old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-15 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
Hello, trying to make a print server from an old pentium 100 64M RAM. I had to take that route because the USB<->parallel cables I've got don't work. Anyways, first tried to install debian stable but it crashes on boot. Something with the IDE controllers. btw I think there are some nasty bugs with

Re: Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-15 Thread Eduardo Bearzoti
Hi Sean, For the past few days, I've been trying to install Squueze on my PC and have experienced very similar troubles. My card is a GeForce 8400 GS. The screen and the whole system freeze as soon as gdm3 starts. I installed the Nvidia module "the Debian Way", and also (after some reluctance)

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-15 Thread Eduardo Bearzoti
Hi Sean, For the past few days, I've been trying to install Squueze on my PC and have experienced very similar troubles. My card is a GeForce 8400 GS. The screen and the whole system freeze as soon as gdm3 starts. I installed the Nvidia module "the Debian Way", and also (after some reluctance)

error: invalid arch independent elf magic

2012-04-15 Thread Joey L
hi all - i am in big trouble and really need good help. Something happened to my raid5 array on an ibm x3650 with raid-8k controller. I am running debian squeeze with grub --- nothing fancy - all my files are on the root filesystem. The array was not being recognized by the bios. So i tried to do

Nvidia module makes system unstable

2012-04-15 Thread Sean Whalen
Hello All, I recently made the switch from Kubuntu 11.10 to Debain stable. Everything was running very well until I installed the Nvidia module "the Debian way". Then, the system became highly unstable. I noticed that the system would become very sluggish during simple tasks The most repeatable e

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 16/04/12 05:27: On 4/14/2012 11:00 PM, Arthur Marsh wrote: ... The AMD64 machine has recently taken to stalling after entering the username and password for the adsl router's browser interface, and I've tried downgrading recent package upgrades, and different kernels and

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Camaleón wrote, on 15/04/12 23:43: On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:30:14 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I've tried to run through all I can think of and am getting a bit stuck. I have two machines running Debian (one a dual-core Pentium4 with i386, the other a quad-core AMD64-X2 with amd64), both with

Re: Boot messages getting cleared

2012-04-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/15/2012 12:48 PM, Thilo Six wrote: Hello since the upgrade to wheezy i have a problem with the messages that are shown during boot. Currently during boot messages are shown as usual on vt1 but then at some point late in the boot process these messages are cleared and then only the login pr

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-15 Thread Joe
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:05:24 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > 4, on port 80 Squid will be acting as a proxy. > > Yes, this is the meaning of 'transparent' in terms of a proxy. It means that the web browsers don't have to be set to a specific port, when users who know a bit more can use a di

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/14/2012 11:00 PM, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I've tried to run through all I can think of and am getting a bit > stuck. > > I have two machines running Debian (one a dual-core Pentium4 with i386, > the other a quad-core AMD64-X2 with amd64), both with built-in ethernet > cards. > > The Pentiu

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > > did you mean this. > > 1, PAT all the traffice by iptables Not PAT, NAT. And specifically source NAT (SNAT or MASQUERADE). > 2. Block everything > 3, accept only specific traffice > 4, on port 80 Squid will be acting as a proxy. Yes. > if it is what you mea

Fetching path from ps-or-proc.

2012-04-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Please help me to fix my problem. I will start w/ its description. I need to fetch a file path. I can do so by: . ps -AHf | grep [...] (as it is visible from command parameters) . cat /proc/n/cmdline (same command arguments) Problem is that as the path contains UTF-8 cha

gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-15 Thread songbird
what controls the display of the fonts in the gnome-panel when it first starts up? i'm running current unstable versions of gnome, gnome-panel, gnome-shell, up to date on graphics drivers, tried different kernels, tried creating new user, etc. all same result. the whole thing is blank oth

Re: Boot messages getting cleared

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:48:21 +0200, Thilo Six wrote: > since the upgrade to wheezy i have a problem with the messages that are > shown during boot. Currently during boot messages are shown as usual on > vt1 but then at some point late in the boot process these messages are > cleared and then only

Re: problems with wifi bc43

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:30:50 +0300, Roman V.Leon. wrote: (...) >>> 2: phy0: Wireless LAN >>> Soft blocked: no >>> Hard blocked: yes >> ^ >> >> The above seems to be what triggers the warning. >> >>> I cracked my head, but i don't know how to deal with this issue. >>> Thanks in ad

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:38:46 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 15.04.2012 19:28, Camaleón kirjoitti: (...) >> As I thought, verifying PGP/MIME detached signatures can be also done >> from command line with GPG. I have tried with some posts from this same >> mailing list coming from users that use

Boot messages getting cleared

2012-04-15 Thread Thilo Six
Hello since the upgrade to wheezy i have a problem with the messages that are shown during boot. Currently during boot messages are shown as usual on vt1 but then at some point late in the boot process these messages are cleared and then only the login prompt is shown on vt1 just like on vt2. I wo

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:07:16 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 15.04.2012 00:53, Camaleón kirjoitti: <...> >> >> P.S. I find quite hard to understand why there are users who despite >> consider my postings to be sort a "newbie killers" and "soft-mind >> perverters" are still replying to them. The

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-15 Thread Mika Suomalainen
15.04.2012 19:28, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:52:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:43:51 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Anyway, I get the posts through a nntp news server (Gmane), I don't >>> know - because I've not tried- if the header information p

Re: problems with wifi bc43

2012-04-15 Thread Roman V.Leon.
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:07:24 +0300, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > >> Could you help me with my wifi card in laptop, please? I have broadcom >> BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY controller, and I installed >> "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer". Unfortunately when i'm trying turn my >> card on, i'm getting a message:

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:20:42 -0400, Joey wrote in message : > None of these revealed anything of use to me. > Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? ..me, no. Are you saying booting with "verbose" instead of "quiet" doesn't give you any more output in dmesg or in the logs??? >

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:52:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:43:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >> Anyway, I get the posts through a nntp news server (Gmane), I don't >> know - because I've not tried- if the header information provided would >> be enough to be able to verif

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:47:23 -0500 Indulekha wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:43:34 -0500 > > Indulekha wrote: > > > >> Arthur Marsh wrote: > >> > > >> > Are there any browsers on Debian that support javascript without having > >> > to run under the X window system? > >> > >

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Indulekha
Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:43:34 -0500 > Indulekha wrote: > >> Arthur Marsh wrote: >> > >> > Are there any browsers on Debian that support javascript without having >> > to run under the X window system? >> > >> >> It does sound like a browser issue. >> lynx is pretty good at js.

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:43:34 -0500 Indulekha wrote: > Arthur Marsh wrote: > > > > Are there any browsers on Debian that support javascript without having > > to run under the X window system? > > > > It does sound like a browser issue. > lynx is pretty good at js. lynx supports Javascript? I'

Re: work Debian from usb-hdd

2012-04-15 Thread keith
Простаков Алексей wrote: Hello dear friends, I need your help. Some days ago I want install Debian in USB-HDD. I read documentation/FAQ and can install Debian with kernel 2.6.32-5 on USB-HDD. I installed only console version. But can not run it. I reboot and upload by my USB-HDD - ok lilo r

Re: installing source over package

2012-04-15 Thread Darren Crotchett
I wanted to post a follow up to my original question. I believe I now know the consequences. It broke the package system. I tried to fix it with dpkg -i suggestion. But, that failed with the As far as I can tell, make install installed a non LSB cups script into /etc/init.d/. The next time I t

Re: problems with wifi bc43

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:07:24 +0300, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > Could you help me with my wifi card in laptop, please? I have broadcom > BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY controller, and I installed > "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer". Unfortunately when i'm trying turn my > card on, i'm getting a message: > "$ su

work Debian from usb-hdd

2012-04-15 Thread Простаков Алексей
Hello dear friends, I need your help. Some days ago I want install Debian in USB-HDD. I read documentation/FAQ and can install Debian with kernel 2.6.32-5 on USB-HDD. I installed only console version. But can not run it. I reboot and upload by my USB-HDD - ok lilo run - ok but system no work

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:30:14 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I've tried to run through all I can think of and am getting a bit > stuck. > > I have two machines running Debian (one a dual-core Pentium4 with i386, > the other a quad-core AMD64-X2 with amd64), both with built-in ethernet > cards. >

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : >> >> i know ICMP didnt have ports and it is a layer 4 proto. > > ICMP is tranported on top on IP which is a layer 3 (network) protocol, > but that does not make it a layer 4 protocol. ICMP provides services >

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Indulekha
Arthur Marsh wrote: > > Are there any browsers on Debian that support javascript without having > to run under the X window system? > It does sound like a browser issue. lynx is pretty good at js. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:03:52 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > One additional point, one can still install Debian without 'bigmem' > support then install the correct kernel for your hardware, you just > won't see all the memory during the install. Yes, that's the default behaviour, I guess. It wou

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > > i know ICMP didnt have ports and it is a layer 4 proto. ICMP is tranported on top on IP which is a layer 3 (network) protocol, but that does not make it a layer 4 protocol. ICMP provides services that are part of the IP protocol, so it is rather a layer 3 protoco

From IFC

2012-04-15 Thread Harry Cole
Good day, An inquest by my bank (IFC) conducted on inactive/dormant account, revealed that you are a potential beneficiary to an unclaimed sum The similarity in your name and email (debian-user@lists.debian.org) makes it possible for us to liquidate the deceased account in your favour. Please c

Re: samba VFS Quota or Quota tool

2012-04-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:36:20 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Sir, please, turn off html, I hardly can read your messages :-( > > (correcting the quotes and trimming) > >>> Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That wa

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Hello, > > > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > >> now the problem part is i want to ping outside host to verify the > >> connectivity of internet for that all the time i have to open the SSH > >> the console and ping. but what i want is,

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-15 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 13 apr 12, 10:35:33, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > >> > 'base' in the Debian context has a very specific meaning. Somebody >> > correct me if I'm wrong but it specifically includes pac

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-15 Thread Mika Suomalainen
15.04.2012 00:53, Camaleón kirjoitti: <...> > > P.S. I find quite hard to understand why there are users who despite > consider my postings to be sort a "newbie killers" and "soft-mind > perverters" are still replying to them. The only conclusion I can reach > for this behaviour is that: 1/ my

Re: Flashbench

2012-04-15 Thread Bob
On 04/12/2012 01:10 AM, Peter Easthope wrote: Any tips about Flashbench? Googling "site:debian.org flashbench" suggests it finds little interest in the Debian community. Thanks, ... Peter E. I got some odd results, I'm still trying to figure it all out & I'd like some help too, I'm really ju