Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:59:30 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, >Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as well? What would be the >advantage. ia32 installs *all* the i386 libs, whether you need them or not, multiarch means you only have to install the libs you need. -- Regards _

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us > d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us In Wheezy they changed these to different strings. It caught me too. See Bug#693493. In Wheezy instead of "console-keymaps-at/keymap" use "keymap select us". d-i keymap select us

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/13/2012 01:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 dec 12, 23:03:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: Citrix is the holdback requiring me to have ia32-libs installed. Take the i386 package instead ;) Kind regards, Andrei Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as well? What would be the advantage. Marc

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: > How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is > some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should > be using instead. yeah, hal is dead. You might try "udisks --mount" instead. -- Why is it that all of t

pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
When I mount a filesystem on an encrypted partition with pmount-hal, it just mounts it on /media/usbdisk instead of using the filesystem's label to name the mount point, as it does with unencrypted filesystems. For example, $ pmount-hal /dev/sdb1 Enter passphrase for /dev/sdb1: /dev/mapper/_dev_

Re: udev device mapper rules for early boot?

2012-12-13 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Michael Biebl writes: > On 11.12.2012 19:00, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have created a udev rule to set the owner of a specific block device: >> >> SUBSYSTEM=="block", >> ENV{DM_UUID}=="LVM-yYuoI8k05GWxZnz9BeEIwPUGGeojzF3dZZmXTYRqC051Tllj76OHdDlzYhKZUu7u", >> OWNER="1000" > > [..] >

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 13, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2012 22:26:32 Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Err http://security.debi

Re: USB 3 card

2012-12-13 Thread Tyler D
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > >> I need to install a USB3 card in a Dell Precision, running a stock Squeeze >> install. Any that I should avoid, or issues I should be aware of? I see >> there are some hits on the list, but most appear to be in Spanish and I am >> far too ru

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 13 December 2012 22:26:32 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all > >>

Re: Marvell sata chipset not detecting drives.

2012-12-13 Thread james okeeffe
Hi so installing i386 version of debian works. all drives are detected and working. Thanks On 7 December 2012 17:34, james okeeffe wrote: > > Hi > > I have this controller with 4 sata drives connected to it. After hours of > searching and trying different things I cannot get any drives to be

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >> > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all >> > 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 >> > 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.

Iceape Slow As Molasses

2012-12-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Iceape browser and mail has suddenly become very slow in scrolling and paging. I have found an kludge fix: kill plugin-containe. This temporarily restores normal performance. Does anyone know the underlying cause and a permanent solution? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all > > 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 > > 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80] > > There should be a space between "squeeze/updates" a

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-13 Thread Brian
On Thu 13 Dec 2012 at 07:29:12 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > When I use it in my preseed.cfg I get an error message. > > ERROR MESSAGE TITLE --- > Configuring keyboard-configuration > ERROR MESSAGE TEXT --- > Please select the layout matching the keyboard for this > machine. > > I

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-13 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Neil T. Dantam wrote: >> At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, >> Chris Davies wrote: >> > >> > Reboot the box after installing LVM. >> >> Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. > This is good to know. However, this s

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 dec 12, 07:29:12, Richard Owlett wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt [among > several other examples] in part gives > > > # Keyboard selection. > #d-i console-tools/archs select at > d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us > d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all > 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 > 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80] There should be a space between "squeeze/updates" and "main", not a "/". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-13 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Richard On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:39:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm following the example preseed.cfg given at > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt . > > It gives no detailed information on correct usage of > d-i pkgsel/include string ... > AND > d-i preseed/l

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-13 Thread Thore
Hello, I'm using xen on my system too I have an CPU like yours. In the system are 8GB Ram There are three domU everyone with an own ip adress (bridging) I have one domU with 512mb the other ones are with 1024mb ram. the dom0 is running on wheezy. There are no problems at the moment. The domU is

Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-13 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm following the example preseed.cfg given at http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt . It gives no detailed information on correct usage of d-i pkgsel/include string ... AND d-i preseed/late_command string ... I unsuccessfully attempted to use the first. I suspect the seco

Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-13 Thread Richard Owlett
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt [among several other examples] in part gives # Keyboard selection. #d-i console-tools/archs select at d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us # Example for a different keyboard architectur

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-12-13 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: 1:9.8.4 is now in unstable. Build my own Squeeze backport. Seems to work. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

SOLVED was: Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 21:43:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors when > trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity: > > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all > 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 > 404 No

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 03:02 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > "The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards" > really why should he be? Are all IT personal hardware fundies as well? > I started late in the IT business with a totally different previous > vocation, and can do all except pu

not a valid LUKS device

2012-12-13 Thread J B
Hello list, I want to luks encrypt and new external usb based hard-disk. So I tried with the command, and it failed with the error as following. cryptsetup -y --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 luksFormat /dev/sdc WARNING! This will overwrite data on /dev/sdc irrevocably. Are you s

FAQs on debian-user about Multiarch

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hello everybody, I've just added a few infos about Multiarch, ia32-libs and crossgrades on http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Direct links: http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#Multiarch http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#multiarch-ia32-libs http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebi

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 15:12:25, nv wrote: > > > > apt/itude and dpkg should be able to handle interrupted dist-upgrade. > > However, for such a complex install as yours (didn't read very > > careful, but I think I spotted Gnome, KDE and e17 at least), I would > > suggest you do it gradually. Start wi

Re: Network Manager icon not working well

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 dec 12, 14:29:21, magina antimage wrote: > > A)cable connected > > #nmcli dev > > DEVICE TYPE STATE > eth0 802-3-ethernet connected > > B)cable not connected > > #nmcli dev > > DEVICE TYPE STATE > eth0

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 dec 12, 23:03:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Citrix is the holdback requiring me to have ia32-libs installed. Take the i386 package instead ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-13 Thread Joe
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:02:08 +0200 Mark Panen wrote: > "The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards" > really why should he be? Are all IT personal hardware fundies as > well? You're presumably reading this as a native English speaker, and Ralf isn't one. He has implied the 'I

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-13 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 09.12.2012 um 07:48 schrieb P. J. McDermott: I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server with a Debian GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host and squeeze and wheezy amd64 guests. I'm trying to decide between Xen 4.0 (with paravirtualized guests and probably the xend/xm toolstack) and qemu-kvm