Debian

group vector not updating
After using vigr and vigr -s to change the group and gshadow files, I then log in as the user who's been added to a new group, and run groups - and it's not there. If I then do usermod -a -G this makes no change to the group/gshadow files, but now when I log in as the user, the group is there. Anyone any id... 1 Mar 2010 16:27

Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?
I am trying to install Debian (Testing) via 'netinst' disk and for some reason am completely unable to install Debian w/o Exim. It appears that Cron is a default package and depends on Exim. Does anyone know how I can completely omit this from a fresh Debian install? When I run: apt-get remove --purge exim4 I... 28 Mar 2010 11:15

what about acroread in squeeze i386?
What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more expensive and more energy demanding 64-bit machines wi... 1 Mar 2010 16:27

Asus WL-167g (rt2500usb) DHCP fails
Hello, I'm trying to make my wifi dongle work on my sid box (kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686). It is correctly recognized, the WPA authentication works fine as well, but it fails getting an address from DHCP. Here is the relevant syslog output: Feb 28 11:36:21 ticho wpa_supplicant[2442]: Trying to associate with 56... 28 Feb 2010 06:42

Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:05:58 -0800 Freeman <evenso(a)worldwidehtml.com> wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:01:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: .... Osamu OMG! Osamu as in "Debian Reference Copyright 2007-2009 Osamu Aoki"? That was an undertaking. There is a great deal of clarity in... 27 Feb 2010 22:04

-i386 to amd64
I've made a new computer my first ever and I'm very pleased with it. It uses an AMD phenon II 505 build cpu on an Ausus board with 8GB ram. I used an amd64 net-installer to create the partitions and swap file on the new and larger hard drive of the new machine. Before moving an image of the old [i686] partition... 2 Mar 2010 14:40

Screen shifted to left for console and X for Acer AL2016W
I have a new computer with an Intel DH55TC Motherboard. Attempts to install the i386 stable distribution failed because the installer could not find the DVD reader. I was able to install i386 testing. I have an Acer AL2106W monitor with a length/width of 1.6. When I boot the system, KDE and the _console_ are n... 27 Feb 2010 13:14

Upgrade to Lenny?
Dear All According to your previous replies on my 'tcpdump' inquiry , I upgraded my Debian box from Sarge to Lenny . It is now running version 5.0.4 . But surprisingly I cannot connect it to Internet , as I did previously . I am trying as the followings : #ifconfig eth0 ip-address netmask netmask-bits up #r... 1 Mar 2010 01:31

new mumble/apache bug
I hope that this hasn't already been discussed, if so I apologize for my newbie-ism. I'm seeing a new bug, it appears to me it's coming from the mumble-server package, but I'm not the type of expert who can tell what's happening for certain. As of very recently (yesterday?) the apache2 server will not start when th... 27 Feb 2010 11:00

Issues while using dkms
I am using dkms to create a binary package for vboxdrv.ko and all related virtualbox-ose files I used dkms to create a binary module for kernel 2.6.31 and I got these errors root(a)indiaforce:/lib/modules/2.6.31indiaforce1.1/build# dkms mkdeb -m vboxdrv -v 3.1.4_OSE Using /etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb copying ... 27 Feb 2010 01:17