Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use > one during the updating period you would get errors. Could be the problem. What would it take to make a mirror update atomically? For example, download all the updates

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 17:21, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/02/14 16:51, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> Sorry for revoking this thread so early. >> I installed like say 10 PCs simultaneously using apt-cacher-ng and PXE >> server. Afterwards when I started other PCs to install from network, >> they are refusing to id

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
Re-sending to list On 04/02/14 16:51, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Sorry for revoking this thread so early. > I installed like say 10 PCs simultaneously using apt-cacher-ng and PXE > server. Afterwards when I started other PCs to install from network, > they are refusing to identify the PXE server. > >

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-03 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Sorry for revoking this thread so early. I installed like say 10 PCs simultaneously using apt-cacher-ng and PXE server. Afterwards when I started other PCs to install from network, they are refusing to identify the PXE server. I also tried replacing the tftp files again but no help. When I try to

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 15:25, Rick Valenzuela wrote: > On 02/03/2014 06:17 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >>> Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? >>> Or is there a local fix I can apply? >> >> I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. > > Same here, but it went away yesterda

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Valenzuela
On 02/03/2014 06:17 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? >> Or is there a local fix I can apply? > > I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. Same here, but it went away yesterday. -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Phnom Penh

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-03 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I had replaced the splash.png in my tftp boot folder, which was working at first but was not working later. Replacing those files again solved the issue of PXE server not working! I will keep posting again, if it gave some problem! Thanks everyone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

/dev/ACM, LG Arena phone, and tethering

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
I have an LG Arena KM900 mobile phone I'd like to be able to tether with Debian Wheezy boxes. The problem is that it's not doing this automagically. I have usbmodeswitch installed:- usb-modeswitch 1.2.3+repack0-1 Connecting the phone with a USB cable and the phone set to use "PC suite" (whic

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 11:07, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I > also installed MythTV from the *deb-multimedia repository*. > > I did read the README.Debian file for MythTV and tried running 'sudo > -u mythtv mythtv-setup, but get the message

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:07:22PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I > also installed MythTV from the deb-multimedia repository. My old This is the wrong list for questions about 3rd party packages. Also you'll find that mythtv ha

Re: todo list software

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 11:17, Brad Alexander wrote: > At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone > recommend a good todo list software? I run KDE on sid, and > kmail/kontact/etc seem to be in a bit of a mess. > > I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what

Re: todo list software

2014-02-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Mon, 2/3/14, Brad Alexander wrote: Subject: todo list software To: "Debian-user List" Date: Monday, February 3, 2014, 6:17 PM At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software

Re: todo list software

2014-02-03 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 2/3/14, Brad Alexander wrote: Subject: todo list software To: "Debian-user List" Date: Monday, February 3, 2014, 6:17 PM At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software? I run KD

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 02:50, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: > On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/02/14 02:33, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com > * Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:30:49 +1100 >> There are a number of parent devices, don't try and match for more than >> one value per parent device. >> ... >> KERNEL=="controlC3", ATT

todo list software

2014-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software? I run KDE on sid, and kmail/kontact/etc seem to be in a bit of a mess. I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what I came up with hasn't been developed since 2003 or

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
I have had a very good experience with Debian amd64 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 for the past year. The system simply runs cooler and more quiet with than it did with x86. I've also installed amd64 on a Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop with similar results. I have had no issues with VirtualBox, Firefox (

MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

2014-02-03 Thread Jon N
Hi, I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I also installed MythTV from the deb-multimedia repository. My old computer has been used for MythTV (mostly recording/playback over the air TV) for years, and I would like to have the new hardware take over the job soon. Bu

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 23:12 +0100, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:47:04 -0500 Doug > napísal: > > > Your arguments may be true for Debian, because of their program that > > allows use of 32-bit software on a 64-bit system. > > Other distros do not have that ability, and there are some g

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-03 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:47:04 -0500 Doug napísal: > Your arguments may be true for Debian, because of their program that > allows use of 32-bit software on a 64-bit system. > Other distros do not have that ability, and there are some good IMO, this is a Debian users list, no other distros

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
Celejar wrote: > Is there a better MRA / MDA the list recommends? Has > anyone seen this sort of thing with either getmail or other MRAs / MDAs? FWIW, I've been using fetchmail, with maildrop as the MDA, for several years. I'm not aware of any lost mail in that time. regards, mike -- To UNSU

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-03 Thread Doug
On 02/03/2014 03:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 10:56 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: You will, especially on this mailing list, get a lot of people who act like running 64-bit if you don't have more than 4 GiB of RAM is some sort of apocalyptic disaster I "only" have 4 GiB and

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Florian Götz wrote: > I got a network problem with one of my Debian VMs. The VM runs on an > ESX Host (5.1) with several other VMs (SLES11). > It´s a Debian 6 (can´t upgrade due to errors with the other running > software at the moment) which hosts a Network Management System > (Opsview) based

Re: /dev/* and ALSA.

2014-02-03 Thread Klaus
On 03/02/14 16:45, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Now I have /dev/USBspeakers and /dev/USBheadset, and wonder whether ALSA can recognize /dev/USBspeakers rather than "SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller" as the default device. http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA mentions "indexes" and /dev/dsp. No other /dev menti

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:56:24AM +0100, Florian Götz wrote: >> It takes about an hour before the hosts get back to state "pingable" >> on the Debian machine. > a whole hour!? That is way too long for spanning tree to settle down. > So spanning tree/routing can probab

Re: /dev/* and ALSA.

2014-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 08:45 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Now I have /dev/USBspeakers and /dev/USBheadset, and wonder whether > ALSA can recognize /dev/USBspeakers rather than "SiS7012 AC'97 > Sound Controller" as the default device. > > http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA mentions "indexes" and /de

Re: /dev/* and ALSA.

2014-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 21:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 08:45 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Now I have /dev/USBspeakers and /dev/USBheadset, and wonder whether > > ALSA can recognize /dev/USBspeakers rather than "SiS7012 AC'97 > > Sound Controller" as the default devi

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 10:56 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > You will, especially on this mailing list, get a lot of people who act > like running 64-bit if you don't have more than 4 GiB of RAM is some > sort of apocalyptic disaster I "only" have 4 GiB and I used 64-bit architecture with less than

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-03 Thread Doug
On 02/03/2014 03:28 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: /snip/ No mention of any windows'efi file anywere. I just rechecked on the partition that I suspect to have it before my installation ( aka: sda1, a 1GB large partition containing a folder named "Boot" at root )

/dev/* and ALSA.

2014-02-03 Thread peter
Now I have /dev/USBspeakers and /dev/USBheadset, and wonder whether ALSA can recognize /dev/USBspeakers rather than "SiS7012 AC'97 Sound Controller" as the default device. http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA mentions "indexes" and /dev/dsp. No other /dev mentioned. ALSA indexes predate udev; correct?

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-03 Thread yaro
On Sunday, February 02, 2014 01:58:54 PM Rick Macdonald wrote: > I've been running 32bit Debian since release 0.93, before buzz was > released. I've been through a few PCs over these 20 years, and now my > latest one is dying on me (HP Dual core Pentium D, 4GB RAM). > Sorry to see your dual core i

Re(2): A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-03 Thread peter
* From: Scott Ferguson > KERNEL=="controlC3", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0008", ATTRS{id}=="Device", > ATTRS{product}=="C-Media USB Audio Device ", SYMLINK+="USBspeakers" > GROUP=="sound" Here ATTRS{idProduct} and ATTRS{product} are in the same node and you just said "one value per parent device

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-03 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Csanyi Pal writes: > >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: > On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: I ju

Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

2014-02-03 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 02/02/14 09:14, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> On 01/02/14 21:57, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 31/01/14 04:53, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> >>> I just bought an USB dongle nano Netis

Re: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-03 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-02-03, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I'm interested to make a persistent name for a sound device. > The output of "udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/... )" > follows. > What exactly is meant by the last sentence of the introductory paragraph? > Must the first match occur i

getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-03 Thread Celejar
Hi, I run getmail4 with a cli configuration to check and download mail from a bunch of POP accounts, like so: /usr/bin/getmail -d -r pop1 -r pop2 -r pop3 ... The mail is delivered to an mbox (mboxrd) mailbox, in usr/spool/mail/username Every now and then, something goes wrong (I have no idea wh

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Robin
> I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. > > Mark > > I've emailed Raphael -- rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOZWb-p-MFahSMxY5dS

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:56:24AM +0100, Florian Götz wrote: > Hi Debian-Users, > > I got a network problem with one of my Debian VMs. > The VM runs on an ESX Host (5.1) with several other VMs (SLES11). > > It´s a Debian 6 (can´t upgrade due to errors with the other running > software at the

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 03/02/2014 12:50, Chen Wei a écrit : On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for t

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 23:48, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As long as the swap file is not sparse. >> > > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something > like: > > swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument > fa

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As long as the swap file is not sparse. > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something like: swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument Only figured it out several cups of tea and google-

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Florian Götz
VM has one eth interface (one virtual GBit NIC). I tried ssh to the unpingable device, but got no reaction. The reverse way (ping from device to Debian VM) doesn´t work either. It´s like the complete path between the two devices is blocked. Best regards Florian Götz Mit freundlichen Grüßen F

Re: Kernel panics after wheezy upgrade (but blaming hardware)

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:23:38PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > read-only without rebooting. I was seeing journal errors (ext3 > filesystem). Then I saw a BIOS message saying a hard drive failure > was imminent. > Had a hard drive with many bad blocks on it, and run debian(Woody IIRC) on it as

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Chen Wei wrote: > Besides, it > is easier to change the size of a swapfile than size of a swap > partition. How about with LVM? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Testing: Warning messages from su within cron

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:55, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > I’m using Testing. For some time I’m getting warning messages from > scripts started via cron, e.g.: > > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: > su: No module specific data is present > /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: > su: No module specific data is

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:50, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to >> allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup >> in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. > > +

Testing: Warning messages from su within cron

2014-02-03 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! I’m using Testing. For some time I’m getting warning messages from scripts started via cron, e.g.: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: su: No module specific data is present /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: su: No module specific data is present su: No module specific data is present su: No m

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to > allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup > in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for the /tmp example. > My personal rule

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > There is logic for having at least as much swap as you have RAM (in other > words, a multiplier of 1.0) because, when the system panics, it may want to > make a copy of RAM to the swap space for later analysis. Or if the system is a laptop a

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Florian Götz wrote: > Anyone got a hint where to search for a solution to that? Not an expert, but, does the machine have more than one NIC? If so, have you tried ping -i? Or other services in the unpingable machines? What about the reverse way? HTH -- To UNSUBS

RE: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

2014-02-03 Thread Mark Allums
> Has anybody else experienced problems over the last couple of days? > Or is there a local fix I can apply? I too have had this issue for a couple of days now. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Search for a live media including ext4magic. Keep in mind to mount read > only. I've been either trying to recover unmounted; or mounting readonly, yes. Not much success in finding a recovery distro with ext4magic, maybe there'll be other tool

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: > Hi. > I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based > distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where > I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone > tell m

Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Florian Götz
Hi Debian-Users, I got a network problem with one of my Debian VMs. The VM runs on an ESX Host (5.1) with several other VMs (SLES11). It´s a Debian 6 (can´t upgrade due to errors with the other running software at the moment) which hosts a Network Management System (Opsview) based on nagios. If

Re: wheezy + xfce + samsung galaxy S3 android doesn't mount

2014-02-03 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:32:09 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > Is there some magic, besides mtpfs to make xfce mount my android > phone? Thunar doesn't see it, yet I can cd to the mount point and cd > down to the DCIM... pictures folder in a terminal window, > now I remember why I changed to MATE be

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.02.2014 23:27, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:47 AM, wrote: Le 28.01.2014 11:41, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Sorry for incomplete message. Here is the full message: At my job, I have a computer on wh