Re: aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread Mike
Tom H wrote: > Or "apt-get -s dist-upgrade" to check whether dist-upgrade would pull it in. No difference with "-s". > Also, check the output of "apt-cache policy linux-image-..." It tells me that installed == candidate on the respective systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread Mike
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Compare the output of 'apt-cache policy' on the different systems. 1st is good system, 2nd is bad one. Interesting. What does it mean? *** 20,31 release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=main origin security.debian.org 500 http://ftp.us.de

Re: aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:06 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Mike wrote: >> >> I have in installation in which the linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 >> package is "stuck" in aptitude at 2.6.26-25lenny1.  There's a >> -26lenny1 security release that my other installations are

Re: aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread Mike
shawn wilson wrote: >> I have in installation in which the linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 >> package is "stuck" in aptitude at 2.6.26-25lenny1. There's a >> -26lenny1 security release that my other installations are seeing. It >> has no hold on it. Security is in sources.list. >> "apt-get {updat

Re: aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 05 dec 10, 22:30:08, Mike wrote: > I have in installation in which the linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 > package is "stuck" in aptitude at 2.6.26-25lenny1. There's a > -26lenny1 security release that my other installations are seeing. It > has no hold on it. Security is in sources.list. >

Re: aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Mike wrote: > I have in installation in which the linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 > package is "stuck" in aptitude at 2.6.26-25lenny1. There's a > -26lenny1 security release that my other installations are seeing. It > has no hold on it. Security is in sources.li

Re: Files in the /tmp dir.

2010-12-05 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > have you checked which software uses it (`lsof',`ps',... ? > > > to add to that list: stat, fuser what would be nice is if there were some sort of wtmp for file access history as that's not going to show you what a program m

aptitude not upgrading linux-image-2.6...

2010-12-05 Thread Mike
I have in installation in which the linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 package is "stuck" in aptitude at 2.6.26-25lenny1. There's a -26lenny1 security release that my other installations are seeing. It has no hold on it. Security is in sources.list. "apt-get {update,upgrade}" doesn't change anything

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2010-12-05 Thread Doug
On 12/05/2010 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 ... It tells me that /media/floppy1 is not mounted! When I try to read the data directly with dd if=/dev/fd1 of=erase.me count=1 It successfully reads the boot sector into the file era

Re: Files in the /tmp dir.

2010-12-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, have you checked which software uses it (`lsof',`ps',... ? Jerome On 06/12/10 13:21, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have a bunch of such files: -rw--- 1 rootroot 0 2010-10-26 12:14 /tmp/tmp.VpjBPrFKtT What can these be? From whence they come? It seems they are created

Files in the /tmp dir.

2010-12-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have a bunch of such files: -rw--- 1 rootroot 0 2010-10-26 12:14 /tmp/tmp.VpjBPrFKtT What can these be? From whence they come? It seems they are created every minute after some period of days. Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: problems with grub2 and usb-keyboard

2010-12-05 Thread Geronimo
Bob Proulx wrote: > Maybe one day all computers can use a free software BIOS that we can see and > understand. > > http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot Nice project. Although I love your idea, I believe, as long as MB-manufactors don't use that project - or at least support it, your id

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-05 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Well, after having some difficulty getting rsync to do exactly what I want, I've become convinced to try rsnapshot. I'll let you know how it goes. -PT On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Jochen, Paul -- > > In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2010-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Powell wrote: >mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 > ... > It tells me that /media/floppy1 is not mounted! When I try to read the data > directly with >dd if=/dev/fd1 of=erase.me count=1 > It successfully reads the boot sector into the file erase.me; so the > drive and the disk

Re: please correct me on my code?

2010-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
hadi motamedi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > ... trimmed ... In the future please trim quoted messages. That was a lot of text that shouldn't be posted repeatedly. > Thank you very much for your technical support. Of course you know that this is a user discussion list and NOT paid technical sup

Re: problems with grub2 and usb-keyboard

2010-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Geronimo wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > In which case an update to the BIOS may be needed. > > I was pretty faithless about your hint. But ... > ... I went to hell for that fu...nny BIOS update (without any M$-System and > without floppy - no way :( > I had to dig for my old floppy drive) and a

saslauthd in squeeze requires restart once in awhile

2010-12-05 Thread D G Teed
Hello, I'm using sasl support with postfix for TLS/SSL support. saslauthd is set for pam authentication, and this is configured to use winbind. It all works! Once in awhile - twice a month I think it has been - users report logins to SMTP is failing. When I test saslauthd, with testsaslauthd -s

Re: Automount without desktop

2010-12-05 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 06. 12. 2010 00:32:03 je Joel Roth napisal(a): Hi all, I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations I do to be somewhat tedious. Can I get some reasonable automount functionality without installing a heavy-weight desktop? I currently use only light stuff: stumpwm or fvwm. I ima

Re: Automount without desktop

2010-12-05 Thread Ron
maybe this would help: http://wiki.debian.org/AutoFs regards Ron On 12/6/2010 8:39 AM, Doug wrote: On 12/05/2010 06:32 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi all, I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations I do to be somewhat tedious. Can I get some reasonable automount functionality without

Re: Automount without desktop

2010-12-05 Thread Doug
On 12/05/2010 06:32 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi all, I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations I do to be somewhat tedious. Can I get some reasonable automount functionality without installing a heavy-weight desktop? I currently use only light stuff: stumpwm or fvwm. I imagine I coul

Automount without desktop

2010-12-05 Thread Joel Roth
Hi all, I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations I do to be somewhat tedious. Can I get some reasonable automount functionality without installing a heavy-weight desktop? I currently use only light stuff: stumpwm or fvwm. I imagine I could write scripts to do it myself, but it see

problems with sound

2010-12-05 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Hola! This is debian squeeze on amd64. Today, sound stopped functioning on my system! Such problems often atre solved by a reboot, but today that did'nt help. Any ideas? Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2010-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 >> years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a >> floppy disk to mount. >> ... > >

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 > years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a > floppy disk to mount. (...) Weird :-? I would try with the simplest command: mount /dev/fd0

Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2010-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a floppy disk to mount. My i386 system has a standard floppy disk controller with two floppy drives: a 3.5-inch high density drive (1.44M in DOS format) and a 5.

Re: [OT] Making CPU fans spin [was: Re: Seeking advice...]

2010-12-05 Thread peasthope
Andrei, > Is WD40 suitable for such fans? The bearing is covered by a plastic cap or a sticker or both. Very little of any sprayed lubricant will reach the bearing. Very similar to spraying a jet of oil at the wheel of a car to "fix" a bad wheel bearing. Also, the spray will coat parts whi

Re: Google Earth error?

2010-12-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 05 December 2010 17:14:06 Curt Howland wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote, > > > aptitude install lib32nss-mdns lsb > > Thank you! That solved half the problem. > > lib32nss-mdns is not availble in Sid. Is there a misspelling? I did a > few searches for variations, but didn't see anythin

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Peter Tenenbaum: > > In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply have a > daily rsync --archive from my main hard drive to the backup drive. While I > understand that more sophisticated backup systems are often useful in a > large system, the system in question is a home co

Re: Exim 4 appends CR to subject line

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:45:28 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:46:08PM +, Camale??n wrote: >> > Any ideas where to poke around? >> >> What makes you think Exim4 is adding a carriage return in the subject >> line? :-? Does it happen for _all_ the e-mails passing through you

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:14:23 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: >> P.S. There was a recently exploit in ProFTPD package, if you are >> thinking in installing, just ensure you get an unaffected package. >> >> I'll second vsftpd (as well as proftpd) for ease of use. I didn't know > about the proftpd exploit

Re: Exim 4 appends CR to subject line

2010-12-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:46:08PM +, Camale??n wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:09:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > The subject line says it all. > > > > I think having ^M show up in my mutt display looks dorky, and would like > > to configure my way out of this, if possible. > > > > Any idea

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Csanyi Pal
shawn wilson writes: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:39:12 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I'm searching for an easy to manage FTP server for Debian >> Lenny. > > (...) > > I've worked with Vsftpd in the past and found it very easy to setup > and m

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: - Original Message From: Angus Hedger To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 9:44:52 AM Subject: Re: TB for amd64? On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:23:58 -0800 (PST) Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I switched to amd64 Sid. So I c

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:39:12 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > I'm searching for an easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny. > > (...) > > I've worked with Vsftpd in the past and found it very easy to setup and > manage (only one config file) but

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Re: Google Earth error?

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:49:42 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > Installed the resulting DEB, "sudo dpkg -i > googleearth_6.0.0.1735+0.5.7-1_i386.deb" > > But, > > = > $ googleearth > /usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: not > found > = (...) JFYI, there is a bug r

Re: Google Earth error?

2010-12-05 Thread Curt Howland
Thierry Chatelet wrote, > aptitude install lib32nss-mdns lsb Thank you! That solved half the problem. lib32nss-mdns is not availble in Sid. Is there a misspelling? I did a few searches for variations, but didn't see anything. lsb did install, and googleearth did launch and give me the splash sc

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

2010-12-05 Thread Rob Owens
> On Friday 05 November 2010 01:27:45 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless > > network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed > > the instructions on > > the page > > http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/Ho

Re: update manager wants admin password

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:20:33 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: > All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the > update manager icon --- (...) I always get asked for root password when there are updates available in the update manager icon. If you get a "keyring unlock" messag

Modem Serien no responde

2010-12-05 Thread cosme
Hola Tengo un servidor con Debian lenny el mismo tiene un solo COM1 para conectar el modem que tenía puesto pero el mismo se rompió, por aqui se daba servicio a los usuarios remotos. Recientemente se compraron unos modem serie y una tarjeta LAVA pci que teniene dos series más. Según el CD q

Gforce (was: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?)

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:58:42 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Camaleón writes: > If you need a GUI for user handling, webmin could be an option, as > it provides modules for "proftpd" (and "vsftp", IIRC) as well as > other FTP servers. >> I have tried gforge-ft

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:14:12 +, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 07 November 2010 23:24:17 Camaleón wrote: >> - What is the current status of Iceweasel in Lenny? - Are all the >> recent bugs of Firefox -that can affect 3.0 branch- fixed/ backported >> to Iceweasel 3.0.6? >> - Does 3.0.6 versioning numb

Re: weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread wolf python london
On 5 December 2010 21:14, Tom H wrote: >> On 5 December 2010 18:53, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:15 AM, wolf python london >>> wrote: >>> >>> The problem comes from the initrd line: >>> menuentry "linux (on /dev/sda11)" { >>> insmod part_msdos >>> insmod ext2 >>> set root='(hd0,msdo

previous message re:gksu

2010-12-05 Thread John Lindsay
As a further update I clicked -System-Administration-Update manager from the toolbar and got the list of updates available. The 9 available updates consist primarily of 'LIBHAMLIB' utilities and 'man-db -- on-line manual pager. I have to assume that it is a legitimate request for my admin passw

update manager wants admin password

2010-12-05 Thread John Lindsay
All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the update manager icon --- | enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock | the application 'gksu' (/usr/bin/gksu) wants access to the keyring 'default' but it is locked I can do two actions -- enter the admin password and

Re: weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread Tom H
> On 5 December 2010 18:53, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:15 AM, wolf python london >> wrote: >> >> The problem comes from the initrd line: >> menuentry "linux (on /dev/sda11)" { >> insmod part_msdos >> insmod ext2 >> set root='(hd0,msdos11)' >> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set f4dea

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-12-05 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 07 November 2010 23:24:17 Camaleón wrote: > - What is the current status of Iceweasel in Lenny? > - Are all the recent bugs of Firefox -that can affect 3.0 branch- fixed/ > backported to Iceweasel 3.0.6? > - Does 3.0.6 versioning number follow the upstream numbering? I have Lenny, and Ic

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le dimanche 05 décembre, Csanyi Pal écrivit : > Hi, > > I'm searching for an easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny. > > Sofar I tried out many ftp servers for Lenny but none of them has an > easy manager (creating users, etc.): > ftpd, proftpd, pure-ftpd, vsftpd, wu-ftpd. > > Has anyone a

Re: Debian 5 installation

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:36:20 +, Harry Scott wrote: > I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP > so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not > possible because: > 1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows > mail to

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:55:59 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> If you need a GUI for user handling, webmin could be an option, as it provides modules for "proftpd" (and "vsftp", IIRC) as well as other FTP servers. > >

Re: Strange problem with DNS resolving on Squeeze

2010-12-05 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le samedi 04 décembre, Pascal Hambourg écrivit : > Hello, > > Andrew Wood a écrit : > > > > First of all, if I try and SSH into one of our internal servers (which > > works from other clients) I get: > > > > and...@debian:/$ ssh a...@sambatest1.wrinehillvilla.local > > ssh: Could not resolve h

Re: weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread wolf python london
On 5 December 2010 21:24, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Please trim your posts!] > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:07:42PM +0800, wolf python london wrote: >> and why does the auto-probe  fail ? > > Is os-prober installed? > > apt-cache policy os-prober > Thank you for your answer . os-prober is install

Debian 5 installation

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Scott
I wanted help to install a nvidia legacy graphics driver for TNT 2 AGP so I thought to contact the user lists for guidance. This was not possible because: 1 When I tried to use evolution after asking permission (used windows mail to confirm) I couldn't move its window up to click on forward. The d

Re: Exim 4 appends CR to subject line

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:09:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > The subject line says it all. > > I think having ^M show up in my mutt display looks dorky, and would like > to configure my way out of this, if possible. > > Any ideas where to poke around? What makes you think Exim4 is adding a carriage re

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:55:59 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> If you need a GUI for user handling, webmin could be an option, as >>> it provides modules for "proftpd" (and "vsftp", IIRC) as well as >>> other FTP servers. >> I have tried gforge-ftp-proftpd

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:55:59PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > One can download webmin debian package from here: > http://www.webmin.com/deb.html > > Why isn't it in the Debian repository? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343897 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=2715

Re: Looking for software to manage snail-mail subscriptions

2010-12-05 Thread Wackojacko
On 05/12/10 11:23, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:50:38 +, Alex Gould wrote: Camaleón writes: This may sound a bit overwhelming but have you thought in a CMS (like Drupal or Joomla) and a module for managing those subscriptions? :-? Thanks. I'd consider it -- but do you know o

Re: weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts!] On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 07:07:42PM +0800, wolf python london wrote: > and why does the auto-probe fail ? Is os-prober installed? apt-cache policy os-prober -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:55:59 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> If you need a GUI for user handling, webmin could be an option, as it >> provides modules for "proftpd" (and "vsftp", IIRC) as well as other FTP >> servers. > > On Debian GNU/Linux Lenny and on Squeeze the command: apt

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:39:12 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I'm searching for an easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny. > I've worked with Vsftpd in the past and found it very easy to setup > and manage (only one config file) but people tend to prefer ProFTPD > for multi-

Re: grub2 hangs / freezes when external USB hard drive is connected

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:04:23 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > My squeeze home machine cannot boot when an external hard drive is > connected via USB. When the drive is disconnected, booting occurs > normally; but when it is connected, I get a "Welcome to Grub!" message > and then nothing further h

Re: Looking for software to manage snail-mail subscriptions

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:50:38 +, Alex Gould wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > >> This may sound a bit overwhelming but have you thought in a CMS (like >> Drupal or Joomla) and a module for managing those subscriptions? :-? >> >> > Thanks. I'd consider it -- but do you know of any such module or

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

2010-12-05 Thread Lisi
On Friday 05 November 2010 01:27:45 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless > network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed > the instructions on > the page > http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse > but

Exim 4 appends CR to subject line

2010-12-05 Thread Joel Roth
Hi all, The subject line says it all. I think having ^M show up in my mutt display looks dorky, and would like to configure my way out of this, if possible. Any ideas where to poke around? Joel -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread wolf python london
On 5 December 2010 18:53, Tom H wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:15 AM, wolf python london > wrote: > > > > Recently , I install Mandriva 2010 spring and openSUSE 11.3 in my desktop > > computer.Now , I hava 4 OSs(3 distros) in my desktop computer > > --- Debian Squeeze(/dev/sda1), Debian Sid(

Re: where is the gdm.conf

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:40:05 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > * thanks > that is the problem, no gdm.cong on centos, since it is working, the > file exits elsewhere, may be with another name. thanks again But this is a Debian list, how can we know? :-) Well... let's see. Google says CentOS

Re: weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:15 AM, wolf python london wrote: > > Recently , I install Mandriva 2010 spring and openSUSE 11.3 in my desktop > computer.Now , I hava 4 OSs(3 distros) in my desktop computer > --- Debian Squeeze(/dev/sda1), Debian Sid(/dev/sda10), Mandriva 2010 spring > (/dev/sda11), open

Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:39:12 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I'm searching for an easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny. (...) I've worked with Vsftpd in the past and found it very easy to setup and manage (only one config file) but people tend to prefer ProFTPD for multi- host sites (maybe is

weird stuff about grub2

2010-12-05 Thread wolf python london
Hey, all, Recently , I install Mandriva 2010 spring and openSUSE 11.3 in my desktop computer.Now , I hava 4 OSs(3 distros) in my desktop computer --- Debian Squeeze(/dev/sda1), Debian Sid(/dev/sda10), Mandriva 2010 spring (/dev/sda11), openSUSE 11.3(/dev/sda12) . r...@debian:/etc/grub.d# fdisk -l

Re: Re: Re: where is the gdm.conf

2010-12-05 Thread abdelkader belahcene
* thanks that is the problem, no gdm.cong on centos, since it is working, the file exits elsewhere, may be with another name. thanks again *

Re: Google Earth error?

2010-12-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 05 December 2010 00:49:42 Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Up-to-date Sid. > > In fact, because of a power failure on Tuesday that somehow scrambled > something to do with X, this is on a freshly installed and up to date > Sid. > > Installed googleearth-package, ran make-googleearth-package, c

Re: no x windows

2010-12-05 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > yes, thanks. that did the trick nicely. > > i did an: > apt-cache show openssh-server | grep Depends | sed -e 's/,/\n' > which of course didn't show the 'Recommends' so i totally missed looking > for that. > > though, i don't think i'll forget

Re: grub2 hangs / freezes when external USB hard drive is connected

2010-12-05 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post in this list.] On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > either way, if you're not going to be booting off of usb devices on a > regular basis, go into the bios and put usb lower in the boot order. i've > seen things like usb mice and hubs mess with usb

Re: problems with grub2 and usb-keyboard

2010-12-05 Thread Geronimo
Hi Bob, first of all thank you for your attention. Bob Proulx wrote: > It sounds like your BIOS is not supporting legacy usb devices. Boot > to your BIOS setup page and look for an option that says something > like Enable Legacy USB Devices. My BIOS was dated from this year and it had no opti