Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 11:04 +1000, David wrote: > On 26/05/2013, Kip Warner wrote: > > > > By the way, where can I read more on specifically the meaning of the C > > locale and how it is the same or different from en_US? > > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/locale Thanks David. -- Kip Warner -- Soft

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 17:01 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Consider LANG=C not as locale, but as built-in strings, because the app > must have some strings (if it uses strings for communication) :-) > > Then all systems have "C", but not all must have "en-GB", for example. > There can be one problem, the

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 17:47 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Which en_US locale? > > $ grep en_US /etc/locale_gen > # en_US ISO-8859-1 > # en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 > # en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 The latter. > Yes, AFAIK the C locale is built into libc. Thanks Andrei. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engin

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Alex Moonshine
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > > > This will not work. The problem is missing libxvmc1:ii386, which got > > a dependency problem. There is a bugreport related to it. They say, > > it was fixed by adding a new libnvidiaxvmc1, but it is still not. Got > > the sam

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: > > I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a > > 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel > > and the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I u

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: > I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a > 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and > the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or > somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit pr

Re: measuring RAID arrays performances

2013-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/25/2013 9:30 PM, green wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2013-05-25 18:32 -0500: >> For two disks, use RAID1. PERIOD. End of story. Screwing with >> anything else is a massive waste of your time. If you have 3 or more >> disks, then you can worry about layouts. > > Or RAID0? That is, for 2

Re: measuring RAID arrays performances

2013-05-25 Thread green
Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2013-05-25 18:32 -0500: > For two disks, use RAID1. PERIOD. End of story. Screwing with > anything else is a massive waste of your time. If you have 3 or more > disks, then you can worry about layouts. Or RAID0? That is, for 2 disks use RAID0 (performance gain) *or* RAI

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Released

2013-05-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > After an upgrade one should always go looking for those files and > > handling them. > > find /etc -name '*.dpkg-*' > > find /etc -name '*.ucf-*' > > > > Either merge them, or remove them. Leaving them as clutter and lint > > makes it harder to te

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread David
On 26/05/2013, Kip Warner wrote: > > By the way, where can I read more on specifically the meaning of the C > locale and how it is the same or different from en_US? http://mywiki.wooledge.org/locale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Alan Ianson
I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit programs on amd64 with good results but wheezy is multia

Re: apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Lane
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > > Ah.. But "http://www.domain2.com"; is NOT the same as > "http://domain2.com"; - the "www" is merely a common convention. It > actually makes it a different site. > >

Re: measuring RAID arrays performances

2013-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/25/2013 5:36 PM, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am trying to measure the perf' of RAID arrays to be sure of the layout > I'll use for my future set up. > > Based on this article, RAID10,f2 seems to be the best set up: > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance > > But if I crea

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/25/2013 3:09 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: >> Hi folks! >> >> I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this >> cheap hardware? >> >> What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? > > Sil3114 is NO

sound synchronization in flash

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
Here's a somewhat silly problem I'd like to chase down (but wouldn't be a disaster if it stays broken) I've been navigating around my new wheezy install checking that everything works (so far nearly everything does), but I stumbled on an odd little issue. I went to a flash pacman site (at http://

measuring RAID arrays performances

2013-05-25 Thread Jean-Marc
Hi guys, I am trying to measure the perf' of RAID arrays to be sure of the layout I'll use for my future set up. Based on this article, RAID10,f2 seems to be the best set up: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance But if I create a RAID10,f2 array (ext4 FS) and if I compare its pe

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 15:49:44, Stephen Allen wrote: > > You know your stuff. I've just never got the hang of using aptitude in > interactive mode, even with most people considering that it's *easier*. > Go figure. :) It's easier once you are comfortable with it. It does take some learning. If you a

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Vladimir Budnev
Wow! Thanks everyone for answers. Its clear for me now. 2013/5/25 Vladimir Budnev > Goodday everyone! > > While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching > scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and > futher processing. > > But on my desktop it

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 May 2013 at 07:26:57 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the > > > meta-package as manually installed,

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 26 May 2013, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote: Description: General Purpose Mouse interface This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library. . By default, the d

Re: Using keyboard cause i/o wait?...

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 14:07:20 -0400, InFlames wrote: > Hi, > I recently did a fresh install of Debian 7 on my machine. Everything is > running smootly but I have an issue that is bugging me... Ok, you installed Debian 7. How did you do it? You went for a desktop or a bare install? Now you have

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 25 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote: Description: General Purpose Mouse interface This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library. . By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #573

2013-05-25 Thread Marc Stephan Nkouly
the systems are 512 of ram On 5/25/13, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2013 : Issue 573 > > Today's Topics: > Re: problem with gnome on installing [ Larry Johnson >Re: apache2 and

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Doug
On 05/25/2013 07:55 AM, Slavko wrote: Dňa 25.05.2013 12:34 Claudius Hubig wrote / napísal(a): Dear Vladimir, Vladimir Budnev wrote: While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and futher processing.

Using keyboard cause i/o wait?...

2013-05-25 Thread InFlames
Hi, I recently did a fresh install of Debian 7 on my machine. Everything is running smootly but I have an issue that is bugging me... Whenever I hit a button on the keyboard, I hear the drive writing stuff so I did a little investigation. Seems the ext4 journal is doing something everytime I hit a

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-25 Thread Wayne Topa
On 05/25/2013 01:09 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2013, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> >> On 05/24/2013 10:01 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I am running Debian 6, with GNOME 2.30.2 (I think; when I select Help-> >>> About, with a GNOME application, that is the version number shown). >>

Re: dvipdfm (TeX/LaTeX) not working

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 10:34:56, Charles Blair wrote: >I have been using TeX/LaTeX on a debian distribution > installed about two years ago. Tex and LaTeX themselves > are working, as is xdvi. I just noticed that dvipdfm > is not working. Even when run on a simple input, I get > the errors: > >

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-25 19:19 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> Is there some dependencies regarding kernel and wheezy GNU system? >>> In other words, must I have on this hardware ( Bubba Two is a headless >>> server box ) a particular

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread sp113438
On Sat, 25 May 2013 13:55:25 +0200 Slavko wrote: On my Wheezy system: # dpkg --print-architecture amd64 # uname -m x86_64 # uname -i unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hey all! > > I have read I don't know how much howto but I don't understand how > resolve virtual host problem. > > I've 2 real domains (i.e. domain1.com, domain2.com, web DNS panel to > internet is configurated to point to my stat

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

2013-05-25 Thread Csanyi Pal
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian >> Squeeze operating system so far. >> I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: >> http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=251

Re: Debian 6 query - how to adjust mouse double click sensitivity

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 13:09:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > In trying to finmd what I could from my sytem, I tried the > following, with the results displayed; > > " > :~$ info gpm > (no responce displayed) > $ help gpm > bash: help: no help topics match `gpm'. Try `help help' or `man -k > gpm' or

Re: From Cameron AFRICA

2013-05-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 5/25/13 5:54 PM, Slavko wrote: > You can try some Window Managers (without DE) too, as OpenBox, > FluxBox or FVWM crystal, but for these you will need some > learning. These are reported as nicely worked in the 128 MB RAM > environments. If you have very low RAM, these window managers (Openbo

Re: dvipdfm (TeX/LaTeX) not working

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 10:34:56 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >I have been using TeX/LaTeX on a debian distribution > installed about two years ago. Tex and LaTeX themselves > are working, as is xdvi. I just noticed that dvipdfm > is not working. Even when run on a simple input, I get > the er

dvipdfm (TeX/LaTeX) not working

2013-05-25 Thread Charles Blair
I have been using TeX/LaTeX on a debian distribution installed about two years ago. Tex and LaTeX themselves are working, as is xdvi. I just noticed that dvipdfm is not working. Even when run on a simple input, I get the errors: ** WARNING ** Failed to load AGL file "pdfglyphlist.txt"... **

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason I wouldn't have expected. I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip). I'm not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but reinstal

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread Slavko
Dňa 25.05.2013 16:26 Kip Warner wrote / napísal(a): > Further, is C locale guaranteed to be present on any properly > functioning system, independent of whether the user's preferred locale > is, say, Russian? Consider LANG=C not as locale, but as built-in strings, because the app must have some

Re: From Cameron AFRICA

2013-05-25 Thread Slavko
Dňa 25.05.2013 14:51 Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote / napísal(a): > Please if any one can advise me on a version of Debian that i can > install i will really appreaciate what about projects to help young > people get started ??? You not mentioned the amount of the RAM. Then decision and advise can be

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 07:26:49, Kip Warner wrote: > > By the way, where can I read more on specifically the meaning of the C > locale and how it is the same or different from en_US? Which en_US locale? $ grep en_US /etc/locale_gen # en_US ISO-8859-1 # en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 # en_US.UTF-8 UTF-

Re: Checking for installed package

2013-05-25 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 07:02 +0100, Dom wrote: > LANGUAGE="C" dpkg -l $packagename | grep -q "^ii " > > will return 0 if the package is installed and 1 for any other state. Hey Dom. I don't know why I didn't think to set the environment variable before executing the query. That surely will work. T

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 14:21:29, Vladimir Budnev wrote: > Goodday everyone! > > While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching > scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and > futher processing. > > But on my desktop it gives "unknown", so script does n

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 mai 13, 07:00:58, Larry Johnson wrote: > > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the > report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would > be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even really sure whether I > should identify

From Cameron AFRICA

2013-05-25 Thread Marc Stephan Nkouly
Please i wish to install DEBIAN on some old computers Pentium 4 and organize some holidays workshops with young people who are interested about computers. Am desperate because this machines are old ones with low rams and most of the Distro i have installed on them have one or two things that are no

Re: apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Pol Hallen
> Try defining the directories as in the top VirtualHost stanza. I > believe just defining the DocumentRoot is not enough. Apache needs to > know what it can due there. Also, make sure that the www-data user has > reading permission of the directory in /home/domain2/domain2/htdocs/. > Or at least t

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Brian wrote: > > A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is > repeatable. > I'll do a reinstall then. I'd really like to track this down. > You'll be using the nouveau driver, then. The controller belongs to the > NV40 family. > >

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 07:14:00 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I'll try a reinstall if no specific problem is identified. I did reinstall > gnome itself with no effect on the problem. A reinstall would at least allow you to see whether the problem is repeatable. > The following is my lspci output

Re: apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Lane
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Pol Hallen wrote: > apache 2.2.16-6+squeeze11 > > cat /etc/apache2/site-enabled/001-default: > > >ServerName domain1.com > DocumentRoot /var/www/ > > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > >

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Slavko
Dňa 25.05.2013 12:34 Claudius Hubig wrote / napísal(a): > Dear Vladimir, > > Vladimir Budnev wrote: >> While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching >> scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and >> futher processing. > > -i is for the ‘hardware

Re: crackle and distortion on KDE audio

2013-05-25 Thread Dick Thomas
On 23/05/13 00:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:30 +0100, Dick Thomas wrote: >> I've just installed KDE on wheezy >> as I have a black magic pro capture card and on gnome it kills all >> user permissions >> (Shutdown, eject cdrom, etc) but with KDE it works, go figure!! >> >> but

Re: apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Pol Hallen
> Can you show full apache config ? Sure! Thanks! :-) I didn't modify none. I worked only with virtualhost and I've: libapache2-mod-vhost-hash-alias installed; ls mods-enabled: actions.load authz_default.loadautoindex.load dir.load negotiation.conf reqtimeout.load ssl.load vhost

Re: apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Alex Dubinin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hey all! > I have read I don't know how much howto but I don't understand how > resolve virtual host problem. > I've 2 real domains (i.e. domain1.com, domain2.com, web DNS panel to > internet is configurated to point to my static IP). Apache works

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Brian wrote: > > > Considering it is a new install (done by selecting a DE via d-i, we > assume) you have nothing to lose by reinstalling. Also, the video system > may be the culprit. 'lspci' will give you information on it which you > could post here. > > I'll tr

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Larry Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > And the number of your report is? > It's report #709684. I'm aware I didn't include nearly enough info in the report, but hoped that the maintainer would give me guidance in what would be relevant to the problem at hand. I wasn't even

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Vladimir, Vladimir Budnev wrote: > While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching > scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and > futher processing. -i is for the ‘hardware platform’. You likely rather want to use ‘-m’, which gives the ‘machi

Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 May 2013 at 14:21:29 +0400, Vladimir Budnev wrote: > While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching > scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and > futher processing. > > But on my desktop it gives "unknown", so script does not work as e

can one rely on uname -i results?

2013-05-25 Thread Vladimir Budnev
Goodday everyone! While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and futher processing. But on my desktop it gives "unknown", so script does not work as expected. And at the same time: steve@dbsteve: /home/c

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 May 2013 at 21:19:48 -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: > I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what > additional info I might need to pull together). > > I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my > install seems to be afflicted with

Xorg high memory usage

2013-05-25 Thread Veljko
Hello, I don't know if this is bug, but when I visit some thumblr blogs that have endless scrolling (like google images search), it is expected that Iceweasel eats lots of RAM (here are lots of pictures), but Xorg RAM usage is even bigger. More I scroll, more of RAM gets used by Iceweasel and Xorg

apache2 and virtual hosts

2013-05-25 Thread Pol Hallen
Hey all! I have read I don't know how much howto but I don't understand how resolve virtual host problem. I've 2 real domains (i.e. domain1.com, domain2.com, web DNS panel to internet is configurated to point to my static IP). Apache works ok. PROBLEM: When I do elinks (or with firefox) www.doma

Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

2013-05-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 mai 13, 21:19:48, Larry Johnson wrote: > I mostly need advice on how to follow up with a bug report (and what > additional info I might need to pull together). > > I'm new to debian, but not to GNU/Linux. I just installed Debian 7, and my > install seems to be afflicted with a very old

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this > cheap hardware? > > What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? Sil3114 is NOT hardware RAID. It is fakeRAID. Hardware RAID cards t