Buffer I/O Error ... End_request

2009-03-17 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Hello, After I chose my Debian on grub, there's message like this: ... Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 358650 End_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1434600 ... Can somebody help me, what does it mean? Thanks! -- Zaki Akhmad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: snd-hda-intel Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5 support in lenny

2009-03-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:51, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Hello, > > can someone help me to get sound in lenny with the intel (Codec: IDT > 92HD73E1X5) snd card > > I read in the bugreports that alsa 1.0.19 should support it and installed > from source but still no sound. I'm not sure it was really  

Troubleshooting sendmail smart_host relay session

2009-03-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, Somehow my sendmail SMART_HOST stops working now, - It was working fine, and I didn't change any sendmail configurations. - Test sending mails through my ISP's SMTP sever using Thunderbird proved to be working fine. The, /var/log/mail.log says, DSN: User unknown: $ grep 14778 /var/log/

Rescue Linux partition

2009-03-17 Thread Martin Willcocks
Hi all: Is there a bootable utility that can be installed on a CD and rescue or back up the data in the Linux ext2 partitions on my HDD and write them to a CD using the CD writer on my system. I have a DVD/CD drive as well as the CD writer, but the system running Windows 98 will not boot from

gnome on PowerPC Debian Squeeze: error dialog box when starting root-terminal

2009-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Has anybody else seen this? More or less bog-standard powerpc squeeze installation on PowerMac G4 When I choose the "Root Terminal" in the accessories menu, I get an error dialog box with error messages like this: There was an error loading a terminal keybinding. (Failed to contact configu

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote: To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe. You can subscribe - or

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 21:38 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I was thinking to let my firewall > > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ... > > Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly > 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries. Especially

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer > issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable > people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe. You can subscribe - or browse the arch

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as > long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would > have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that > directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a > symbolic link). I could

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The comfort of administering just one LV, covering both disks carries > the risk that most of the data will be useless on failure of one disk > and possible data recovery will be difficult to predict. The 'classical' > two partition approach at least gives the possibility to save some > crucial

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about >>> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently >> For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years >> of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it. > Well several years is not

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty at 2009-03-18 10:59... Two questions: Thanks for your reply. 1. Does this still happen if your kernel command line has vga=normal? (I'm assuming that you're using a framebuffer), and if you don't use a special font? Yes it does still happen with vga=normal. I do

Re: stitching a filesystem

2009-03-17 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if there was some clever technique you can do with symbolic links and exports. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:22:13PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one? >> >> For exam

Re: stitching a filesystem

2009-03-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:22:13PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one? > > For example, you have 2 volumes: > /vol0 (500GB) > /vol1 (500GB) > > I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume. Are they already ext? or are th

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:36:51AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to > "serious nui

"Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

2009-03-17 Thread Robert S
I have started getting a lot of these messages over the last few days in my mail logs. These messages refer to legitimate addresses eg: Mar 17 08:59:10 debian sm-mta[29154]: n2GLwjk7029154: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=, relay=dmz017.dpa.act.gov.au [136.153.14.117], reject=451 4.1.8 Domain of sender

Re: stitching a filesystem

2009-03-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Mag Gam [Tue, Mar 17 2009, 07:22:13PM]: > Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one? > > For example, you have 2 volumes: > /vol0 (500GB) > /vol1 (500GB) > > I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume. Kind of stitching (the size reportin

Dual framebuffers/text consoles?

2009-03-17 Thread Pieter
I'm busy building a new Debian 5.0 system (on new hardware), which will be a XEN host running multiple VM's for testing various solutions, as well as run inhouse server related stuff. Currently I use my existing system in text mode (yes, really!), but would love to have 2 screens on the new one. My

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Chris Jones wrote: .. oh bugger.. I meant the framebuffer lists, naturally. To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe. Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

mixer problem? Ekiga and skype calls together give audio errors

2009-03-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, Perhaps I am trying to do something that is not possible, though certainly it is inconvenient. If I try to make a call with ekiga when a skype call is active (and the other way around), I get an error saying there is a problem with a sound device. I was under the impression that the mixer

stitching a filesystem

2009-03-17 Thread Mag Gam
Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one? For example, you have 2 volumes: /vol0 (500GB) /vol1 (500GB) I want to export both of them so it would appear as 1TB volume. Any ideas? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes? >> But still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the >> media. > > Yes, same thing. BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the > internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an e

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:12:50PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > > ne

Re: Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:06:51PM EDT, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have > found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my > new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to >

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-03-17 Thread thveillon.debian
>Alex Samad wrote : > > Hi > > Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was wondering if any one has used > Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF > > looking for a pan tilt webcam I can use under linux ? > > Alex > I know that Paulo Assis, developer of the admirable Guvcview http://guvcview.berlios.de/

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:25:22PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:49:27PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: > > H.S. a écrit : > > > Hello, > > > > > [snip] > > > > Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 ($130) > > > Logitech Quickcam Connect Webcam ($29) > > > Logitech Quickcam Deluxe F

Console font size change on xorg exit

2009-03-17 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks This is an issue that I've seen at time on various distros that I have found mildly annoying. Now close to completing the configuration of my new Debian installation, I'm upgrading this from "mildly annoying" to "serious nuisance." The issue is this: * Boot machine. * Console font

Re: interfaces changed after upgrade

2009-03-17 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Girish Kulkarni at 2009-03-17 18:44... ... After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and wlan0_rename. Plus, a new interface eth2 has been added, to which no device is attached, but which is still DHCP queried a

snd-hda-intel Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5 support in lenny

2009-03-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hello, can someone help me to get sound in lenny with the intel (Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5) snd card I read in the bugreports that alsa 1.0.19 should support it and installed from source but still no sound. I'm not sure it was really the 19 version because it said it was 1.0.19 but after installing

Re: Several segmentation faults after upgrade to Lenny

2009-03-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <49bd35e3.7000...@henrik.synth.no>, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote: >I just did a aptitude upgrade on an early lenny (testing) system to >lenny release, which has resulted in an unusable system. You made sure to change all occurrences of "testing" to "lenny" or "stable" in your apt sources, ri

Re: Several segmentation faults after upgrade to Lenny

2009-03-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.03.09 18:07, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote: > I just did a aptitude upgrade on an early lenny (testing) system to > lenny release, which has resulted in an unusable system. Several > programs (bind, apache, greylist and a couple of others) segfaults on > startup: lenny is not testing a

Re: [SOLVED] pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

2009-03-17 Thread Martin
To answer my own question: To get this to work all you need to do is map uniqueMember to member in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf: nss_map_attribute member memberUid 2009/3/12 Martin : > Hi, > > 2009/3/12 Dave Ewart : >> On Wednesday, 11.03.2009 at 22:01 +0100, Martin wrote: >> >>> OK I Managed to

Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

2009-03-17 Thread Norbert Zeh
> xset s off does not seem to have worked either. What do you use as your screensaver? If it's nothing, the above should work (and does for me on Lenny). If it's xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver or other, they already do what xset s off would achieve and control blanking the screen themselves. -

python/smtplib fails on rebuilt system

2009-03-17 Thread Frank Miles
A hard drive failure forced me to rebuild my main system. Just a few things haven't been restored; one of them is a python script which is used to email users of important events. In attempting to diagnose the cause, I tried directly executing the lines: import smtplib s= smtpl

Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

2009-03-17 Thread Brian
--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Norbert Zeh wrote: > From: Norbert Zeh > Subject: Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking > To: "Brian" > Cc: "Debian User" > Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:15 AM > > xset -s noblank > > I believe what you want here is "xset s off". At > least that's what

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090317141915.ga61...@fuchs>, André Berger wrote: >That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as >long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would >have to access just one directory. You might want to look into unionfs (or other "layered" file systems

Re: reboot/shutdown hangs at 'acpid:exiting'

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Yang
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Thorny wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:05 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > > > After recent upgrade, my system becomes kind of mess up. > > > > My story is that I did a apt-get upgrade of some packages to squeeze/sid > > by accident(I didn't change the 'testing' in

PHP5 Warning: pg_connect() Cannot create new link.

2009-03-17 Thread Pet
Hi, I've php5-pgsql installed, but php-scripts throw Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Cannot create new link. For any help, many thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

confused about gcc-4.3 version in my system

2009-03-17 Thread shaul Karl
dpkg (dpkg -l gcc-4.3) reports that 4.3.3-3 is installed. The latest entry in /var/log/apt/term reports 4:4.3.3-2 were set up. To add to my confusion, I seem to remember that the head of /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/changelog.Debian.gz pointed to 4.3.3-3 before the mentioned entry in var/log/apt/term.

nfs not mounting, lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist

2009-03-17 Thread Pet
Hi, I have mount on nfs, which doesn't work. Error: lock /var/run/network/mountnfs exist, not mounting failed! Can it be fixed? Thanks for any help! Pet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:13 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote: > Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling > around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know. > > Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. Over the weekend, I had noticed that SBM wasn

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:53:46AM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 03:01.3 System p

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
2009/3/16 Douglas A. Tutty : > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:47:16PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> 2009/3/16 Douglas A. Tutty : >> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:11:55AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> >> is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb >> >> powered) u

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:37:26PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:18:40PM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote: > > [...] > > > maybe, but I have no such command. > > Sorry .. was in too much of a rush to proofread before posting. > > The command is "showconsolefont" and it's p

Correspodance

2009-03-17 Thread Maria Carret
J'ai une nouvelle adresse mailVous pouvez maintenant m'écrire à : maria_car...@yahoo.fr - Salut Je desire correspondre avec vous malgré cette différence d'âge par rapport à vous ,c'est parce que j'ai voulu avoir plus de relation pour les échanges d'idée ,de propos, pour discuter, dialoguer et

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread randall
André Berger wrote: * André Berger (2009-03-16): (Replying to myself and trying to sum up your A&Qs) Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions, _much appreciated_. I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups of 'important' data. The files in

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread André Berger
* André Berger (2009-03-16): (Replying to myself and trying to sum up your A&Qs) Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions, _much appreciated_. I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups of 'important' data. The files in question are 'just movi

Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

2009-03-17 Thread Norbert Zeh
> xset -s noblank I believe what you want here is "xset s off". At least that's what I do, and if I understand the manpage correctly, xset s (no)blank does not affect the activation of the screensaver, only what it does when it activates. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

grub2 output to both console and serial

2009-03-17 Thread William Thompson
I am not on the list, keep me in CC. Is it possible to output to both the vga console and the serial terminal as with older versions of grub? I thought I did this at one time but am unable to do this now. At this time, the oldest grub version I used is 1.96+20080724-16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking

2009-03-17 Thread Brian
I have a kiosk machine that I just upgraded to Lenny and now it seems that my old method of disabling screen blanking does not work. With Etch all I did was edit the xorg.conf file and commented out # Options "DPMS" That worked until the upgrade.  I have tried: xset -s noblank and setterm -p

Re: weird problem in X with recent sid packages

2009-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:34:14 -0400, charlie derr wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote: >>> I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been >>> running as Debian unstable for several years. A week or so ago, >>> after u

Re: interfaces changed after upgrade

2009-03-17 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:44:28 +0530 Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop last month. > > After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired > ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and > wlan0_rename. Plus, a new interface

Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:10:43PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote: > As long as I don't reboot the server, backing out of the problem is > doable -- all I have to do is revert to the previous libc6, using: > > aptitude -t oldstable install libc6 > > and things are back to where they were. That's un

Re: limits.conf does not work at etch ?

2009-03-17 Thread Sjors Gielen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm in trouble with the /etc/security/limits.conf file at ETCH AMD64 > it does not apply the following statement after rebooting the machine > > *hardnofile65536 > > the nofile ulimit value stay st

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-17 Thread Johan Kullstam
"Masatran / Deepak, R." writes: > Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and > one Ext3 partition. The problem is that when I transfer files from my laptop > to my work computer, the UIDs on the Ext3 partition are used for the > permissions, so I am not able to acc

Re: weird problem in X with recent sid packages

2009-03-17 Thread charlie derr
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote: I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been running as Debian unstable for several years. A week or so ago, after upgrading a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg* and the kerne

Re: problem with downloaded debian 5.0

2009-03-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
you can do $ md5sum iso-image and compare with md5sum value provided on the download mirror 2009/3/17 raman narasimhan > i used azureus (also known as vuze) a bittorrent client to download debian > 5.0 binary 1 dvd from the site > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/bt-dvd/ > after

problem with downloaded debian 5.0

2009-03-17 Thread raman narasimhan
i used azureus (also known as vuze) a bittorrent client to download debian 5.0 binary 1 dvd from the site http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/bt-dvd/ after downloading i also performed a data integrity check to see if all the chunks have been properly downloaded or not.. i found no prob

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> >From that page: >> It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small >> portions of text. > > I don't think that this practicable, if you continue to work with your > document for repeated 'edit, print' cycles. > In my experiments so far it's worked fine, but I will have to look a

limits.conf does not work at etch ?

2009-03-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm in trouble with the /etc/security/limits.conf file at ETCH AMD64 it does not apply the following statement after rebooting the machine * hardnofile 65536 the nofile ulimit value stay sticked at 1024 Anyone knows a workaround ? Thanks a lot -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dotan Cohen wrote: > But I just > discovered this OOo extension which allows the user to save the > document as PDF with the ODF file embedded for editing: > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport > > This is, in my opinion, the perfect document format. The only thing > mi

Re: Package Creation

2009-03-17 Thread lostson
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:34 +0530, hari haran.spc wrote: > Dear Friends, >Could any one suggest any link other than debian developer's guide > for debian package creation. I could not be able to find out very good > tutorial in order to enrich my knowledge as well as package creation. > Please

Package Creation

2009-03-17 Thread hari haran.spc
Dear Friends, Could any one suggest any link other than debian developer's guide for debian package creation. I could not be able to find out very good tutorial in order to enrich my knowledge as well as package creation. Please help me. -- S.Vellingiri, Associate Systems Engineer, bk systems

interfaces changed after upgrade

2009-03-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hello, I upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop last month. After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and wlan0_rename. Plus, a new interface eth2 has been added, to which no device is attached, but which is still D

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:18:28AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In , Stefan > > Monnier > > wrote: > >>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is > >>> available? > >> You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommen

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 03:01.4 System

Re: reboot/shutdown hangs at 'acpid:exiting'

2009-03-17 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:05 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > After recent upgrade, my system becomes kind of mess up. > > My story is that I did a apt-get upgrade of some packages to squeeze/sid > by accident(I didn't change the 'testing' in my source.list). So I > downgrade most of packages back to

Re: update information is outdated?

2009-03-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: >> I am getting this message from the update notifier constantly in the >> notification area on my panel -- >> >> The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network >> problems. Please update manually by clicking on t

Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-17 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:42:54 -0700, NFN Smith wrote: [...] > > Following this downgrade, libc6 (and related dependencies) are all still > at etch versions. > > This from Chapter 4 of the Lenny release notes may be of interest to you, especially the part at the bottom since you are using Aptitude

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Stefan Monnier > wrote: >>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is >>> available? >> You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended, >> unless you have backups elsewhere. > > You don't really lose it all. If the