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clamscan vs. clamscan with mb2md
Hi, Running clamscan over a PDC/BDC with roaming profiles will (obviously) generate sporadic alerts on mbox files assoicated with assorted mail clients, icedove/tbird in this case. In order to track down the specific message, I've used mbox2maildir (in the past) and mb2md presently to convert them into a "br... 18 Jul 2010 12:41

How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?
I just now had to change my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file so that a new network card be give the same number (it was being given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, how? I have tried restarting... 20 Jul 2010 14:40

Akonadi startup problems
Hi, I am running squeeze amd-64 with KDE. Everytime I boot the system (daily, due to department policy), there is a window titled "Akonadi Server Self-Test which contains some errors". The relevant parts are: MYSQL server log contains errors No resource agents found. Previous Akonadi server error ... 16 Jul 2010 15:27

apt, find circular dependencies
Hi. Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? thank you for help mk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu... 16 Jul 2010 17:40

kernel panic error
I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two different machines. Now I am getting the following error kinit: trying to resume from /dev/sda5 kinit:No resume image, doing normal boot... Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init. run-init: /bin/sh: No such file or directory [ 5.44... 19 Jul 2010 05:54

Nvidia card and Xen in lenny
On 7/16/2010 12:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi! I am trying to setup Lenny as dom0. However I cannot get the X server to start. I have tried drivers vesa, nv and nvidia. The latter causes the system to hang. Here is my output from driver nv. The output from vesa is similar (has the same error... 18 Jul 2010 05:12

mount.aufs doesn't work for directory any more
Hi, I used to be able to use mount.aufs to unify several directories and provide a merged single directory. From mount.aufs man page, I should still be able to do that: # mount -v -t aufs br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day0/.aufs.xino,br:/day0=rw:/ base=ro) # m... 16 Jul 2010 00:10

debian repo for squeeze got problem?
Just a few minutes ago, when I ran "aptitude update": /usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error Err http://debian.nctu.edu.tw squeeze/non-free Packages Sub-process /usr/bin/lzma returned an error code (1) Fetched 202kB in 2min 48s (1,202B/s) W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The following signatures wer... 16 Jul 2010 08:48

help needed in installing 3G+ usb modem
Hi to Everyone, I have already tried a lot of things to get this to work on my laptop running Ubuntu 8.04. I also carried tests on my desktop on Debian Lenny, with no results in either system. Some people got very similar models of 3G key to work on Ubuntu. They have recommended that I carry a few tests, bu... 17 Jul 2010 13:02

Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg
Hey all What recommendations would you have for an app to convert *.mp4 to either *.mp3 or *.ogg? Thanks for any suggestions. AG -- 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.debia... 16 Jul 2010 14:20