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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2292

Today's Topics: 

  Re: a LaTeX question                  [ "Russell L. Harris"  ]
  Re: how can I find out if ttf native  [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: Locale won't set                  [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Snmpwalk: Timeout: No Response from   [ "s. keeling"  ]
  Re: Shut down or leave on?            [ "Dennis G. Wicks"  ]
  Re: lvm mirror or mdadm mirror or ra  [ "Douglas A. Tutty"  ]
  Re: How to bind keys to commands, wi  [ Daniel Burrows  ]
  Network problem.                      [ "Yazad Khambata"  ]
  Re: Shut down or leave on?            [ "David Fox"  ]
  Re: Shut down or leave on?            [ "David Fox"  ]
  Re: Network problem.                  [ Kumar Appaiah  ]
  Re: Disk not listed in /dev/disk/by- [ Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> ]

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 07:08:11 -0500
From: "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: a LaTeX question 

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  • Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> [070901 06:21]:
    > Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it
    > possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount
    > \def\yearly {12000}
    > and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say
    > \monthly=\yearly / 12
    > hoping to get the figure '1000' printed in the document by inserting
    > '\monthly'.
    > Obviously that is not correct markup, but does any wise person know how
    > to achieve that?

Look at the "calc" package.

If you do not have a copy of "A Guide to LaTeX" by Helmut Kopka & Patrick W. Daly, you need to get a copy. It is by far the best LaTeX book, and the only one you likely shall need. The 4th edition is the latest, but the 3rd edition is the one I use, and the 3rd edition has a better grade of paper. ISBN 0-201-39825-7 for the 3rd edition.

RLH

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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:02:18 +0100
From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NMI received, likely on the PCI bus 

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On 31 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a
> > hardware problem.
> >
> > In the last couple of days I've received this worrying message during
> > re-awakening from suspend to disk. It doesn't seem to happen in ordinary
> > booting. I googled for similar messages and found a few but no very
> > clear resolution, although there are some suggestions it could be a
> > kernel bug.
> >
> > I ran memtest86 for 22 hours without errors. I also twice compiled a
> > kernel, again without errors.
> >
> > I'm using a Thinkpad Z61M with Sid, kernel 2.6.20.1-slh-smp-2.
> >
> > Question: is this a false alarm? If not, what tests to do? The machine
> > is still under warranty but I don't know what fault I could report.
>
> Thinkpads have very good advanced diagnostics. If you don't have
> manuals telling you how to access them, check out IBM's website (even a
> google site:ibm.com ) using your machine number (the four-digit IBM
> number not the sales dept's Z61M. You should be able to find the
> service manual for it which will tell you how to run the advanced
> diagnostics.
>
> It is those diagnostics that IBM will run to determine a warranty claim.
> The manual tells them which FRUs to swap out until the diagnostics tell
> them that the machine is good.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Doug.

Thanks for this suggestion. I downloaded the manual but I don't have the diagnostics program. However, the problem seems to have gone away at present. I'll phone the UK support team on Monday and discuss it with them.

Anthony 

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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:54:06 +0100 From: debian <debian@benburb.demon.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: a LaTeX question Message-ID: <20070901125406.GA28987@benburb.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:17:53PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it
> possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount
http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/bytopic.html#calculating Perhaps you will find something there. Joe.

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:04:03 +0200 From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: how can I find out if ttf native hinting is enabled? Message-ID: <20070901120402.GA3518@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:41:47 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 08:59 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:50:00 -0400
> > gavron wrote:
> >=20
> > > Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
> > > fonts is enabled?
> > >=20
> > > I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand that
> > > this is the way to go with quality fonts such as Microsoft Verdana.
> > >=20
> > > That's the screen font I use wherever I can and it does not render
> > > quite as well on debian etch as on a Windows machine.
> > >=20
> > > Is there a way I can find out?
> >=20
> > Try this:
> >=20
> > debconf-get-selections | grep fontconfig
>=20 >=20
> On my system, debconf-get-selections returns "command not found."
You need the "debconf-utils" package for the debconf-get-selections utility. You can also look at the debconf database directly; it is a plain text file: awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat =20
> How does one get a list of all packages that debconf configures? The
> man page for debconf-show says, "The most common use is "debconf-show
> packagename", which displays all items in the debconf database owned by
> a given package, and their current values. Questions that have been
> asked already are prefixed with an =E2=80=99*=E2=80=99. This can be usef=
ul as a
> debugging aid, and especially handy in bug reports involving a package=E2=
=80=99s
> use of debconf." But it doesn't say how to figure out which packages
> use debconf.
All these package must depend on debconf, so this should work: aptitude search '~i~Ddebconf' Another option is to use the "Owners:" lines from config.dat: gawk '/^Owners:/{sub("Owners: ","");gsub(", ","\n");print}' /var/cache/debc= onf/config.dat | sort -u --=20 Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:29:27 +0200 From: Peter Jordan <usernetwork@gmx.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Suspend with crypted swap? Message-ID: <fbblv8$j5e$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, i have a ThinkPad R60 (debian lenny | kernel 2.6.22.6 | latest suspend patch) with a full-crypted (including swap) filesystem and now, i want to use suspend to ram/disk. My problem is that I do not know what to do? Is there anybody how can help me or knows a good howto? thanks, PJ

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:26:27 +0200 From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Locale won't set Message-ID: <20070901122627.GB3518@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I believe I'm getting closer.
>
> I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install
> any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its
> calling locales?
Did you already try to reconfigure the "locales" package like this: LANG=C LC_ALL=C dpkg-reconfigure locales This should run dpkg-reconfigure unlocalized, so hopefully it will allow you to use it regardless of the missing data for en_US.UTF-8. Then it should be possible to select and regenerate the en_US.UTF-8 locale. If the above does not work then you can check if /etc/locale.gen contains a line for en_US.UTF-8 and then you can run locale-gen directly to create the localization data. (See also the comments in /etc/locale.gen.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

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Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:00:45 +0900 From: Takehiko Abe <keke@gol.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel Message-ID: <46D9627D.8060703@gol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul Scott wrote:
> Here's the end of the strace. It doesn't tell me anything we don't
> already know. Maybe someone else will see more:
So what do you already know? For instance, this >
> [...]
> write(2, "xterm Xt error: Can\'t open displ"...,
> [...]
looks different from the previous pty error. Have you fixed that?

Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:22:20 GMT From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Snmpwalk: Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.36 (was: "Re: I hope You are satisfied now :)) Message-ID: <slrnfdipsa.b47.keeling@heretic.nucleus.com> dunkel <antal.pettermann@gmail.com>:
>
> The original problem was:
> "However if I run "snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.36 system" on the
> stable box, with 192.168.1.36 the IP address of the testing box, i get:
> Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.36
>
> snmpd is up and running, I can ping both ways, there are no firewalls
> in place. What could be wrong?"
>
> The solution is:
> open snmpd.conf with your favourite editor and
> add these 2 lines:
> interface eth0
> agentaddress [ip address of your host]:[listening port - 161 is the default]
Close. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me.

Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:32:15 -0500 From: "Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com> To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Shut down or leave on? Message-ID: <46D969DF.1040104@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Brodbeck wrote the following on 08/28/2007 01:32 PM:
>
> On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Raquel wrote:
>> I also understand that when the hard disks get power that the >> platters torque just a tad, if not causing heads to come into >> contact with the platter, at least causing wear on bearings.
>
> In theory start-ups put more stress on the spindle motor, yes. I can't
> remember the last time I saw a hard disk that had a spindle motor
> failure, though. Also, modern hard disks move the heads to a safe
> "landing zone" before they spin down.
>
> On machines I don't rely on to provide network services, I shut them
> down when they're not in use. I also set hard disks to spin down after
> a half hour or so of inactivity. I turn off the lights in rooms I'm not
> in, too, although I'm sure this shortens the life of the light bulbs. ;)
Hmmm ... True, but I can buy many light bulbs for the cost of any component of my PC! Leave it on! Set your screen saver to blank the screen to save your monitor and that will save power. The most common failure mode of drives is bearing failure. When you keep them on and spinning they are warm and happy. When you turn them off they get cold and cranky and the bearings may lock up. When this happens there is very little you can do about. Head crashes are an uncommon occurrence these days. 15-20 years they were more common, but bearing failure was still the #1 cause of drive failure. As for the environment, it will be much happier if you don't use battery operated devices, use nuclear or hydro generated electricity, and only travel by shanks mare (walking).

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:48:38 -0400 From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lvm mirror or mdadm mirror or raid 5 Message-ID: <20070901134838.GA6410@titan.hooton> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> raid 1 /
> raid 1 /boot
> raid 5 - pv
>
> I have been looking at why not to raid 5 and I would go to raid 10 but I can
> only put 3 drives in my machine.
>
> Currently have 3x250G and am looking at getting 3x500G, if I go to mdadm raid1,
> then I have 500G safe 500G unsafe which is not really what I want.
>
> I am going to stick with the /, /boot raid1 sets.
>
> But I was thinking about setting up the rest of the space as pv's and them
> using lvm's dm-mirror to manage the mirroring of space ? then if I don't want
> any redundancy on my space I can lvcreate without dm-mirror.
>
> Any one doing this, I haven't had much experience with dm-mirror.
> my thoughts were
>
> 1 big vgroup
> and lots of lv's some with mirrors and some without ?
I don't see a mirror option in Etch's LV create. Here's how I would do it: Partition 1: 3-way raid1 64 MB for /boot Partition 2: 3-way raid1 300 MB for / Partition 3: 1/2 of remainder on each drive Partition 4: the other 1/2 of remainder. Drives are a,b, and c. md0: a1, b1, c1 >> raid1 /boot md1: a2, b2, c2 >> raid1 / md2: a3, b4 >> raid1, as PV for LVM md3: b3, c4 >> raid1, as PV for LVM md4: c1, a4 >> raid1, as PV for LVM This way, you can still loose one drive and be safe. It gives you 750 GB safe, 0 unsafe. Of course, performance won't be as good as if you had 4 drives so that you didn't have more than one busy md per drive, but this is a good compromise. Why is it that you can't fit in a 4th drive? Are there only 3 bays? What about an external bay that operates at SATA speeds; look at addonics. Doug.

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:33:56 -0400 From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: NMI received, likely on the PCI bus Message-ID: <20070901143356.GA6552@titan.hooton> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a
> > > hardware problem.

> > Thinkpads have very good advanced diagnostics. If you don't have
> > manuals telling you how to access them, check out IBM's website (even a
> > google site:ibm.com ) using your machine number (the four-digit IBM
> > number not the sales dept's Z61M. You should be able to find the
> > service manual for it which will tell you how to run the advanced
> > diagnostics.
> >
> > It is those diagnostics that IBM will run to determine a warranty claim.
> > The manual tells them which FRUs to swap out until the diagnostics tell
> > them that the machine is good.
>
> Thanks for this suggestion. I downloaded the manual but I don't have
> the diagnostics program. However, the problem seems to have gone away at
> present. I'll phone the UK support team on Monday and discuss it with
> them.
Hi Anthony, The diagnostics are already in the thinkpad's bios. The manual should just tell you how to access it. Remember, its the service manuals you want, not the customer's troubleshooting manual. You'll know you have the right one if somewhere they tell you to change the system board, which isn't a usual customer activity :) For example, I have a Thinkpad 600E with a dead screen and hard drive (lightening strike while I was using it in a tent when the tent got hit). To run the diagnostices on it: Press and hold F1 while powering on the computer. Click on test to get the basic diagnostics Run those tests Press Ctrl-A on the basic diagnostics screen to get the Advanced Diagnostics Click on Exit or press Esc to go to the keyboard advanced diags. Run those. Click on Exit again and you get the full advanced diagnostics menu. Select a device or select All Devices. That's the same keystrokes (minus the mouse action) as they were on my IBM 486, on which I needed a separate Advanced Diags. disk. I would guess that the basic key sequence would be the same on your Thinkpad. Good luck. Doug.

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:49:29 -0400 From: "P Kapat" <kap4lin@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: how to provide extra library paths? Message-ID: <daef5be80709010749h77575326udc28ac67a689282c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/1/07, Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, P Kapat <kap4lin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Presumably, you have something like .kde, .kderc, or Desktop in your
> > > home directory. Does grep find anything about LD_LIBRARY_PATH in any
> > > of those?
> > well, there is a .kde directory where all kde related configurations
> > get stored, but no LD_LIBRARY_PATH in any of those files (even
> > binary)... I will have to study the KDE startup nicely sometime. Btw,
> > I am logging into KDE from GDM. Would that play any role?
>
> Wouldn't know -- I boot to console and use startx to start fvwm. What
> about system-wide KDE files?
>
> Alternatively, is there a script that's sourced on session start-up?
> If so, you can certainly solve your problem by defining
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH there. I know fvwm has an InitFunction, and I imagine
> other window managers have something similar.
>
> Googling "kde session init", I found the following thread, which might help:
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/344
Thanks for the link, I will try to see what I can grab from there. The restriction as I mentioned is that I do not have administrative access, only a normal user, so whatever I do, will be under $HOME/
> > > BTW, the lines in your .xsession-errors are output from your .bashrc
> > > being run by something that doesn't have a tty output. That's
> > > probably the initial sourcing at session start-up.
> > I think it was from .bash_profile. Is it possible to know which
> > program modified the .xsession-errors last?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. The lines look like the output of "set -x", though.
Ah, I think it is both the profiles. I have defined LD_LIBRARY_PATH only is .bash_profile so it cannot be from .bashrc, but then I am sourcing .bashrc within .bash_profile and "set -x" is in .bashrc, so... -- Regards PK -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424

Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:51:29 -0700 From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login? Message-id: <20070901145129.GA25719@jeeves.burrows.local> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat <kap4lin@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
> > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager,
> > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen
> > is locked with a screen-saver.
>
> I do not quite understand the issues!!
> (1) What good are "keys" when nobody is logged in??
Imagine that you have a system with a music player (e.g. mpd) and you want to control it without having to log in first. Daniel

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: search for debian-installer that support raid (on live cd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0709010833100.3915@proto.technobounce.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jabka Atu wrote:
> Hello ,...
>
> im searching for debian installer that know to work with raid (5?) :
> when i need to install debian on pc with raid 5 i need to use knoppix and
> then work ..
> im searching for a way that i will be able to install deb right from debian
> Disk.
>
> ps ..
> i tried with Etch.
>
> "the fear is mind-killer"
> Lenny has experimental support for raid, you might want to try that out. You can find cd images here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ hth, Jeff -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.

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Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:13:16 +0530 From: "Yazad Khambata" <yazad3@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Network problem. Message-ID: <1197912f0709010843i2ba558f5odaf9e5a0877637d3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1601_6292195.1188661396752" ------=_Part_1601_6292195.1188661396752 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Guys, I'm relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also have XP and 2000) on my system. Today morning I could finally configure things right and could connect to the internet(I'm using a broadband connection - Sify)... but then something went wrong with my network slot and there was no network detected on any of my OSs, I changed the network cards slot and things work fine on Windows XP and 2000; however, despite configuring the network card (I entered the static Ip, gateway,netmask, primary and secondry dsn); I can assure you that the config is proper; I am unable to even ping the server... when i ping i get 90+% loss of packets. Could anyone please advise me? Many thanks to all in advance. Regards, Yazad Khambata. ------=_Part_1601_6292195.1188661396752 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>Hi Guys,</div> <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#39;m relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also have XP and 2000) on my system.&nbsp;Today morning I could finally configure things right and could connect to the internet(I&#39;m using a broadband connection - Sify)... but then something went wrong with my network slot and there was no network detected on any of my OSs, I changed the network cards slot and things work fine on Windows XP and 2000; however, despite configuring the network card (I entered the static Ip, gateway,netmask, primary and secondry dsn); I can assure you that the config is proper; I am unable to even ping the server... when i ping i get 90+% loss of packets. </div> <div>&nbsp;&nbsp; Could anyone please advise me? Many thanks to all in advance.</div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Yazad Khambata.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> ------=_Part_1601_6292195.1188661396752--

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:09:47 -0700 From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Shut down or leave on? Message-ID: <359a3c580709010909i253d3888wf6e8bd1af5ee6ba8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
> I know your sentence continues along a different line, but let me just interject here that computers have never consumed as much energy as they do today. True, energy consumption
Tell that to the people who built those valve-based monstrosities back in the 1940's, such as the Eniac :).

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:14:22 -0700 From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Shut down or leave on? Message-ID: <359a3c580709010914l78e771b7p152eebb230d9cdaa@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
> Leave it on! Set your screen saver to blank the screen to save your
> monitor and that will save power.
Or, simply turn the monitor off when not using the PC, but leave the PC on. That's what I do. Screensavers nowadays are more of an art/whim than a necessity. That didn't use to be the case, though, with older monitors, which could suffer screen burn-in.
> The most common failure mode of drives is bearing failure. When you keep
> them on and spinning they are warm and happy. When you turn them off
Agree with you there.
> As for the environment, it will be much happier if you don't use battery
> operated devices, use nuclear or hydro generated electricity, and only
> travel by shanks mare (walking).
Or use public transportation. Besides, my feet hurt ;). And use rechargeable alkaline batteries instead of disposables.

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:45:59 +0530 From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Network problem. Message-ID: <20070901161559.GA20103@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:13:16PM +0530, Yazad Khambata wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I'm relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also
> have XP and 2000) on my system. Today morning I could finally configure
> things right and could connect to the internet(I'm using a broadband
> connection - Sify)... but then something went wrong with my network slot and
> there was no network detected on any of my OSs, I changed the network cards
> slot and things work fine on Windows XP and 2000; however, despite
> configuring the network card (I entered the static Ip, gateway,netmask,
> primary and secondry dsn); I can assure you that the config is proper; I am
> unable to even ping the server... when i ping i get 90+% loss of packets.
Please tell us what card it is, it might be useful. You can find the required information by getting the appropriate line of the output of the lspci command. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:40:23 -0400 From: Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Disk not listed in /dev/disk/by-uuid Message-ID: <20070901164022.GA23199@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:15:56AM -0700, Pjotr Malienki wrote:
> I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by
> its UUID. Mounting the drive as /dev/sdx# works
> flawlessly. As I am not sure how to approach the
> problem, here is some of the stuff that I have tried:
>
> blkid correctly lists the disk and corresponding info.
> /dev/disk/by-uuid does not list the UUID of the disk
> vol_id /dev/sdx# gives the error message /dev/sdx#:
> unknown volume type
> vol_id --type vfat /dev/sdx# results in vfat: error
> opening volume
>
> Any hints, pointers, or advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Pjotr
what does 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/' and 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/' show? You can IIRC also use the by-id instead of by-uuid. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2292 ************************************************** Received on Sat Sep 1 13:00:15 2007

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