Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Erwan David
Le Sat 23/10/2010, Jerome BENOIT disait > Hello List, > > On 23/10/10 10:43, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > >On 10/22/2010 4:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > >[snip] > >> > >>Nautilus. How counterintuitive. To me, anyway. I should have realized. > > > > is there any more intuitive GDM ? I never used GDM

Re: unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-10-22 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/22/2010 01:19 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, vishnu vardhan < > vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i have read the readme. however, there is no .xsession or .xinitrc file on >> my system. right now i am using debian 5.0.4 and fluxbox on an encrypted >>

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 23/10/10 10:43, Morgan Gangwere wrote: On 10/22/2010 4:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Nautilus. How counterintuitive. To me, anyway. I should have realized. is there any more intuitive GDM ? GNOME has hidden away most of its settings panels deep into menus -- and the

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/22/2010 4:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] > > Nautilus. How counterintuitive. To me, anyway. I should have realized. GNOME has hidden away most of its settings panels deep into menus -- and the GDM oldschool launcher was my all time favorite -- gdm3 is evil looking to me. People wonde

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 07:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not started) at differ

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 08:18 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: There is an /etc/init.d/firestarter file and an /etc/firestarter/configuration file (that later one being present in its directory with a whole bunch of other files.). After a fresh rebo

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 07:08 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 03:22:02 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian kern

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: rei...@bellatlantic.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? >Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:05:49 -0400 > >>On Friday 22 October 2010 11:34:19 ow...@netptc.net wrote: >> >>> In fact IIRC the additional

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 22 October 2010 03:22:02 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: > > I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with > > 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where > > the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:17:13AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >lee wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk > >>with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error > >>(5)", and I´m getting messages

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:36:44PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:07:09 +0200, lee wrote: > > > I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk with > > rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error (5)", > > and I´m getting messages in the

Re: Wierd kde/gnome interaction

2010-10-22 Thread B. Alexander
Aha. That makes a difference. storm 4099 0.0 0.0 6924 1756 ?SOct03 0:06 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd storm 4153 0.0 0.0 7300 2148 ?SOct03 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.57 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0 storm 4218 0.0 0.0 41680 3012 ?S

Re: add downloaded program to menu or run it--how?

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 07:03:17PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 10/22/2010 05:25 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:11:50 -0400, Doug wrote: >> >> >>> I have downloaded synaptiks using synaptic package manager. It shows up >>> as "installed" but it doesn't show on any menu, and I have no

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 17:43 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/22/2010 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when > >> you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorti

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > There is an /etc/init.d/firestarter file and an > /etc/firestarter/configuration file (that later one being present in its > directory with a whole bunch of other files.). > After a fresh reboot, with firestarter not running,

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 05:22:45PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 22:03, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there finally a way to get the scrollbar on the left side rather > > than on the right side in KDE? > > > > Sure, start the application with the --reverse flag: > $ okular -

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
ow...@netptc.net put forth on 10/22/2010 5:18 PM: > Ron et al > See the following: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law > Larry Amdahl's law doesn't apply to capacity systems, only capability systems. Capacity systems are limited almost exclusively by memory, IPC/coherence, and I/O bandwi

Re: Firefox

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 06:35 PM, Mark wrote: whenever I open up firefox it crashes. I can't figure out why That's not much detail for us to assist you. Did you try running it from an terminal window? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:34:19 ow...@netptc.net wrote: > In fact IIRC the additional overhead follows the square of the number > of CPUs. I seem to recall this was called Amdahl's Law after Gene > Amdahl of IBM (and later his own company) Either that's not it, or there's more than one "Amd

Re: Firefox

2010-10-22 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Mark wrote: > whenever I open up firefox it crashes. I can't figure out why launch via terminal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:55:39PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > lee wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > >>On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: > >>>On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when > >>>you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not > >> started) at different run levels during startup? I

Firefox

2010-10-22 Thread Mark
whenever I open up firefox it crashes. I can't figure out why -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1287790549.9169.1.ca...@mark-desktop

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:34:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/22/2010 09:44 AM, lee wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > >>lee wrote: > >>>On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: > >On a s

Re: add downloaded program to menu or run it--how?

2010-10-22 Thread Doug
On 10/22/2010 05:25 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:11:50 -0400, Doug wrote: I have downloaded synaptiks using synaptic package manager. It shows up as "installed" but it doesn't show on any menu, and I have no idea how to run it. (It disables the scratchpad when an external mo

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see something about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 04:29 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:00:40PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 10/22/2010 01:56 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want in ipta

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 05:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/22/2010 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorting out assorted mp3s on the

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/22/2010 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorting out assorted mp3s on the desktop, the songs play, and I *hate* this

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? >Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:44:39 -0500 > >>On 10/22/2010 10:34 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From:

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not > started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see something > about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance to read it. You can use 'dmesg |grep '

Re: add downloaded program to menu or run it--how?

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:11:50 -0400, Doug wrote: > I have downloaded synaptiks using synaptic package manager. It shows up > as "installed" but it doesn't show on any menu, and I have no idea how > to run it. (It disables the scratchpad when an external mouse is > connected. This is much better

Re: add downloaded program to menu or run it--how?

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Doug wrote: > I have downloaded synaptiks using synaptic package > manager. It shows up as "installed" but it doesn't show > on any menu, and I have no idea how to run it. (It > disables the scratchpad when an external mouse is > connected. This is much

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:00:40PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 10/22/2010 01:56 PM, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: >>> list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want >>> in iptables are not in effect at all unt

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
lee wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the text moving up together with the scroll bar? Ser

add downloaded program to menu or run it--how?

2010-10-22 Thread Doug
I have downloaded synaptiks using synaptic package manager. It shows up as "installed" but it doesn't show on any menu, and I have no idea how to run it. (It disables the scratchpad when an external mouse is connected. This is much better than the default mode which only disables the scratchpad

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/22/2010 01:56 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the Firestarter user interface during a given sessio

Re: Wierd kde/gnome interaction

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:22:02 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> > Is there any way to shut Gnome up when I'm in KDE? >> >> Mmm... check for services running on start up (you can use system >> monitor) and look for the suspicious one (gnome-volume-m

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > srv1:~# free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 3956 3538418 0 0181 > -/+ buffers/cache: 3356600 > Swap: 9538 51 9486 That looks okay. You h

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-10-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:42:30 +0800 Bob wrote: > On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 > > Bob wrote: > > > >> On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: > >>> I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash > >>> players embedded in web

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu ...abbreviated... > r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy id wa > 0 2 27608 441256520 238372 20 223 1161 1020 3580 13200 1 5 72 22 > 0 1 29076 444256

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > list's moderator hasn't got back to me. It appears that the rules I want > in iptables are not in effect at all until I actually bring up the > Firestarter user interface during a given session. Once I log off > (restart not

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 06:47 AM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, postid: On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:49:03 post id wrote: I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login manager Of course you do. If you weren't using one, you wouldn't be able to log into the system. -- I login a

change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
I'm running Firestarter 1.0.3 on Debian testing (both systems involved in this message). A number of months ago I was in a situation where I wanted to establish an SSH connection from my notebook to a desktop system. Because the network on which this desktop system resides is less well control

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 10:34 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:45 -0500 Correct. The amount of effort needed for cross-CPU commu

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 09:44 AM, lee wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: lee wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the scroll

Re: Wierd kde/gnome interaction

2010-10-22 Thread B. Alexander
I checked with ps, and there was nothing gnome running. I'm remoted in from work, so I can't connect anything to it, but nothing seems to be listening from the gnome camp. --b On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:27:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > > > For t

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Bob McGowan
On 10/21/2010 05:26 PM, post id wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine wrote: > <--deleted apology--> >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:49:03PM -0700, post id wrote: >>> I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and >> used no login >>> manager -- I login at the prompt and typ

Re: ssh-add problem

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
john wrote: > The following output describes my problem: > > rich...@debian:~/Desktop$ ssh-add -c ~/.ssh/id_rsa > Enter passphrase for /home/richard/.ssh/id_rsa: > Bad passphrase, try again for /home/richard/.ssh/id_rsa: > > What am I doing wrong? "Bad passphrase" says that the passphrase you t

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when > you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorting out > assorted mp3s on the desktop, the songs play, and I *hate* this. How do > I turn off preview withou

Re: LaTeX, Texlive-luatex, Biber installation procedure

2010-10-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 10/21/2010 7:48 AM, brownh wrote: +-- | Am I correct to assume that if I install texlive, texlive-luatex, and | CTAN biber in that order, I should end up with a fully functional TeX | Live 2010, with LaTeX2e macros and biblatex support? +-- I use Texlive-latex-recommended and go from there. +-

Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Mark Allums
I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorting out assorted mp3s on the desktop, the songs play, and I *hate* this. How do I turn off preview without turning off sound completely? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Wierd kde/gnome interaction

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:27:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > For the past few weeks, I have had something wierd going on. > > I have a full workstation load on my workstation, including KDE 4.4.5 > and Gnome. I personally run KDE. What I have seen over the past few > weeks is that when I plug in any

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:07:09 +0200, lee wrote: > I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk with > rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error (5)", > and I´m getting messages in the syslog like these: (...) > [128627.397894] EXT4-fs error (device s

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? >Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:45 -0500 > >>On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew >Reid

Wierd kde/gnome interaction

2010-10-22 Thread B. Alexander
For the past few weeks, I have had something wierd going on. I have a full workstation load on my workstation, including KDE 4.4.5 and Gnome. I personally run KDE. What I have seen over the past few weeks is that when I plug in anything that triggers the device notifier (e.g. CD, N900, thumb drive

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 22:03, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there finally a way to get the scrollbar on the left side rather > than on the right side in KDE? > Sure, start the application with the --reverse flag: $ okular --reverse -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lee wrote: Hi, I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error (5)", and I´m getting messages in the syslog like these: This is what I get: Oct 22 08:02:43 debian kernel: [

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lee wrote: Hi, I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error (5)", and I´m getting messages in the syslog like these: [128625.090339] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code [128625.090342] sd 11:0:0:0

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #1688

2010-10-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 06:52 -0700, Farid Ansari wrote: > Please someone advise how to unsubscribe from the userlists. I tried > to do so unsucessfully. I cannot cope with the mails. > Any help given will be highly appreciated. > Thanks. > Farid You can try this web page to unsubscribe.. http://ww

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:08:02PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > Short answer: USB flash can die. > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:07:09PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk > > with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails wi

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > lee wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > >> On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: > >>> On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when > >>> you move the scrollbar down. Where´s

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #1688

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:52:31 -0700, Farid Ansari wrote: > *Please someone advise how to unsubscribe from the userlists. You can do it from here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > I tried to do so unsucessfully. I cannot cope with the mails.* *Any > help given will be highly appreciated.*

Re: dpkg issue

2010-10-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote, on 10/22/10 12:24: > First try > dpkg --update-avail > If this doesn't help clean-up the local repository of retrieved package > files > apt-get clean Sorry this is the wrong comman. You have to do that manually: rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* > and rebuild the repository >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #1688

2010-10-22 Thread Farid Ansari
*Please someone advise how to unsubscribe from the userlists. I tried to do so unsucessfully. I cannot cope with the mails.* *Any help given will be highly appreciated.* *Thanks.* *Farid* On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:58 AM, < debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org> wrote: > Content-Type: text/p

Re: problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Short answer: USB flash can die. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:07:09PM +0200, lee wrote: > Hi, > > I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk > with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error > (5)", and I´m getting messages in the syslog like the

Re: Best way to manually replace a package with a customized one

2010-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:09:16AM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Yahya Mohammad writes: > > I want to use a custom compiled version of ffmpeg to enable some extra > > features. What is the best way to do this? I do not want to break > > anything that depends on ffmpeg. > > > >

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread post id
--- On Fri, 10/22/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > From: Ron Johnson > Subject: Re: text-only login is root? > To: "post id" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:15 AM > On 10/21/2010 10:11 PM, post id > wrote: > > > > --- On Fri, 10/22/10, David Jardine  > wrote: >

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Andrei Popescu writes: >> > @Rodolfo, could you please post the output of 'lspci -nnk', preferably >> > only the part relevant to the SiS Ethernet controler. On Mi, 20 oct 10, 13:11:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> For Etch, the `k' option is not valid: so I used Knoppix. >> >> To be sure, I po

problems with USB disk

2010-10-22 Thread lee
Hi, I´m having trouble copying files for backup purposes to an USB disk with rsync. Copying the files sometimes fails with "Input/output error (5)", and I´m getting messages in the syslog like these: [128625.090339] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code [128625.090342] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Resul

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, postid: On Friday 22 October 2010 02:26:38 post id wrote: [...] > So how do I shut down X properly? On this laptop I > usually do "shutdown -h now" from a console when I'm > ready to quit. That certainly will stop the X environment since what you are doing is completly halting the machine.

restricting number of user logins

2010-10-22 Thread Mag Gam
Currently we do alot of `rsync -e ssh` to a host. Is it possible to restrict only 5 logins per user on the server? My goal is to avoid having 100s of these sshd processes running on the server which will slow it down. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, postid: On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:49:03 post id wrote: > I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login > manager Of course you do. If you weren't using one, you wouldn't be able to log into the system. > -- I login at the prompt See? What you don't use is a *g

Re: I can't get the Linux kernel RDS exploit to exploit my machine...

2010-10-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:49:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I installed my kernel back on 01-Oct, so it should be vulnerable, but > it's not, even when I modprobed the rds modules. (...) > [*] Failed to resolve kernel symbols. Mmm... by reading the "c" file I think that is not the message you shou

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy wrote: > What I need is a ping test or something that I can put in smokeping > to alert me when I forget, e.g. this morning there was a power outage > that took out the modem. I think there are others here making suggestions for that. > What do you mean by 'clamped'? "Locked to". At

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread Roel Schroeven
lee wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: >> On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: >>> On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when >>> you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the >>> text moving up together with the scro

Re: dpkg issue

2010-10-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
First try dpkg --update-avail If this doesn't help clean-up the local repository of retrieved package files apt-get clean and rebuild the repository apt-get update or aptitude update -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 10/22/2010 2:00 AM: > On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid >> wrote: >>> But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for >>> distributing kernels with this set to 32. Is that just a >>> reasonable nu

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-22 Thread Pinguim Ribeiro
lee yun.yagibdah.de> writes: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:25:03PM +, Pinguim.ribeiro wrote: > > > > I mean the popularity-contest depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent, > > packages to be installed later and not by the debian installer. > > You would select to install exim4-daemon-hea

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Volkan YAZICI put forth on 10/21/2010 5:04 AM: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? >>> Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: > I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with > 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where > the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32, > meaning it will only use the first 32 cores that it see

Re: Best way to manually replace a package with a customized one

2010-10-22 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Yahya Mohammad writes: > I want to use a custom compiled version of ffmpeg to enable some extra > features. What is the best way to do this? I do not want to break > anything that depends on ffmpeg. > > I tried making my own .deb package using checkinstall. This works > fine,

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for distributing kernels with this set to 32. Is that just a reasonable number that's never been updated? Or is there some complication