Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64
On Monday 18 July 2005 09:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Package fetching is done by reprepro and turning it more verbose gives > >> some more messages but not a download progress for files. > >> > >> The package fetching is also going to be done by a cron job normaly. > >> Unless it gets an error it should not say anything (in the finished > >> package). I will think about something for the initial install but my > >> current plan is to have it create an empty archive and start the cron > >> job once manualy in the background. > >> > >> So, having an interactive (i.e. with download progress) update script > >> is not a high priority just now. Later, for people that don't want the > >> cron job, maybe. But the reprepro maintainer has to provide support > >> for that. > > > > How well will this work? For instance, I do not really want to maintain > > a chroot. The one app I sometimes miss is wine. Do you think this can > > be supported with the new package arch? > > > > TIA, > > Ed Tomlinson > > Add wine and libwine to packages.list and it probably works already. I > haven't found anything besides libc6 which needs special tricks for > the conversion yet, the general conversion rules work very well. This ends up with: The following packages have unmet dependencies: ia32-libwine: Depends: xlibmesa3-gl which is a virtual package. or ia32-libgl1 which is a virtual package. which does not seem to want to resolve... here is what I added: wine libncurses5 libxi6 libwine Suspect that one of these libs might need some help. > And wine is on my todo. Next time I wanna play StarCraft at the > latest. Thanks Ed Tomlinson
Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64
Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: >I added OpenOffice.org to amd64-archive now and fixed the resulting >problems. I can now install and run OOo without any chroot with this. > > > I could (I think?) with ia32libs since a few months. >The package isn't perfect yet so there are some details you have to do >for now: > >- wget >http://amd64.debian.net/~goswin/amd64-archive/amd64-archive_0.2_amd64.deb > > ok >- dpkg -i amd64-archive_0.2_amd64.deb > > This will download the i386 debs and convert them. Gives a lot of > output. > > ok, went well (when I installed dependancies), but downloaded and mangled sarge-etch-sid versions of every package! Why? In my sources I have only Etch and Sid >- Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > # Converted 32bit debs > deb file:///var/lib/amd64-archive sarge main contrib non-free > > added this > # Only needed for sarge users (I think) > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/ > > skipped > Both etch and sid are also supported but untested. > > > I'm using Sid >- apt-get update; apt-get install openoffice.org > > complains that there isn't a newer version of openoffice.org-debian-files (I installed version 1.1.2 with ia32-libs), maybe should I remove old software first? > Check what apt-get wants to remove as it might remove the wrong > thing. It works for me but you might have something else installed. > Removing ia32-libs is intentional though. > > > weren't removed Thanks for all, awaiting for w32codecs and wine...Starcraft! ;) -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel: 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 Mail: Thunderbird Chat: Kopete (ICQ) 150487234 Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Almost there
On Monday 18 July 2005 05:52 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: ... > /dev/sda1 (/boot) is ext2 and all the other partitions are ReiserFS. > I'm using the standard kernel included with the debian installer. Note > that I'm not using what is considered to be the stable installer, but a > daily build I found somewhere. It is build 7-6-2005. The stable > installer doesn't see the on-board NIC. I believe all the installers > are using the same kernel (2.6.8-11). I don't know if initrd was > created correctly. Is there a way to test it? It's looking as if GRUB is not the problem, which leaves the initrd. The short answer to your question is "I don't know." The long answer is that it might be documented in /usr/share/doc/kernel ... I would think that if the installer allowed you to create a ReiserFS file system, that the kernel & initrd supplied with the installer would be capable of mounting it, but stranger things have happened. At this point, I have two thoughts. First, it's time to go home, have a beer and a good night's sleep & work on this again, in the morning -- which is what I'm about to do! My second thought is to fire-up Knoppix again. Chroot into /dev/sda2. Mount /dev/sda1 as boot on /dev/sda2 and then install another, more current kernel or, even, compile your own with make-kpkg. But, if you're not familiar with all this, this too would be better left until tomorrow. Cheers, and have a good night! cmr > > There's basically two possible problems, here. Either grub is not > > looking in the right place for your root file system, or it is, but initd > > is unable to mount it. As Sherlock Holmes used to say, "When you've > > eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however, improbable, must be > > the answer!" ;-) > > Thanks for the comments! > > Gary -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java e firefox
Manuel D ha scritto: > stavo visualizzando un mms sul sito della vodafone quando firefox mi > allerta che mi manca la piattaforma java. No problem, mi scarico il > .bin (15 MB) dal sito ufficiale e lo installo. > Tutto ok. > Peccato che ha firefox non sembra fregargliene nulla... :-( ogni volta > mi chiede di scaricare il plug-in. > la causa può essere che non ho firefox inserito nel path? in questo > caso, come faccio ad ovviare al problema? non c'è modo di dire a > firefox che io il java l'ho installato? scarica la versione di blackdown java (è già pacchettizzata) -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered User #359258 System: GNU/Linux Debian Sid Pure64 on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel: 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 Mail: Thunderbird Chat: Kopete (ICQ) 150487234 Put the fan back into computing signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Almost there
Mike Reinehr wrote: Gary, On Monday 18 July 2005 04:45 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: Mike Reinehr wrote: Gary, On Monday 18 July 2005 03:31 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Make sure your boot-loader loads the initrd along with the kernel. There's no question that the initd is being loaded. That is what is giving you the error message. All the drivers necessary to mounting the HD have been loaded and it is attempting to mount the root partition and switch to it. Thanks for the reply. I just went through the boot steps by hand and I'm fairly sure initrd has been loaded. Here is what one of my grub menu options looks like: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot When you were running Knoppix, did you actually take a look at /dev/sda2 to make sure that you had a root file system there? It should already have been mounted automatically by Knoppix and shown up on the desktop as an icon. I just booted to Knoppix again to make sure. Here is what I found: [EMAIL PROTECTED] df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 3.4M 17K 3.4M 1% / /dev/hda 696M 696M 0 100% /cdrom /dev/cloop1.9G 1.9G 0 100% /KNOPPIX /ramdisk 2.6G 4.8M 2.6G 1% /ramdisk /UNIONFS 4.5G 1.9G 2.6G 43% /UNIONFS /UNIONFS/dev/sda1 89M 6.7M 77M 8% /mnt/sda1 /UNIONFS/dev/sda2 957M 88M 870M 10% /mnt/sda2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt/sda1 System.map-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp initrd.img-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp config-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp lost+found grub vmlinuz initrd.imgvmlinuz-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt/sda2 bin cdrom etc initrd lib64 mnt proc sbin sys usr boot devhome lib media opt root srv tmp var If all else fails, you might have to boot off of a Knoppix cd & rerun grub-install. I have booted off a knoppix CD and tried running grub-install. For kicks I just went through the procedure again. Here are the steps performed while booted under Knoppix: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grub-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] grub GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu .lst"... succeeded Done. When you did your initial install, did you create a separate boot partition? Grub, definitely, is finding it's boot files on /dev/sda1. I did. That is /dev/sda1. What file system did you use when creating the root file system? Are you using a standard kernel, or did you compile your own? Was the initd created with the correct drivers to mount the root file system? /dev/sda1 (/boot) is ext2 and all the other partitions are ReiserFS. I'm using the standard kernel included with the debian installer. Note that I'm not using what is considered to be the stable installer, but a daily build I found somewhere. It is build 7-6-2005. The stable installer doesn't see the on-board NIC. I believe all the installers are using the same kernel (2.6.8-11). I don't know if initrd was created correctly. Is there a way to test it? There's basically two possible problems, here. Either grub is not looking in the right place for your root file system, or it is, but initd is unable to mount it. As Sherlock Holmes used to say, "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however, improbable, must be the answer!" ;-) Thanks for the comments! Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems linking static
I'm running debian/sid on an Opteron. After an upgrade last week I haven't been able to build a statically linked program. It looks like a libc.a problem? Has anyone else seen this problem? thanks, ray fo% cc -o hello -static hello.c /usr/bin/ld: __libc_errno: TLS definition in /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.1/../../../../lib64/libc.a(errno.o) section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.1/../../../../lib64/libc.a(check_fds.o) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.1/../../../../lib64/libc.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Almost there
Hello, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Make sure your boot-loader loads the initrd along with the kernel. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: e-machines M6809 + sarge
On 18 Jul 2005, Brendon J. Colby wrote: > I've been searching for a while trying to figure out this problem. I'm > trying to get the AMD64 build of Sarge installed on my emachines m6809 > laptop. I can boot the AMD64 Sarge network install just fine and get > through the inital installation, but when I reboot to finish the rest of > the install, it hangs at the PCI hotplug section. It dumps out a bunch > of APIC related errors I think (I'm at work, so I don't have the exact > errors). > > I know there have been multiple complaints about the APIC stuff causing > problems and e-machines / Gateway refuses to offer a BIOS update. I > can't find any of the un-authorized BIOS updates either (some people had > luck updating to the m6811 bios). I've also tried giving the noapic boot > options to no avail. > > Has anyone gotten Sarge installed on this laptop? The site used to be: --- http://www.rmecc.com/~v2/em/ but doesn't appear to be available any longer unfortunately. E-machines has the firmware download available still through their site for the M6805 which should work for your laptop, but the standard warnings and disclaimers apply here since I do not own the M6809 but the M6805. --- http://downloads.emachines.com/bios/M6805_Shadow-K8.exe As to whether the original flaky E-machines BIOS is causing your APIC problems or not, do you have Windows XP installed with SP2 also? If so, just unplugging the AC connection would deadlock my M6805 with the old BIOS whereas it works without problems on the new BIOS. And after I updated to the newer BIOS (using the above installer from E-machines), I could boot Knoppix without any problems and didn't have to pass any special options anymore to get a full boot to occur. Anyway, sorry I cannot be any more specific than that. I'm currently only running Debian AMD64 on my desktop system even though I have this fine AMD64 laptop. I'm keeping an eye on the new Turion laptops, but that will have to wait for now. If you need any help from me, let me know. I'm on the laptop right at the moment, but if you want to compare BIOS versions or some such, just let me know. I'll just need to reboot to get the string. Good luck! -- Mark Nippere-contacts: 4475 Carter Creek Parkway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apartment 724 http://nipsy.bitgnome.net/ Bryan, Texas, 77802-4481 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL$ P--->+++ L+++$ !E--- W++(--) N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP t+ 5 X R tv b+++@ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ---begin random quote of the moment--- "There is infinite hope, but not for us." -- Kafka end random quote of the moment -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Almost there
Gary, On Monday 18 July 2005 04:45 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: > Mike Reinehr wrote: > >Gary, > > > >On Monday 18 July 2005 03:31 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: > >>Frederik Schueler wrote: > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > >>> > >>>Make sure your boot-loader loads the initrd along with the kernel. > > > > There's no question that the initd is being loaded. That is what is > > giving you the error message. All the drivers necessary to mounting the > > HD have been loaded and it is attempting to mount the root partition and > > switch to it. > > > >>Thanks for the reply. I just went through the boot steps by hand and > >>I'm fairly sure initrd has been loaded. Here is what one of my grub > >>menu options looks like: > >> > >>root (hd0,0) > >>kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 > >>initrd /initrd.img > >>savedefault > >>boot > >> > >>There is something funny there though. root is actually on sda1. Also > >>the savedefault command doesn't work when running those commands > >>manually. When I step through each command manually, changing to sda1 > >>obviously, everything looks fine to me (with the exception of > >>savedefault responding with a command not found error). > >> > >>When I edit the command to change sda2 to sda1, upon reboot it has been > >>changed back to sda2. All attempts to boot the machine result in the > > > > When you boot and receive the GRUB boot menu, use the cursor key to go > > down or up to highlight the boot option you've quoted above. (This also > > will stop the clock.) Then press 'e' to edit the boot entry. Once there, > > cursor down to the kernel line and again press 'e' to edit the line, > > changing > >'root=/dev/sda2' to 'root=/dev/sda1'. Hit 'esc' to exit the line and then > >press 'b' to boot. If your root file system is, in fact, located on > > /dev/sda1 then you should be able to successfully boot. > > My mistake. My root file system / is actually sda2. I checked some > other machines and slash is what this root refers to. I won't call this > a moot point, but it doesn't matter if it is set to sda1 or sda2 as I > get the same results. When you were running Knoppix, did you actually take a look at /dev/sda2 to make sure that you had a root file system there? It should already have been mounted automatically by Knoppix and shown up on the desktop as an icon. > > If all else fails, you might have to boot off of a Knoppix cd & rerun > >grub-install. > > I have booted off a knoppix CD and tried running grub-install. For > kicks I just went through the procedure again. Here are the steps > performed while booted under Knoppix: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] grub-install /dev/sda > Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a > segmentation > fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is > harmless and > can be ignored. > xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem > Installation finished. No error reported. > This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. > Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, > fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. > > (hd0) /dev/sda > (hd1) /dev/sdb > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] grub > GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB >lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the > possible completions of a device/filename. ] > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. > succeeded > Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 > /grub/menu > .lst"... succeeded > Done. > > Gary When you did your initial install, did you create a separate boot partition? Grub, definitely, is finding it's boot files on /dev/sda1. What file system did you use when creating the root file system? Are you using a standard kernel, or did you compile your own? Was the initd created with the correct drivers to mount the root file system? There's basically two possible problems, here. Either grub is not looking in the right place for your root file system, or it is, but initd is unable to mount it. As Sherlock Holmes used to say, "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however, improbable, must be the answer!" ;-) Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To
Re: comments about hardware
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, Dual core support is not distro specific. It depends on the kernel used. I believe that debian, with a recent (2.6.12.3+) kernel should be fine. Do you have any personal experience in using this? I'm concerned about stability issues. Also, would there not be some practical difficulty in getting this installed, seeing as with an earlier kernel it probably won't boot, and the official Debian installers all use 2.6.8? Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Almost there
Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Make sure your boot-loader loads the initrd along with the kernel. Thanks for the reply. I just went through the boot steps by hand and I'm fairly sure initrd has been loaded. Here is what one of my grub menu options looks like: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot There is something funny there though. root is actually on sda1. Also the savedefault command doesn't work when running those commands manually. When I step through each command manually, changing to sda1 obviously, everything looks fine to me (with the exception of savedefault responding with a command not found error). When I edit the command to change sda2 to sda1, upon reboot it has been changed back to sda2. All attempts to boot the machine result in the Kernel panic. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Almost there
Sorry if this is a dup. I wasn't subscribed when I sent it the first time... I posted a few weeks about having problems installing sarge amd64 on a Tyan K8WE MB. I have gotten past the initial problems and have even installed sarge on this machine. The problem now is it dies during the boot process with the following: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Some googling indicates this was a bug found and fixed during the installer development, however, I've since tried installing with a daily build of the deb amd64 installer (7-6-2005) and the same thing happens. I've tried both the generic and smp kernels with the same result. I have successfully installed and booted Ubuntu so I don't believe this is a hardware configuration issue. It has been suggested to install a newer kernel (the Ubuntu version I installed uses 2.6.11) with knoppix, but I have had no luck going this route due to my not being able to figure out how to do this. Looking for suggestions... Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Almost there
I posted a few weeks about having problems installing sarge amd64 on a Tyan K8WE MB. I have gotten past the initial problems and have even installed sarge on this machine. The problem now is it dies during the boot process with the following: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Some googling indicates this was a bug found and fixed during the installer development, however, I've since tried installing with a daily build of the deb amd64 installer (7-6-2005) and the same thing happens. I've tried both the generic and smp kernels with the same result. I have successfully installed and booted Ubuntu so I don't believe this is a hardware configuration issue. It has been suggested to install a newer kernel (the Ubuntu version I installed uses 2.6.11) with knoppix, but I have had no luck going this route. Looking for suggestions... Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Almost there
Mike Reinehr wrote: Gary, On Monday 18 July 2005 03:31 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Make sure your boot-loader loads the initrd along with the kernel. There's no question that the initd is being loaded. That is what is giving you the error message. All the drivers necessary to mounting the HD have been loaded and it is attempting to mount the root partition and switch to it. Thanks for the reply. I just went through the boot steps by hand and I'm fairly sure initrd has been loaded. Here is what one of my grub menu options looks like: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 initrd /initrd.img savedefault boot There is something funny there though. root is actually on sda1. Also the savedefault command doesn't work when running those commands manually. When I step through each command manually, changing to sda1 obviously, everything looks fine to me (with the exception of savedefault responding with a command not found error). When I edit the command to change sda2 to sda1, upon reboot it has been changed back to sda2. All attempts to boot the machine result in the When you boot and receive the GRUB boot menu, use the cursor key to go down or up to highlight the boot option you've quoted above. (This also will stop the clock.) Then press 'e' to edit the boot entry. Once there, cursor down to the kernel line and again press 'e' to edit the line, changing 'root=/dev/sda2' to 'root=/dev/sda1'. Hit 'esc' to exit the line and then press 'b' to boot. If your root file system is, in fact, located on /dev/sda1 then you should be able to successfully boot. My mistake. My root file system / is actually sda2. I checked some other machines and slash is what this root refers to. I won't call this a moot point, but it doesn't matter if it is set to sda1 or sda2 as I get the same results. If all else fails, you might have to boot off of a Knoppix cd & rerun grub-install. I have booted off a knoppix CD and tried running grub-install. For kicks I just went through the procedure again. Here are the steps performed while booted under Knoppix: [EMAIL PROTECTED] grub-install /dev/sda Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and can be ignored. xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] grub GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu .lst"... succeeded Done. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nv_sata
Pavel Jurus wrote: If I remember well the easiest way to solve thist problem was to disable in BIOS the second SATA channel (don't remember if this is the correct name, but I had two SATA disks and I could use both of them even after disabling the second unused interface). Pavel I dislike that solution. Its not perfect by any means My "workaround" was to do a blind install, then when everything was set up, install sshd and then remote in for a kernel upgrade. 2.6.11.xx works and you don't get the nv_sata spammage. YMMV but I'd like to see a more elegant solution than disabling hardware or blindfolded installation. :) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPG burns my notebook!
antongiulio05 wrote:
> Hi Corey,
>
> I have launched your script in my chroot (after installed 'hwtools'), but I
> got these errors:
>
> $ sh temptests.sh all
> Running test: test_idle
> cat: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0290/temp1_input: No such file or directory
> temptests.sh: line 85: / 1000: syntax error: operand expected (error token is
> "/ 1000")
>
> Giulio
>
>
Well, I'm back from vacation now.
If you want to run my script you need to configure it for your system. I
guess I'll go into more detail.
1. In Linux 2.6 all the lm_sensors drivers create sysfs "files". You
need to find your CPU sensor file. 'cd /sys/bus/i2c/devices' and see
what's there; you should find one or more symlinks to directories. Look
inside each one. The files named temp*_input correspond to the
temperature sensors. Cat each one until you see which corresponds to
your CPU temperature (they're probably scaled by 1000).
2. Open the script in a text editor. Near the top you'll see a
"TWEAKABLE VARIABLES" section. Think of that like a configuration file.
Replace the value being assigned to SENSOR with the path to the sysfs
file you found in the previous step. If necessary, replace the value
being assigned to DIVISOR too.
---
...at this point some people might be wondering why I don't just parse
the output of the sensors command. Catting a file and letting the shell
divide by 1000 is a lot faster than "sensors | awk '/CPU Temp:/ {print
$3}'", the fastest parse I can think of. Maybe I'm being picky, but I
wanted to avoid extra CPU use.
---
3. Look at the other values in the "TWEAKABLE VARIABLES" section. Change
them if you want.
4. Keep going down to the "TEST FUNCTIONS" section. Look at the
functions that start with test_. All the commands in those functions
must run on your system or the script will quit in the middle of a run.
You'll notice that I use dchroot for the programs that must run in my
32-bit chroot. All the other programs are in my shell's $PATH. Your
system will likely differ from mine and some of those commands will not
run. You have three options:
Option 1:
Alter the command to work on your system: remove "dchroot" if you need
to, type in an absolute path, etc.
Option 2:
Alter your system so the command works: configure dchroot, download
prime95 and cpuburn-in and put them in your $PATH, etc.
Option 3:
Remove the test if you're not interested in it or you can't make it run.
To do this, don't bother deleting the function -- just disable it by
removing its name from the ALL_TESTS variable up in the "TWEAKABLE
VARIABLES" section.
-Corey
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Re: comments about hardware
Faheem, On Monday 18 July 2005 12:36 am, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Dear People, > > My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server, which will > mostly be used as a server, particularly for web based services. The idea > here is that a user will submit a request for some bioinformatics > calculation via a web interface (often using Python or R or similar), the > server does the calculation, and returns it as a web page. > > None of us are experts about recent hardware, so would appreciate any > feedback about hardware specs. > > The following quote is from Monarch Computers. I'm currently running three dual-Opteron servers purchased last year from Monarch. Delivery was a little slow, but all three worked right out of the box. I've had no hardware problems, so I can't say anything about their technical support, but their sales support was good. > We plan to run Linux on this. It has not yet been decided yet what, but it > seems most likely that it will be either some Red Hat variant (Fedora > Core, CentOS), or Debian (possibly Ubuntu). I ordered my servers with Fedora Core in order to ensure that everything worked with Linux, then immediately reformated the HD's & installed Debian-AMD64. ;-) > Ok, so here are some specific questions. > > 1) Dual core Opterons first came on the market in April. The sales rep > said that AMD Dual Core Opterons did not work with Fedora Core. Since they > only install Fedora and SuSE, they had no info about Debian. Any idea what > the status is here? How well are they supported, and how stably do they > run under Linux? I have no experience with dual-core Opterons. > Also, I was told that a dual core Opteron, which is somewhat more than > twice the cost two regular Opterons of similar speed, is not equivalent to > two regular Opterons in functionality. Can anyone point me to information > about this, or offer a comment? According to an article in LinuxHardware.org dual-core support is included in kernel 2.6.12-rc3 http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/21/1747217&mode=thread > 2) I'm wondering if the listed motherboard is the best choice. I see it > listed in > http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/27/mainboards.html I don't recall ever hearing any negative comments regarding Tyan MB's and have had no problems at all with mine. (S2882UG3NR). > We are looking for the motherboard that has the least known issues. > Preferably something that will work right out of the box. > > Google found me http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/09/msg00443.html > but would be interested in other reports. > > The specs are here > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro_spec.html > > It looks like both the graphics card and the ethernet cards are onboard. > Looks like the graphics card is ATI RAGE XL PCI, which supposedly works > with the 'ati' driver. Is this under XFree 4.3? I have no experience with the ati driver, as I do not run X Windows on my servers. > The ethernet cards are an Intel Ethernet Pro 100, which supposedly works > with the e100 driver and a Gigabit Broadcom which works with the tg3 > driver. There seem to be two cards here. Is that correct? There are two gigabit ethernet ports which require the tg3 driver and one 100 megabit port which requires the e100 driver. The only problem is in regard to Debian's refusal to ship the Broadcom proprietary firmware with their tg3 driver and I confess to not having studied the situation at all. I just know that "it works." > I'm kinda allergic to onboard cards. They are often trouble. > > Has anyone had experience with Debian Sarge installation with this? Does > anyone have a board to suggest that they prefer to this? I'm running three AMD64 Debian Sarge servers and they work, but I'm not running anything fancy, just basic server software, as well as an accounting system written in Acucobol. Most of the problems seem to crop up in the desktop/gui software. > 3) I'm also wondering if peple have thoughts about the RAID setup. The rep > said he would be using RAID 1, but I see RAID 10 is listed. I'll have to > check on this. Anyway, assuming this corresponds to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#RAID_10 > with each RAID 1 set as two drives, and 4 RAID 1 sets striped together, > does this seem reasonable? The main thing is not to even think about using the onboard SATA RAID controller. I can't explain it in detail, but it's crap. The approach your taking looks fine. I like RAID 10, as well. Disk drives are inexpensive enough now that the little bit of money you save by using RAID 5 just isn't worth it. > Thanks.Faheem. > > *** > ITEM NUM PRICE PER ITEM TOT > > Monarch Empro Custom 2U Rack S 1.0075.00 7
Re: Almost there
Gary, On Monday 18 July 2005 03:31 pm, Gary Hodges wrote: > Frederik Schueler wrote: > >Hello, > > > >On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:07:22PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: > >>pivot_root: No such file or directory > >>/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file > >>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > > >Make sure your boot-loader loads the initrd along with the kernel. There's no question that the initd is being loaded. That is what is giving you the error message. All the drivers necessary to mounting the HD have been loaded and it is attempting to mount the root partition and switch to it. > Thanks for the reply. I just went through the boot steps by hand and > I'm fairly sure initrd has been loaded. Here is what one of my grub > menu options looks like: > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 > initrd /initrd.img > savedefault > boot > > There is something funny there though. root is actually on sda1. Also > the savedefault command doesn't work when running those commands > manually. When I step through each command manually, changing to sda1 > obviously, everything looks fine to me (with the exception of > savedefault responding with a command not found error). > > When I edit the command to change sda2 to sda1, upon reboot it has been > changed back to sda2. All attempts to boot the machine result in the When you boot and receive the GRUB boot menu, use the cursor key to go down or up to highlight the boot option you've quoted above. (This also will stop the clock.) Then press 'e' to edit the boot entry. Once there, cursor down to the kernel line and again press 'e' to edit the line, changing 'root=/dev/sda2' to 'root=/dev/sda1'. Hit 'esc' to exit the line and then press 'b' to boot. If your root file system is, in fact, located on /dev/sda1 then you should be able to successfully boot. Once you've booted successfully, look for the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, which will contain the above boot stanza. Edit that and you should have changed it permanently. If all else fails, you might have to boot off of a Knoppix cd & rerun grub-install. > Kernel panic. > > Gary HTH's cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: e-machines M6809 + sarge
Hi Brendon, El lun, 18-07-2005 a las 11:24 -0500, Brendon J. Colby escribió: > Has anyone gotten Sarge installed on this laptop? I installed AMD64 on this laptop long before Sarge. Use the newest kernel available (2.6.10+ should be fine) or get ready for some googling trying to find the exact kernel command-line to get older kernels to boot. It boots, it works, no remaining issues for me nowadays (I never tried the card reader, but everything else works under Linux). Greetings, -- Javier Kohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
e-machines M6809 + sarge
Greetings, I've been searching for a while trying to figure out this problem. I'm trying to get the AMD64 build of Sarge installed on my emachines m6809 laptop. I can boot the AMD64 Sarge network install just fine and get through the inital installation, but when I reboot to finish the rest of the install, it hangs at the PCI hotplug section. It dumps out a bunch of APIC related errors I think (I'm at work, so I don't have the exact errors). I know there have been multiple complaints about the APIC stuff causing problems and e-machines / Gateway refuses to offer a BIOS update. I can't find any of the un-authorized BIOS updates either (some people had luck updating to the m6811 bios). I've also tried giving the noapic boot options to no avail. Has anyone gotten Sarge installed on this laptop? Thanks. Brendon Colby -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to current udev is disastrous if not on kernel 2.6.12
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:19:37PM +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:33:12PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > Packages should not depend on any kernel, since many people run their > > own. However, I just don't understand why the package has been published > > at all, since even in experimental there is no 2.6.12. > > Because people already using 2.6.12 need it, That's a pretty small set, so it's not a convincing argument. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64
Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Package fetching is done by reprepro and turning it more verbose gives >> some more messages but not a download progress for files. >> >> The package fetching is also going to be done by a cron job normaly. >> Unless it gets an error it should not say anything (in the finished >> package). I will think about something for the initial install but my >> current plan is to have it create an empty archive and start the cron >> job once manualy in the background. >> >> So, having an interactive (i.e. with download progress) update script >> is not a high priority just now. Later, for people that don't want the >> cron job, maybe. But the reprepro maintainer has to provide support >> for that. > > How well will this work? For instance, I do not really want to maintain > a chroot. The one app I sometimes miss is wine. Do you think this can > be supported with the new package arch? > > TIA, > Ed Tomlinson Add wine and libwine to packages.list and it probably works already. I haven't found anything besides libc6 which needs special tricks for the conversion yet, the general conversion rules work very well. And wine is on my todo. Next time I wanna play StarCraft at the latest. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to current udev is disastrous if not on kernel 2.6.12
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:33:12PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Packages should not depend on any kernel, since many people run their > own. However, I just don't understand why the package has been published > at all, since even in experimental there is no 2.6.12. Because people already using 2.6.12 need it, since the previous udev (more precisely, libsysfs that udev uses) had a bug which was exposed by the 2.6.12 kernel. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to current udev is disastrous if not on kernel 2.6.12
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 05:22:34PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I can't imagine how it's a good idea to upload a package which depends > on a kernel not available for Debian yet. It was a _very_ good idea since my custom udev rules did not work with kernel 2.6.12 and udev 56, and my pendrive got mounted at the wrong place and with the wrong mount options. It can be argued whether udev 60 should have been uploaded to experimental instead of unstable, but that's the maintainer's choice. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nv_sata
If I remember well the easiest way to solve thist problem was to disable in BIOS the second SATA channel (don't remember if this is the correct name, but I had two SATA disks and I could use both of them even after disabling the second unused interface). Pavel On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:59 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Attila Kocsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hy, > > > > I've tried to install sarge amd-64 on MSI K8N NEO > > PLATINUM, but it complains at first at the network > > card (I tried to use the nvidia 2 driver, though it is > > nvidia 3), then after rebooting it keeps on writing: > > nv_sata: Primary device added > > nv_sata: Primary device removed > > nv_sata: Secondary device added > > nv_sata: Secondary device removed > > > > The SATA3/4 DMA was disabled in BIOS, but still have > > the complaining... > > > > Any suggestion? > > Linux doesn't much care for the bios. Check the docs in the > kernel-source for the right options to the nv_sata module. > > MfG > Goswin > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64
On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Package fetching is done by reprepro and turning it more verbose gives > some more messages but not a download progress for files. > > The package fetching is also going to be done by a cron job normaly. > Unless it gets an error it should not say anything (in the finished > package). I will think about something for the initial install but my > current plan is to have it create an empty archive and start the cron > job once manualy in the background. > > So, having an interactive (i.e. with download progress) update script > is not a high priority just now. Later, for people that don't want the > cron job, maybe. But the reprepro maintainer has to provide support > for that. How well will this work? For instance, I do not really want to maintain a chroot. The one app I sometimes miss is wine. Do you think this can be supported with the new package arch? TIA, Ed Tomlinson
Re: comments about hardware
Hi, Dual core support is not distro specific. It depends on the kernel used. I believe that debian, with a recent (2.6.12.3+) kernel should be fine. Ed Tomlinson On Monday 18 July 2005 01:36, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server, which will > mostly be used as a server, particularly for web based services. The idea > here is that a user will submit a request for some bioinformatics > calculation via a web interface (often using Python or R or similar), the > server does the calculation, and returns it as a web page. > > None of us are experts about recent hardware, so would appreciate any > feedback about hardware specs. > > The following quote is from Monarch Computers. > > We plan to run Linux on this. It has not yet been decided yet what, but it > seems most likely that it will be either some Red Hat variant (Fedora > Core, CentOS), or Debian (possibly Ubuntu). > > Ok, so here are some specific questions. > > 1) Dual core Opterons first came on the market in April. The sales rep > said that AMD Dual Core Opterons did not work with Fedora Core. Since they > only install Fedora and SuSE, they had no info about Debian. Any idea what > the status is here? How well are they supported, and how stably do they > run under Linux? > > Also, I was told that a dual core Opteron, which is somewhat more than > twice the cost two regular Opterons of similar speed, is not equivalent to > two regular Opterons in functionality. Can anyone point me to information > about this, or offer a comment? > > 2) I'm wondering if the listed motherboard is the best choice. I see it > listed in > http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/27/mainboards.html > > We are looking for the motherboard that has the least known issues. > Preferably something that will work right out of the box. > > Google found me http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/09/msg00443.html > but would be interested in other reports. > > The specs are here > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8spro_spec.html > > It looks like both the graphics card and the ethernet cards are onboard. > Looks like the graphics card is ATI RAGE XL PCI, which supposedly works > with the 'ati' driver. Is this under XFree 4.3? > > The ethernet cards are an Intel Ethernet Pro 100, which supposedly works > with the e100 driver and a Gigabit Broadcom which works with the tg3 > driver. There seem to be two cards here. Is that correct? > > I'm kinda allergic to onboard cards. They are often trouble. > > Has anyone had experience with Debian Sarge installation with this? Does > anyone have a board to suggest that they prefer to this? > > 3) I'm also wondering if peple have thoughts about the RAID setup. The rep > said he would be using RAID 1, but I see RAID 10 is listed. I'll have to > check on this. Anyway, assuming this corresponds to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#RAID_10 > with each RAID 1 set as two drives, and 4 RAID 1 sets striped together, > does this seem reasonable? > > Thanks.Faheem. > > *** > ITEM NUM PRICE PER ITEM TOT > > Monarch Empro Custom 2U Rack S 1.0075.00 75.00 > > RMC2K2-9I-XPSS,2U,8 Bays,SATA, 1.00 725.00 725.00 > > AIC 2U Riser Card/Rear Window1.00 112.00 112.00 > > Tyan S2882G3NR-D Dual Socket94 1.00 394.00 394.00 > > Amd OSA265FAA6CB Dual Core Opt 2.00 851.00 1,702.00 > > Thermal Grease, Shin-Etsu G675 2.0014.0028.00 > > THERMALTAKE A1838 AMD Opteron2.0025.0050.00 > > WESTERN DIGITAL 250 GB 2500JD1.00 115.00 115.00 > > 3WARE Escalade 9500S-8 - 8-por 1.00 485.00 485.00 > > RAID 10 Setup1.0025.0025.00 > > WESTERN DIGITAL 250 GB 2500JD8.00115.00 920.00 > > SONY DWD-56A 8X4X2.4 DVD RW+/- 1.00129.00 129.00 > > SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional Ed 1.00 92.00 92.00 > > 24/7 TECH SUPPORT+ONSITE 3 YR. 1.00199.00 199.00 > > Net Order: 5,051.00 > Freight: 75.00 > 5,126.00 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nv_sata
Attila Kocsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hy, > > I've tried to install sarge amd-64 on MSI K8N NEO > PLATINUM, but it complains at first at the network > card (I tried to use the nvidia 2 driver, though it is > nvidia 3), then after rebooting it keeps on writing: > nv_sata: Primary device added > nv_sata: Primary device removed > nv_sata: Secondary device added > nv_sata: Secondary device removed > > The SATA3/4 DMA was disabled in BIOS, but still have > the complaining... > > Any suggestion? Linux doesn't much care for the bios. Check the docs in the kernel-source for the right options to the nv_sata module. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nv_sata
Hy, I've tried to install sarge amd-64 on MSI K8N NEO PLATINUM, but it complains at first at the network card (I tried to use the nvidia 2 driver, though it is nvidia 3), then after rebooting it keeps on writing: nv_sata: Primary device added nv_sata: Primary device removed nv_sata: Secondary device added nv_sata: Secondary device removed The SATA3/4 DMA was disabled in BIOS, but still have the complaining... Any suggestion? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
