Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/02/2012 01:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 dec 12, 22:19:45, Marc Shapiro wrote: No. It was two sets of Patriot memory. After the first pair gave errors, I returned them and got another kit which proceeded to do the same thing. This time, with another brand, everything seems to b

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-02 Thread J. B
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 14:19:50 + Roger Leigh wrote: > Just make sure that the date is set correctly (run "date" and set it > with "date --set="newdate" if it's wrong). Then run > hwclock --utc --systohc > to set the hardware clock from the system clock in UTC. Look at > /etc/adjtime and you

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-12-02 Thread Doug
On 12/03/2012 12:12 AM, Beco wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Dr Beco wrote: Camaleón, Thanks for the tip. Yes, I can turn it on/off manually. with #synclient TouchpadOff=1 or =0. Is there a way to associate the Key with the Action? Thanks! Beco PS. A bug report was filled and got

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Tom H wrote: > >What's the output of "apt-cache policy"? > ==> apt-cache policy The problem is that your report, although I am sure is accurate, is of conflicting information. It doesn't make sense. I am sure it is what you are seeing. Don't get me wrong. But the con

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-12-02 Thread Beco
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Dr Beco wrote: > Camaleón, > > Thanks for the tip. Yes, I can turn it on/off manually. with #synclient TouchpadOff=1 or =0. > > Is there a way to associate the Key with the Action? > > Thanks! > Beco > > > PS. A bug report was filled and got itself the number 688

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-12-02 Thread Beco
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > > Linux _is_ the kernel. Perhaps what you're after is a device that runs GNU? > > Richard > Still better, you might want a device that runs GNU/KDE! :) Regards, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "My psychiatrist told me I was crazy. I

Re: Kobo or Kindle

2012-12-02 Thread Beco
Hi guys, Regarding the creation of an epub file, I find this link very interesting, and easy to use. http://lukesblog.it/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Its a openoffice (libreoffice) plugin. Just install it, click on the "export epub" icon, and you are done. You may want to set the metadata bef

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:20:01 +0100 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > When I run > # apt-get install > I get "1763 ackages not upgraded" hummm...I don't know but I care nothing for these code words squeeze wheezy sid etc. I prefer good 'ol stable testing unstable experimental. >today, I tried to

Re: GRUB setup for multi-boot ISO from memory stick

2012-12-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Dec 2012 at 22:53:27 -0500, Intense Red wrote: >I've been trying to set up Testing/Wheezy's DVD ISO to boot from a memory > card/USB thumb drive, as outlined at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot- > multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/ You'll have a FAT16/32 filesystem on th

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sunday 02 December 2012 17:29:06 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > Hello Dexter, > > please don’t CC me as I am subscribed to the list (unless you want > your mails to end up in /dev/null). It’d also be helpful if you > refrained from top-posting and learnt how to quote properly. To prevent further dam

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: apt-listbugs is making problems you could uninstall or disable it. I was so sure that it was a required package that I didn't try that. Removing it actually worked, but there are still so many dependencies problems that I'll abandon, and install

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 dec 12, 16:30:10, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an > error code (10) > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 apt-listbugs is making problems you could uninstall or disable it. > This time, I'm r

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 dec 12, 16:26:46, Rob van der Putten wrote: > > This still leaves me with my X + mouse problem. > Is there a (standard) way to run a script when starting X? ~/.xsessionrc Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mai

Pedido de Informações

2012-12-02 Thread Artistas
Por gentileza, quem é a pessoa que contrata shows e artistas para os eventos e festas? Pode me passar o e-mail dela por favor? Att. Cesar i...@the-number-one.org

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Tom H wrote: Why a circular dependency? You're adding it to nfs-kernel-server not to bind9. '$remote_fs' confused me. '/etc/insserv.conf' cleared things up. "Provides: bind9" means that the bind9 init script provides the bind9 boot facility. "bind9" is one of the facilities that

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Dexter, please don’t CC me as I am subscribed to the list (unless you want your mails to end up in /dev/null). It’d also be helpful if you refrained from top-posting and learnt how to quote properly. Dexter Filmore wrote: > Yes, indeed, that's what triggered it. I checked as root on cronta

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Rob van der Putten wrote: > > I just found out: > Without .legacy-bootordering asterisk won't start. Do the logs say why? If not, check how the scripts are numbered with and without legacy ordering to figure out what asterisk's "Require

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> You can use an insserv override to add >> Should-Start: $named >> Should-Stop: $named >> to the nfs-kernel-server LSB headers to ensure that bind starts before >> nfs. > > The bind9 script says: Provides: bind9

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Yes, indeed, that's what triggered it. I checked as root on crontab -l and that did not show anything. Am Sunday 02 December 2012 16:09:24 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > Hello Dexter, > > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check of RAID > > array md0 >

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: The bind9 script says: Provides: bind9 I assume this is somehow translated into: Provides: named. Where can I find more on this subject. How do I check that adding 'Should-Start: $named' and 'Should-Stop: $named' won't introduce a circular dependency? Anywa

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What I'd do is: (as root) apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae udev grub apt dpkg that failed with the same dependencies problem, but what worked was: # apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae # apt-get install grub

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Tom H wrote: You can use an insserv override to add Should-Start: $named Should-Stop: $named to the nfs-kernel-server LSB headers to ensure that bind starts before nfs. The bind9 script says: Provides: bind9 I assume this is somehow translated into: Provides: named

Re: who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Dexter, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check of RAID array > md0 > > Well - who triggered it? there's no cron job that inits a check Are you sure? $ cat /etc/cron.d/mdadm # # cron.d/mdadm -- schedules periodic redundancy checks of MD dev

hard reset sata link when scrubbing array

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi, when scrubbing an md array yesterday (do not know who triggered that yet but that's something I hope to cover in another thread...) I got lots of these: Dec 2 01:38:45 xerxes kernel: [4942064.241510] ata6: hard resetting link Dec 2 01:38:45 xerxes kernel: [4942064.731991] ata6: SATA link u

who scrubbed the array?

2012-12-02 Thread Dexter Filmore
Hi all, so I detected lots of activity on my raid array. Looking into the logs I find this in messages: Dec 2 00:57:01 xerxes kernel: [4939561.868562] md: data-check of RAID array md0 Well - who triggered it? there's no cron job that inits a check, I did not re-add any disks... does the md k

Re: how to report a bug on reportbug

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 dec 12, 14:15:32, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > > Just to be clear: I checked both with this line enabled and > commented out, also the setting 'smtphost bugs.debian.org' will > not work. 'reportbug' is the version that I get from the testing > archive (6.4.3). It should be 'smtphost re

how to report a bug on reportbug

2012-12-02 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Dear everybody, I have some trouble reporting a bug on the current xserver in testing using reportbug or reportbug-ng, in fact because I encouter a problem with reportbug itself. Everything goes well until at the end reportbug wants to send an email somehow. Then I get Report will be sent to

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > apt-get update > apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae udev grub apt dpkg I'd start with just the kernel and udev, possibly separately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> What is output of: >> >> apt-cache policy udev > > >udev: > Installed: 164-3 > Candidate: 175-7 > Version table: > 175-7 0 >500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 dec 12, 09:55:22, Richard Owlett wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install In Section B.4.7 says "The examples below only provide basic information on the use of recipes. For detailed information see the files partman-auto-recipe.txt and partman-a

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[OOps, looks like I've jumped in when Bob's already helping. Feel free to wait and see what Bob suggests, although I can't see any problem with trying the following] On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:47:46AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >What is output

Re: ASUS K55VJ sound and video install

2012-12-02 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 29.11.2012 21:42, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: The Audio card - Altec Lansing, SonicMaster Sound - and Nvidia Graphics card - Nvidia Geforce GT 635M 2GB Someone please help :( 2012/11/23 Gábor Hársfalvi Hi, I succesfully installed Debian Squeeze x64 to a K55VJ Notebook, everything works perfec

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: What is output of: apt-cache policy udev udev: Installed: 164-3 Candidate: 175-7 Version table: 175-7 0 500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages *** 164-3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/s

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 09:42:15AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > hi Charles, > thanks for your suggestions, but alas none worked in my case. What is output of: apt-cache policy udev uname -a apt-get -f install -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people w

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
thanks Bob for your detailed reply On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Also check /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* for any additional files that are contributing to the list. Ensure that there are none. I had actually removed them What was the reason for the reboot? Did you lose power? You

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 dec 12, 09:55:22, Richard Owlett wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install > In Section B.4.7 says > "The examples below only provide basic information on the use of > recipes. For detailed information see the files > partman-auto-recipe.txt and partman-auto-raid-reci

Re: Dying hard drive?

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 dec 12, 09:33:28, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 08:04:52PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Have a look at the /etc/inittab file. > > > > I have: > > # less /etc/inittab > > [...] > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 dec 12, 14:19:50, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] +100, Informative Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dying hard drive?

2012-12-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 08:04:52PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Have a look at the /etc/inittab file. > > I have: > # less /etc/inittab > [...] > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now I'm fairly sure that X eats CTRL-ALT-DEL and init does

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 dec 12, 22:19:45, Marc Shapiro wrote: > No. It was two sets of Patriot memory. After the first pair gave > errors, I returned them and got another kit which proceeded to do > the same thing. This time, with another brand, everything seems to > be working correctly. It's also other fre

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: Try this: #dpkg --configure -a -- CK p.s. this is an old one: #apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade hi Charles, thanks for your suggestions, but alas none worked in my case. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/12/12 08:06, Alan Chandler wrote: Failed with message: SQLSTATE[HY000] Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9) I managed to fix this myself. There were two problems 1) Password was one character wrong. 2) The connection string should be dblib

Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a two virtual machines on my debian unstable desktop machine. One runs windows 7 and has an instance of Microsoft SQL Server Express running on it. The other runs Windows XP and has a version of Apache and Php together with the Microsoft PHP Drivers. All three machines (the host and t