liste de diffusion sous postfix - authentification ldap

2009-04-20 Thread franck Dufau
Bonjour, J’ai installé un serveur samba avec backend ldap…openldap sert pour l’authentification de l’ensemble des services (messagerie, ftp, proxy). Configuration samba http://damstux.free.fr Postfix est en vmail avec maildir, Tout marche à merveille sauf que j’ai tenté de créer une liste

Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-20 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi,     I am trying to compile Linux kernel 2.6.29-1 as described here http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html, section 4.4, i.e. I copy the /boot/config-2.6.26-1-686 to untarred linux kernel directory as .config and after doing make menuconfig, when I try to do make-kpkg cle

Re: question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 21:24:19, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while. > > I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I > launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say > Error opening terminal:

Re: How to apply changes in /etc/network/interfaces w/o OS restart?

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 22:13:31, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > As root (or by appending /sbin/ to the beggining), i usually do: --^ Are you sure about this? I get "permission denied" if I don't run ifup/ifdown as root. > # ifdown eth0 > # ifconfig down eth0 >

Re: question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-21 04:24 +0200, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I > launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say > Error opening terminal: mlterm. > > Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. > > I was puzzled how the sy

Re: Japanese write

2009-04-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:40, Neal Hogan wrote: > I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking > around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old > and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I apologize if I've overlooked > something obvious. > > My wife is Ja

Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

2009-04-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 20:19, Bogdan wrote: > Hello, > > Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ? > I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run minefield I > get: > >   ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file I r

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread Jan Muszynski
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:37:44 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? >>> have a look at "ntfsclone" . . . > > Thanks. looks like exactly what I'm looking for. > >> Do realise that clo

Re: Online contest software recommendations??

2009-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/4/20 John W Foster : > I am interested in running some online contests with awards involved. What I > need: > > open source preferably free > login for membership/entry; > process for accepting payments > databased backend > able to provide contest standings to entrants as available > must run

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/4/21 Sam Kuper : > Apologies for hijacking Bagi's thread! s/Bagi/Akos/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/4/21 Alex Samad > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:08:22PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > Michael, > [snip] > > > > I don't think there is a silver bullet for this. > > > > There is a performance penalty related to soft-RAID. Also swa

Re: possible printer replacements

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have > seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available > at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother > hl-217

question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while. I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say Error opening terminal: mlterm. Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. I was puz

possible printer replacements

2009-04-20 Thread John Lindsay
I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten these pri

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:21 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You can install sid directly if you use the business-card image and > select 'expert' install. You will be prompted for the distribution to > install. Of course, you need some decent connection to complete the > install, because the bus

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:03:38PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: I just got badly bit by this. I had root on lvm on md (RAID 1). After one of the component drives died, lvm came back up on top of the other component drive - during boot from initrd - making it impossible

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:03:38PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Seri wrote: >> >>> Hoping somebody might be able to provide me with some pointers that >>> may just help me recover a lot of data, a home system with no backups >>> bu

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Seri wrote: Hoping somebody might be able to provide me with some pointers that may just help me recover a lot of data, a home system with no backups but a lot of photos, yes I know the admin rule, backup backup backup, but I ran out

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Seri wrote: > Hoping somebody might be able to provide me with some pointers that > may just help me recover a lot of data, a home system with no backups > but a lot of photos, yes I know the admin rule, backup backup backup, > but I ran out of backup space

Re: setting up static ip classically?

2009-04-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 21 April 2009 00:10:32 Zach Uram wrote: > This is the technical information you will need to set up your > computer when your DSL circuit is installed. > > Your ip address(es) will be: > > > 66.93.172.48 > > > Your gateway will be: ("Router Address" on Macintosh) > > 66.93.172.1 > > > Your DNS s

Re: setting up static ip classically?

2009-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Zach Uram wrote: >Can someone please tell me how I can setup my new DSL from Speakeasy >[...] using just static IP (no DHCP) and entering the info >manually? > >This is the technical information you will need to set up your >computer when your DSL circuit is installed. > >Your ip address(es)

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:08:22PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > Michael, > > [snip] > > I don't think there is a silver bullet for this. > > There is a performance penalty related to soft-RAID. Also swappiness > configuration mu

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <75491vf15ef9...@mid.dfncis.de>, M. Henne wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> I use TwinView, including its fake Xinerama, and I'm not seeing the bug. >> That said, I think I skipped from kwin in Etch to KDE 4.2 (initially from >> experimental). I'm now on KDE 4.2 from unstable and maximi

Re: How to repair a broken system with non-Debian packages?

2009-04-20 Thread Simon Paillard
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Ax. St. wrote: > Thanks for replying so quickly. Unfortunately things are more complicated: > > - I have not only read the release notes but taken five machines through the > upgrade >process. This is the only machine that poses problems. The other ma

setting up static ip classically?

2009-04-20 Thread Zach Uram
Can someone please tell me how I can setup my new DSL from Speakeasy (Nidhog - a Verizon reseller - no longer does residential DSL so i needed a new ISP) using just static IP (no DHCP) and entering the info manually? Service should be on in 3 days (still waiting for modem and self-install kit to ar

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-20 Thread M. Henne
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I use TwinView, including its fake Xinerama, and I'm not seeing the bug. > That said, I think I skipped from kwin in Etch to KDE 4.2 (initially from > experimental). I'm now on KDE 4.2 from unstable and maximizing to a > single monitor works fine, as done draggin

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
T o n g wrote: Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#Can_I_restore_it_to_a_s

Re: CUPS in Lenny prints from some apps but not all

2009-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 22:20:44 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > 1. CUPS in Lenny will *not* print: > > 1.1 An icedove e-mail. The print window gives only one option: > PostScript/default. It will not print to printer (no job appears in the > spool), nor will it print to file. > > 1.2 Files from dose

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] > > > udev 0.125-7 > > > > You should upgrade udev to version 0.125-7+lenny1 (security.debian.org)

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:37:44 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? >> have a look at "ntfsclone" . . . Thanks. looks like exactly what I'm looking for. > Do realise that cloning Windows partition often leads to an unbootable > syst

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 April 2009 19:21:30 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,20.Apr.09, 15:59:04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > > triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to > > control the partitions is important. > > > >

Re: X/hal issue with upgrade

2009-04-20 Thread John
On (20/04/09 15:55), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |[snip] AutoAddDevices should be in the "ServerLayout" section [snip] On (20/04/09 22:59), Sven Joachim wrote: | Did you add them to the right section? It looks like you put them into | the "Device" section instead of the "Serverlayout" section.

Online contest software recommendations??

2009-04-20 Thread John W Foster
I am interested in running some online contests with awards involved. What I need: open source preferably free login for membership/entry; process for accepting payments databased backend able to provide contest standings to entrants as available must run on linux web based interfaces for all func

Re: How to apply changes in /etc/network/interfaces w/o OS restart?

2009-04-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
As root (or by appending /sbin/ to the beggining), i usually do: # ifdown eth0 # ifconfig down eth0 echo "go grab some coffee" # ifup eth0 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread David A. Parker
Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/4/21 T o n g : Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#C

Re: X/hal issue with upgrade

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-20 22:36 +0200, John wrote: > On (19/04/09 20:13), Sven Joachim wrote: > | On 2009-04-19 19:41 +0200, John wrote: > | > | > I upgraded everything sid today on my Thinkpad A31, and afterwards, X > | > failed with this message: > | > (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd

Re: VLC sid upgrade loses color, has wrong aspect ratio

2009-04-20 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:12 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > I'm using the VLC packages for sid/i386 from debian-multimedia.org. Are you sure? AFAIK, debian-multimedia doesn't contain vlc any more. What's your apt-cache policy vlc ? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge

Re: X/hal issue with upgrade

2009-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090420203621.ga8...@columbus.rr.com>, John wrote: >On (19/04/09 20:13), Sven Joachim wrote: >| On 2009-04-19 19:41 +0200, John wrote: >| > I upgraded everything sid today on my Thinkpad A31, and afterwards, X >| > failed with this message: >| > (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using driver

Japanese write

2009-04-20 Thread Neal Hogan
I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I apologize if I've overlooked something obvious. My wife is Japanese and would like to be able to not only read but write i

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
thveillon.debian schreef: > T o n g a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? > have a look at "ntfsclone" (if you're not on fat of course...). Utility > live-cd's often include it, like Clonezilla, System Rescue CD, > PartedMagic... Or from a Debian

Re: X/hal issue with upgrade

2009-04-20 Thread John
On (19/04/09 20:13), Sven Joachim wrote: | On 2009-04-19 19:41 +0200, John wrote: | | > I upgraded everything sid today on my Thinkpad A31, and afterwards, X | > failed with this message: | > (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse$ | > (WW) Disabling ThinkPad

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:22:40 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically >> useless since . . . > > the dd tool will let you create a bitwise replica of any partition. That's even worse than Partimage, which will only copy data from the used

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread thveillon.debian
T o n g a écrit : > Hi, > > Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? > > Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically > useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. > http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- > FAQ#Can_I_r

firefox 3.6 alpha

2009-04-20 Thread Bogdan
Hello, Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ? I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run minefield I get: ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file Thanks, -- ing. Bogdan MARIAN Timisoara, ROMANIA E-mail

Re: iptables - computer hangs

2009-04-20 Thread Erik Xavior
now I fully removed network manager: apt-get remove --purge -y network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome network-manager network-manager-openvpn network-manager-pptp network-manager-vpnc because I read in forums, when I want to "use"

RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-20 Thread Seri
Hoping somebody might be able to provide me with some pointers that may just help me recover a lot of data, a home system with no backups but a lot of photos, yes I know the admin rule, backup backup backup, but I ran out of backup space (not a good excuse). I saw a few months back that somebody d

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/21 T o n g : > Hi, > > Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? > > Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically > useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. > http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- > FAQ#Can_I_res

Re: OT: Hijack: EEE PC 10"

2009-04-20 Thread Robert Hodgins
> from the now inactive debian > eeepc project: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC Has this project come to an end? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > Michael, > > 2009/4/20 Michael Iatrou > > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > There is no particularly good reason to have the swa

Re: How to repaira broken system with non-Debian packages?

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 20:28:08, dr_a_stamm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hi, > > I was careless enough to update from Etch to Lenny without completely > removing all > non-Debian packages, mostly from: > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free > deb http://www.debian-mul

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:25:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote: > > In The name of God > > > > I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; > > This is nvidia installer log : > > > > regards dehqan > > It seems to me you should link the compiler that

Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread T o n g
Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#Can_I_restore_it_to_a_smaller_or_bigger_p

Re: OT: Hijack: EEE PC 10"

2009-04-20 Thread Lancelot du Lac
Eric, I happen to own an eeepc 701, which I run under Debian Lenny. I'd recommend you follow the instructions from the now inactive debian eeepc project: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC My netbook works like a charm, except for hibernate. But mine is a very primitive incarnate of the eeepc, and

Re: A package can not be authenticated through apt-get.

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,21.Apr.09, 00:23:57, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I can not solve my problem w/ apt-get: > > I want to upgrade up to sed_4.1.5-8 (from debain main), but apt-get > says that the package can not be authenticated. I have > debian-keyring-2009.01.18 installed. So, how I can fix this? > >

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 15:59:04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple > boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the > partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:15:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal (csanyi...@gmail.com) wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman writes: > > > Siju George wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous > >> release will be made for an year more. > >> Will Etch be actively maintaine

Re: I can't send email to yahoo with my postfix server

2009-04-20 Thread debian debian
Please post the exact error that you are experiencing. Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.stardothosting.com/linux-vps-hosting On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Maurice Guerrier wrote: > Hello, > I configure my postfix server, I can send email to user on the same pc, but > When I try to send

Re: How to apply changes in /etc/network/interfaces w/o OS restart?

2009-04-20 Thread debian debian
you do : /etc/init.d/ifupdown restart Star Dot Hosting www.stardothosting.com linux vps hosting On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I have changed my ip in /etc/network/interfaces. Then have > restarted /etc/init.d/networking, but saw no effect. How can appl

A package can not be authenticated through apt-get.

2009-04-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I can not solve my problem w/ apt-get: I want to upgrade up to sed_4.1.5-8 (from debain main), but apt-get says that the package can not be authenticated. I have debian-keyring-2009.01.18 installed. So, how I can fix this? I've seen there debian-keyring_2009.04.04_all.deb (debian/pool/

Installing an EFI bootloader on a non-bootable Lenny install (Intel Mac)?

2009-04-20 Thread Kevin Ponds
Hi, I have an Intel Mac that was previously running Ubuntu in a singleboot configuration (no rEFIt installed -- booting with whatever Ubuntu's default boot method is, which appears to be grub with EFI support). I attempted to migrate over to Lenny over the weekend, not even thinking about whethe

Re: How to set apt-get to download difference only while update?

2009-04-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > Apt does this by default, you don't need to worry. Are You sure? For I notice the files sizes it downloads and in sum it equals to the pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin total sizes. Also, how I can turn it off - downloading of the sources? Seems it is not

Re: How to apply changes in /etc/network/interfaces w/o OS restart?

2009-04-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Abhishek: > Or if you have > "auto eth0" line in /etc/network/interfaces, you do not need to do > "ifup / ifdown". Well. I have that line in it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: How to apply changes in /etc/network/interfaces w/o OS restart?

2009-04-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Zhengquan: > Did you try to 'sudo ifdown eth0' or which ever the network adaptor > is? and ifup it again? I didn't! I only tried w/ the scripts in /etc/init.d: networking ifupdown ifupdown-clean w/o any parameters supplied - only restart command. Thank You,

Lenny: Rhythmbox, mp3, sound problems

2009-04-20 Thread Len Berman
Hi, I am having problems with sound and the rhythmbox player. Unfortunately, the problems are not completely repeatable. The problem seems to have started when Lenny went stable and I switched from tracking Lenny to the stable. There are a bunch of problems. 1) The rhythmbox GUI doesn't open u

Re: crashes without trace--module problem?

2009-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I have finally confirmed that the problem was the ath5k driver (stays up days without it, crashes, usually within a day, with it). Upgrading the the latest trunk kernel (2.6.29) seems to have fixed it. I'm still curious if there is any more direct way of tracing such crashes, or of figuring out w

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Allums
Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: Hi List! I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. I

OT: Hijack: EEE PC 10" (was: Re: Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing)

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:52:04AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I've just installed Debian lenny-stable onto my Asus Eee PC > 10", Hi Robert, I've been looking at the 10" Eee PC for a debian laptop. How are you finding it, especially the keyboard? I'd be interested in hearing how it's

Re: Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing

2009-04-20 Thread Jan Muszynski
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark McCorkell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 08:52 -0400, Robert Menes wrote: >> Hi folks, I've just installed Debian lenny-stable onto my Asus Eee PC >> 10", and I'd like to >> switch over from stable to squeeze-testing in order to make use of >> more up to date

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 April 2009 16:11:32 Sven Joachim wrote: > I would advise to have both sid and testing in sources.list, otherwise > large parts of the system may be uninstallable due to the many ongoing > transitions.  Things seem to have settled down somewhat in the last few > days, but I still have s

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
Thanks for the reply, Thorny. On Monday 20 April 2009 16:20:13 Thorny wrote: > Are you familiar enough with troubleshooting problems and do you have a > good enough understanding of how packages migrate down to deal with issues > in the unstable branch? Are you currently running "stable" or "test

Re: Bad sound

2009-04-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I may be a bit behind the times in using xmms. Is there a >> replacement (with approximately the same user interface) for xmms? > > audacious Audacious works very well. Thanks, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:59:04 +0100, Lisi Reisz posted: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control > the partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
Michael, 2009/4/20 Michael Iatrou > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > There is no particularly good reason to have the swap on RAID. You > > > should define three independed swap partitions;

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-20 16:59 +0200, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple > boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the > partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that

Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the partitions is important. Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that the best way of going about this would be to download a d

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a > > > spare.

Re: grip/lenny doesn't extract audio CDs first tracks

2009-04-20 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
David Fox a écrit : On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Nicolas BERCHER wrote: On another computer with the same grip version, it works good. Could that be related to a CD drive problem? Any idea? You might want to further troubleshoot the problem by using a lower-level tool such as cdp

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Lancelot du Lac wrote: >I can only join my voice to those who say this behavior is a pain. >Since this bug appears in 3.5.10, I'm currently pinning 3.5.9 for kwin. >(and I have to say it works well) > >However this much probably won't be possible once kde4 is uploaded into >testing. >I certain

Re: Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing

2009-04-20 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 08:52 -0400, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I've just installed Debian lenny-stable onto my Asus Eee PC > 10", and I'd like to > switch over from stable to squeeze-testing in order to make use of > more up to date apps > and KDE 4.2. I remember that you have to add a new repo

Re: iptables - computer hangs

2009-04-20 Thread Thorny
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:36:59 +0200, Erik Xavior posted: >[...] > 1) First I removed the network-manager, to be sure, it doesn't do > anything: > > apt-get remove --purge -y network-manager-gnome > network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp-gnome > network-manager-vpnc-gnome > This look

Re: sshd: lastlog_filetype: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory.

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-20 13:08 +0200, Sthu Deus wrote: > I see these errors in /var/log/auth.log: > > sshd: lastlog_filetype: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or > directory > sshd: lastlog_openseek: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such > file or directory > > How bad is this? Information abo

Re: iptables - computer hangs

2009-04-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Javier: > >> Did you try to use your iptable script in post-up / pre-down hooks at >> /etc/network/interfaces ? I think it is the best solution for that > > But I have to disagree w/ You - for once the network

Re: iptables - computer hangs

2009-04-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Erik Xavior wrote: > OK, my brains dead. :) > It still doesn't work :D :\ :( > > I'm using Debian Lenny, with GNOME > > 1) First I removed the network-manager, to be sure, it doesn't do anything: > > apt-get remove --purge -y network-manager-gnome > network-manager

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > > > I have 2 partitions: > > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 >

Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing

2009-04-20 Thread Robert Menes
Hi folks, I've just installed Debian lenny-stable onto my Asus Eee PC 10", and I'd like to switch over from stable to squeeze-testing in order to make use of more up to date apps and KDE 4.2. I remember that you have to add a new repo, or I believe point /etc/apt/sources.list to the testing repos,

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > Hi List! > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > I have 2 partitions: > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 > md1 is for swap and made of sda2,sdb2, sdc2 There is no particularly good reas

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-20 Thread David Baron
On Monday 20 April 2009 00:00:26 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I just noticed a new package in squeeze, firmware-linux, which contains > > the binary firmware that was formerly included in Debian kernels [...] > > > > What I want to know is what kinds of problems I might e

sshd: lastlog_filetype: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory.

2009-04-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I see these errors in /var/log/auth.log: sshd: lastlog_filetype: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory sshd: lastlog_openseek: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory How bad is this? And how I can fix it? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: iptables - computer hangs

2009-04-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Javier: > Did you try to use your iptable script in post-up / pre-down hooks at > /etc/network/interfaces ? I think it is the best solution for that But I have to disagree w/ You - for once the network environment changes that is, say the machine will be out of

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 20 April 2009 11:44:31 BAGI Akos, vous avez écrit : > Hi List! > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. > > I have 2 partitions: > md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 > md1 is for swap and made of sda2,sdb2, sdc2 > > - I can boot form both disk

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-20 Thread Csanyi Pal
Sjoerd Hardeman writes: > Siju George wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous >> release will be made for an year more. >> Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as >> soon as possible? > Only security updates will be made to Etc

Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread BAGI Akos
Hi List! I installed a software raid, level1 with 3 disks, one of them is a spare. I have 2 partitions: md0 is for / and is made of sda1,sdb1, sdc1 md1 is for swap and made of sda2,sdb2, sdc2 - I can boot form both disks, - the system works fine. - mdstat says the raids are active - mdmadm --de

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-20 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Siju George wrote: Hi, I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous release will be made for an year more. Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as soon as possible? Only security updates will be made to Etch, for still nine more months. Yet, as Len

How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-20 Thread Siju George
Hi, I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous release will be made for an year more. Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as soon as possible? thanks Siju

Re: upgrade problem [SOLVED]

2009-04-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 20 April 2009 02:57:57 Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:14:45AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > HI list, > > Igot a package, acpid, which does not want to upgrade. I tried to remove > > it, > > me 2, try add exit 0 to /etc/init.d/acpid on the second line (after > stopping the se

Re: anacron

2009-04-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 08.04.09 10:23, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Are the following lines in /etc/anacrontab ok? Anyway to verify they > will work or do I just have to wait? > 1 20 rsnapshot_day /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily > 7 35 rsnapshot_weekly /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly > @monthly

Re: Disk drive recovery help

2009-04-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 08.04.09 08:50, tony mollica wrote: > Thorny, I know what you're asking, I just wasn't clear. But yes, the > partition is there (or here): > > fdisk -l output: > > Disk /dev/sdg: 184.4 GB, 184416067584 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22420 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 822

Two problems with installation of Lenny

2009-04-20 Thread Ibrahim Shaame
I have two problems in installing Debian Leny: 1 - I installed a 32 bit version on and AMD, which installed correctly. I have other installations (Slackware 12.2 and Slackware 12.0, DLS, etc) on the machine. At the Grub menu, when I select Slackware 12.0 it boots with a minor error message. But Sl