Debian

FSCK seems angry with my filesystem
Hi, When booting my computer this morning, fsck was not happy. Here is what it said: == # cat /var/log/fsck/checkfs Log of fsck -C -R -A -a Tue Jun 1 09:00:07 2010 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sdc5 has been mounted 50 times without being checked, check forced. /dev/sdc5: Inode 18554881 is in use, but ... 7 Jun 2010 04:12

xdm autologin important for tiny devices
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201855 T> on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing T> T> @include common-auth T> T> with T> T> auth required pam_permit.so T> T> so that I only need to type the username of the user I want to T> use. This is not as good... 1 Jun 2010 22:59

businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?
I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years ago. I have and use a businesscard CD for installing Squeeze, and I see a menu entry on it that purpor... 1 Jun 2010 14:11

GUI fails to start
Help! After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I checked the option for "Desktop" in the set up process. Everything seems to go smoothly until the GUI should come up. I am starting from a "net-install" CD I downloa... 31 May 2010 17:28

Odd occurrence with keyboard control keys
Hey, I'm having a wierd occurrence with my keyboard keys. First, I'm running sid with kde 4.4.3-2 with Compiz 0.8.3. I've been running this configuration (kde + compiz) for a couple of years. Lately, call it the last month or so, I get strange keyboard behavior. I can be composing an email here in firefox or e... 31 May 2010 15:16

No common CD-ROM drive was detected
Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny on a new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the problem was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more familiar one, the "No common CD-ROM drive was detected" error with SATA optical drives. I've seen a coup... 31 May 2010 17:28

ext2 empty
Hi, I came across a tool called something like "ext2 empty" but forgot where it is now. Primarily, it zero out all unused spaces in ext2 fs, so that the unused spaces won't take up much spaces when compressed. Any hint? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tech... 31 May 2010 15:16

How long squeez supported
thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1275328366.1689.0.camel(a)arshad-desktop ... 31 May 2010 18:34

date bug?
Hi, Please take a look at the following, do you think it is bug of date? $ date Mon May 31 13:26:13 EDT 2010 $ date --date='1 month ago' Sat May 1 13:24:20 EDT 2010 $ date --date='last month' Sat May 1 11:09:21 EDT 2010 $ date --date='-1 month' Sat May 1 13:26:49 EDT 2010 All above should give... 1 Jun 2010 19:44

To find out the installed packages repo section.
Good day. Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib, non-free) one or more packages come from? For example, I want to know if I have the packages installed from, say Testing / contrib - how I can do this? Thank You for Yo... 31 May 2010 05:26