Re: grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Please CC me on reply, since I am not subscribed to the list, because my mailbox is quite limited. Am 05.12.2012 17:01, schrieb Tom H: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Marcus Blumhagen > wrote: >> just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running >> D

grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Please CC me on reply, since I am not subscribed to the list. Hello, just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Lacking access to any kind of console, I was quite clueless why it wouldn´t come up after what should have been a routine reboot. I have a

Re: All linux-image-2.6-* packages in Etch/4.0 vulnurable?

2007-08-17 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
stable, is not that big an effort for a gain in consistency. I am not familiar with maintaining packages, so if I am underestimating I stand corrected. Thanks for your time and effort! [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/linux-latest-2.6/linux-latest-2.6_6etch1/changelog

All linux-image-2.6-* packages in Etch/4.0 vulnurable?

2007-08-16 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
ty site or not subscribed to the security-announce list will miss those security fixes. Any comments and clarifications will be much appreciated. [1] http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1356 Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and mor

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-16 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
ot; and you will never (almost) need to remember any command for decompressing archive files. Just type: unp and it automagically extracts it, no matter what kind of archive, provided you have the appropriate archiver program installed. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intel

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > On 2/24/07, Marcus Blumhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > >When did you try to run resize2fs? Was it before or after lvreduce? Or > >could you provide more detail on how you managed to grow / an

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
I have gone from 750592 blocks > to 687104 but somewhere this has not updated yet. > > Anyone know how I can fix this? > [...] Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes

Re: Run out of disk space on LVM

2007-02-24 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
step. Without it there won't be free extents in the VG. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Re: switching mysql server on debian etch

2007-02-21 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
This is an empty transitional package and can safely be removed. Tag: devel::lang:sql, interface::daemon, network::server, protocol::db:mysql, role::program, special::obsolete, works-with::db So there is the answer, why you got 5.0 instead of 4.1. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligen

Re: apache2 hostname problem

2007-02-20 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
meVirtualHost *:80 > > > [...] ^ There is an error, it should read: ^ > [...] > ServerName 84-245-34-233.dsl.cambrium.nl > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more co

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
-get). I am not entirely sure if 'apt-get install' won't also try to pull in the other packages anyway, since I haven't been using apt-get for a while. But as Kevin already wrote, there is a reason why those packages shall be upgraded. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
ecord to record from alsa and pipe the output directly to oggenc or lame (but at least for lame with VBR this might brake the time information, so you get wrong display about play length in some players). And it does not need to stop here, one can also use sox to do some additional processing between ar

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
2/msg02585.html since there are given some more useful hints. Actually checkinstall seems to be a suboptimal solution for more complex packages as Roberto wrote there. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
XFS to the ext3 partition took about 14 minutes, whilst copying from the intermediate ext3 to the final ext3 /home took 12 minutes. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
ce it eases off some of the pains involved when compiling modules for your kernel and creates a .deb too. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite dire

Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)

2007-02-11 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
it looks (that's LaTeX's job ;). Just take care the content is right with a little help from the editor. Just my 2¢ Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of

Re: How do I find what debian package ships a given program?

2007-02-11 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Just realized that dlocate also is not installed by default. Got a little confused since I was looking for another package in parallel. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of co

Re: How do I find what debian package ships a given program?

2007-02-11 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
e dafault, of course you can create a cron job for apt-file update too. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Re: Introduction

2007-02-11 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
uage, the overhead of words would be enormous. (see above: Why is reinstallation from scratch the way to go with Windows?) Just my 2¢ Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch

Re: Introduction

2007-02-10 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
tough! Hi Frank, if your wife has not worked with Windows Vista yet, then this might be the way to go for you: http://www.degredo.net/ I found it in a forum and think it is a really funny aproach. But take care that Ubuntu won't reveal its real name before your wife is convinced ;) Reg

Re: Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
ections are refused (which normally works fine). Actually I cannot give you any advice to you regarding the restrictions you asked for, but as this seems to really be bug of OpenOffice you should report that bug and include in your report as much information as possible, so it can be fixed. May

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
only during installation) is to wipe the partions which then would be a stupid action by the user since Windows won't do that on its own. But if one already has a linux installation and uses a bootloader windows will erase the bootloader record during its installation, but that can be fixed easil

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
? > [...] It is not new. It is an optional package. Do: # apt-get install localepurge Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
how " for all installed packages. If you like to use graphical tools, then you can use the interactive mode of aptitude (aptitude called with no arguments) on the console, or you can give Synaptic a try as it was already suggested. Some useful documentation can be found here: man 1 dpkg ma

Re: apt-get upgrade and recent samba security update

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
ges needed to be upgraded they all had to be completely downloaded. AFAIK There is no (not yet?) such thing as incremental upgrades or binary patches. Anytime a package needs an upgrade it is done by downloading its complete new version. So it is a "problem" (not indeed, it's a featu

Re: Debian shutdown

2007-02-08 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
hine is ACPI compliant, is to install the package 'acpid'. It contains a script /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh and a symbolic link to that (/etc/acpi/events/powerbutton). With that you can just hit the power button of your machine and your system will gracefully do a shutdown to halt and then po

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-08 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
s, but that's it. And also it is a windows manager in the words' sense, because it maximizes the usage of the screen by arranging (managing) your windows. For me it was definitely worth the 1 hour learning time. Never want to miss it anymore. Just my 2¢ Regards -- Marcus Blumhage

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
command-line argument. > [...] *yay* Thank you Florian! This was what I always wanted. Actually "man aptitude 2>/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused" did show nothing. I had to set LANG=C to get what you see. Sadly yet another outdated internationalized man page. :(

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
oved packages. > [...] This is good news, AFAIK aptitude seems to purge the requested package but only _removes_ the dependencies. Guess I will then use plain apt again. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen (The one and only Optionator) I'll be back! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

zsync is your friend (was Re: d-i dnld: many retries!)

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
wards. Regards -- Marcus Blumhagen "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." -- Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i dnld: many retries!

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:30:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [...] > i386 + netinst > [...] I just downloaded the daily build of i386 netinstall using wget and it worked for me, the MD5 check was OK. But I also have a faster connection (DSL). So this is not exactly comparable I think. > [.

Re: [Solved] Re: Locale setting different for root and user

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:37AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > [...] > It works just dandy now. Any idea why 'LC_ALL=' is blank after running > 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' or is that anything to worry about ? > [...] LC_ALL is unset because it has higher priority than LANG and all other LC_*. If it wer

Re: Locale setting different for root and user

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:27:04PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > [...] > $ locale > [...] > LANG=en_CA.ISO-8859-1 > [...] > > # locale > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > [...] > > Why the difference, and what do I change to fix it? Hi Stephen, maybe it is set in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_pr

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > [...] > By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to install libA, libB, > progC, and depenF. Now when I apt-get remove progA, it will just remove > progA. I would like to remove progC and depenF as well, without removing > un

Re: How to switch to text mode (correction)

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:55:46PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again > everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no > symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were K[gkwx]dm links in > the appropriate /etc/

[OT] Thank you ... (was: Re: Removing desktop environments)

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > [...] or am > > I really *that* slow on typing? ;) > > gtypist? :-) > [...] Thanks a lot for the hint about gtypist. :-) Up to now I used ktouch but hated, that it pulls in that many dependencies since I don't use KDE. So now I caould

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:03:43PM +0200, Atis wrote: > [...] > to remove: > #update-rc.d -f gdm remove > [...] Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were K[gkwx]dm links

Re: d-i dnld: many retries!

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [...] > Downloading RC1 and the dailybuild from > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > [...] Which architecture did you choose? What kind of image (netinst, business card, floppy)? I could then download and check here

Re: Kernel 2.6.17

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > [...] > Back to the 2.6.18 kernel that I set to download, and install last night. > This > morning synaptic was complaining with a "post install script error 9". Don't > know what that is. > [...] I am also not familiar with the exi

Re: Removing desktop environments (Beware! stupid post)

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
FYI, the undesirable behaviour of debfoster2aptitude is caused by a bug I just filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409783 debfoster2aptitude calls debfoster but regardless of the exit decision of the user it syncs /var/lib/debfoster/keepers to /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. In m

Re: Removing desktop environments (Beware! stupid post)

2007-02-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:54:43AM +0100, wrote: > Also debfoster2aptitude (provided by debfoster) might be of interest > for you. debfoster2aptitude because debfoster is deprecated by > aptitude, but this way you have can migrate your debfoster decision to > aptitude. It can be run in interactiv

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff > that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally > I did not remove a single library myself. > > I ran "deborphan -z" but at a glance it look

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:49:17PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm currently using Debian Etch (Testing) on my notebook, and it is > fairly stable in a good sense of the word (Those 100+ release critical > bugs really aren't bugs that affect me, so my system is perfectly stable > to my knowle

Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA > hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message: > > No partitionable media found Hello Ogya, I guess your problem is

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual > software selection without backing up /etc. Oops, of course it has to be "... without backing up /usr." Anyway, mostly the other posters alrea

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > that won't mess up apt..? > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as > gpdf, gimp, and mozilla. You should be able to achieve that goal by

Kernel 2.6.17

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:51:28PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I have a question though. I have a 2.6.17 kernel in /var/cache/apt/archives. > This was from the archives I copied from my other Etch install. Synaptic now > only shows a 2.6.18 kernel available, and I saw someone had a problem with

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > It tells me everything is installed correctly. I ran alsamixer and set > everything to the maximum loudness but still I can hear nothing. > > What now? By default the channels which have a mute switch are muted. Did you check in

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-31 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:43:03PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I was wanting to use it to add a mirror site to the apt sources.lst > file. As already stated you might be better off just using your favourite text editor and add the mirror by hand. You can look at the already existing en

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-31 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Or was at least. base-config seems to have been made obsolete. Is there somewhere a hint stating it's obsolete? In etch it still exists, but since it is not essential you might have removed it and hence don't find the executable. O

Re: Bad install experience using Jigdo ISOs

2007-01-31 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Hi Justin, You might want to send an installation report: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template So the developers get to know about your experience. Also your suggestions should be included. Until eventual changes happen you can check the integrity of the iso respectivly

Re: totem, vlc

2007-01-31 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:39:07PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > It works fine now :-) > but apt-get update complains about security: public key not available ? You can get all the information you need here: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html Question is if you trust the key ;) But you wi

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-31 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:02:47AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I went the headers-rewrite route with exim/mutt for a while and just > go myself into more trouble. IIRC, the thing to do is set all your > headers and envelope headers in mutt and then allow > local_sender_retain and put your

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:05:58AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: >My understanding is that IceApe (pardon the studly caps) is an > unbranded version of SeaMonkey. Thus we get: > > Firefox -> Iceweasel > Thunderbird -> Icedove > Mozilla suite -> Iceape

Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > So I decided in the past to "get a package" and so on... and so on... > and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a "smart app." that says: > this you decided to get then but do you still need it? Hi, there already is such an a

Re: [OT] Test - just ignore it

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Now all works fine I hope :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:47:45PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Then there are the new names and logos themselves. What is an > "Iceape"? How should this beast be pronounced? As I read the name it is a combination of "ice" and "ape". Both can be looked up in a dictionary. So now instead of a

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:10:44PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > What spam filter? You can subscribe to the pseudo-list "whitelist" to > get passed Debian's filters. Thanks for the hint about the whitelist. > A test mail to yourself is getting through? Did you tell mutt what > address to use? O

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:37:38PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > Yes, I think you're headed in the wrong direction. I never had to do any of > the > things in your checklist. As the previous responder suggested, make sure that > mutt is sending out correctly to any e-mail address. I think once mutt send

Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-29 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Hello, I have got some trouble posting to this list using my prefered MUA mutt (1.5.13-1.1) and MTA exim4-daemon-light (4.63-12). But when I use IceDove it works just fine. Here is what I think is happening: Some of the headers are not correctly added respectively removed, when sending with

[OT] Test - just ignore it

2007-01-29 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
I am really sorry for abusing the list in this way, but somehow I seem to be unable to send a normal reply to a topic. Wanted to see whether I can get through anyway.