Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: PS: You did not comment whether the pipe' command that I use to verify grub has a general validity. As far as I could use it, I found it equivalent to examining each disk, one at a time. It was clever! It was definitely in the spirit of the Unix philosophy. At the

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very limited ability in recovering from disk failures. I must express concern. While RAID is very useful to keeping a

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu. Press a key on the keyboard before the 5 second count down timer counts all of the way down. Pressing a key stops the timer and causes it to stay on the menu waiting for keyboard input. Bob signature.asc

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be at

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: After installing simply run the grub install script against both disks manually and then you will be assured that it has been installed on both disks. I had problems with that methodology and was unable to detect my error. From a thread

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know - before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced. I recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Did I miss something during the debian installation? Why wasn't grub automatically installed on both disks? Seems like it should have been. I would file a bug against the debian-installer or installation-reports. I started this

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: I just did 2 reinstalls in the last two weeks (upgrade from sqeeze to wheezy screwed up my grub config and then my 6 year old drives started failing - so much fun :), but basically during both reinstalls and creating MD devices with debian installer (md0/md1/md2)

Re: java on wheezy

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Is any official (= working) advice on getting java at work with wheezy (specifically in amd64, if relevant)? http://wiki.debian.org/Java What should be installed/reconfigured/uninstalled other than the packages obtained from wheezy desktop install, followed by

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Thanks so much for this manual. Unfortunately, I have no more the initial situation (one HD replaced) because I was hurried by an editor to provide computational data from my CUDA server. I did not want to run the server before all my data were backed up. Therefore I

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Francesco Pietra wrote: Thanks so much for this manual. Unfortunately, I have no more the initial situation (one HD replaced) because I was hurried by an editor to provide computational data from my CUDA server. I did not want to run the server

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-03-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Francesco, As far as I can determine reading this thread you have had a RAID1 with two disks sda and sdb. The disk sda failed. But grub was only installed on the failed sda. The disk sdb contains a mirror of everything but does not boot. Earlier in the thread Lennart gave an excellent

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
James Brown wrote: I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. But the system see only 3GB: dmesg |grep Memory [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) Hmm... I recommend installing

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
James Brown wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much memory it detects at boot time. apt-get install memtest86+ This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be very easy to boot into afterward. I am thinking it might

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
James Brown wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: apt-get install memtest86+ It see only 3GB, not 4GB. I looked up the Acer TravelMate 3040 series and supposedly it has two 200-pin sodimm slots. This is an obvious question but are you sure your two slots both have a 2G dimm in them? Is it possible

Re: Migrate running IA32 system to Debian AMD 64?

2005-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a running critical production server, running Debian Sarge 32 Bits version. If it is critical then don't touch it. I would like to migrate to Debian-AMD64 system, There is no easy way to change architectures without reinstalling. how can I do it, without

Re: Where is nvidia-glx package ?

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Jo Shields wrote: For reasons I've yet to hear fully explained, the Packages file on the AMD64 mirror for Sarge non-free is empty. You either need to download and dpkg -i the relevant packages by hand, or (temporarily) use another release (etch, sid) to install nvidia-glx. Today I noticed

Re: more weird apt - bzip2.

2005-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Wakefield wrote: I screwed things up even worse, as I copied over apt-get and dpkg from another install and I have a big mess now. You are right, I have to fix the original problem first, but I can't fix without apt-get dpkg working right, so gotta do a reinstall I think. You may have

Re: more weird apt - bzip2.

2005-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Wakefield wrote: My system is sick. For a month now, I haven't been able to successfully update or upgrade, now I can't install anything at all now: Can anyone suggest some kind of fix? ... Preparing to replace bzip2 1.0.2-8 (using .../bzip2_1.0.2-8_amd64.deb) ...

Re: Is amd64 J2EE possible?

2005-08-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:56 -0300, Angel Claudio Alvarez wrote: El sáb, 20-08-2005 a las 14:11 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld escribió: Is it possible to develop J2EE applications on an AMD64 using a (non)free 64 bit environment? Yes, it is If so, is there a

Re: Building an useful list to keep an eye on when migrating from i386

2005-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: $ apt-cache dumpavail | sed -e '/^Package:/!d ; s/^Package: \(.*\)/\1/' amd64_debian_avail_list.txt I find grep-dctrl is better suited for this: apt-cache dumpavail | grep-dctrl -n -s Package You can save a small amount of typing by using grep-available.

Re: unable to upgrade packages via apt-get

2005-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Monty wrote: The problem is that my apt-get will not seam to update/upgrade any of my packages even though I know there are new packages available by looking in /var/lib/dpkg/available. As an example, I currently have lynx V2.8.5REL1 installed but my /var/lib/dpkg/available file indicates

Re: libc6 update problems

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Nigel Ridley wrote: Grahame White wrote: Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.5-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package xmms-kde This seems like a very strange thing to see here. I think the

Re: MD5Sum mismatches/Downgrade to Sarge

2005-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Jens Vogel wrote: Failed to fetch http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/p/perlftlib/fttools_1.2-14_all.deb MD5Sum mismatch Failed to fetch http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/x/xprint/xprt-xprintorg_0.1.0.alpha1-10_all.deb MD5Sum mismatch This

Re: Compiling true amd64 binaries on woody?

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I'm still stuck on/in woody on all my systems. Can't change just yet (I'm working on it), but in the meantime I'm trying to create packages that's true amd64. But there is no woody amd64. So your statement is confusing. If you are talking about woody do you mean x86

Re: nvidia-driver in chroot

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Van Laere Benjamin wrote: I have a chroot in wich I would like to be able to run graphic-intensive stuff (mupen64). My driver works fine in the 64bit environment, but when I run glxgears in the chroot, I get this: Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. Inside your

Re: Cross-distro binary compatibilty

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wood wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Go to snapshot.debian.net and fish out the right library versions suse/rh uses, install them, install the same packages (inetd/xinetd) suse/rh uses and voila. Compatibility. Even if libraries were the only issue, aren't there

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Steffen wrote: The better way to do it is to have three (sub)packages: i386, x86_64 and shared. That is a bit like -common and -bin, but the packages differ only in architecture, not in the name. Imho that is the way to go. However, if you look closer, you find that both approaches

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: This has been a long standing behavior of rpm that is now exploited for use in biarch. That sounds like there is no special biarch support at all in rpm but just the support to have multiple versions of a package installed

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hugo Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How? You can't install your two multiarch versions of libvorbis without a hacked package manager that understands how to do it. You name packages lib32foo and lib64foo or something non conflicting. Or you use the

Re: Cross-distro binary compatibilty

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Stiles wrote: As I've said before, binary compatibility is irrelevant. [...] Source compatibility is all that really matters, and there are enough examples around to show that this is entirely achievable. [...] The only reason why you would ever want to be able to run a binary not

Re: Servers inside the chroot

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Zachary Rizer wrote: --- Thomas Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you can. The chroot may have a different file system, but it sees exactly the same network. Agreed. This works fine. The server doesn't seem to want to run in the chroot, or if it's running, I can't get to it from

Re: automounted home directories in chroot

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Rik Theys wrote: I've followed the instructions in the AMD64 howto to setup a chroot jail to run 32 apps. When my home directories are available as regular directories under /home (and /home is bind mounted into the chroot), the users can launch programs like openoffice.org in the chroot

Re: Simple Question... 32bit compatibility

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernie Betlach wrote: I hope someone can give me a simple answer. Will 32 bit applications run on Sarge AMD64 If you also install a 32-bit environment in addition to the 64-bit environment then yes they will. There are two typical methods for installing a 32-bit environment. One is

A new thread needs a new message (was: asterisk pbx on debian-amd64)

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Nicholas P. Mueller wrote: I am also writing to ask for any criticism or pointers of things I have done wrong. Since you asked *and* you replied to _my_ message I am compelled to reply. I posted a follow-up message with a subject Simple Question... 32bit compatibility. You took that message

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam Stiles writes: Most current 64 bit Linux distributions are not pure 64-bit but contain both 32 and 64 bit libraries. In other words, they are multi-arch. Not multiarch but biarch. Not quite the same thing. No. They have ia32-libs preinstalled.

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Steffen wrote: Multiarch is something that goes way beyond what other amd64 distributions have. Maybe, but the RedHat package management does support two different architectures, and it does it now. Technically that is biarch. That is different than multiarch. Red Hat has

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Red Hat has implemented special case biarch support. Debian has not implemented either but the goal is to implement multiarch. So under red hat you can actualy do: [whatever dpkg's -i is for rpm] rpm -i libfoo_i386.rpm rpm -i libfoo_amd64

Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Thomas Steffen writes: That is the theory, and I do believe in theory... until something more practical comes along. I use Openoffice, Acrobat Reader, Partimage, Mplayer, a bit of Wine, Oracle and sometimes Matlab for Linux. That makes seven applications that

Re: failed to install a chroot environment

2005-06-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Kuball wrote: failed. Some packages among it libc6 could not be installed because: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 126: /dev/null: Permission denied /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 131: /dev/null: Permission denied /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 1: /dev/null: Permission

Re: Pine

2005-06-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Stiles wrote: Ah, Pine. The one where the source is too open for its own good. :-) And I don't see why there can't be a .deb package which contains the source code and patches, depends on the compiler and toolchain There is. But it is in the non-free section due to the license

Re: user dchroot does not work

2005-05-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Fieroch wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Have all of your 'dchroot' calls used -d? Does it work without -d? Then I get the following error: $ dchroot -c ia32 glxgears (ia32) glxgears Must be connected to a terminal. dchroot: Child exited non-zero. dchroot: Operation failed. Any

Re: MD5 mismatches on downloads from ftp.de.debian.org

2005-05-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Adam Lackorzynski | The mismatches come from an incorrect resync after the archive move. The | contents of the files itself were actually ok. | To fix the archive I've placed a little script in the root directory | that wgets the corresponding files as rsync won't

Re: Strange aptitude behavior with bind9-host

2005-05-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Ed Tomlinson wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: What is the output of this command? apt-cache policy bind9-host grover:/home/ed# apt-cache policy bind9-host bind9-host: Installed: 1:9.3.1-2 Candidate: 1:9.3.1-2 Version Table: 1:9.3.1-2 0 500 http://amd64.debian.net sid

Re: user dchroot does not work

2005-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Fieroch wrote: I also can chroot to my chroot-path as root and switch to the user. Then I can start every programm. The thing that's not working is dchroot as user. As root it's working too. Have all of your 'dchroot' calls used -d? Does it work without -d? The above makes me think

Re: Problem upgrading libc6

2005-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to check for updates using Synaptic just now and found that I have two broken packages (libc6-dev and locales). According to synaptic, the solution for this seems to be to upgrade libc6. However, when I do apt-get upgrade libc6 I get a complaint containing the

Re: Strange aptitude behavior with bind9-host

2005-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ed Tomlinson wrote: Looks like the bind9-host package is sticky... Or has two different sources. grover:/home/ed# aptitude update ... grover:/home/ed# aptitude upgrade ... The following packages will be upgraded: bind9-host ... grover:/home/ed# aptitude upgrade ... The following

Re: Problem upgrading libc6

2005-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-22) but 2.3.2.ds1-21 is installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-22 But 2.3.2.ds1-21 is current in sid in the amd64 archive. Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file and determine where you are getting

Re: gcc4, thunderbird: emacs key bindings lost?

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Harald Dunkel wrote: Since the migration to gcc4 the Emacs key bindings in Thunderbird's compose window seem to be gone. Is this just me? I ran into that some months ago too. But it has nothing to do with gcc4. This is true on all architectures. I found this solution on the firefox site. I

Re: gcc4, thunderbird: emacs key bindings lost?

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Harald Dunkel wrote: Is it possible to set this stuff somewhere in /etc for all users? Bob Proulx wrote: # /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc Uhm, yes, in /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. :-) I wonder why the default has changed for amd64, but not for i386. It affected me on i386 too. Bob signature.asc

Re: user dchroot does not work

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Fieroch wrote: $ dchroot -c ia32 -d openoffice (ia32) openoffice No shell dchroot: Child exited non-zero. dchroot: Operation failed. In google I've found the same problem with this answer: Literally that looks like you have no shell. Check your password field entry in your

pinfo -- release critical bug for amd64

2005-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
While walking through my list of things needed for amd64 I found that 'pinfo' still is not fixed. The 'pinfo' package is not installable on amd64 at this time. Previous discussion of this problem is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/01/msg00155.html It was determined at the

Re: AMD64 archive move

2005-05-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:31:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ftp://amd64.debian.net/debian work too. Is correct to use it? If you must. Http is prefered by almost everyone as it doesn't require makeing a new connection for every file and is thus faster and

Re: rsync mirror how?

2005-04-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Brett Viren wrote: Looking at my mirror logs I see this as well. Judging by the oldest log I keep around, it's been happening since at least last Friday. It looks like someone has renamed the module to debian-pure64: The rsync module change may have been recent. But the depot renaming was

Re: Idea for structure of Apt-Get

2005-04-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The problem with ISPs with transparent proxies is that many of them are broken. Broken to a point that you can't fix it. Agreed. I am currently working behind such a broken proxy. It gives me no end of trouble! It is one of the reasons that I really must maintain

Re: Idea for structure of Apt-Get

2005-04-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: I switched to using socks and rsync as the transport protocol with debmirror to avoid the bad behavior of rsync. That solved most of my ^ http proxy s/bad behavior of rsync/bad behavior of http proxy/ Drat. I hate it when I do

failed md5sum check -- alioth archive problems

2005-03-23 Thread Bob Proulx
In the debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 archive: Current output from debmirror: pool/main/r/rpl/rpl_1.5.1_all.deb failed md5sum check pool/non-free/p/php4-dbase/php4-dbase_4.3.4+rcfinal-3.diff.gz failed md5sum check Could some check and correct those? Thanks Bob

Re: What to do about bad/missing .debs?

2005-03-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's broken? How is it broken? Sounds like the package just need a rebuild. Is that correct? ttcn-el.info.gz somehow wound up with no content, breaking the call to install-info in the postinst. This may have be due to

Re: chroot from ia64 not working

2005-03-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: I have followed instructions on chrooting, when I try and use 'dchroot' I get '/usr/bin/dchroot -c ia32 -d openoffice (ia32) openoffice No shell dchroot: Child exited non-zero. dchroot: Operation failed.' What have I done wrong?

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Rapp wrote: Tong wrote: Say my i386 Debian Sarge is mounted on /os/deb32. Then, having configured the ldconfig, just launch ooffice (or any other tools not available in amd64 yet) as /os/deb32/usr/bin/ooffice -- no bind mount, no dchroot, no various sym-links. Running ooffice

Re: Time to test sarge

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: the owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used the above sources.list with this image: sid-amd64-netinst.iso11-Feb-2005 09:01 193M I can't figure that one out: apt-cache policy libc6 libc6-dev libc6: 2.3.2.ds1-20 0 1001

lsb-core problem -- package conflicts with chroot

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
I just hit lsb-core version 2.0-1 which causes me problems. I have not updated for a while. Testing using the latest debian-pure64. * Depend on ia32-libs on amd64. (Closes: #259976) But I am not using ia32-libs. I am using an ia32 chroot. But now I am required to use ia32-libs if I want

32-bit system, 64-bit chroot?

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Proulx
I would like to configure a 32-bit base system, use a amd64-k8 kernel such as the kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8-smp kernel, and set up a 64-bit chroot on the machine. This mostly works. But I am missing something. I am trying to follow the ia32 chroot howto in reverse to install an amd64

Re: 32-bit system, 64-bit chroot?

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Kurt Roeckx wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I installed this symlink: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 - /emul/amd64-linux/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 You should create that in /lib64 and not in /lib. That was it! In my case since I am wanting to manage the files in my chroot and access them through

Re: KDE Themes Missing?

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Krahn wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:30:55 +, Pat C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my debian system is awesome. I'm using KDE and I love the new KDE 3.3 setup. However, I can't seem to be able to change the graphical login when the computer starts up. It's this plain drab Debian

Re: KDE Themes Missing?

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Krahn wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:35:59 -0700, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Krahn wrote: apt-get remove xdm twm apt-get install kdm This is what I would expect as well. However, at least my installation wants to remove all KDE packages when just doing 'apt-get

Re: AMD64 DHCP Network Configuration Failure

2005-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Pat C wrote: David Sawyer wrote: Pat C wrote: do it. When I go to configure it manually to see if it works, I put in all the information and then the system goes blank. What do you do to configure it manually. Did you edit the /etc/network/interfaces file, or just type ifconfig

Re: small fix for Debian AMD64 HowTo

2005-01-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Sebastian Kuegler wrote: Works, indeed. The following (suggested to me in private email) does also work: exec dchroot -c ia32 -d $(basename $0) -- $@ Very good! I like that best because it preserves the arguments exactly. Can someone with commit rights to the howto please make this update?

Re: ia32-libs problem

2005-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Christian Thalinger wrote: But with openoffice the library can be found: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ts2_client_rc2_2032$ ldd /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin |grep pthread libpthread.so.0 = /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x55674000) Anyone an idea? The ia32-libs

Re: exec: 426: chroot: not found

2004-12-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Lourens Steenkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I decide (dangerous move ...) that it had something to do with the link mentioned above so I move the /emul/ia32-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 link to something else and did the ln -s /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/ld-2.3.2.so

Re: openoffice in chroot

2004-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: do, I might suggest that you try sarge instead of sid to avoid the My chroot IS sarge. My main amd64 system is sid of course, since sarge has not been ported to amd64. I am sorry, I must have missed that. However it means I have no idea what to suggest next that

Re: openoffice in chroot

2004-12-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: That's pretty strange. Has anybody seen or heard anything like this before? I could also try to put this up on one of the openoffice.org lists... That is pretty strange. I don't have anything really useful to add except to say that it is working great for me. I did not

Re: MySQL on debian amd64

2004-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
packagename.rpm dpkg --info packagename.deb To query installed packages by name. rpm -qi packagename dpkg --status packagename Bob Any reply would be much appreciated. Best regards Nils Valentin On Tuesday 30 November 2004 02:47, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob

Re: I need explanation on the design of debian-amd64.

2004-11-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The problem is that many programs have data files in /usr/share or /usr/lib/package or even config in /etc/. All those files will be inside the chroot ... Yes. ... instead of outside when you run the program outside. Any program that needs to be *installed* will

Re: I need explanation on the design of debian-amd64.

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: You can use /emul/ia32-linux/lib (as the ia32-libs, ia32-libs-dev and ia32-libs-openoffice.org packages already do). The drawback of this method is that you can't just apt-get install foobar to install a 32bit package. But if 'dchroot' is configured with the

Re: ia32-libs vs. ia32 chroot

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Phil Warrick wrote: I'm going with the chroot approach then. Following the AMD64 HOWTO in section Running applications inside the chroot, I followed the instructions and then I wanted to try to run a 32-bit program. First I wanted to try to run some X-based program so I tried

Re: CU command for connecting to CISCO kit

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Alvin James wrote: I am trying to use the cu command to connect to a CISCO 2900 managed switch does anyone know the full command or command options necessary to connect via the serial port? The 'cu' command rides along on top of and in conjunction with uucp. So the first thing you need to do

Re: I need explanation on the design of debian-amd64.

2004-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: But if 'dchroot' is configured with the ia32-linux chroot then you can just say dchroot apt-get install foobar to install a 32bit package. dchroot will only work if you have a chroot. Yes. In particular it won't work

Re: /pure64 vs. /gcc-3.4

2004-11-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Jared Burke wrote: I can tell you that if you're planning on using the latest nvidia module, you'll need gcc-3.4. You only need to compile the module with gcc-3.4 because the kernel in pure64 was also compiled that way. I am using the latest nvidia module with /pure64. Assuming you are using

Re: I need explanation on the design of debian-amd64.

2004-11-24 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only have a 10Gb HD (for the moment, I'm saving to get another), so I don't find it really attractive to install the full 64bits system, and then install lots of 32bits libraries (and maybe other binaries) in a chroot jail just to run, say, doom3, or openoffice.org.

Re: X Strangeness with mouse after new install

2004-11-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Artimus Dink wrote: One thing I've found is that if I do a 'modprobe psmouse' prior to 'startx', then X will start straight away and the mouse works fine... any ideas? I am guessing that either hotplug or discover or something else is installed on my machine and loading that module

Re: Official 2.6.8 kernel not booting?

2004-11-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Gasper Zejn wrote: I've apt-get installed an official kernel-image-9-2.6.8-k8 package and rebooted, and i get an no init found error, while -k7 kernels work with no problem. You say kernel-image-9-2.6.8-k8 but then you also say: The grub lines (i've added init=/sbin/init with no luck):

Re: Official 2.6.8 kernel not booting?

2004-11-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Gasper Zejn wrote: Hello! Oh yes, I forgot to say, the list address has been changed. Please note the new address. debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: X Strangeness with mouse after new install

2004-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Artimus Dink wrote: (**) Option Device /dev/psaux (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse [...] (**) Option Device /dev/input/mice (EE) xf86OpenSerial:

Re: mirror site of debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org

2004-11-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Kiyotaka ATSUMI wrote: Please tell me a mirror site of http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ in Japan. I am not aware of any mirrors in Japan. If it isn't exist, I want to build it in Japan. Is it good? If you decide to mirror the archive then the following script using debmirror

Re: Status of debian-amd64 after sarge release

2004-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Johan Groth wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote: Jan Houstek wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote: We will atleast have a released version of the sarge repository, with updates if there are, and security updates. That's good news. Any chance this port will become a part of the official stable in some future

Re: offtopic general help with system clock

2004-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Perry wrote: hardware clock). Once the clock is close, by using this method, the ntp will always be able to keep it on time from then onwards. Agreed. To check if ntp is in a happy state, use the 'ntpq -p' command. ntpq -p Look for low fractional jitter numbers and low offset

Re: Dependencies

2004-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
You replied to my last message Boot from SATA + Network but have stolen the thread for a different topic. Please don't do that. Please start a *new* message when starting a new topic. See how your message is hiding in the other thread?

Re: Cool N' Quiet

2004-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Vang wrote: Hmm... What am I doing wrong? k8:~# modprobe cpufreq-userspace k8:~# modprobe powernow-k8 FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-9-amd64-k8/kernel/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device The No such device message means the

Re: autofs package

2004-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Wohlstadter wrote: I installed amd64 of a few of our blades a month ago and noticed at that time the autofs packages were still broken(needed a header change to work with 64bit). I compiled autofs seperately outside of the dpkg system and moved on. Just wondering if this has been

Re: Boot from SATA + Network

2004-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Jonas Diemer wrote: PS: Please CC me in your replies, I am not subscribed to the list. I get a kernelpanic, saying that the root filesys couldn't be mounted. I guess this is because the sata driver (I believe it is sata_nv) is compiled as a module. Am I correct? Almost certainly. What

Re: VMware errrors.

2004-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: You must run ldconfig after making the symlinks. Normally, this should be done automatically at the time you install the .deb package... ldconfig sets symlinks according to configuration in /etc/ld.so.conf. If this is done in a chroot then it configures it

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:37:05PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: So, what I would like to know is, does bumprace sound ok on your ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, or does it sound like crap? As I said, I am not using that machine, but I guess I can sneak into the office and

Re: /emul can be used as chrootrg

2004-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
A. P. Kennedy wrote: New to chroot game but wanted to know if I could use /emul/ia32-linux/ directory as my chroot directory? Should I setup a completely different chroot directory. Yes, that works fine. I do that all of the time. That is how I maintain the ia32 libraries. I just

Re: pbuilder maybe? Perhaps?

2004-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Harald Dunkel wrote: pbuilder seems to be missing. There were no updates in the amd64(gcc-3.4) pool for some days, anyway. Of course if the gcc-3.4 archive has a problem it needs to be fixed. But your note suggests that you are just looking for a good pbuilder package. So I will comment on

Re: alioth pure64 depot breakage

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Today the following files are missing from the Alioth pure64 archive. 404 Not Found Download of pool/unstable/main/source/p/pyopenal/pyopenal_0.1.4-5.dsc Bob

Re: find did not work

2004-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Koef wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:01:11AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 12:33:49AM +0200, corerix wrote: find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty rmdir: zu wenige Argumente What does that mean ^ ? based on an educated guess

Re: Beginner question about pure64 vs. sarge vs. gcc3.4

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Steffen Schwigon wrote: [ I'm new to 64bit, but read amd64 HOWTO and the like ] Excellent! I want to setup a Debian/Sarge-like system on my Athlon64fx. I tried an install of sarge with a Debian-Installer-CD. The install itself looked good, but it couldn't write a correct boot loader, neither

Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Nelson wrote: I've been playing around with the /emul/ia32-linux area a bit lately and I finally got tired of pulling down library packages debs and extracting them into that area manually. Agreed. That does sound tedious. The kind of work that robots will be doing in the future. Oh

Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image

2004-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Nelson wrote: I've decided to share it. You can download a tar.bz with instructions on how to use it from my site here: http://rufus.hackish.org/wiki/I386Chroot One thing that you don't mention in your wiki that I think would be very useful is dchroot. I love it. It really makes

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