Re: Grub/LILO install fails on DL385

[Chris DiVirgilio]

Is this during the initial installation of Debian and are you using  
ext3?  I had the same problem on the same hardware.  When installing  
Grub from the Debian installer, I got a similar error:  "boot/grub/ 
stage1 not read correctly."  LILO wouldn't install either.


I found this thread .  It doesn't actually identify a problem, but based on  
the circumstances of the poster's problem, I decided to try ReiserFS  
instead of ext3.  Grub installed flawlessly.


I can't even begin to imagine why either bootloader would fail to  
install on ext3 but not ReiserFS, but for me, that was the *only*  
variable in the equation.


- Chris


On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Stefan Lucien wrote:


Hi,

I'm in trouble with an installation of GRUB on a HP DL385 Proliant  
with debian sarge for AMD64.

When I run grub-install hd0
It returns me
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists, no

Well the file is in this directory.
I don't understand why it makes me cry.

Does anybody could help me ?

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Stefan LUCIEN



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Re: iTunes in 32bit chroot?

[Chris DiVirgilio]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Craig Hagerman wrote:


On 1/11/06, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Craig Hagerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

incredibly slow starting up (because I have so much music). I  
usually

use xmms, but for some reason when I create and save a playlist it
won't open in xmms afterwards anyway (wants to open in rhythm box!?)


That certainly can be adjusted in the file manager you are using.
Which one is that?  Or how do you open a playlist?



I'm using Gnome. When I double click on the playlist it opens
rhythmbox. If I right click and chose xmms it opens and does nothing.
If it open xmms and chose the playlist it does nothing. hmmm...
strange, no?

Anyway, this is not an optimal situation for me. I have spent ages
making playlists in iTunes (which I don't think can be exported to
xmms) and I would really like to find a way to use iTunes via
crossover office or wine. 


This might not necessarily be ideal, but here's a tool to convert  
iTunes playlists to .m3u for xmms:


http://chimpen.com/itunes2m3u/convert.php

The web-interface will, of course, be cumbersome if you have as many  
playlists as you claim, but if you have access to a Windows machine,  
the author has created a native Windows app to do the same thing.   
The up front time spent converting playlists might be less of a  
hassle than getting iTunes to work in wine (not to mention the  
overhead associated with running your jukebox in an emulator - OK,  
Wine Is Not an Emulator, but there's still overhead associated with it).


Here's an AppleScript do it from iTunes:

http://homepage.mac.com/beryrinaldo/AudioTron/Export_Playlist_to_M3U/

The problem with the above solutions is that iTunes stores file  
location relative to the system root.  This path will include / 
Volumes//...  You would need to go through and change  
the paths.



Finally, iTunes allows you to export playlists as text or xml.  m3u  
is a very simple (text) file format.  An m3u file looks like this:


#EXTM3U
#EXTINF: 185,Artist - Title
music/artist/album/title.mp3

The first line indicates that the file is an m3u playlist.  The next  
two lines are a pair representing a song and are repeated for each  
song in the playlist.  In the first line of the pair, 185 is the  
length of the song in seconds.  Artist - Title is self-explanatory;  
usually this comes from the ID3 tag.  The second line of the pair is  
the path to the file, either relative to the playlist file or the  
system root.


All of this information can easily be parsed out of the xml or text  
playlist files exported by iTunes.  Be careful - if you export the  
iTunes playlists to xml, the track time is in milliseconds; you'll  
have to convert to seconds.  If you export to text, the track times  
are already in seconds.


With this approach, you can simply export all your playlists to a  
directory and write a script to loop through the files in the  
directory converting each one.


Again, it's not the answer you asked for, but it might help.

- Chris


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Re: Motherboard with many SATA ports: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum ?

[Chris DiVirgilio]

On Nov 28, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote:

Sorry, yet another motherboard question.

Looking for a socket 939 motherboard with a comfortable number of
SATA ports (at least 6, preferably 8). The application is software
RAID.

Here's what I've found so far :

  NB   PCI SATA ports__   
Ethernet__
Asus a8n-sli deluxe   nf4s  3  4(nf4) + 4(3114)  g(nf)  + g 
(marvel)
Asus a8n-sli premium  nf4s  3  4(nf4) + 4(3114)  g(nf)  + g 
(marvel)
Gigabyte ga-k8n ultra-9   nf4u  3  4(nf4) + 4(3114)  g(marvel)  + g 
(cicada)
Gigabyte ga-k8nxp-9   nf4u  3  4(nf4) + 4(3114)  g(nf)  + g 
(marvel)
MSI k8n diamond   nf4s  3  4(nf4) + 2(3132)  g(nf4s)+ g 
(88e8053)
MSI k8n diamond 54g   nf4  4(nf4) + 2(sil)   g(nf4) + g 
(marvel)
MSI k8n neo4 platinum nf4u  4  4(nf4) + 4(3114)  g(88e) + g 
(88e8053)

MSI k8n neo4 platinum sli nf3  4(nf3) + 2(sil)
MSI k8n sli-finf4s 4(nf4) + 2(sil?)  g(marvel)

I'm not too hot for Gigabyte due to past experience with BIOS
updates, or lack thereof. The Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium and
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum look good. The A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium
support SLI, which I have no use for, at the expense of a PCI
slot. They're also more expensive than the K8N Neo4 Platinum.


Hmm, does anyone know if you can stick a 4x or 8x PCIe raid card  
into a
PCIe 16x slot on an SLI board configured to run 8x per slot (or  
even 16x

per slot on some of the new boards)?


I believe you can.  You can definitely put a 4x PCIe card into a 16x  
slot, I'm not sure it the SLI-ishness makes a difference.  That's  
probably the question you're asking.



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Re: Hello! from a newbie+ problems with debian for amd64+can't boot debian for i386 on amd64 from cd+can't extract sbm.bin from cd

[Chris DiVirgilio]

On Nov 27, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Thomas Drillich wrote:


Am Sonntag, 27. November 2005 22:19 schrieb Martin Baldan:

Again, my kindest greetings to everyone, sorry for every piece of  
missing

information or dumb questions.


if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew  
debian etch
should be finished in december, and there amd64 should be one of  
the standard

supported systems.


December?  Really?  After three years between Woody and Sarge, that's  
a bit surprising.  Although looking back at previous releases (http:// 
tinyurl.com/8tn6e), it wouldn't be unheard of.  That would be very nice.



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Re: apt-get update continues to push the same patches

[Chris DiVirgilio]

On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:


Chris DiVirgilio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I'm having a bit of a problem with apt-get upgrade.

Every night cron runs

apt-get update && apt-get -s upgrade | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]


I would use apt-get -d dist-upgrade here. Download the debs already
for near instant installs the next morning.


Not bad; thanks for the advice.




which emails the day's new patches to me.  The next day I look at the
patches and install them with an apt-get upgrade.


One morning I get an email with:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
   apache2-utils libapr0 lynx
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libapr0 [2.0.54-5] (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Inst apache2-utils [2.0.54-5] (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Inst lynx [2.8.5-2sarge1] (2.8.5-2sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf libapr0 (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf apache2-utils (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf lynx (2.8.5-2sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)


The amd64 archive did recompile some security fixes because it didn't
copy them from security.debian.org. This results in two different
packages with the same version to be available, one from security.d.o
and one from amd64.d.n.

Now apt-get want to install the package from the first source in your
sources.list while you already have the package from the second source
installed. You also (and here I guess) still have the package from the
second source in your apt cache. Now apt has a little bug that it
won't fetch the file if the cache already has it so it reinstalls the
one from the cache (second source) again and again.


If I'm guessing right a simple "apt-get clean" will solve the problem.


After running apt-get clean, the problem persists.  When you say  
"second source," I think you mean security.debian.org, not the  
testing branch of debian-amd64, right?  I commented that line out in  
my sources.list and ran "apt-get clean; apt-get update; apt-get -s  
dist-upgrade"  This time the offending packages are gone, but I get a  
bunch of packages from the testing branch that i *know* are in the  
stable branch (apache-doc, for example).  I thought I was preventing  
that with 'APT::Default-Release "stable";'


And why would removing the line for security.debian.org introduce a  
bunch of testing packages from debian-amd64?




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apt-get update continues to push the same patches

[Chris DiVirgilio]

I'm having a bit of a problem with apt-get upgrade.

Every night cron runs

apt-get update && apt-get -s upgrade | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which emails the day's new patches to me.  The next day I look at the  
patches and install them with an apt-get upgrade.



One morning I get an email with:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache2-utils libapr0 lynx
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libapr0 [2.0.54-5] (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Inst apache2-utils [2.0.54-5] (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Inst lynx [2.8.5-2sarge1] (2.8.5-2sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf libapr0 (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf apache2-utils (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf lynx (2.8.5-2sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)



So I run apt-get upgrade, and the updates are installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache2-utils libapr0 lynx
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2112kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 33130 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libapr0 2.0.54-5 (using .../ 
libapr0_2.0.54-5_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement libapr0 ...
Preparing to replace apache2-utils 2.0.54-5 (using .../apache2- 
utils_2.0.54-5_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement apache2-utils ...
Preparing to replace lynx 2.8.5-2sarge1 (using .../ 
lynx_2.8.5-2sarge1_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement lynx ...
Setting up libapr0 (2.0.54-5) ...

Setting up apache2-utils (2.0.54-5) ...
Setting up lynx (2.8.5-2sarge1) ...




No errors.  Fine.
The next morning I get the same email:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache2-utils libapr0 lynx
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libapr0 [2.0.54-5] (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Inst apache2-utils [2.0.54-5] (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Inst lynx [2.8.5-2sarge1] (2.8.5-2sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf libapr0 (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf apache2-utils (2.0.54-5 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
Conf lynx (2.8.5-2sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)



Odd, so I run apt-get update & apt-get upgrade

Both finish without error, but sure enough, apt-get -s upgrade still  
shows the same updates as needing to be installed.


This has been happening for at least a week.  Since then, other  
updates have become available, were installed, and no longer show up  
when I run apt-get -s upgrade.  What is the problem with these  
three?  I don't even have apache2 installed, I'm running apache  
1.3.33-6.  This is debian-31r0a-amd64.  All packages have been  
installed via apt.


Here's my sources.list:

deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ stable main  
contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ stable main  
contrib non-free


deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main  
contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main  
contrib non-free


deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main



I also have the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf to  
tell apt to get stable releases if they exist:


APT::Default-Release "stable";



Any insight would be most appreciated.

- Chris


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