: And eventually it will return the prompt. I think most cases will be covered by something like: , | if [ $TERM = linux ]; then | if [ ! -f /tmp/X0-lock ]; then | startx | exit | fi | fi ` The

D-Installer: GRUB fails to install boot loader

2008-08-10 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hello, i am trying to perform a network install with Debian Installer, which is failing when installing the GRUB loader with Unable to install GRUB in (hd0) Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed. and in the console i see: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdq2. Check our device.map.

Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:06:20 -0600 Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't been able to get

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I edited sources.list as follows: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main , then connected to internet and did: # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade , but still the kernel

Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
The Firefox part might be a coincidence, of course. In an rxvt, I see: Oops: [1] SMP Then a few seconds later I get: CR2: 5a In syslog, I find this: Aug 10 11:22:47 NitpickingHP2 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 005a RIP: Aug 10

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/10/08 11:29, Carl Fink wrote: The Firefox part might be a coincidence, of course. In an rxvt, I see: Oops: [1] SMP Then a few seconds later I get: CR2: 5a In syslog, I find this: Aug 10 11:22:47 NitpickingHP2 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

Re: ftp.au.debian.org down?

2008-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
My first thought was, Yes, ftp.au.debian.org *is* down... under! On 08/10/08 06:20, Daniel Dalton wrote: Does anyone else have problems when trying to connect to ftp.au.debian.org. As of this moment, mtr sees it. But that's almost 7 hours after your original mail. -- Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:08:52AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi to all the Debian users community. I've been using Debian for a couple of years now (coming from Mandrakelinux) and have been happy with stable versions, Sarge and then Etch. Now for particular needs I want to try to use Sid

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Presumably this is repeatable? It repeats, but I don't know exactly what triggers it, except that so far it seems to happen when at least five FF tabs are open. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/10/08 12:36, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Presumably this is repeatable? It repeats, but I don't know exactly what triggers it, except that so far it seems to happen when at least five FF tabs are open. Any 5 URLs, or specific URLs?

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul Johnson wrote : On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:28 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and no swapping at all. How sure are you on that? I've 2GB of RAM¹

can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
My problem may sound familiar to some of you, because I have raised it before in this forum. I still haven't solved it, so I am going to present it again (trying to be more systematic and methodical this time). For those of you tried to help me before: Thank you. If you will try again, I will

Re: Nvidia GeForce FX5200 problems

2008-08-10 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:15:45 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:18:47 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this: Disable

wlan0 fails to obtain dhcp lease at startup

2008-08-10 Thread x_debian-user_x
Hi, I have a problem with wlan0 failing to get a dhcp lease at startup. At startup, the following messages are issued: Sun Aug 10 20:20:07 2008: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 Sun Aug 10 20:20:10 2008: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Scott
Andreas Janssen wrote: Gilles Mocellin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Le Thursday 07 August 2008 15:41:25 chris, vous avez écrit : (snip) It looks as if there is no /sbin/update-grub on your system. If so, you might want to reinstall grub. I remember that since a while

Re: wlan0 fails to obtain dhcp lease at startup

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 21:05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ~# dmesg Linux version 2.6.22-4-686 (Debian 2.6.22-6~bpo40+2) First thing I would try to upgrade the kernel. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: [snip] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I edited /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: [...] I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, etc. I am building an internet server, so I need to reconfigure networking to use a static IP address. I

Re: VGA modes for the supported resolutions

2008-08-10 Thread peasthope
Andrei, Richard others, At Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:02:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote, ap That's a shot in the dark, but try booting with vga=788 Thanks. I have a little progress. On the Toshiba 4000 CDS this weekend, vga=788 gives a display. Also I found that a vga/vesa number which is

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: [...] My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife connects to the same router via wireless from her laptop

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 10, 5:20 pm, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: [...] I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, etc. I am building an internet server, so

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 10, 5:20 pm, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: [...] I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, etc. I am building an internet server, so

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun August 10 2008 16:35:02 Vwaju wrote: I am running Debian sarge, because that is the version that was used in the book I am following to learn how to build an internet server. I realize this raises security issues, but I am not building a production server, only a *training*

dpkg oddities

2008-08-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone on this list running lenny succeeded in installing any or all of the following packages who is not running any of the speakup distributions? I'm trying to find out if what happens here is speakup specific or not. The packages could be installed using a command line like: aptitude

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like a charm. if [ $TERM == linux ]; then

Re: How can populate local pkgconfig paths to other packages?

2008-08-10 Thread hce
Please ignore it. I figured out. Thank you. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:48 PM, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I like to build FFMPEG and QT4 to my local directory and to compile VLC based on those local packages. But my PKG_CONFIG_PATH is pointing to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. How can I pass those

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit this is why package A is recommended data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. In times like these, then aptitude why or whynot may be useful. I've only used

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit this is why package A is recommended data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. The problem is that this information isn't stored