iSCSI + LUKS over insecure network

A tough one (for me)! I use iSCSI (with CHAP authentication) to get a remote device over an insecure network, then I unlock the LUKS volume and finally I mount the ext4 FS. How (in)secure is that? Data I miss: 1. CHAP encrypts the iSCSI authentication password, but the actual iSCSI data go over t

iSCSI + LUKS

Hi to all! I searched the web for finding an answer but with no luck. Anyone got an idea about how to first make iSCSI see a remote disk, then LUKS open the LUKS device and finally the filesystem on LUKS gets mounted. The problem now is that first LUKS noearly tries to create the /dev/mapper devi

keyboard (almost) stops working

Hi to all! I'm using squeeze with KDE, fully updated, on a i386, and since about six months a strange thing happens, at least once a day: The keyboard stops functioning. I thought it gets kind of completely disconnected, but then I noticed that if I press continuously a key, the repeat mode starts

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote: > 2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > >> Hi all! >> >> A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as >> one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard >> to data saf

sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

Hi all! A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two approaches better? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: AC adapter state

On 21/02/2011 03:32 μμ, Martin Kraus wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Hello to all! >> >> I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether >> it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop,

AC adapter state

Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the r

AC adapter state

Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the r

Re: current state of DFS support for cifs ??

On 09/12/2010 01:00 μμ, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:39:05AM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> mount a cifs share which has DFS enabled. I read that after 2.6.26, DFS >> support for cifs was streamlined into the kernel, yet I can't get it to >> work:

current state of DFS support for cifs ??

Hi! I'm running debian squeeze, fully updated. I can't seem to find how to mount a cifs share which has DFS enabled. I read that after 2.6.26, DFS support for cifs was streamlined into the kernel, yet I can't get it to work: //myserver/dfs/media/shares/dfs cifs

X server crashes after update of squeeze (was Re: Virtualbox crashes X server after update)

On 20/10/2010 10:45 πμ, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > On 10/20/2010 09:24 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Good morning! >> >> After today's regular update of my debian squeeze box where kernel was >> updated (2.6.32-5-amd), if I open up the Virtualbox console and ju

Re: Virtualbox crashes X server after update

On 10/20/2010 09:24 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Good morning! > > After today's regular update of my debian squeeze box where kernel was > updated (2.6.32-5-amd), if I open up the Virtualbox console and just > click on Settings, it crashes the X server and I get the login prom

Virtualbox crashes X server after update

Good morning! After today's regular update of my debian squeeze box where kernel was updated (2.6.32-5-amd), if I open up the Virtualbox console and just click on Settings, it crashes the X server and I get the login prompt! Anybody with something similar? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Crypto

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

On 14/10/2010 08:54 πμ, Tom H wrote: > 2010/10/14 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > >> On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: >> >>> >>> You can mess with the registry to make another set of recovery disks >>> if the first set is damaged or unduplicated >&g

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington >>> wrote: >>> Ogya Chief wrote: > At this stage there is no data to

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

On 13/10/2010 02:07 μμ, steef wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: >> On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: >>> >>> >>> > If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you >>> should >>> > back up the Win 7 installation c

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: > > > > If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should > > back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go > > about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, > > you should investigat

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

On 10/06/2010 09:52 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/10/6 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > >> On 10/06/2010 06:50 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: >> >>>> //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 >>>> cifs >>>> defaults,user,auto,no

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

On 10/06/2010 06:50 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: >> //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 >> cifs >> defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Do >> cuments/samba_credentials.txt 0 3 >> > mount by shell with these options is success? > > Po

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

On 10/06/2010 08:51 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/10/6 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > >> On 10/05/2010 05:11 PM, Klistvud wrote: >> >>> Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): >>> >>>> try mount using ip address ? Are y

Re: creation of encrypted lvm, suggestions please

On 10/06/2010 08:17 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: > > [3] "volume group "volume group name" not found". eventhough i am able > to access the partitions, at the boot time it is showing the above > message. can i assume the partition scheme is correct ? You mean that you see that as the very first messa

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

On 10/05/2010 05:11 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): >> >> try mount using ip address ? Are you sure that network is available >> that time? >> >> or add @reboot mount -a on cron crontab ? >> >> -- >> Eero >> > > Actually, Eero's answer got me thinking

cifs share is not mounted during boot

Hello to all! I have this cif share in my /etc/fstab which is not mounted during boot and I can't figure out why: //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 cifs defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Documents/samba_credentials.txt

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

> > >> At least this new x64 flashplugin is more stable than the 32bit one >> under nsplugins, thats all I ask of the stupid thing. >> >> Works fine with chrome v7-dev/ff3.6.9 both x64, still pegs a core or so >> playing videos, sigh! >> > Any idea when it will make it into the multimedia

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

On 09/06/2010 11:01 PM, John Lindsay wrote: > Hi Celejar > > > I tried 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt' as /sda1 returned drive does not > exist. Using 'tail -F /var/log/syslog' when I try the mount command > using "/sdb1" returns - > > Sep 6 15:40:38 tux-net kernel: [119018.389495] sdb: sdb1 > Sep

Re: Depreciated warning I can't quite read

On 07/27/2010 10:26 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: > Seeing someone else ask a question about where boot messages are > logged, reminds me of an issue I have been wondering about for a few > weeks > > During bootup of my system, very early in the process, I am getting > some messages appear on the screen

Re: best way to backup a full encrypted LUKS system

On 07/27/2010 04:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> I have a system running off a fully encrypted 160GB HD using LVM over >> LUKS. Obviously, taking an image of the disk clonezilla-style is very >> inefficient as I need 160GB per backup. So, regular

best way to backup a full encrypted LUKS system

Hello to everybody! I have a system running off a fully encrypted 160GB HD using LVM over LUKS. Obviously, taking an image of the disk clonezilla-style is very inefficient as I need 160GB per backup. So, regularly, I take a full tar of the system while the system is live. This way, data will not

Re: how to make iceweasel & icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

On 07/15/2010 05:15 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:12:45 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: On 07/14/2010 11:10 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style

Re: how to make iceweasel & icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

On 07/14/2010 11:10 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Is there a way? >> I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible >> and they also don't exit properly. >>

Re: advice on amd64

On 07/06/2010 09:07 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/5/2010 5:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: >> >> I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install >> Debian (squeeze) on it. > > The machine has a 1.6GHz >> Intel Quad Core processor and 6GB of RAM. The GPU is an ATI Mobility >> Radeon

how to make iceweasel & icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible and they also don't exit properly. All the related messages I googled, are dated from 2008... Thanks, Giorgos smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

virtuoso consuming too many resources + bug(?)

Hello to everyone! I opened a bug on virtuoso this morning (which doesn't already show up on the bug list) about not being able to stop the virtuoso file indexing. If any of you has the same problem please reply to the bug for extra feedback. Thanks! PS. The bug: I can't seem to be able to

Re: nepomuk indexer in systray

AG wrote: > On 21/05/10 12:37, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> Hello to all! >> I just upgraded my debian testing, installing nepomuk search. My >> problem is that the indexer every now and then appears in the systray >> for a second or so, and then disappears, which is very d

nepomuk indexer in systray

Hello to all! I just upgraded my debian testing, installing nepomuk search. My problem is that the indexer every now and then appears in the systray for a second or so, and then disappears, which is very distracting (or am I very sensitive? :-) )... Anyone knows how to stop the icon from gettin

Re: 2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk... (SOLVED with 2.6.32-4 from sid)

On 04/28/2010 09:30 PM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: please don't top post! :-) Answer at the end: Anand Sivaram wrote: This is not a kernel bug, but the way debian uses drivers. There are two different drivers in the kernel now. Old ide drivers and newer pata drivers. Old ide driver

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

On 05/02/2010 09:24 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am running an up to date Squeeze system using LXDE. I use wicd as my network manager. Since doing a full upgrade on Monday I have been unable to connect to my home wireless network. I can connect to various unsecured networks at work, at local r

Re: 2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk...

as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda > with the debian stock kernel. > > What I did was to compile a custom kernel by including only the pata drivers. > Now with this custom kernel everything is fine and consistent. > > 2010/4/28 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > >> Hi to everybody! >>

2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk...

Hi to everybody! I just got a WD caviar blue, with the classic IDE interface and tried to connect it to my debian squeeze pc which already has a WD SATA device, where the OS lives. The problem is that 2.6.32-3 does not recognize the disk and although I'm not an expert, I tend to think that

Re: Different ways of creating a USB-install stick

James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm curious as to the different ways one can create a USB install stick, for the purpose of installing Debian. It is possible to do it by a) acquiring (where?) a boot.img.gz file, and then doing "zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc". Then load a netboot iso to the disc. b

Re: Can't read DVD

James Stuckey wrote: I'm not able to read DVDs in squeeze. I burned this disc on the same drive in squeeze. Thereafter it worked fine until a week or so ago (the disc is less than a month old). I tested the disc last week on a windoze and mac osx and it worked without a problem. When I try to mo

Re: crypt question/server hotel

Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a "server hotel". But: I don't trust my "server hotel owner". What can I do? I am no expert on this issue but this is my common sense. Do not use such untrusted servers fo

Re: Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

vikram wrote: Hi, This is the output of scp -vv $ scp -vv files.tar.gz r...@192.168.1.11:/root/Desktop Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.1.11, user root, command scp -v -t /root/Desktop OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/s

Re: unable to connect to Debian BTS

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-08 06:40, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on two different networks): Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? except some very rare cases

Re: Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

vikram wrote: Hi, I get this while trying to scp onto a local machine(on the same subnet, both machines running Lenny). Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer lost connection I am able to ping the machine fine. How can this be fixed? Thanks Vikram It starts copying and then

unable to connect to Debian BTS

The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on two different networks): Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? except some very rare cases. Anybody else having the same problem? smime.p7s Description

Re: host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address

Mark Kamichoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:50:09PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it >> gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. >> >> Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hos

host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address

Hello to all! I am having the following strange problem on a fully updated squeeze. It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hosts returning quad-A records using IPv6, but it has

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας : (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo What reasons have you collected to decide to move from Gentoo? I want 'x' program installed, and I want it *now* to solve a bur

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

Michal wrote: Well, we 're not Google or Facebook, and we would like to stick with linux... I'm not 100% sure what that has to do with anything...I'm taking a a guess at maybe your thinking of high performance web sites in which case it has a lot of uses over just that, if that's what y

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

Tim Clewlow wrote: On 22/02/2010 13:01, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to suppo

how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

(it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim? Server OS statistics? Statistics for stableness? Bugs? Any white

Re: Bug in file command magic

Giovanni Funchal wrote: Hi, I've just noticed that the file command returns wrong mime for a file. In fact, if a LaTeX file uses the command \bibligraphystyle somewhere in the beginning, file will return mime "text/vnd.graphviz" instead of "text/x-tex". I took a look at /usr/share/file/magic (on

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> >>> After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any >>> network, wireless or not. >>> >>> Related bug: 567354 -

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any > network, wireless or not. > > Related bug: 567354 - > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 > > > And by the way, I have a question: I have seen

knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

Matthew Moore wrote: > On Saturday February 6 2010 2:36:02 pm Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved. >> >> In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is >> booting, I used the >>

KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

Hi to all! After I upgraded last week to latest xorg drivers my squeeze box, I had problem getting a console: the X session just froze. I searched a bit and found bug #567563. So I discovered that the problem was the 'vga=791' setting that I used to boot with, so that I have a decent resolution w

το επίπεδο αφαίρεσης υ λισμικού βαίνει προς το τέ λος του;

...ή στα ελληνικά: ο HAL πάει να γίνει obsolete; Έχει εδώ και μήνες κάποιο περίεργο bug που έχει αναφερθεί από πολύ κόσμο, το οποίο προκαλεί ένα segmentation fault όταν κάνεις τον hal restart, καθώς και όταν ξεκινάει η υπηρεσία, αλλά δεν λέει να διορθωθεί - κανείς δεν ασχολείται; Άκουσα δε,

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Hello to everybody! I'm trying to install nvidia-glx in order to make my GeForce FX 5200 play, but I bump on this curious situation: What is this irrelevant 2.6.26-2-686 kernel that is mentioned? My system runs 2.6.32-trunk-686... any ideas? thanks to everybod

Re: shutdown after kernel upgrade

John wrote: > On 28/01/10, ?? (gp...@ccf.auth.gr) wrote: > | Márcio H. Parreiras wrote: > | > ... Acer Aspire 5315 laptop ... kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 ... > | > powering off suddenly, few minutes after boot. If I > | >choose the old kernel the symptom do not happen ... > |

Re: shutdown after kernel upgrade

Márcio H. Parreiras wrote: Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop, Intel GMA965 chipset, with Debian Testing installed. Today morning I've made an system upgrade. Since then, when kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 is loaded, the laptop is powering off suddenly, few minutes after boot. If I choose the o

Re: hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

godo wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: ... So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I purged. Now for a couple of modules which I need, I need also to install the headers but it doesn't seem to work. It says: linux-headers-2.6.30-2-686: Depends: linux-kbuild-2

Re: Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up

Jeffrey Cao wrote: When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: "INIT: Entering runlevel 2" Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5

hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

I'm experiencing strange system hangs after squeeze was upgraded from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32. That happens on two systems, where one is 686 and the other is amd64. Anybody else with overall strange behaviour with the new kernel? So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I pur

Re: boot hangs on pass phrase to unlock encrypted root

k b wrote: hello, i can no longer boot my computer due to the problem in the subject line. i´ve looked in the initramfs-tools bug reports, but can not find anything exactly like this. but im not completly sure what package i should look for the problem in. the problem is the boot hangs on t

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, On 2010-01-25 14:26:56 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: I guess you mean the nvidia-kernel-source package. Well, I installed it, and then: # module-assistant auto-install nvidia That fails, and I cant understand why... Again any ideas would be very appreciated

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

Jerome BENOIT wrote: In Sid, there is a package ready to be built to do so. thanks for the answers! I guess you mean the nvidia-kernel-source package. Well, I installed it, and then: # module-assistant auto-install nvidia That fails, and I cant understand why... Again any ideas would be v

problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

Hello to everybody! I'm trying to install nvidia-glx in order to make my GeForce FX 5200 play, but I bump on this curious situation: What is this irrelevant 2.6.26-2-686 kernel that is mentioned? My system runs 2.6.32-trunk-686... any ideas? aris:/home/encmp/gpall# aptitude install nvidia-gl

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

Stan Hoeppner wrote: Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I've never tried t

KDE auto-login not working after kernel upgrade (2.6.30-2 -> 2.6.32)

A strange problem is occuring: After a kernel upgrade from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32 on an updated debian testing system, the user auto-login feature of KDE stopped working - instead I am presented with the kdm login screen. If I reboot with the old kernel, kde auto-logins the user fine. The problem is re

chattr to a file after converting to ext4 gives scary trace in syslog

Hello all! I just converted a data partition from ext3 to ext4, and after that I tried to convert a file to use extents: mordor:/home/gpall# lsattr file --- file mordor:/home/gpall# chattr +e file mordor:/home/gpall# lsattr file -e- file I calculated the md5 of t

Re: Monitor file system free space

m...@neidorff.com wrote: I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from cron

merging LVM snapshots back to origin

Does anybody know the status of this wish item? For the time being, on a squeeze server, I see that lvconvert can only convert a linear volume to a snapshot and not vice versa. G. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: packages cannot be authenticated

Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I think after $ sudo apt-get update i have got a message on $ sudo -t stable apt-get upgrade stating that some packages can not be authenticated. Before - all was all right: i was updating and upgrading - no problems, but now I have the problem. Sometimes t

Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no wireless. Not a problem in practice because I

Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no wireless. Not a problem in practice because I simply revert to 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem and it's back, but I'd like to under

Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

Anthony Campbell wrote: When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no wireless. Not a problem in practice because I simply revert to 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem and it's back, but I'd like to understand what is happening. Does it need a bug report or is it a "feature"? Anthony

Re: Slow booting

Kevin Buhr wrote: Kamil Kułaga writes: After init of soundcard and before swap activation i have 90 seconds hole. Is it normal? Can I configure kernel to somewhat avoid this? Unfortunately, I think adding a large swap partition (yours is 6GB) can be a slow operation under Linux. Googl

Re: Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

Jason Filippou wrote: Hello, I was executing aptitude update and noticed the followin output after a sequence of 'hit's, 'ign's and 'get's: Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-02-1520.49.pdiff [18.3kB] Get:3 http://http

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

Colin wrote: Alex Samad wrote: isn't there some issue with the broadcom-sta drivers and .31 ? The broadcom-sta source code that was included in non-free Debian would no longer compile with kernel 2.6.31. That's why they've been working on the b43 driver extensively in the 2.6.32 kernel so

Re: Tgz Backups

Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Γιώργος Πάλλας writes: Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. Is it possible to boot a LiveCD, to put the

Re: Tgz Backups

Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. Is it possible to boot a LiveCD, to put the whole content of the tgz (assuming it is complete) on the partition (assuming there is enough free space), an

Re: reportbug reportbug?

jagginess wrote: Is there a way to determine if reportbug is misbehaving? I dont like having to copy and paste the template made from console everytime to my icedove thunderbird.. are there any alternatives? I'm at a lost.. I had reportbug working and now i only get smtp-auth.. I have no ide

Re: Debian 5

Tanco wrote: Hi, I am writing to report that the ia64 dvd image is broken, somehow after about 3-4 separate downloads none of the images was bootable, you put the DVD in / mount it to vbox , the power on and nothing happends , then the system hangs.. after that i downloaded the i386 img and in

Re: Regular high load peaks on servers

Julien wrote: Hi, Since quite a long time now, we observe the same phenomenon on three web servers we have on two different places. They regularly have high load peaks, until 20 to 50. These peaks append very regularly (from once a day to several an hour), and we can't explain why. It doesn't

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday October 16 2009 10:56:29 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> On Friday 16 October 2009 11:03:13 Matthew Moore wrote: >> >>> On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: >>> And you are adding to it in order to shorten it?

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

Klistvud wrote: > No wonder I'm afraid to touch anything in my Debian > config files ... At least until I get to know my OS a little better ... > > Don't be afraid! # tar cf /root/etc_bckp.tar /etc and then change /etc/ files as you please! (it also helps to remember which was the change th

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

Klistvud wrote: Howdie, fellow Debianites! I'm running Lenny with Gnome on two boxes, both connected wirelessly via network-manager to my home router. Problem: about once to thrice a day, one or both of the boxes randomly disconnect (they are using the proprietary Broadcom wl.ko and ndiswrap

Re: kernel sources for Lenny?

Andrew Porter wrote: > What is the _right_ way to install kernel headers, > and if possible kernel sources, > so that they get put in /usr/src/ ... ?? > > I installed these packages, > from the www.debian.org web-site, distro: > >linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686_2.6.26-13lenny2_i386.deb >

Re: apt-get autoremove

Tim Legg wrote: > Maybe this is a bug, maybe it isn't... > > I installed the AMD64 Debian on my AMD64 box (emachines T6520 by the way). > Ever since the time I installed it, everytime I ran apt-get, I was given a > couple screenfulls of package names that were no longer needed and could be > re

Re: Questions About Upgrading to dependency based boot

Mark Phillips wrote: > I am running Debian testing on my computer. I am in the process of > doing an apt-get update/apt-get dist-upgrade. > > I got this error message : > > info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot. > error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequ

Re: New Bootup Error Messages

David Baron wrote: After recent upgrades from Sid, I am getting error messages on bootup which (for now, apparently) are harmless: 1. Udev complains about sysfs -- either update kernel or disable CONFIG_SYSFS. Udev may not function correctly . 2. Isapnp complains about its conf file, no

(SOLVED) Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Yeah, it looks good, looks like it is an Xorg/Intel problem from the trace, adding x...@lists.freedesktop.org to the cc list to see if this report is sufficient or if they would like you to submit the bug somewhere specific (bug tracker, etc

Re: dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc - error - is this a problem?

Charlie wrote: Hello Everyone, System Debian Testing [Squeeze] after upgrade: As root did: dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc Got the error messages below: # dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot. error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequ

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

Justin Piszcz wrote: > Yeah, it looks good, looks like it is an Xorg/Intel problem from the > trace, adding x...@lists.freedesktop.org to the cc list to see if this > report is sufficient or if they would like you to submit the bug > somewhere specific (bug tracker, etc). > OK, thanks for all your

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, ??? ?? wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, ??? ?? wrote: >>> Justin Piszcz wrote: >> I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg but I don't know what to do >> now. I reproduced it, and both at dme

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, ??? ?? wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg but I don't know what to do now. I reproduced it, and both at dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.log I get exactly the same things that I posted earlier. With dbg, should I do so

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

Justin Piszcz wrote: I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg but I don't know what to do now. I reproduced it, and both at dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.log I get exactly the same things that I posted earlier. With dbg, should I do something different? Where does it write its trace? Giorgos Run u

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: >> Matthew Moore wrote: >>> On Saturday September 26 2009 9:39:43 am Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >>> >>>> Does this happen to anybody else? Should I report it as a bug? >>>> I googled it and fo

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