[OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

Dear Debianists: The U.S. president's website has a petition to support the use of Free Software in schools. It might be a good idea for us USAians to sign it: http://wh.gov/Rz6C -- Best wishes, Max Hyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Mark Allums wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Has he actually run #dpkg --add-architecture i386 #apt-get update ? He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main contrib

Re: Freeze accounts

John Hasler wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The OP is trying to lock a large batch of students (I think 3 or 4 > > figures) out for the duration of the vacation. Two students have to > > be left with access. But to lock each of the others out individually > > would be a big deal, and the OP is loo

Re: Freeze accounts

Lisi Reisz wrote: > The OP is trying to lock a large batch of students (I think 3 or 4 > figures) out for the duration of the vacation. Two students have to > be left with access. But to lock each of the others out individually > would be a big deal, and the OP is looking for a method that would

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

> > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Claudius, unfortunately it did not: > > Has he actually run > > #dpkg --add-architecture i386 > #apt-get update > > ? > > He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: > > deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main co

RE: adobe reader + multiarch

> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Has he actually run #dpkg --add-architecture i386 #apt-get update ? He can also add/edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the line: deb [arch=amd64, i386] http://ftp.somemirror.debian.org wheezy main contrib -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Hm, no idea what is broken then. For the record, I have these i386 packages installed as direct dependencies of libgtk2.0-0 (plus two architecture:all packages that definitely shouldn't be the proble

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Claudius, unfortunately it did not: Hm, no idea what is broken then. For the record, I have these i386 packages installed as direct dependencies of libgtk2.0-0 (plus two architecture:all packages that definitely shouldn't be the problem either): libatk1.0-0:

Re: Freeze accounts

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:23:09PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2012 20:46:31 David Guntner wrote: > > I think I missed part of this thread  Look at what one by one? > > The OP is trying to lock a large batch of students (I think 3 or 4 figures) > out for the duration of t

ocfs2+drbd two-primary

Hi all, I have Apache and Postfix+Dovecot are running on two debian servers. I want to use drbd+ocfs2 (or redhat gfs). I tried some configurations and fault scenarios on VM but I have data loss. Would you like suggest me best practice about drbd+cluster filesystem with two-primary mode? regard

Xen with routing an bridging

Hello, merry christmas at all, after setting aup my laptop on wheezy now I got back to the konfiguration of my server. I have running there 3 dom0 with bridged IPv4. I have an subnet for IPv6 with a lot of adresses and i want to use them (my home system has tunneled IPv6) An IPv4 subnet is too

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: libgtk2.0-0:i386 : Depends: libatk1.0-0:i386 (>= 1.12.4) but it is not going to be installed [...] It is likely that some of these are only available in Sid and your package manager doesn’t consider it at the moment (due to APT::Defa

Re: Idle TCP connections freeze

Bob Proulx writes: > Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Pascal Hambourg writes: >> > Nikolaus Rath a écrit : >> > It appears that the client has a private addresse and the server has a >> > public address. So I guess that there is a NAT device between them, and >> > its stateful NAT engine may be the cause o

Re: Laptop left in unusable state

On 12/24/2012 09:04 AM, Agbefia wrote: To whom it may concern: I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I cannot access the laptop.Is t

Re: unexpected script output

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Bob Proulx a écrit: > >berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > The immediate problem to change the symlink to bash instead of dash > > > is that it will slow down his system boot sequence, ... > > > > I sometimes hear this but I disagree that boot speed cau

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

Richard Owlett wrote: > It seems to have been lost in the shuffle, but do NOT have internet > NOR high speed internet connectivity at home so all of my test > installs are being done with a purchased set of Debian 6.0.5 DVDs > with preseed.cfg on a USB stick. Sorry. In order to be able to help yo

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

Brian wrote: >auto url=file://mnt/,/preseed.cfg > loaded by expanding file://mnt/,/preseed.cfg. >auto=true url=file://mnt/,/preseed.cfg I think there is a typo in the above. To perhaps save some grief for someone reading the archives later I believe all of the above "/,/" uses should have

Re: Freeze accounts

On Monday 24 December 2012 20:46:31 David Guntner wrote: > I think I missed part of this thread  Look at what one by one? The OP is trying to lock a large batch of students (I think 3 or 4 figures) out for the duration of the vacation. Two students have to be left with access. But to lock

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Press Down-Arrow to "Help". Observe the help message, "Display help > > screens; type 'menu' at the boot prompt to return to this menu." > > Press ENTER to select it. Press F3 to select "Boot methods for > > special ways of using this netboot image". Observe

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Claudius Hubig wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:386 ^i386 # apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 I did that and I go

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

Osamu Aoki wrote: > If anyone have suggestion to improve debian-reference to prevent > people to take such strategy, let me know. Also, concrete case > example of why such method is less safer than 'apt-get upgrade' or > 'aptitude safe-upgrade', let us know. I think this case is one example. By

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

Joel Roth wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > I'm just so used to the dependencies being taken > > > care of by APT, that I was surprised to have to > > > lift my little pinkie. > > > > Uhm... An 'apt-get upgrade' should have offered those for upgrade. > > They do for me. They d

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Claudius Hubig wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:386 > > ^i386 > > # apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 > I did that and I got: No y

Re: Freeze accounts

Lars Noodén wrote: > Eero Volotinen wrote: > > Lars Noodén wrote: > >> Another way would be to try 'passwd -l' to lock the accounts and then > >> later use 'passwd -u' to unlock them. > > > > Does it also work for ssh public keys also? I think recommended way is > > to use chage: http://linux.die.

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, have you tried the acroread debian ball at www.deb-multimedia.org ? I just did. And I got: Script started on Mon 24 Dec 2012 03:23:05 PM CST root@SDB03:/# apt-get install acroread Reading packag

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.4). root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:386 ^i386 You want either # apt-get install -f or # ap

Re: ASUS F1A75-M LE Motherboard Radeon HD 9644 Graphics

Bob Proulx wrote: > Apparently more non-free blobs were moved to the nonfree firmware > bundle. In Sid (will try it in Wheezy later) installing the > firmware-linux-nonfree package resolved the problem. The vt console > is usable and the X display is usable. I am going to reference the Debian wi

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Hello Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.4). > root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:386 ^i386 You want either # apt-get install -f or # apt-get install libgtk2.0-

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

Hi, have you tried the acroread debian ball at www.deb-multimedia.org ? hth, Jerome On 24/12/12 21:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am trying to install adobe reader with multiarch. Has anybody done that? This is as far as I got: === Sc

Re: Freeze accounts

Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: >> >> I don't want to look one by one. There should be a way to process them in >> batch. I think I missed part of this thread Look at what one by one

adobe reader + multiarch

Hi, I am trying to install adobe reader with multiarch. Has anybody done that? This is as far as I got: === Script started on Mon 24 Dec 2012 02:28:50 PM CST root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg --print-architecture amd64 root@SDB03:/home/

Re: Freeze accounts

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > > I don't want to look one by one. There should be a way to process them in > batch. > > I find David's idea of editing passwd dangerous and annoying. It would > be ok to change a single user,

Re: management tools?

Well, one thing I use is puppet to do configuration management. It's a learning curve, but you can ensure essential packages are installed, services are running and properly configured, and so forth. Something I have been wanting to try, but haven't had time to mess with is Foreman. That bridges t

Re: Laptop left in unusable state

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Agbefia wrote: > > To whom it may concern: > I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to > install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it > seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I cannot access

Re: Installing Debian

in windows 7 its simply detected. so sad. moving from citrix xen now to virtualbox on windows 7. no raid not funny honey bunnies. (FUCK LSI! can someone please get the CEO to answer?)

Re: Installing Debian

Here is the LSI page. providing nothing for debian, only older redhat/suse. http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS1068E.aspx -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Installing-De

Re: Installing Debian

Same Problem here with debian 6.0.6 64amd. LSI really must hate linux. not really helpful. some russian guys have made a deb but it has dissapeared from the server. and no one seems to provide a backup. (licensing problems?) http://nyalb.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/lsi-1608-in-debian-etch-megasrko

Laptop left in unusable state

To whom it may concern: I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I cannot access the laptop.Is there anyway I can reload any operating sy

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48:00AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 23 dec 12, 20:15:19, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > Ah, I didn't even think to try an apt-get upgrade. > > I usually just upgrade apps individually as I need to... > > an attitude based on (possibly) outdated fears of > > getting

management tools?

Hi Folks, I'm getting ready to rebuild a small cluster (4 nodes, xen virtualization) that I'm using to support a combination of hosted services (mostly email lists, a few web sites) and some experimentation. To date, I've installed stuff manually, relied on a high-availability stack (drbd, c

Re: iptables; some IPs are getting through netmasks

On 24/12/12 05:41, Mark Ford wrote: My iptables is correct? - if so, how come the email comes through? I have the same problem with other /24 netmasks, for example when trying to block mail from Yell. I can't see anything wrong either. I'd start debugging by adding otherwise identical '-j

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

On Du, 23 dec 12, 20:15:19, Joel Roth wrote: > > Ah, I didn't even think to try an apt-get upgrade. > I usually just upgrade apps individually as I need to... > an attitude based on (possibly) outdated fears of > getting stuck in between upgrades of C libraries > or other large-scale brokenness.

Re: A lot of problems with debian sid on a Notebook

On Monday 24 December 2012 01:27:57 Chris Bannister wrote: > My understanding is that the OP has two kernels installed and wants to > remove one of them. +1 Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists