Debian

USB key accept data only as root
> To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound normal. How can I tweak this? This sounds perfectly sane. Even better, it protects you from yourself and from people around. I suppose you are the only user of the node. Little tweaking with permissions would let you go further, but I stay fir... 27 Apr 2010 07:38

Questions about RAID 6
Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block size is 4096 bytes, but some sites suggest the 32 bit arch means it is restricted to 4TB no ma... 2 May 2010 23:03

Linux compatible mainboards -- tortuous paths
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is amazing how asking what I thought was a simple question can lead down a variety of long, tortuous paths. Perhaps that possibility is one of the virtues (or curses?) of the Debian system. Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/... 26 Apr 2010 10:15

Just testing...
Camaleón wrote: Hello, This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian mailing list problems with my replies). Hope you can receive this O.K. :-) No problem. Even weirder! I assure you that I sometimes did not receive your answers. I simply cannot understand this. -- ... 26 Apr 2010 11:22

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:06:23 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When upgrading with apt-get, I sometimes encounter == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start == How can I solve this problem? Not sure... maybe the file has been corrupted someh... 26 Apr 2010 14:55

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
Anand Sivaram wrote: Just see which package it belongs to. From root, dpkg --search /usr/lib/libwins.so If it belongs to some packet, try to reinstall it. apt-get install --reinstall <packagename> Then see the problem is repeating. Unfortunately, it gives `dpkg: /usr/lib/libwins.so not found.' :-( ... 26 Apr 2010 08:02

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
Hi, When upgrading with apt-get, I sometimes encounter == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start == How can I solve this problem? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incomp... 26 Apr 2010 05:52

reporting bugs in a helpful way [was Re: Want it? Give]
Brent Clark wrote, on 11/04/10 12:26: Hiya I came across this blog http://ryanbigg.com/2010/04/want-it-give/ and I couldn't agree more with this person. Please mention the gist of what someone is saying rather than expect people to bring up the link in their $BROWSER. The subject you provided ... 26 Apr 2010 04:47

Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch
Hello List, I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. I get a boot prompt where I enter "expert install video=ofonly" It loads kernel then ELF and then I get a b/w screen saying, done instantiating rtas at 0x07716000 .... done WARNING: maximum cups (1) exceeded: ignoring extras c... 26 Apr 2010 12:37

laptop-mode for a downloading machine
Good day. I want to save power/HDD on some computer that is used for Internet downloads yet with slow Internet connection. I know that I can use laptop-mode for that. My question is, Should I make a long time delay for FS journal writing in case of ext3 in order to let the laptop-mode work - say, I want it to w... 25 Apr 2010 16:43