Re: [SLUG] Re: aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

2009-06-01 Thread Robert Collins
type 'mount' in a terminal and look for filesystems. One of them will be low - < 200MB or even less of space. One possibility is '/boot', which is where kernel initramfs' are built and saved. These can add up to quite a bit of space. -Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: [SLUG] aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

2009-06-01 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Denis Crowdy wrote: > When I try > and "aptitude remove" said package, it thrashes for ages copying > files, then runs out of space. Have tried with 5Gb to 20Gb of free > space, and the same occurs each time, leaving a crapped out package > situation so new packages can't be installed. 5Gb and i

[SLUG] Re: aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

2009-06-01 Thread Denis Crowdy
I should add that I'm removing that package because we actually boot from an earlier kernel... Denis On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Denis Crowdy wrote: > Hi all, > > Have been helping a student migrate to linux (ubuntu) lately - hp dv4 > laptop so all sorts of sound troubles until we went back

[SLUG] aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

2009-06-01 Thread Denis Crowdy
Hi all, Have been helping a student migrate to linux (ubuntu) lately - hp dv4 laptop so all sorts of sound troubles until we went back to Intrepid. Various people had a go at fiddling with it (all in an attempt to get sound going) and we ended up with a machine with the backport drivers (linux-bac

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
Marghanita da Cruz writes: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >> Yes, it's a slight derivation of the script we used at LCA2007, which uses >> ffmpeg2theora. It's worked well for us so far. If there's a problem, I >> suspect it's with the installed copy of ffmpeg2theora. > > There are a couple of other

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-06-01 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yes, it's a slight derivation of the script we used at LCA2007, which uses ffmpeg2theora. It's worked well for us so far. If there's a problem, I suspect it's with the installed copy of ffmpeg2theora. There are a couple of other possible causes: *as Martin suggested

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Pittman
Peter Rundle writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Oh. This is a VE inside a Virtuozzo system? (The commercial version of >> OpenVZ, specifically, and a "containers" solution.) Your ISP response >> isn't terribly technically accurate, then. > [snip] > > Thanks again for the information, I was to

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-06-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Yes, it's a slight derivation of the script we used at LCA2007, which uses ffmpeg2theora. It's worked well for us so far. If there's a problem, I suspect it's with the installed copy of ffmpeg2theora. 2009/6/2 Ken Wilson : > ffmpeg2theora script from SLUG website that is a derivative of the scrip

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

2009-06-01 Thread Peter Rundle
Daniel Pittman wrote: Oh. This is a VE inside a Virtuozzo system? (The commercial version of OpenVZ, specifically, and a "containers" solution.) Your ISP response isn't terribly technically accurate, then. [snip] Thanks again for the information, I was told that it was a Virtual Machine but

Re: [SLUG] Any knowledgeable bacula users on the list?

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Pearson
Mark Walkom wrote: I've been battling with some issues with our install of 1.38 (etch, stable release) and I cannot seem to get the backups back on track. Rather than submit the list to the rather long problem and ensuing configs I figure I'd ask first. Essentially the problem is that bacula app

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-06-01 Thread Ken Wilson
ffmpeg2theora script from SLUG website that is a derivative of the script from LCA Sydney i think. Ken Jeff Waugh wrote: This time to the list :( Looks like there's an ugly encoding issue going on... the audio seems fine, but the video goes nuts in mplayer (and gstreamer just seems to igno

[SLUG] OLPC Friends - June Sydney Hackfest

2009-06-01 Thread Mitchell Seaton
June Sydney Hackfest *OLPC Friends – June Sydney Hackfest* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Friends/SydneyUG The first mid-year Sydney Hackfest will be running on Sunday, June 21st at Macquarie University. The Hackfest is an open meeting for testing, development, general assistance and discussion

[SLUG] Re: OpenAustralia's first hackfest - Saturday 13 June

2009-06-01 Thread Matthew Landauer
There are another 25 spaces available for the OpenAustralia Hackfest on the 13th June. The last lot of 25 places went very quickly so if you're keen on going sign up sooner rather than later at the same page as before: http://anyvite.com/5qitmm44gl There appears to be something strange going on w