Re: libpq-fe.h where and how???

2014-03-17 Thread ken
On 03/16/2014 06:25 PM Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * ken [2014-03-16 18:16 -0400]: Compiling some code off of git failed for lack of libpq-fe.h... I'm a little new to debian, so how do I locate and then download this file? $ apt-file search libpq-fe.h libpq-dev: /usr/include/postgresql/libpq-

Re: [help!] Can not use nvidia driver in debian sid

2014-03-17 Thread iijima yoshino
于 Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:54:05 -0400 "john s." 写道: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:40:33 +0800 > iijima yoshino wrote: > > > Hey, there! > > I have an old pc with a Nvidia GeForce 6600 card. > > Firstly I installed Debian 7.4 and everything was O.K. > > (nvidia-detect told me to install nvidia-glx and it

Re: libpq-fe.h where and how???

2014-03-17 Thread ken
On 03/16/2014 06:23 PM Brian wrote: On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 18:16:54 -0400, ken wrote: Compiling some code off of git failed for lack of libpq-fe.h... I'm a little new to debian, so how do I locate and then download this file? https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and then Search the

providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi guys, I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature. At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and waiting for this to be achieved, I want to manually provide the IP address at the boot prompt. I already use it on others distributions install, b

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Sandeep Raman
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby < mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature. > > At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and waiting > for this to be achieved, I want

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/17/2014 11:39 AM, Sandeep Raman wrote: # Static network configuration. #d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.124.1 #d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.6 #d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.124.1 #d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean t

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Sandeep Raman
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby < mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org> wrote: > On 03/17/2014 11:39 AM, Sandeep Raman wrote: > >> # Static network configuration. >> #d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.124.1 >> #d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.6 >> #d-i netcf

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:48:19AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi guys, > > I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature. > > At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and > waiting for this to be achieved, I want to manually provide the IP

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 16 March 2014 22:42:17 Brian wrote: > On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 18:50:22 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 16 March 2014 17:52:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > When you boot in Recovery mode you get a > > > root shell without supplying any password. > > > > Is Recovery mode not the same as

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread andre
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical > locations That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias. Because? for example lifetime of the media itself, problems to read on different kind of dvd drives and

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/14 18:48, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi guys, > > I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature. > > At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and waiting > for this to be achieved, I want to manually provide the IP address at > the boot

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Sandeep Raman
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Iain M Conochie wrote: > Hi Sandeep > > Can you perhaps try this for your preseed? > > > d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda > d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select root_swap > d-i partman-auto/method string lvm > d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean

Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.

2014-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/17/2014 11:55 AM, Sandeep Raman wrote: Not sure though. Buw when it can be preseeded what is the purpose or intent of having it to set from boot prompt? Because when you boot from a bootable install media and you have no DHCP nor BootP server and you want to pressed from a network locat

RE: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hello Andre, >>> > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical >>> > locations >>> >>> That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias. >> >> Because? >> > > for example lifetime of the media itself, problems to read on different kind > of dvd drives and some ot

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 11:25 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > So I have 2 USB connected disks of which 1 is allways offsite. +1 While I have to admit that at the moment I only use one USB HDD and it's disconnected, but in the same room as the PC, not really smart, I could do better ;). -- To UNSU

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/14 08:54, Mr Queue wrote: > Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp > > ^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose > I could even use tar and split but just curious what others may be doing > currently.

Bash completion doesn't prompt files in current directory

2014-03-17 Thread Simon Chen
Hi all, After yesterday's upgrade, I find that bash's completion rules changed a bit. She doesn't prompt potent files any more if I don't type the first character in file's name (but still prompt all directories). Say when I have a tmp/ and tmp.txt at pwd, $cat then press tab brings only tmp/ F

Re: Bash completion doesn't prompt files in current directory

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:54:00PM +0100, Simon Chen wrote: > Hi all, > > After yesterday's upgrade, I find that bash's completion rules changed a > bit. She doesn't prompt potent files any more if I don't type the first > character in file's name (but still prompt all directories). Say when I >

textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Oliver Kranz
Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? oliver@crunchbang:~$ sudo apt-get install texstudio Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. Statusinformationen werden eingelesen Fertig Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert: fonts-lmo

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: >Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages?  "aptitude why latex" (or whichever package) should tell you why the package is installed. > >oliver@crunchbang:~$ sudo apt-get install texstudio >Paketlisten w

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: > > Sorry didnt got this output to english. Any advice how to change language > temporary (for one terminal only). Use the LANG environment variable: $ LANG=C -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the peopl

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: > Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in latex packages. The package doesn't 'depend' on latex though, it's only a 'recommends' relationship,

Re: [Resolved] Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 mar 14, 09:08:52, Richard Owlett wrote: Sequence was: Do full install install of Squeeze to sda1. Only non-default was size of install partition. Well, setting a root password is quite a "weak" default. If you just press enter (leaving the password bla

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:43:59PM +, Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: > > Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? > Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in I forgot to mention the --no-instal

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Oliver Kranz
2014-03-17 14:47 GMT+01:00 Tom Furie : > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:43:59PM +, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: > > > > Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages? > > > Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread César Augusto Ramírez Franco
Why do you need to skip texlive packages? If you have installed "vanilla" TeX Live and you need to integrate it with apt you could use the equivs package, here's a little how-to: http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html 2014-03-17 8:58 GMT-05:00 Oliver Kranz : > 2014-03-17 14:47 GMT+01:00 Tom Fur

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Klaus
On 17/03/14 13:58, Oliver Kranz wrote: > 2014-03-17 14:47 GMT+01:00 Tom Furie mention the --no-install-recommends option to apt-get if you want to > not install anything that the package recommends. > > > Well i think thats what i was searching for. Last question is there > a way to set this op

Re: textstudio installs texlive in jessie

2014-03-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote: > Last question is there a way to set this option by default or should i just > set an alias? That's all covered in the apt man pages. Cheers, Tom -- Courage is your greatest present need. signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:57:07 +0100 an...@cyberh0me.net wrote: > >> On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > >> > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical > >> > locations > >> > >> That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias. > > > > Because? > >

Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
Checking the version of mount on my (up-to-date Sid) machine with -V : % mount -V mount from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 (with libblkid and selinux support) I checked this, as when trying to compile efl there was this complaint: configure: error: pkg-config missing mount >= 2.18.0 Then, on

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/03/14 05:54 PM, Mr Queue wrote: Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp ^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose I could even use tar and split but just curious what others may be doing currently. FWIW, I

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Lars Noodén
On 03/17/2014 05:06 PM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: ... > So far, I haven't had readability problems on old CDs and DVDs. > Blu-Rays seem a little squirrelly over time, but CDs and DVDs seem > readable for many years. ... > 3) Magnetic disks can be (accidentally) erased. Not so with wr

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 04:22:12 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Running startx logged me in to xfce, I opened up a xterm and the > background was red. Fine; the recommended line works. > Next I enabled lightdm: #update-rc.d lightdm enable > Rebooted and from lightdm logged in to i3. > Opened up an

Re: starting apache with -X

2014-03-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 11.03.2014 13:25, Reco a écrit : Hi. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:41:03PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hello. I am trying to debug a cgi script run through apache, and have found some documents which says that running apache with -X allows to not run apache as a daemon [1]. But

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 08:23:05 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > ...so I'm wondering what that 2.16.2 is referring to. Thoughts? Does the output of 'which mount' look sensible to you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Using LTSP on a Debian server with Raspberry PI thin clients

2014-03-17 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, To simplify things I was thinking about running a couple of RPI thin clients off my debian server? I would be using either powerline networking or wireless. I think I'll need to install a special bootloader on the RPI as they can't boot using PXE. I was wondering if anyone had actually impleme

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 16:00:34 +0530, Sandeep Raman wrote: > thread. This is my complete preseed file for reference - > http://paste.debian.net/88147/ It can be referred to up to 2014-06-15 11:30:04. After that it expires. I'll note that the mail you sent was about 10096 in size. The file at pas

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 17:51 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > CDs and DVDs are physically different media than CD R and DVD R which > are in turn different from CD RW and DVD RW. CDs will last a long time, > as they have a layer of physically dented metal between slabs of > plastic. But you can't press

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 18:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 17:51 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > > CDs and DVDs are physically different media than CD R and DVD R which > > are in turn different from CD RW and DVD RW. CDs will last a long time, > > as they have a layer of physicall

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 19:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 18:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 17:51 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > > > CDs and DVDs are physically different media than CD R and DVD R which > > > are in turn different from CD RW and DVD RW. C

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
* Brian [140317 11:22]: > Does the output of 'which mount' look sensible to you? About what I'd expect: % which mount /bin/mount % /bin/mount -V mount from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 (with libblkid and selinux support) -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Sandeep Raman
On Mar 17, 2014 11:04 PM, "Brian" wrote: > > On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 16:00:34 +0530, Sandeep Raman wrote: > > > thread. This is my complete preseed file for reference - > > http://paste.debian.net/88147/ > > It can be referred to up to 2014-06-15 11:30:04. After that it expires. > > I'll note that t

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES
On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 17:51:15 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > The longevity of flash is still a big unknown. Well observered, Sir. The same might be said for CDs and DVDs. Why anyone should entrust their data to such volatile media is beyond our comprehension. We are an very old, established compa

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread César Augusto Ramírez Franco
I get this on Jessie: $ mount -V mount from util-linux 2.20.1 (with libblkid and selinux support) Please note I'm getting mount from util-linux and you're getting it from util-linux-ng What does `apt-cache policy util-linux-ng` shows? 2014-03-17 13:24 GMT-05:00 John Magolske : > * Brian [140

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, John Magolske wrote: > About what I'd expect: > > % which mount > /bin/mount > > % /bin/mount -V > mount from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 (with libblkid and selinux support) Does anything match /bin/mount*; ? Do you have a diversion in place (dpkg-divert --list)?

Re: DPMS Xset Blank Screen

2014-03-17 Thread Michael Post
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello Dmitrii, Am 14.03.14 12:52, schrieb Dmitrii Kashin:> Michael Post > > xset s reset > you`re my man. Thanks a lot for this hint. Have a nice day, Michael -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPG

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
* Don Armstrong [140317 14:01]: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, John Magolske wrote: > > % which mount > > /bin/mount > > > > % /bin/mount -V > > mount from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 (with libblkid and selinux support) > > Does anything match /bin/mount*; ? Yes: % ls -l /bin/mount* -

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Myceneaen Magic
On 18/03/14 06:41, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 17:51:15 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> The longevity of flash is still a big unknown. > > Well observered, Sir. The same might be said for CDs and DVDs. Why > anyone should entrust their data to such volatile media is beyond

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, John Magolske wrote: > * Don Armstrong [140317 14:01]: > > Does anything match /bin/mount*; ? > > Yes: > > % ls -l /bin/mount* > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 92844 Feb 26 2012 /bin/mount > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 88656 Jan 25 11:34 /bin/mount.orig > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ro

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES
On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 08:52:14 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > On 18/03/14 06:41, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > > On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 17:51:15 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > > > >> The longevity of flash is still a big unknown. > > > > Well observered, Sir. The same might be said for CDs and DVDs

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> The '-query' option to xrdb is useful. Interesting you used your original > .Xresources rather than one modified in the light of your experience. :) That;s because I want my .Xresources to work, I had made colorscheme changes to it! Here is the complete .Xresources that I am trying to use http:/

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Myceneaen Magic
On 18/03/14 11:02, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: > On Tue 18 Mar 2014 at 08:52:14 +1100, Myceneaen Magic wrote: > >> On 18/03/14 06:41, PAPYRUS TECHNOLOGIES wrote: >>> On Mon 17 Mar 2014 at 17:51:15 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> The longevity of flash is still a big unknown. >>> >>> Well observ

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Iain M Conochie
Hi Iain, I removed all the partman related lines and created a new preseed file. It works now on vm but has issue with baremetal for which i'll start a new thread. This is my complete preseed file for reference - http://paste.debian.net/88147/ Cheers, Sandeep. I think it was getting pi

Re: LVM preseed install fails with partition error

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 05:34:17PM +, Brian wrote: > I'll note that the mail you sent was about 10096 in size. The file at > paste.debian.net is about a third the size of the mail, 3800, and easily > compressed to 1200, As an attachment sent to the List it would surely be > acceptable. It would

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:02:33AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > The '-query' option to xrdb is useful. Interesting you used your original > > .Xresources rather than one modified in the light of your experience. :) > > That;s because I want my .Xresources to work, I had made colorscheme > chang

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
* Don Armstrong [140317 21:59]: > Yes. loop-aes-utils has diverted mount, and a bunch of other things. > If you remove loop-aes-utils and grml-etc-core you should be OK. Thanks! That does indeed solve the problem of the mysteriously versioned mount...and a few other problems as well I'm sure. Re