Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-05 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may be this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be related to previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached information somewhere. what does sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda looks like.

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-30 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from aptitude gui, does the 'U' key do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade? Thanks, Amit full-upgrade is a synonym for dist-upgrade (see the

Re: Encrypted partition perfomance

2008-10-24 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I intend to use encrypted partitions in my new system, probably using dm-crypt with the suggested settings. I understand this will have an impact on performance, but how big it is? I'm talking about a Core 2 Duo E8400 (@ 3.0GHz) with 2Gb of RAM. Will it be

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Rich Healey wrote: Will give you the info you're looking for, basically upgrade will do minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade completely, potentially breaking everything. I'm using debian testing for 5 years now, and every week I run 'aptitude update aptitude

Re: Share internet connection with Ad-hoc mode.

2008-06-10 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Semih Gokalp wrote: it took ip from apipa like 169.254. and i tried manual ip configuration but not worked.I can not ping to 192.168.0.1 http://192.168.0.1 Why can not I connnection to internet with ubuntu8.04 machine ? If you help me,i will be happy. Thanks all. Vista can ping

Re: LVM upgrade: Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

2008-05-14 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:27:37PM +0300, ?? wrote: I have LVM setup on dm-crypt. After yesterday's upgrade of lvm (lenny), I am getting this message on boot: Found volume group evg using metadata type lvm2 Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

Re: wpasupplicant in roaming mode

2008-05-08 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Andrei Popescu wrote: Hello everybody, I'm trying to configure the roaming mode for wpasupplicant but I don't seem to get it right. my 2 cents: If you are using KDE you may want to try using Knetworkmanager. I am the typing-on-black-screen type of guy, but on this I have to admit that

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

2008-05-08 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Damon L. Chesser wrote: What is this any-any patch I keep hearing about? I just run alien -c vmware.*.rpm and dpkg -i vmware*.deb. Not finding alot of info on this any-any patch. This any-any patch is needed if you are installing from the tar.gz, in order for vmware to compile the kernel

Canon EOS 400D and KDE

2008-04-29 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Hi all! I have a problem importing the photos from my Canon EOS 400D. It seems that the OS (debian lenny) does not recognize the camera as a simple external storage but instead it tries to import the photos via a so called 'USB imaging interface'. This is at least what konqueror says. The

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-03-05 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Maximilian Gass wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: This problem is non-destructive and normal. Now, this 'Can't deactivate volume group

lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-02-27 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Hello everybody! I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: During shutdown I get: -- Αsking all remaining processes to terminate... done Killing all remaining processes... failed ... Deactivating swap... done Unmounting local

Re: cron time is not same as system time

2007-08-22 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Chris Buckley wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Is the system clock set to UTC? $ cat /etc/default/rcS You should see a line UTC=yes. A good point. It currently reads: UTC=no I don't know if this matters, and with a tz of London it shouldn't account for 5 hrs. Agreed. It's certainly a

Re: VMWare network setup (newbie)

2007-08-21 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, sorry if this is too basic or offtopic a question, but i didnt see a debian-newbie list or anything. Im running Etch on an IBM ThinkPad T60. I need to run a Windows application on it, so i installed VMWare Server following some detailed instructions i found

searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... Or to put it in another way: Which client resembles most the windows utorrent? (I also tried