Re: KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root password, this is not accepted. But - when I use the

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: looks like I didn't 'reply all' before.. As a start and without diagnosing further, I'd boot from an install CD in rescue mode and re-create the initramfs either with update-initramfs -u -k ... or update-initramfs

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar s.mol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation. Currently

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: You can set the default in /etc/default/grub as 'GRUB_DEFAULT=Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)'. The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you

Re: Wanted: an internet free minimal Debian install

2013-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Tom H poked me that the netinst image can be used without a network. It is 168M and much smaller than the full CD#1. I just did an install test using it in Expert mode and was able

Re: Rooting an Android Tablet on Debian

2013-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 02:57:18PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: I got a Kobo Arc that runs Android 4.0.4 and would like to become su for this device. There are paid services but I don't like the sound of them and they're expensive. Since Android is Debian several times removed, I was

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:54 AM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: oh wow! Frankly, this is the best, most detailed response I have ever gotten on any list so far. :) but seriously, I can't thank enough for your time and interest. really appreciate it. I didn't pay much attention to

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 22:22:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:25 PM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/suite string stable yes, those two lines did the magic! Thanks. It started reading from the local server but...now, it's stopping next at this error: No root file

Re: Wanted: an internet free minimal Debian install

2013-03-10 Thread Tom H
, in for a pound. I am sure there are contributed installation media that are smaller and standalone. Anyone could put in the effort to create one. Tom H poked me that the netinst image can be used without a network. It is 168M and much smaller than the full CD#1. I just did an install test using

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file. It is. # ls -l preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Mar 8 14:00 preseed_Debian-6.0.7

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file. It is. # ls -l preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:21 AM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: Networking is setup by the kernel boot parameters that are on the 'append' line. It looks like this: append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd.gz interface=eth1 domain=mydomain

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:21 AM, David Sastre Medina d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:21:39AM -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: append initrd=Debian-6.0.7-amd64/netboot/initrd.gz interface=eth1 domain=mydomain netcfg/get_nameservers=x.x.x.x

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for responding. When you define interface=eth1 in your append statement, the entire installation's meant to be done via this NIC. I doubt that you can switch the NICs around via your preseed file as you're

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for responding. When you define interface=eth1 in your append statement, the entire installation's meant to be done via this NIC. I doubt that you

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:04 PM, keshav prabhakar kes...@hotmail.com wrote: Also 1483 seems like a very small preseed file. It is. # ls -l preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Mar 8 14:00 preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg # more preseed_Debian-6.0.7.cfg #d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 08 Mar 2013 at 19:04:41 -0600, keshav prabhakar wrote: netcfg/wireless_wep string#d-i mirror/country string USd-i The first post at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601750 is your situation. The second

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a whole-disk RAID array then partition it. You have a single RAID 5 array with some

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Adam Wolfe kadamwo...@gmail.com wrote: Naw. I was using Wheezy. Partitioning the multiple drives did indeed give me /dev/md0 but grub still wanted to install to /dev/sda, and thus failed. By default, d-i only installs grub to /dev/sda when you have an array.

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 06/03/13 04:49 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Dick Thomas xpd...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 March 2013 21:49, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than bottom posters

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:03 PM, steef debian.li...@home.nl wrote: i agree completely with your remarks. i did not mix up in this *discussion* (except only one short remark) when i came back from the gambia because i considered it as completely useless to *talk* to a guy who did not take the

Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

2013-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 12:38:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: If I had a non-work-supplied-totally-locked-down Windows installation, I'd try the Ubuntu solution for Debian (that application looked like it had a drop-down menu with a list

Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

2013-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 03/01/2013 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote: [You've snipped the history of the posters...] And there is always PCLinuxOS, which was originally designed expressly to make the transition to Linux easy for Windows users. I wasn't

Re: Install failed - let's start again, without bogus assumptions, please.

2013-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: Only thing I can think of I think Ubuntu has one but I don't know if it's actually a installer or just lets your run the Distro live in Windows. It's called wubi [1]. I've never tried nor do I know what it

Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

2013-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 02/28/2013 02:12 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2013 18:12:14 Tom H wrote: Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Tom H wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Come to think

Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

2013-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati assir...@nonada.if.usp.br wrote: Thanks but these instructions are for creating an installation flash drive on Linux - and they're well hidden. So it's a fail from the perspective of the person criticizing distributions for not

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to help? If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling). Between this comment... Any/all help appreciated except from Lisi Reisz. ...and this one, who would want to help?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So here we have it. You are trying to run a Linux distribution from USB stick. Somehing very exotic, not for beginers. Now I dare you to prove that it is easier (or even

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 28 Feb 2013 at 09:36:29 +, Joe wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:04:04 -0500 Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: Let me give you an example of the kind of insensitivity (or myopic stupidity) that seems to

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Brian wrote: On Thu 28 Feb 2013 at 09:36:29 +, Joe wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:04:04 -0500 Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote: Let me give you an example of the kind of insensitivity (or myopic

Re: Avoiding restricted boot hardware

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm reading that the restricted boot problems are far from solved and that some of the early hardware [1] in particular objects to Linux. Can anyone recommend brands or models of desktop (dinosaur) hardware that is

Re: Avoiding restricted boot hardware

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm reading that the restricted boot problems are far from solved and that some of the early hardware [1] in particular objects to Linux. Can anyone

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Come to think of it, that's a good point - and even relevant to Linux advocacy. I don't think I've ever seen a live

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2013 18:12:14 Tom H wrote: Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread. Ubuntu points users to this page to create a flash installer: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb

Re: lightweight dns server

2013-02-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Am 27.02.2013 14:46, schrieb Umarzuki Mochlis: please suggest a lightweight dns server that is available on debian main repo my main usage is to be used as split domain, mainly to able to resolve mx record for

Re: apt-pining: no priority (or zero) specified for pining

2013-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Morel Bérenger berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le Ven 22 février 2013 2:58, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Package: * Pin

Re: apt-pining: no priority (or zero) specified for pining

2013-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:02:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Well, the error message in title is not the exact one, but a translation of the one I have (which is exactly W : Aucune priorité (ou zéro) n'a été

Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote: On 20:34 Thu 14 Feb, emmanuel segura wrote: man tune2fs -r reserved-blocks-count Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks. be careful with filesystem reserved block, one time i had a

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: The readers of this thread might find this blog posting interesting. Don't like Secure Boot? Don't buy a Chromebook. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/22465.html Which reminds me of a question I have about these

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: I have no knowledge of the Chromebook than from that presented by Matt Garrett. From his explanation, the BIOS erases user data when its secure mode is disabled. So long as it's not easy to do accidentally, I actually think

Re: Debian Wheezy freezing

2013-02-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:36 AM, William Ivanski william.ivan...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Lenovo laptop, with CPU Intel Core i5, which I use to work. I installed Debian Wheezy and the system freezes randomly. No response to keyboard or mouse clicks, just mouse moves. Needed to restart all the

Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops

2013-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:48 PM, William Ivanski william.ivan...@gmail.com wrote: I just have read this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html And I also found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 It

Re: iptables and kvm

2013-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:29 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: On Friday, January 25, 2013 11:17, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com said: I am running Debian Wheezy, and have installed kvm. When I list my iptables rules there are a set of default rules defined, and forwarding is set up for my virtual network

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 25 January 2013 17:20:18 Tom H wrote: Unless you're doing an LTS-to-LTS upgrade, an Ubuntu upgrade's more likely to succeed than a Debian one because only six months'll have passed between versions. Problems

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Mike McGinn mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net wrote: On Friday, January 25, 2013 19:13:45 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 24.01.2013 18:06, Mike McGinn a écrit : On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:54:40 Ralf Mardorf wrote: and what about #service mysql restart?

Re: init.d script works well, but won't start at boot

2013-01-26 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Benin Technologies benintechnolog...@yahoo.fr wrote: Running Debian 6.0.4 Does anybody have an idea why a program wouldn't start at boot, while it's init.d script works fine ? I experience the problem with OpenLDAP 2.4.33, when compiled with back-sql :

Re: iptables and kvm

2013-01-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:55:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I am running Debian Wheezy, and have installed kvm. When I list my iptables rules there are a set of default rules defined, and forwarding is set up for my virtual

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 24 ian 13, 10:34:08, Mark Allums wrote: Upgrades from release to release are more tricky than Ubuntu. It is sometimes easiest to just install the new version clean. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, but

Re: LVM Mirroring

2013-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Tom H wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I have not myself used LVM mirroring. I have only used mdadm MD mirroring. This means I am fuzzy on your exact configuration. But the above tells me that you have the root volume directly

Re: Grub gone nuts after recent dist-upgrade in unstable

2013-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: I've got installed: grub-common 1.99-26 grub-pc-bin [same] grub-pc [same] grub2-common [same] The upgrade rewrote the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file excluding two ext4 partitions and a NTFS

Re: Bls: Pinjaman

2013-01-11 Thread riyandi h.
2013/1/11 Zaki Akhmad zakiakh...@gmail.com Bagaimana kalau sekarang dilengkapi dengan domisili? #. za, Jakarta #. stwn, Purwokerto #. udienz, Surabaya #. Hasbinur #. Askari #. Faizal abidin rachman #. Gibran #. mu'ammal hamidy #. Dimas, Jakarta #. Samsul Maarif #. Vavai, Bekasi #.

Re: start-stop-daemon : questions about retry

2013-01-11 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: - - wrote: # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND www-data 1294 0.1 0.7 193960 44688 ?SJan09 1:07 php-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:47990 root 1374 0.0 0.0 24712 764

Re: Solved! (Re: Now won't boot (was: Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-11 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: root=/dev/mapper/VG1-squeezeroot worked. root=/dev/VG1/squeezeroot did not. I've come across this on Debian before and meant to file a bug report but didn't. :( I'll have to try to reproduce it... -- To

Re: LVM Mirroring

2013-01-11 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Luca Saletta wrote: menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod lvm insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:08 PM, David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get put in when the account is created. I'm not sure where to look

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Steven Jan Springl ste...@springl.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jan 2013 04:08:30 David Guntner wrote: Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get put in when the

Re: Now won't boot (was: Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:42:24 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:20:45 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: Won't boot. Gets

Re: wheezy network manager and normal users

2013-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Dňa Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:34:06 + Dick William Thomas xpd...@gmail.com napísal: Specifically http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696256#148 When googling, I found loads on ubuntu bugs saying tough its a feature

Re: upgrade squeeze - wheezy (issues)

2013-01-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: On 8 January 2013 03:51, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Are you just changing sources.list and running aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade? If yes, please read the release notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: I have two RAID arrays on my Debian squeeze system. The old one, which still works, and has worked for years, is on a pair of partitions on two 750GB disks. THe new one is not recognized at boot. boot is *not* on

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: But it is not recognized at boot. The dmesg output tells me all about finding the old RAID, but it doesn't even notice the new one, not even to complain about it. It seems the

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Also I know that RHEL/CentOS at least also moved from an autoraid of 0xFD to an explicitly mounted system too for the same reasons. But they do it by specifying the UUIDs on the kernel command line from grub. It makes for some

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: I have two RAID arrays on my Debian squeeze system. The old one, which still works, and has worked for years, is on a pair of partitions on two 750GB

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: Any ideas where to look? Or how to work around the problem? What type

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:40:07 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Did you rebuild your initramfs? No, and no, and that's probably the problem. Most probably

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu wrote: On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 03:23 -0500, Tom H wrote: FD00 only matters when using v0.9 metadata. Squeeze defaults to v1.x (1.2 IIRC), which isn't auto-assembled by the kernel. This leaves me slightly confused about Debian's

Re: Now won't boot (was: Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:14:31 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: Did you rebuild the initrd images for the booting kernel after having done this? Example: dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64

Re: Now won't boot (was: Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:20:45 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: Won't boot. Gets stick at the initramfs prompt after complaining that it can't run /sbin/init I look with ls, and discover that /sbin exists,

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Tom H wrote: Dracut, the initramfs infrastructure that RH uses and that I often use on Debian, doesn't require the UUID of an array on the kernel command line. It isn't a dracut requirement. But it is how a default

Re: upgrade squeeze - wheezy (issues)

2013-01-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: I think I might have a problem. It seems like the upgrade wont keep KDE. Is that so? Bellow the warnings. Any help in upgrading without so much trouble? Maybe removing beforehand some troublemaker packages? Thanks! Beco. PS.

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-05 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02 AM LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything TTBOMK. It uses physical volumes (PVs) which are block devices (either partitions or whole

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-05 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:32 AM On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02

Re: [R] Installing R-2.15.2 in Debian Wheezy/Testing

2012-12-31 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:38:10 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The current version of R that is available in Wheezy is 2.15.1. However, version 2.15.2 is available at CRAN sites. ... My question is what should be the format of the line in the sources.lists? Here's what I have: deb

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/30, Dionyssis Goulimis dionyssi...@gmail.com: I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and there was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am not succeeding in finding the thread. PEBKAC, obviously, since I am sure that it is there. I

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2012 11:19:31 Tom H wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and there was a (slightly

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:24:58 Tom H wrote: Kenshi Muto provides installers with backported kernels so he might have one/some with atl1c. Thanks, Tom. I didn't know that. Downloading now You're welcome. Hope

Re: Installing a backported kernel on Squeeze at an early stage.

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2012 14:30:02 Tom H wrote: Did you mount it? :) Was the filesystem fat or ext2? I couldn't find the kernel module to download it in the first place!! Just vast numbers of hits telling me

Re: X-posting alert: Multiple songs playing simultaneously (Amarok)

2012-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +, AG wrote: I thought that the Debian user community might want to be aware of the response from one of the Amarok team I received

Re: how to restore grub boot manager

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Dňa Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:26:15 +0800 Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com napísal: I don't have a Debian CD now (so I can't rescue) This can be done with mostly all of Linux live CDs ;-) d-i has a rescue mode that even has an

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed 0;] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf // Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages If you know of any packages where this

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Tom H wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Tom H wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: What is a SIG? It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs Sorry. Term predates Linus Torvalds

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed 0;] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, piruthiviraj natarajan piruthivi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-25 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:46 PM, David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to look one by one. There should

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to look one by one. There should be a way to process them in batch. I find David's idea of editing passwd dangerous and annoying. It would be

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-18 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 16 dec 12, 06:53:26, Richard Owlett wrote: The response I had hoped for was on the lines of there's a SIG for documentation which you can contact at What is a SIG? It's a Fedora-ism: special

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Tom H wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: What is a SIG? It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs Sorry. Term

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-18 Thread Tom H
On 12/16/12 6:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: On the topic of pkgsel/include: Here is an example from my preseed configuration: d-i pkgsel/include string dnsutils less nvi openssh-server postfix rsync sudo All of those packages will be installed. Any dependencies that

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 14 December 2012 09:06:54 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: My sources list entry is: deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb-src

Is plugin-containe the problem?

2012-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
When I run top -i and kill the pid of plugin-containe this temporarily restores the normal operation of iceape, that is paging and scrolling response is immediate again rather than delayed by as much as 30 seconds. This is obviously not the right way to fix the problem. Is there a permanet

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80] There should be a space between squeeze/updates and main, not a /. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Iceape Slow As Molasses

2012-12-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Iceape browser and mail has suddenly become very slow in scrolling and paging. I have found an kludge fix: kill plugin-containe. This temporarily restores normal performance. Does anyone know the underlying cause and a permanent solution? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all 5.1.63-0+squeeze1 404

Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The buster.js video shows a guy on a mac do it in a few seconds. What I so far have discovered with Debian is 1) Node.js is not run as node

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2012-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Steve sdclar...@gmail.com wrote: Carlos Mennens carloswill at gmail.com writes: What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5 Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command: /etc/init.d/networking restart Now when I do so in Debian, I

Re: apt-get BUG OR OPERATOR Error?

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 04 dec 12, 21:25:08, Richard Owlett wrote: Though I might be classed as a *nix newbie, I've been doing a series of manual expert installs with the eventual goal of determining what *I* might want in a

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