Re: disappearing esata disk
On July 2, 2008 04:22:01 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apology in advance for this probably not being a 64-bit specific problem: I am trying to attach a SATA disk using an external e-sata port (ASUS crosshair motherboard). The disk works for a while after booting, and I can mount and use the disk. However, after a period of time, ~10 minutes, the disk just disappears and cannot be accessed. The disk drive feels like it is still spinning (external housing vibrates). If I cycle the power or plug it into a different port, the disk is not recognized - I have to reboot again to use the disk, until it disappears again. Any ideas what the problem may be? Thanks. Have you tried using sdparm? Say: sdparm -ivv /dev/sda Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C.P.U. suggestions.
Greetings all. I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions and CPU stories from Y'all To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler with the default debian compile that seems to effect the performance, but it's certainly nothing to write home about. .I actually found my original AMD 64 Processor 3200+ (the one with 1 MiB L2 cache) to be probably the best CPU I ever had and I think just as capable as my X2. So, I'm wondering about the Core Duo family and which is best for the desktop? (I've built about 3 machines for clients with these CPU's and they seem very snappy. I'm even talking about the 1.8 MHz variety). I'm also wondering about alternate CPU's as well and what suggestions anyone has about those as well? Any Suggestions? Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C.P.U. suggestions.
On June 11, 2008 11:20:25 pm Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all. I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions and CPU stories from Y'all To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler with the default debian compile that seems to effect the performance, but it's certainly nothing to write home about. .I actually found my original AMD 64 Processor 3200+ (the one with 1 MiB L2 cache) to be probably the best CPU I ever had and I think just as capable as my X2. So, I'm wondering about the Core Duo family and which is best for the desktop? (I've built about 3 machines for clients with these CPU's and they seem very snappy. I'm even talking about the 1.8 MHz variety). I'm also wondering about alternate CPU's as well and what suggestions anyone has about those as well? Any Suggestions? Thanks, Chris W. Thanks for the replies so far. Don't want to start a war, but I'd like to hear about your filesystem suggestions:^) Seriously thinking of going with Reiser4. I've been a fan of Reiser3.6 for quite a while now. Now that I finally managed to find the pure patch against various kernel.org http://chichkin_i.zelnet.ru/namesys/ Of course you gotta use lilo to boot Reiser4, which is fine with me. Truly have found ext3 to be ho-hum, but I guess that's the point;^) Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How would I get debian unstable?
On June 5, 2008 07:26:55 am Lennart Sorensen wrote: I installed SuSE once. That didn't last long (the installer alone pissed me off). -- Len Sorensen hahaha Len, I agree, The whole deal just annoys me! Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How would I get debian unstable?
On June 4, 2008 09:53:33 pm Christopher Browne wrote: The crucial differences between Debian and other distributions are two-fold: 1. It has a public, democratic governance system, whereas other distributions tend to be under the control of some non-public organization. To some extent, the various Red Hat derivatives are controlled by Red Hat Software, irrespective of public participation. Likewise for Ubuntu and Canonical. Various Linux distributions have gone away due to changes in direction of the owners (Caldera being a most obvious example); there is little risk of that taking place with Debian due to its governance model. 2. As a result of the wide-spread participation, there needs to be a great deal of policy, which indeed extends to tooling for managing all sorts of aspects of software packaging and the interaction of packages with one another and with the distribution. Traditionally, the engineering of Red Hat-sourced distributions took place entirely internally to Red Hat Software, and packaging was a pre-cooked thing where you could only be fairly certain that things would work if the packages had RHAT people working on them. The RPM tool could build packages and manage a local installation repository; in contrast, Debian has long had a VASTLY more extensive set of package tooling addressing *way* more high level issues, and helping to enable a much more diverse set of contributors to contribute well-integrated packages. The consistency of having the huge set of diverse, yet well-integrated packages is what has enabled the creation of private labelled things like Ubuntu and Knoppix that derive the huge set of software by virtue of harnessing Debian's work at relatively little cost. Well said, Christopher! Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel upgrade has made nvidia 3D rendering not turn on.....
On June 1, 2008 12:59:44 am Michael Fothergill wrote: Please excuse my ignorance here but how exactly does one do that? MF You have to first identify your current running kernel: uname -a Then, identify the previous kernel you were running. ls /var/cache/apt/archives|grep linux-image Choose from the output which one that is and install it: dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.24_whatever.deb Then uninstall the current running kernel: apt-get remove linux-image-current_running_kernel.deb Then reboot. Just make sure you don't have no errors on the install of the previous kernel, otherwise you'll have an unbootable system. You could just re-install the older kernel and not uninstall the current running kernel, grub will probably come up with a list you can choose from. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lilo Grub.
Greetings all. I'm having trouble with a seeming conflict between lilo and grub. I want lilo as I'm playing with reiser4. When I install my new kernel (2.6.35), I get: User postinst hook script [update-grub] failed to execute: No such file or directory and when I uninstall the kernel (dpkg -P) I get: Could not find postrm hook script [update-grub] I have reinstalled Lilo as well. Looking at the postrm postinst perl scripts, they both indicate lilo grub, which seems natural. I can't seem to find where the erroneous info is that indicates that grub is my boot loader. Any ideas? Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo Grub.
On April 24, 2008 09:52:32 pm Johan Elmerfjord wrote: /etc/kernel-img.conf. Hi Johan. That was it! thanks. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-mirror oddity.
Greetings all: I've finally decided to set up my own mirror of unstable with apt-mirror on one of the machines on my network, which is running fine getting the initial download of x86_64. Running nload on the box, I notice a steady upload of about 15% of download bandwith as well, can someone explain this? Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mm patching the kernel.
Hi Gang. Could someone tell me the patches to apply against kernel sources to patch up to 2.6.4.4 with mm version kernels ?? I've tried many different patches against several different kernels and am having varying results, as I don't quite understand the patching sequences. Yes, I read the stuff on it, but it's just not clear enough for me. I don't seem to have a problem patching the kernel source with kernel source patches, but where I run into trouble is the exact mm patch to use against the vanilla kernel. My target is to build a recent kernel that will work with: linux-kbuild-2.6.24 This is so I can build an nvidia kernel module with module-assistant plus use reiser4 as well. I am currently running a 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 kernel, this is because kernel.org shows the base line to guide me. Thanks for any suggestions, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reiser4 patches.
Greetings: I've been looking for an up-to-date URL regarding Reiser4 filesystem; namesys.com is down. Does anyone know where I can find Reiser4 stuff? Although I'm a big Debian fan and fairly experienced, I don't know if it's possible to patch Debian sources with Reiser4 from the repos on the fly with dpkg or...? I have managed to chroot into my latest deb install on Reiser4, but I was hoping to BOOT directly to it Grub2 is not patched yet for Reiser4; There are some patches for legacy Grub, but its not compiling. I think it's the fact that the latest dev files are: 1.0.6-1 and the legacy grub patch is: 1.0.5. Any ideas would be appreciated. By-the-way, I noticed quite a difference of performance with Reiser4. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reiser4 patches.
On April 2, 2008 03:17:24 pm Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings: I've been looking for an up-to-date URL regarding Reiser4 filesystem; namesys.com is down. Does anyone know where I can find Reiser4 stuff? Although I'm a big Debian fan and fairly experienced, I don't know if it's possible to patch Debian sources with Reiser4 from the repos on the fly with dpkg or...? I have managed to chroot into my latest deb install on Reiser4, but I was hoping to BOOT directly to it Grub2 is not patched yet for Reiser4; There are some patches for legacy Grub, but its not compiling. I think it's the fact that the latest dev files are: 1.0.6-1 and the legacy grub patch is: 1.0.5. Any ideas would be appreciated. By-the-way, I noticed quite a difference of performance with Reiser4. Chris W. Opps, sorry for the noise here. I've tried lilo (v-22.8) and I haven't been able to make it boot to Reiser4, although I know it's supposed to. I haven't patched it though, just used the repos. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reiser4 patches.
On April 2, 2008 03:33:58 pm Brian Oborn wrote: Although I don't use reiserfs (xfs fan myself), I always make my /boot a separate partition and use ext2. /boot doesn't need any sort of performance, and the compatibility advantage of ext2 is nice. If your /boot is compatible with your bootloader and the modules for your root filesystem are in your initrd, then you can use anything for / Hope this helps. Brian Oborn Hi Brian. I've heard that XFS is a good file system, thanks. I'm a reiserfs fan, but then, I'm not an expert. Your suggestions are valid, thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: run away processes.
On Thursday 26 April 2007 04:32, Michael wrote: But there shouldn't be any 'run away' processes in the first hand (what do you mean by run away?). Granted you're running some special stuff - but i'm curious what is it, then? Hi M. Run away, as in I have to CNTLALTF1 to get a console to kill the process to get my desktop to move again. I run htop to find a process running at %100 cpu usage. Ok I've got a program called kerry that runs a daemon: beagled - this dang thing uses up-to %50 of both cpus. Then there is: kio_pop3 running from Kontact/Kmail. This Kmail has been a problem for almost 2 years, over 2 installs, first it didn't download mail, now that has given way to just consuming resources up to 100% at times, so I have to kill it. Then there is artsd, but that doesn't happen all that often, but will definitely eat more than it's share, but not by much. Openoffice.org once and a while will entirely stop the desktop to the point I need to ssh in to restart KDM. This only happens when I click on the Menu item: 'File' when I don't have a blinking cursor on the document. (I guess this should be my first clue not to use it!) Thanks for your interest, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.16-16 installer image.
Can someone point me to a 2.6.16-16 installer image.iso? thanks. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system_crash.
Greetings all. Had my machine (amdx2) up and running for about 70 days (2.6.16-16), came home today to a frozen kde. Rebooted and grub would _NO_ partitions! ...15 or twenty different kernels between 2 drives. Checked, and they're all there just fine, so I'm reinstalling I rememeber a few months ago trying to boot with a freshly compiled kernel and having the boot freeze umptine times at the scheduler initialization (?) tried many different kernel configs, gave up and stuck with the only kernel that'll boot my new machine - 2.6.16-16. Seems the latest 'debian-testing-amd64-netinst' doesn't use this kernel. My original image from an install of a year ago stops installing at 'tzdata' (tried 6 times now). So I'm stuck between a rock and windows here. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel compile.
Greetings all, Compiling a kernel for a ASUS M2NPV-VM. With an amd64-x2 dual core. 2 gig's mem. Been compiling kernels since 2.2 and for some reason my latest kernels are all crashing. First it pauses while detecting the first cpu, then goes on to crash at the point where the scheduler (cfq) seems to want to kick in. Tried many combos, kernels, schedulers, configs and different patches (even tried the mm's to no avail) Always the same crash point. Obviously I am missing something here... I wonder if anyone can shed some light on my brain? I have attached my latest config. Thanks for any input. Chris W. # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.18-mm2 # Sat Sep 30 01:41:58 2006 # CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_64BIT=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP=y CONFIG_DMI=y CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH=y CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST=/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SWAP_PREFETCH=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 is not set # CONFIG_TASKSTATS is not set # CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set CONFIG_AUDIT=y CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y # CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set CONFIG_CPUSETS=y # CONFIG_RELAY is not set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE= # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y # CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL is not set CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE=y # # Block layer # CONFIG_BLOCK=y # CONFIG_LBD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_LSF is not set # # IO Schedulers # CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=m CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=m CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEADLINE is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOOP is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED=cfq # # Processor type and features # CONFIG_X86_PC=y # CONFIG_X86_VSMP is not set CONFIG_MK8=y # CONFIG_MPSC is not set # CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU is not set CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=64 CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES=64 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set CONFIG_X86_MSR=m CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_MTRR=y # CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 is not set CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_SMP=y # CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is not set CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y CONFIG_NUMA=y # CONFIG_K8_NUMA is not set CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_X86_64_ACPI_NUMA=y # CONFIG_NUMA_EMU is not set CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE=y CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y # CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL is not set CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set # CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not set CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4 CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y CONFIG_MIGRATION=y CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT=y CONFIG_ADAPTIVE_READAHEAD=y # CONFIG_READAHEAD_ALLOW_OVERHEADS is not set CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID=y CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE=y CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32 # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y CONFIG_IOMMU=y # CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU is not set CONFIG_SWIOTLB=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y # CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL is not set CONFIG_X86_MCE_AMD=y # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set # CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is not set CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x20 CONFIG_SECCOMP=y # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is not set # CONFIG_SECCOMP_DISABLE_TSC is not set # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set CONFIG_HZ_1000=y CONFIG_HZ=1000 CONFIG_REORDER=y CONFIG_K8_NB=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y # # Power management options # CONFIG_PM=y # CONFIG_PM_LEGACY is not set # CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set # # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support #
Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome
On Friday 25 August 2006 10:06 pm, Viktor Tsyrennikov wrote: Hi, here is more description of the problem. It is a clean Etch beta 3 (AMD64) system (network) installed on Opteron 170 system. During installation I chose 'Desktop' so after reboot it should have loaded me into Gnome. However none of that happened. After reboot I got only command line interface, but I can start X server and get gray window with terminal window in 1600x1200 which means graphic card is not a problem (see lspci output below). Mouse works too. I ran aptitude to see that I got both KDM and GDM installed but at no point I am asked to choose one of them. xserver-xorg is installed too. By suggestion of sigi I ran 'dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' which failed. Next I removed and installed again xserver-xorg, (went through a long list of boring questions), rebooted and again command line, but this time it says that KDM has been started (which I didn't ask it to). Question: how to get graphic interface up and start working? My own guess: repository (I used ftp.debian.org) is broken -- but I do not know how to check this (netinstall went smoothly). Other mirrors known to work well? Thanks, Victor I you have kdm installed it will execute normally without you having to *ask*. OK, try this: /etc/init.d/kdm stop;startkde this kills kdm and starts kde manually. send a report. the mirror *could* be broken, but until you hear from others that it is happening, we try whatever we can. chris w. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome
On Friday 25 August 2006 5:25 pm, Viktor Tsyrennikov wrote: Hi, I have a system (Debian Etch b3, AMD64) which boots into command line interface how do I set up xserver/kdm/gdm so that my system automatically starts with graphical interface? Thanks, Victor first we have to know a few things. the more concise information you post the easier it is for others to help you. What you have posted so far is not enough. Do you have a graphical screen, with no desktop? this means your video card is recognized and you just need to get kdm or gdm working. It may also mean that you don't have the full kde or gnome desktop software to run. I don't run gnome, but if you run: apt-get install kde you will know if you have all the packages. Having your desktop automagically start up, is a setting in your kde Control Center, once you get kdm and kde up and running. Control Center --- System Administration -- Convenience -- click on Administrator Mode enter your root password, etc. If no grey graphical screen and only a black terminal with a login curser, means many more things are not in place. run: /etc/init.d/kdm restart (or start) and post the results. run: lspci to see what video card you have, and post the results. Good Luck, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS: No output plugins specified
install xmms-arts. I just fixed the exact same problem. Chris W. On Friday 28 July 2006 2:30 am, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Hi, after apt-get update apt-get upgrade on my amd64-box (debian unstable), xmms doesn't work. After startup and pressing play in xmms, the following message appears: no output plugins specified. Looking in the Settings-panel, the select-box for the output is empty. I searched the debian packages for any output-plugins, but I found nothing for alsa or so on. I'm using kernel 2.6.14-1-amd64-k8 with alsa, xmms has version 1.2.10 now and the sounchip is a ac97-chip from realtek (ALC850). Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS: No output plugins specified
Hi Markus, Yes, I spoke too soon, I also have that playlist problem. I agree that an upgrade will fix it, hopefully soon. Chris W. On Friday 28 July 2006 3:14 am, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 02:39 -0700 schrieb Chris Wakefield: install xmms-arts. I just fixed the exact same problem. Chris W. But you have to use the artsd, right? I don't want to do this :) Now it seems, that xmms is broken completely. I installed xmms-arts and xmms-crossfade and both plugins could be selected. Trying to add a new title to the playlist fails without any message box or in the terminal. As root, the crossfade-plugin works with an old playlist very nice, arts-output makes some error, because no artsd is installed. Purging all xmms pakets, reinstall only xmms, xmms-arts, xmms-crossfade and deleting the .xmms directory in user-home didn't solve the problem. The plugins are available, but creating a playlist failed without any message. I have to wait for an upgraded package, i think. On Friday 28 July 2006 2:30 am, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Hi, after apt-get update apt-get upgrade on my amd64-box (debian unstable), xmms doesn't work. After startup and pressing play in xmms, the following message appears: no output plugins specified. Looking in the Settings-panel, the select-box for the output is empty. I searched the debian packages for any output-plugins, but I found nothing for alsa or so on. I'm using kernel 2.6.14-1-amd64-k8 with alsa, xmms has version 1.2.10 now and the sounchip is a ac97-chip from realtek (ALC850). Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
compiler compile options.
Greetings list. Does anyone know the compiler compile options used by debian for the linux-images? Would these be the default options or some other flags? (I'm only a 1/64th geek) My goal is to compile 2.6.17-1 to debian amd64 specs, etc. (or better?) Done my own for years, compiled lots of kernels in the past, but recently I've been running the linux-image(s) from the repositories. Thanks for any suggestions. Chris W. ** Machine is an original amd64 (1 meg L2 cache) AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ socket 754 I'm running testing. with: gcc version 4.0.4 20060507 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.3-3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sid-ia32 chroot network access.
Greetings, Recently, while trying to set up email configuration with OO 2.0, I was reminded that I don't have network access from my chroot anymore. When originally I set it up, it had network access, I used to update upgrade the packages from time to time. Does anyone have any idea why this would have failed? Thanks for any replies, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql dependancy problems.
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:29, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi all. Well dang, I managed to unintentially mess up my mysql binaries. So anyways, I tried to re-install mysql and found that I was froze out due to dependancy problems. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0, apt wants libmysqlclient15off installed ... when I install libmysqlclient15off, libdbd-mysql-perl has to be removed. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0 again, apt wants libdbd-mysql-perl. So there seems to be a direct conflict between libmysqlclient15off libdbd-mysql-perl. Other than waiting for I'm not sure how long for the dependancies to be balanced, is there another temporary solution? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. This is an update to finish the thread. After I got mysql-server-5.0 the corresponding client installed (waited for the dependencies to balance out) I had to get phpmyadmin to work again. I fiddled with httpd.conf, php*.ini,config.inc.php my.cnf several times each for settings like localhost, port 3306, root passwords, etc. In the end, all of this didn't help. It was suggested to compile php5 to include mysql support, so I ran phpinfo.php in /var/www/ (put it there) and lo and behold, as I suspected: Debian.amd64 compiled php5 WITH mysql support (of course). Finally, I think: 'apt-get remove apache --purge;apt-get install apache' did the trick. I think the L.A.M.P. defaults in debian are pretty much designed to work upon installation for the basic desktop system, without (any?) editing of config files. Thanks to ALL who have bailed me on this one. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql dependancy problems.
Hi Hamish, Thank you for your response. I have been trying exactly what you suggested, but mysql ignores the new password, so I think something else is wrong. Chris W. On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:21, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:15:45AM +, Nelson Menezes wrote: Chris Wakefield wrote: Since I can't log in as root, how can I recreate these users? First, stop the server and back up your data directory. Should be /var/lib/mysql. Eek. Better way: start mysqld with --skip-grant-tables, which makes it ignore permissions. Then you can set root's password, and restart mysqld normally. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql dependancy problems.
Hi A.J.
Thank you for your response. The key thing was the mysql database, as you
said. I used the:mysql_install_db --user=mysql command to restore the
database after I mv'd the original out of the way. Once that was done, mysql
ran fine, thank you.
My problem now is phpmyadmin, as it complains about:
Cannot load mysql extension
Anyways, thanks again, and if anyone has any suggestions regarding this
problem, I think off list is probably appropriate.
Chris W.
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:23, A J Stiles wrote:
On Wednesday 22 Mar 2006 11:57, Chris Wakefield wrote:
Greetings all.
I've managed to re-install mysql-server-5.0, mysql-client-5.0 and the
support libraries, etc. What is happening now is what prompted me to
uninstall 2 days ago, which is I mistakenly had phpmyadmin remove three
mysql users: root, a user and the debian system maintainer. The error
I'm getting is:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
password: NO)
Since I can't log in as root, how can I recreate these users?
Oo-er!
What's happened is you have messed up the `mysql` database; which is where
mysql stores all its privilege information {in a database, naturally}.
You need to restore this somehow.
First of all, make a copy of the directory where mysql is storing its
databases, this probably will be /var/lib/mysql unless you changed it.
Next, uninstall and purge all the mysql packages; then reinstall them.
This will create a brand new setup with a default `mysql` database.
Then, stop mysql; copy the backup you made earlier to /var/lib/mysql {or
wherever}, and restart mysql. It probably will complain and start up
slowly, but should work. You might need to FLUSH PRIVILEGES and maybe even
do some REPAIRs.
Another method {if you have another computer or enough disk space to set
up a temporary chroot} might be just to copy the mysql.frm, mysql.MYD and
mysql.MYI files from a working mysql installation into /var/lib/mysql
{while the server is stopped, if it is actually starting}. Then try
starting the server.
See also the mysql web site.
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Re: mysql dependancy problems.
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 15:36, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello On 2006-03-21 Chris Wakefield wrote: When I try to install mysql-client-5.0, apt wants libmysqlclient15off installed ... when I install libmysqlclient15off, libdbd-mysql-perl has to be removed. This is due to a library renaming transition that is currently in progress. Please try again later (aka 'joys of using unstable'). bye, -christian- Ok, thanks Christian. I'm gonna build another machine for my mission critical and run stable.:^) Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql dependancy problems.
Greetings all. I've managed to re-install mysql-server-5.0, mysql-client-5.0 and the support libraries, etc. What is happening now is what prompted me to uninstall 2 days ago, which is I mistakenly had phpmyadmin remove three mysql users: root, a user and the debian system maintainer. The error I'm getting is: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Since I can't log in as root, how can I recreate these users? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:29, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi all. Well dang, I managed to unintentially mess up my mysql binaries. So anyways, I tried to re-install mysql and found that I was froze out due to dependancy problems. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0, apt wants libmysqlclient15off installed ... when I install libmysqlclient15off, libdbd-mysql-perl has to be removed. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0 again, apt wants libdbd-mysql-perl. So there seems to be a direct conflict between libmysqlclient15off libdbd-mysql-perl. Other than waiting for I'm not sure how long for the dependancies to be balanced, is there another temporary solution? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysql dependancy problems.
Hi Dean. Ok, I tried mysql -u root -p, but I'm getting kicked out: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) I don't want to delete my databases, as I have a lot of data in there. not sure what to do next, but any ideas would be helpful. Thanks, Chris W. On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:13, Dean Hamstead wrote: try mysql -u root -p then hit enter if that doesnt work, you can just delete the mysql database but you will have to recreate it and then all the users there in you may also be denied access via 127.0.0.1:3306 but allowed access via /tmp/mysql.sock (or wherever your mysql socket may be) your mysql databases are most likely in /var/db/mysql or /usr/local/var/db/mysql possibly /usr/local/mysql each database is actually a directory, each directory has files within it for each table. just rm -rf the 'mysql' directories within the top mysql dir so like /var/db/mysql/mysql then use the mysql_create_... or mysql_install... whatever. lets just say that 'tab' is my friend. but i do know what i am doing =) Dean Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all. I've managed to re-install mysql-server-5.0, mysql-client-5.0 and the support libraries, etc. What is happening now is what prompted me to uninstall 2 days ago, which is I mistakenly had phpmyadmin remove three mysql users: root, a user and the debian system maintainer. The error I'm getting is: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Since I can't log in as root, how can I recreate these users? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:29, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi all. Well dang, I managed to unintentially mess up my mysql binaries. So anyways, I tried to re-install mysql and found that I was froze out due to dependancy problems. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0, apt wants libmysqlclient15off installed ... when I install libmysqlclient15off, libdbd-mysql-perl has to be removed. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0 again, apt wants libdbd-mysql-perl. So there seems to be a direct conflict between libmysqlclient15off libdbd-mysql-perl. Other than waiting for I'm not sure how long for the dependancies to be balanced, is there another temporary solution? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mysql dependancy problems.
Hi all. Well dang, I managed to unintentially mess up my mysql binaries. So anyways, I tried to re-install mysql and found that I was froze out due to dependancy problems. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0, apt wants libmysqlclient15off installed ... when I install libmysqlclient15off, libdbd-mysql-perl has to be removed. When I try to install mysql-client-5.0 again, apt wants libdbd-mysql-perl. So there seems to be a direct conflict between libmysqlclient15off libdbd-mysql-perl. Other than waiting for I'm not sure how long for the dependancies to be balanced, is there another temporary solution? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
K8V.
greetings all, I have a question regarding an Asus k8v-deluxe. In the manual, and I think I read this once at Tom's hardware, that the on board chip memory controller only works if you fill the first 2 RAM slots (which I have - 2 X 500 Meg.). I want to add some RAM, and I'm wondering if anyone knows wether the extra ram would supersede the speed that the HyperTransport feature provides? ...Or would it slow the RAM processing significantly thereby rendering the adding of the RAM futile? Thanks for any opinions, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: K8V.
Hi Goswin, thanks for your reply (and all your great work, by-the-way). I have 3 slots, so I guess I'll add the 1 gig RAM module to the first slot, but can I use one of the 500 meg. modules with impunity in the second? Thanks, Chris W. Chris Wakefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: greetings all, I have a question regarding an Asus k8v-deluxe. In the manual, and I think I read this once at Tom's hardware, that the on board chip memory controller only works if you fill the first 2 RAM slots (which I have - 2 X 500 Meg.). I want to add some RAM, and I'm wondering if anyone knows wether the extra ram would supersede the speed that the HyperTransport feature provides? ...Or would it slow the RAM processing significantly thereby rendering the adding of the RAM futile? Thanks for any opinions, Chris W. Do you have 3 or 4 ram slots? The 3 slot version significanlty slows down the ram with all 3 slots filled. The 4 slot version should work at the same speed with 2 and 4 slots filled. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice-2.0.
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:39, lordSauron wrote: you have full native 32-bit support. The chip can run 32-bit binaries with NO speed penalties, Thanks for all the replies. I managed to setup up a 32bit chroot with good instructions from here: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 The only thing I would add is that the command to link to the 32 bit chroot from: debian:/lib# is: ln -s /var/chroot/sid-ia32/ld-linux.so.2 OO2 runs great so far. Thanks all, Chris W.
OpenOffice-2.0.
Greetings all, I'm looking to install OpenOffice 2.0, anyone using it? Thanks for any replies, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice-2.0.
I guess I could have made myself a little more clear. I understand the 64 bit OO2 progress, thanks. I noticed that OO2 is not offered in any linux binary except those wrapped in rpm's I was thinking that OO2 would come with the same installer as 1.2 didI think it was a _bin_ ? Anyways, I tried converting the OO2 rpm's to debs, but ran into a few problems and was hoping there was a simpler way. By-the-way, I still don't understand why one would need to set up a 32 bit chroot just to run OO when we have 32 bit emulation? Thanks for the ideas and opinions, Chris w. On Friday 09 December 2005 20:10, Graham Smith wrote: :o) This one comes up every few days. Basically it goes like this... OOo 2.0 isn't likely to ever find it's way into the AMD64 repository at least not as a 64 bit app. It's not 64 bit clean and, if you do get it compiled, won't run correctly. Your best bet is to install it in a 32 bit chroot. It's not a terribly nice solution IMHO but it does work pretty well. Graham On Friday 09 December 2005 10:42, Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all, I'm looking to install OpenOffice 2.0, anyone using it? Thanks for any replies, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
locked out.
Hi all. Just did a fresh install. Now I'm locked out of my machine .. my machine is taking no keyboard input. Mouse, yes. I've even tried other installs on the same machine ...still nothing. Tried other keyboards, same thing I'm stumped here, anyone know why or how this can happen? Thanks for any ideas, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: locked out.
I'm using the lastest current install iso I think its 2.6.12. It's an at keyboard. haven't tried apci=off, but I will. I'll check the legacy support for usb, but I don't use usb. What's funny, is that I've had no problems with the keyboard, but once I booted that fresh install, the keyboard wouldn't work with my other linux installs...very odd. I'm in a mess here, I hosed my main system with dist-upgrade ;^) Thanks for your assistance, Chris W. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) Date: Thursday, December 8, 2005 5:57 am Subject: Re: locked out. On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:22:40AM -0800, CHRIS WAKEFIELD wrote: Hi all. Just did a fresh install. Now I'm locked out of my machine .. my machine is taking no keyboard input. Mouse, yes. I've even tried other installs on the same machine ...still nothing. Tried other keyboards, same thing I'm stumped here, anyone know why or how this can happen? usb or at keyboard? Which kernel (2.4 or 2.6)? Is usb legacy supprot enabled in the bios? Does adding acpi=off to the kernel options help? Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fresh.install
Greetings all, gonna do a fresh install of debian-amd64 testing ; what's the best filename.img to use? Thanks, Chris w. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie question
On November 6, 2005 02:00 am, Danny tiberman wrote: hello, I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.12 but I am getting kernel panic apparently it does not recognize my sata disk does anyone got suggestions ? Make sure you have support for promise sata support in block devices for a start. (assuming you have a promise sata controller) why aren't you compiling the latest kernel? Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update errors.
This problem is back again. E: Method http has died unexpectedly! Anyone experiencing this with apt-get update? Chris W. On October 22, 2005 05:54 pm, Chris Wakefield wrote: Never mind all, I downloaded apt_0.5.28.6_amd64.deb and installed it with dpkg -i over the original resident 0.6.42 and now it runs fine. Chris W. On October 22, 2005 05:36 pm, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi all, I've noticed recently running apt-get update yields this: E: Method http has died unexpectedly! Apt is dying at this point and doesn't do an update. Anyone else having the same problem and has found a fix? Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get update errors.
Hi all, I've noticed recently running apt-get update yields this: E: Method http has died unexpectedly! Apt is dying at this point and doesn't do an update. Anyone else having the same problem and has found a fix? Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update errors.
Never mind all, I downloaded apt_0.5.28.6_amd64.deb and installed it with dpkg -i over the original resident 0.6.42 and now it runs fine. Chris W. On October 22, 2005 05:36 pm, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi all, I've noticed recently running apt-get update yields this: E: Method http has died unexpectedly! Apt is dying at this point and doesn't do an update. Anyone else having the same problem and has found a fix? Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg transparency and shadows
Thanks Jacob, but I tried this, plus purging gdm, and still won't allow me to login.just keeps kicking me back to the login screen with a xsession log error. I even install kdm and it now does the same thing. Xdm the same. startx /usr/bin/startkde -- :0 is the only command that gets me into my desktop. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Chris W. On October 18, 2005 11:12 am, Jacob Bresciani wrote: depending on your system sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart if not try sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart Jacob Bresciani Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when fresh, should never be used by groups and create a sticky mess when left laying around -anon On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi. I used this apt binary source and installed xcompmgr, libxrender1- dbg transset to try out this transparency and landed in hot water! I couldn't restart X. I got a .xession error that really didn't say much. I got around it eventually by starting X with: startx /usr/bin/startkde -- :0 I like to use gdm to start my X, is there someway to reset gdm? Thanks for any interest or replies, Chris W. On October 18, 2005 04:09 am, mons wrote: Hi Giulio, I use this on my debian: http://helion.xcyb.org/debian-xcyborg/ I have no idea how secure this package are (I found them by google) but I use them for my desktop. And I use unstable (SID) kde, xorg from amd64.debian.net and xcompmgr, transet from this repository, and everything works fine. PS. Sorry for my english... Hi, is there a repository for debian-amd64 where to find xorg packages for shadows and transparency (xcompmgr, transet, etc.)? Thanks, Giulio -- Pozdrawiam serdecznie: mons www.MaTraX.NET -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg transparency and shadows
Hi. I used this apt binary source and installed xcompmgr, libxrender1-dbg transset to try out this transparency and landed in hot water! I couldn't restart X. I got a .xession error that really didn't say much. I got around it eventually by starting X with: startx /usr/bin/startkde -- :0 I like to use gdm to start my X, is there someway to reset gdm? Thanks for any interest or replies, Chris W. On October 18, 2005 04:09 am, mons wrote: Hi Giulio, I use this on my debian: http://helion.xcyb.org/debian-xcyborg/ I have no idea how secure this package are (I found them by google) but I use them for my desktop. And I use unstable (SID) kde, xorg from amd64.debian.net and xcompmgr, transet from this repository, and everything works fine. PS. Sorry for my english... Hi, is there a repository for debian-amd64 where to find xorg packages for shadows and transparency (xcompmgr, transet, etc.)? Thanks, Giulio -- Pozdrawiam serdecznie: mons www.MaTraX.NET -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg transparency and shadows
I re-installed transset and got it working, but the desktop runs very, very slow. Can someone suggest a fix here? Do I require more packages besides transset for translucency to run better? Thanks for any interest or replies, Chris W. On October 18, 2005 11:02 am, mons wrote: Hi, Thanks, it's nice. Is it possible apply automatically transparency (transset) at all windows? Giulio I use KDE 3.4.2 and to do that you need to go to Control Center - Desktop - Window Behavior - Translucency -- Pozdrawiam serdecznie: mons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
util-linux.
Hi all. I've still in a rut with my installation. I can't seem to get past util-linux: dpkg -l util-linux Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-=== iH util-linux 2.12p-4.0.0.1.pure64 Miscellaneous system utilities This package is holding up everything it seems: # dpkg -i util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 142492 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12p-4.0.0.1.pure64 (using util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement util-linux ... dpkg: error processing util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb (--install): unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/doc/util-linux/README.poeigl.gz' before installing new version: Too many links Errors were encountered while processing: util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb Can someone please post perhaps a way of force upgrading of util-linux, or whatever solutions may be at hand? Thanks, Chris Wakefield. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with util-linux.
Hi all. I'm stuck with util-linux interrupting upgrades and installations, even manual installations as well. I've tried: apt-get -f install and installing util-linux manually, but I get the same interruption. Does anyone have any ideas to deal with this? Thanks for any input, Chris W. __ OUTPUT: 163 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/134MB of archives. After unpacking 39.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Reading changelogs... Done /bin/sh: line 1: 16614 Illegal instruction /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `mysql-server-4.1' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 142219 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12p-4.0.0.1.pure64 (using .../util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement util-linux ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/doc/util-linux/examples/getopt-parse.bash.gz' before installing new version: Too many links /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 16: 16627 Illegal instruction update-mime dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 132 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.12p-7_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
more weird apt - bzip2.
HI all. 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? _ # apt-get install digikam Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libimlib2-dev libkexif1 libkipi0 libltdl3-dev libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 libungif4-dev Suggested packages: libtool-doc Recommended packages: digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins The following packages will be REMOVED: libtiffxx0 The following NEW packages will be installed: digikam libimlib2-dev libkexif1 libkipi0 libltdl3-dev libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 libungif4-dev 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 1 to remove and 22 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 12.6MB/12.9MB of archives. After unpacking 21.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libkexif1 0.2.1-2 [42.7kB] Get:2 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libkipi0 0.1.1-2 [122kB] Get:3 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libtiffxx0c2 3.7.3-1 [42.2kB] Get:4 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libtiff4-dev 3.7.3-1 [280kB] Get:5 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libungif4-dev 4.1.3-3 [41.2kB] Get:6 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libltdl3-dev 1.5.6-6 [19.2kB] Get:7 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main libimlib2-dev 1.2.0-2.2 [613kB] Get:8 http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid/main digikam 0.7.2-4 [11.5MB] Fetched 12.6MB in 22s (551kB/s) /bin/sh: line 1: 6735 Illegal instruction /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt (Reading database ... 143861 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bzip2 1.0.2-8 (using .../bzip2_1.0.2-8_amd64.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/bzip2.prerm: line 7: 6745 Illegal instruction install-docs -r bzip2 dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 132 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: line 7: 6747 Illegal instruction install-docs -r bzip2 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bzip2_1.0.2-8_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 132 /var/lib/dpkg/info/bzip2.postinst: line 16: 6749 Illegal instruction install-info --quiet --section General Commands General Commands /usr/share/info/bzip2.info dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 132 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/bzip2_1.0.2-8_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more weird apt - bzip2.
Hi Bob. Yes, I get no output from: perl -e 0 install-docs says: no such file but I think it's probably run inside the perl shell somehow, so ... 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. Thanks anyways, Chris W. On August 21, 2005 11:39 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: 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) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/bzip2.prerm: line 7: 6745 Illegal instruction install-docs -r bzip2 dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 132 Hmm... 'install-docs' is a perl script. Is perl working on your system? perl -e 0 install-docs Neither of those should have any output. So errors from those may point to something. The following should list some status output. install-docs -s bzip2 But doc-base is not required to be installed. If the problem is something with doc base and not perl then I would try removing it. There are some packages that depend upon it so we should use apt to remove those too, if that seems reasonable. apt-get remove doc-base Or if that fails because of the current problem: dpkg --remove doc-base I am guessing something is wrong with perl on your system and reinstalling it might be best. But you will probably have to clear your current problem first. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde broken?
Hi all. I just reinstalled to replace my broken system. I'm having trouble with installing kde 3.4.1. I can get 3.3.2 of course, but 3.4.1 won't install, many package conflicts. Is kde broken right now? OR, is there a fix I haven't read about? Thanks, Chris W. ** Output of cat source.list: deb http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main deb-src http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian sid main contrib non-free # deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get update: pgp public key
Hi all. I notice an error now when I run apt-get update: W: GPG error: http://debian.csail.mit.edu sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E415B2B4B5F5BBED Is there are apt-get facility to create a GPG public key? Thanks for any info to make this easier to deal with, Chris w. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkinitrd errors.
Hi all. Since 2.6.12.2 I've not been able to have mkinitrd output an image file. I'm getting this error: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed with: mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.12.3 2.6.12.3 I'm not worried about the vga16fb or the resulting warning, just the fact that no image is outputted from this failed modprobe. Curious problem with the find, wondering if mkinitrd is broken somehow? Does anyone have any idea as what my problem is? Thanks for any input. Chris W. Other output is: find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments. find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a non-option argument -type, but options are not positional (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as those specified after it). Please specify options before other arguments. /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed FATAL: Module vga16fb not found. WARNING: This failure MAY indicate that your kernel will not boot! but it can also be triggered by needed modules being compiled into the kernel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash kills Firefox (ia32)
On July 10, 2005 09:12 am, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: The free flash plugin kills mozilla, firefox, galeon, epiphany and everything based on the Gecko engine. From you chroot, after removing the libflash-mozplugin and its dependancies do: apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree And you will get an non-free (according to Debian policy) but workable package. Greetings: Can you post your non-free sources.list? Thank You, Chris W.
Re: Where are all the amd64 mirrors gone ?
It's just you ;^) Actually, much has been posted in the last few weeks about the moving of the archives, do a quick search and you'll find the new url's for your sources.list. Chris W. On May 20, 2005 10:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi anybody on the list, I tried to update my debian (AMD64) version. However today I started getting Couldnt stat source package... messages. So I all except one (last one) dont seem to be working anymore. deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/pure64 sid main deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/pure64 sid main deb http://debian.inode.at/pure64/ sid main deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64/ sid main deb http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/debian-amd64/pure64/ sid main deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-amd64/ sid main This are the servers I planned on using. Note that only the last one is working right now !! Does anybody have similar issues or is that just me ? Best regards Nils Valentin http://www.be-known-online.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A new, unstable system, HW problem ???
Hi Len. This is a by-the-way regarding RAM modules. I have a K8V deluxe and I'm sure I read somewhere last year that you lose some functionality by filling all 3 mem slots as opposed to just the first two. It was something about the speed of the RAM being slowed somewhat for some reasonDo you recall this or know about this? Thanks, Chris W. On April 27, 2005 05:41 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:14:09AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, yesterday I ran the memtest86+ utility and indeed it showed some errors on the test 5 of the test series (but the test 8 showed no errors). And this is what the memtest86 webpage says... There have been numerous reports of errors with only tests 5 and 8 on Athlon systems. Often the memory works in a different system or the vendor insists that it is good What do you guys think? Can I be relatively certain that it's infact the memory modules that are just not compatible with amd64 + VIA K8T800 cobination? I think I'm going to replace the ram since when I bought it I was going for some abit approved memory, but the seller convinced me that this is as good but cheaper :) It may be perfectly good working memory, just not if you require the timings the athlon64 memory controller expects from DDR400 memory. it really expects the memory to perform as it says in it's SPD eeprom. If it doesn't, expect trouble. Most memory controllers in chipsets seem slightly less picky (maybe because they already have more delays involved in getting requests to and from the memory.) Of course I also read somewhere that the newer athlon64's are getting some improvements in the memory controller to make them more flexible on memory modules (I think it was supposed to make it easier to run 4 dimm's too). I also ran the prime95 utility from mersenne.org and that also fails in the first test. Don't know what to make of that, but somethings definately not right. Anyhow, I want to thank you all alot for helping me out, this is what I call great support :) Well I bought kingston value ram DDR400 512M * 2 for the athlon64 I built and it works. I have had good luck with kingston and crucial personally. I don't bother to save $10 per 512M anymore by getting the generic stuff. The last generic stuff I bought was a PC100 CL2 256M and it never did run stable faster than CL3 (so much for their claim). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
complete stop.
Greetings all. I just experienced a spontaneous shutdown. I was just loading debian.org in Konqueror 3.4.0 when my machine stopped as if I hit the reset switch: (I know what you're thinking, I kicked the reset with my knee :^) .. but no, it's protected from that.) I was running a 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 kernel (playing with reiser4). I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this before, or wether I should be looking into any hardware issues. Sid on a K8V-deluxe with a 3200+ Thanks, Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.11
Hi Erwann.
You can use the vanilla sources and (x)config your x86_64 kernel yourself if
you want:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.7.tar.gz
or if you have an debian-amd64 installation already, run:
apt-cache search kernel-source
and you can choose.
Chris W.
On April 12, 2005 02:20 am, NaiosKAE{FR} wrote:
Hi everybody
where can I find kernel 2.6.11 sources for debian-amd64 ?
thanks a lot
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Re: Random freezing...
Hi. I had the same problem, only running kde. It got so bad I pulled my video card (gforce 5200 FX) and am using my radeon 7000 with no problems no for about a week now. I is (was) going to buy a new ati, now I'm beginning to wonder if it really was a software problem. amd64 3200 1 gig ram k8v-deluxe. Chris W. On April 9, 2005 03:14 am, James Titcumb wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone has the problem of random freezing up... It's getting a bit annoying... whilst in Gnome, even if I'm not using the PC (and whilst I'm using it), it completely freezes up and a hard reboot is the only way out... Configuration: Gnome Kernel 2.6.11 (with realtime-lsm) 1GB RAM AMD64 3200 Many thanks in advance, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question for KDE 3.4 debs users (dbus-1)
Hi Rafael. I installed kde-3.4 debs debian:/home/crow# apt-cache policy dbus-1 dbus-1: Installed: 0.23.4-1 Candidate: 0.23.4-1 Version Table: *** 0.23.4-1 0 500 http://mirror.switch.ch sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.23.2-3qt1 0 500 http://people.debian.org ./ Packages 0.23.2-3 0 500 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sid/main Packages 500 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org unstable/main Packages 500 http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org testing/main Packages debian:/home/crow# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64/ sid main deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64/ unstable main deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64/ unstable main deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/openoffice.org/ ./ deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main non-free contrib #deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian-amd64/pure64 sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian-amd64/pure64 sid main contrib non-free #deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free #deb-src http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~killer/amd64 ./ On April 2, 2005 01:07 am, Rafael Rodríguez wrote: Hi.My system is trying to upgrade dbus-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy dbus-1 dbus-1: Installed: 0.23.2-3qt1 Candidate: 0.23.4-1 According to the names (and to the fact that 0.23.2-3qt1 was downloaded from the location of the 3.4 debs, and 0.23.4-1 is available in the usual pure64 mirrors) i doubt it's safe to upgrade. Any hints? Rafael Rodríguez
Re: kde 3.4 amd64 debs?
That's me, and I'm happy. 3.4 is really nice. Thanks again, Kalle. Chris W. At least one person in addition to me has installed the debs and has been happy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde 3.4 amd64 debs?
On April 1, 2005 02:54 am, Egon Willighagen wrote: Anyway, how did others get KDE3.4 installed with apt-get? I installed 3.4 with apt-get. I commented out bytekeeper cyberspace recently ...after the 3.4 install... as they seem to be unavailable to my machine for some reason. After the update I did an upgrade, but that wasn't enough, I had to do a dist-upgrade and that did the trick. Cheers, Chris W. --- This is my sources.list: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64/ unstable main deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64/ unstable main deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/openoffice.org/ ./ deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 testing main non-free contrib #deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian-amd64/pure64 sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian-amd64/pure64 sid main contrib non-free #deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free #deb-src http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/alioth/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~killer/amd64 ./ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [AGAIN] kde 3.4 packages anybody?
Hi Kalle. I commented out those 2 lines, and it still won't compile for me. I am wondering why you are emphatic about the kde-3.4 sources on alioth to build with? I find konstruct to be very efficient..unless I can point konstruct at alioth .:^) Anyways, we'll see how you do. Thanks, Chris W. On March 27, 2005 11:17 pm, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Chris Wakefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did manage to compile _most_ of kde3.4, however kdemultimedia would'nt compile _no how_ for me. Yeah, there's a bug for the 64-bit machines in the source. I made a trivial fix for it and I hope that it works (at least it compiles). Comment out the two typedef's in lines 32 and 34 in mpeglib/lib/input/cdromAccess.cpp. and, of course your binary repository url of course. 8?P Still compiling, wait until tonight (GMT) :) My current problem, with my _mostly_ compiled kde3.4, is how to integrate my compiled binaries into the standard debian file system. If anyone knows of a how-to I would love to study it. This would be of great interest to me. You want to take the pkg-kde project's source packages for Debian and build them (that's what I'm doing). You definitely do NOT want to start with the original KDE source tarballs. -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [AGAIN] kde 3.4 packages anybody?
I did manage to compile _most_ of kde3.4, however kdemultimedia would'nt compile _no how_ for me. I would be interested if you could Kalle forward the output of dpkg -l to me, so I can figure out which packages I'm missing? and, of course your binary repository url of course. 8?P My current problem, with my _mostly_ compiled kde3.4, is how to integrate my compiled binaries into the standard debian file system. If anyone knows of a how-to I would love to study it. This would be of great interest to me. Thanks, Chris W. On March 27, 2005 06:21 am, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: Zaq Rizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried installing from source? I'm currently compiling the stuff from source and will probably set up a binary repository (probably unsigned packages, so use at your own discretion). I'll let you know later where. -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP public key available @ http://www.iki.fi/killer * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X freezing.
Greetings all. Another update on my X display problem. I have letters scattered randomly widely over the screen in a terminal outside of Xfree. The random freezes are still occuring about every 30 minutes or so. I now suspect I may have a failing video card. Any suggestions? Chris W. On March 24, 2005 06:52 pm, Chris Wakefield wrote: Hi Dave. Thanks for the good suggestions. I've tried a few of them. Right now I'm running on the buggy X and monitoring from my other machine at the same time. I've dropped the number of proggies. Still not sure what's up, and I'll inform the thread when I figure it out. Thanks again. Chris W. On March 24, 2005 05:36 pm, David Liontooth wrote: Hi Chris, To try to isolate the problem (I have no clue and others may have better suggestions), I would start just X, without running a desktop manager. Just type X at the command prompt -- that is to say, don't run gdm at boot, or kill it and log in without running X-windows, then type X. Open a new CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and run top to see CPU usage. If you see the same behavior, you know the problem in in XFree86, not in any number of other apps that run when you run X-windows. I would in that case take the problem to the Debian X-strike force, and active and responsive bunch. OTOH, the problem may well lie somewhere else, and running X alone works fine. In that case, you could start a terminal session inside X-windows with a command like xterm -display your machine name:0 (I've only tried this on remote systems running a vncserver), and then start one application at a time until you find the culprit. Sometimes moving the configuration files temporarily out of the way helps (for instance, ~/.kde). Or you could run icewm as your window manager and see if you get the same problems. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X freezing.
Hi Erik. Thank you for the heads up. I did a shutdown and turned off the machine for a few minutes. No lockups for about several hours, so, it looks good. The only thing I still got happening is scattered letters and some high order fonts on the screen as it's booting up (bios?). Once vesa takes over, the letter clutter stops completely. Chris W. On March 25, 2005 05:53 am, Erik Mouw wrote: FWIW, I had a lockup today on x86 hardware (not x86_64). The X was using 100% CPU time, strace showed it was busy doing all kind of futex operations. I had to kill the X server, but apparently it left the video card in an odd state cause it immediately locked up again once I restarted X. Only a powercycle solved the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde 3.4
Hi all. Anyone have a sources.list url for kde 3.4? Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X freezing.
Hi all. Just a little update on my probbie. I've noticed I can't get access to any terminals outside of X CNTL ALT F1, etc. I have also just noticed that gdm is defaulting to F8 rather than the usual F7 Thanks for any input. Chris W. Greetings all. I've been having X freeze up, it seems, randomly. X goes over 90% cpu usage. I've re-installed X, changed kernels kernel runs fine. I can ssh in and restart gdm ... I also notice I'm losing my konsole display settings. I've looked over the X logs, and haven't found anything. The last time it froze, I was just running apt-get update in konsole, but it's crashed with other apps as well. Has anyone any suggestions? Running debian-pure64 on amd64-3200 k8v. Thanks for any interest. Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X freezing.
Hi Dave. Thanks for the good suggestions. I've tried a few of them. Right now I'm running on the buggy X and monitoring from my other machine at the same time. I've dropped the number of proggies. Still not sure what's up, and I'll inform the thread when I figure it out. Thanks again. Chris W. On March 24, 2005 05:36 pm, David Liontooth wrote: Hi Chris, To try to isolate the problem (I have no clue and others may have better suggestions), I would start just X, without running a desktop manager. Just type X at the command prompt -- that is to say, don't run gdm at boot, or kill it and log in without running X-windows, then type X. Open a new CLI (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and run top to see CPU usage. If you see the same behavior, you know the problem in in XFree86, not in any number of other apps that run when you run X-windows. I would in that case take the problem to the Debian X-strike force, and active and responsive bunch. OTOH, the problem may well lie somewhere else, and running X alone works fine. In that case, you could start a terminal session inside X-windows with a command like xterm -display your machine name:0 (I've only tried this on remote systems running a vncserver), and then start one application at a time until you find the culprit. Sometimes moving the configuration files temporarily out of the way helps (for instance, ~/.kde). Or you could run icewm as your window manager and see if you get the same problems. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor Out of Range Error with xf86
Hi Patrick. Post the output of: # cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so we can see your config file. also post your video card model and information (just for fun just in case): :~$ lspci|grep VGA or just: :~$ lspci Also, meanwhile try using: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86This method is a little more up to date I believe. (as opposed to xf86config). unless you are using Xorg instead of xfree86, in which case I wouldn't know what to suggest. Chris W. On March 13, 2005 06:45 pm, Patrick Carlson wrote: Hello. I brought my AMD64 system home over spring break and I'm trying to configure it for another monitor. Whenever I try to configure with xf86config, and startx, it the monitor goes gray with wavey lines and says out of range. I looked up the properties on my gateway EV900 monitor and everything seems correct. I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. Everything works great with my other monitor. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you! -Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde 3.4
Hi x86_64'ers. I have managed to compile kde-3.4 (using konstruct). This is nice, as I've tried several times in the past couple of years and have had spotty success. The only thing that may be a problem for others, is the export links (points?) to specialized directories as created by the stock setup of konstruct. Anyways, I was wondering if my compilation could be of any use to amd64 users? I was also wondering how I could compile to overwrite existing or standard debian file locations for kde? Chris W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with installation
Hi Monty. I've been following your efforts here with interest. I'm not a developer, I'm a helper wanna be only. I've followed your instructions to cross compile a 2.6.10 kernel for you. One thing puzzles me, is that I've found that the .config file you put up at www.bc.cx/ doesn't have the speakup module checked to build it. Is this what you wanted? Chris W. On February 19, 2005 03:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:. Hello, First off, thanks very much to Aritz, Goswin and Kurt for your thurrough explainations regarding getting the pure64 distro installed via the debootstrap utility. I am definitely learning a lot about Debian and pure64! Unfortunately ignorance on my part has caused me to run up against a wall! In my original message I wrote that I had successfully compiled a 64-bit kernel with speakup patched in. What I didn't realise at the time is that I needed a toolchain for pure64 and needed to cross-compile the kernel. What I did was just compiled it using a reasonably old version of gcc on my 32-bit Slackware environment and thought it would just work. Whoops! Surprise after rebooting with this kernel I am not able to execute 64-bit binaries - including those installed by the debootstrap utility. In fact, the debootstrap utility crapped-out half way through while it was trying to chroot and execute a 64-bit binary Since the whole process of cross-compiling a kernel containing speakup (involving toolchains etc) seams quite complicated, I was wondering if one of you kind sirs would mind compiling me a kernel containing the speakup patch on a 64-bit machine? In case this list doesn't allow attachments, I've put the two necessary files at the following URL's: http://www.bc.cx/.config http://www.bc.cx/checkout The above checkout script when executed will check-out speakup from the Speakup cvs and will patch it into the kernel tree. You need to be in the /sr/src/linux directory when you execute the checkout script. Also, the cvs password is please. The above .config file is for 2.6.9. A make oldconfig will bring it up to 2.6.10 if you prefer. The version of the kernel doesn't much matter to me. I just need it to include speakup, a module for my via_velocity network card, and I need the kernel to just be a standard bzImage/vmlinuz file so I can use it in my initial Slackware environment. The .config file has all the necessary options set - including speakup items and the via_velocity option. I would very much appreciate this if someone would be willing. It will save me a lot of time and grief! Plus my knowledge of cross-compiling and toolchains is a little weak! My E-mail address (see header of this message) is able to receive large attachments so please E-mail the kernel if you would. Thanks in advance - I'll get there eventually! Regards, Monty On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been following the debian-amd64-howto and have elected to install the distro via the chroot method as I have a brand new machine with a blank hdd plus I need to boot with a custom 64-bit kernel because I need the kernel to have the Speakup screen reader compiled in. (I'm blind) Hi, I think you are the first blind person on debian-amd64. For the i386 Debian-Installer there is an access floppy image for blind people. I'm not sure what that entails (does it have speakup?) but it would be good if you could test it and report back. Building something based on that for amd64 shouldn't be too hard if you are willing and able. Compiling the 64-bit kernel went OK and I am able to boot into a 64-bit environment as per the instructions in the howto. I downloaded the sid-amd64-netinst iso and mounted it via loopback. I am not sure what to do next to initiate the installation process. The howto indicated that there should be a debootstrap binary somewhere which I assume might get me on my way but I am unable to find a debootstrap binary anywhere on the iso. I think the HowTo exclusively assumes you are already running a Debian system, there you just run apt-get install debootstrap to get the binary installed. If you have an rpm-based system, you can use alien to convert the .deb into .rpm, or download an rpm-ized version at http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/debootstrap Or, you can use http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html Section 3.7.2 ff to install it manually. The main Debian Sarge installation manual talks about a base.tgz file containing an installation binary but I assume (possibly incorrectly) that this can't be used in this case because it would be 32-bit. We don't generate a base.tgz for amd64 but instead the CD contains a partial debian mirror that debootstrap can use directly. No unpacking required. Can anyone please direct me to where the installation binary is and anything else I need to do if
compile time optimizations.
Happy new year all. I have just discovered apt-build, can someone suggest some good compile time optimizations for my K8V/amd64(2 gigahertz)? Thanks, Chris W.
latest and greatest.
I'm doing another install, but I'm getting confused about the differences between: current/monolithic/mini.iso current/netboot/mini.iso install-images/sarge-amd64-netinst.iso install-images/sid-amd64-monolithic.iso install-images/sid-amd64-netboot.iso install-images/sid-amd64-netinst.iso Am I right in assuming that the mini.iso's in /current/ are the best route to go these days? Thanks, Chris W.
Re: mkinitrd linking issue.
Happy holidays to all. I have just completed a re-install of x86_64 Debian, just to see what gives with: # /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -o /tmp/initrd.img-2.6.10-rc3 2.6.10-rc3 /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (This is happening on my WD Raptor SATA drive) In my fresh install on my maxtor ide drive the same command is successful in creating the initrd img file. I have no leads to run on here, I wonder if anybody can suggest where I can look for missing files or broken links? BTW. - Thanks Harri for your interest and help so far. Chris W. On December 25, 2004 12:54 pm, Harald Dunkel wrote: Chris Wakefield wrote: | Hi Harri. | | Here it is: | | $ /usr/bin/ldd /sbin/modprobe | libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x002a9566c000) | /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 = /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 | (0x002a95556000) | | Thanks for your interest and help, | Chris W. You're welcome. If the problem is fixed, then please add a note to the bug report. Regards Harri
Re: mkinitrd linking issue.
Hi Harri. Here it is: $ /usr/bin/ldd /sbin/modprobe libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x002a9566c000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 = /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x002a95556000) Thanks for your interest and help, Chris W. On December 23, 2004 11:55 pm, Harald Dunkel wrote: Chris Wakefield wrote: | Hi Harri. | | here is the output to: | | bash -x /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -o /tmp/initrd.img-2.6.10-rc3 2.6.10-rc3 | log [snip] | + xldd /sbin/modprobe | + i=/sbin/modprobe | + set +e | + '[' yes ']' | ++ LD_LIBRARY_PATH= | ++ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 | ++ ldd /sbin/modprobe | /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open | shared object file: No such file or directory | + x= Would you mind to run /usr/bin/ldd /sbin/modprobe on the command line and send me the output? I get this on my PC: % /usr/bin/ldd /sbin/modprobe ~libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x002a9566d000) ~/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x002a95556000) Regards Harri
Re: mkinitrd linking issue.
Greetings Harri. Before I started playing with the export command, I had this problem. Here is the output: - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ bash -x /usr/sbin/mkinitrd ... + set -e ++ pwd + ORIGDIR=/ + PROG=/usr/sbin/mkinitrd + CONFDIR=/etc/mkinitrd + unset keep croot cmkimage out + getopts d:km:o:r: flag + shift 0 + '[' ']' + usage + revision='$Id: mkinitrd,v 1.201 2004/05/16 22:00:48 herbert Exp $' + cat $Id: mkinitrd,v 1.201 2004/05/16 22:00:48 herbert Exp $ Usage: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd [OPTION]... -o outfile [version] Options: -d confdir Specify an alternative configuration directory. -k Keep temporary directory used to make the image. -m command Set the command to make an initrd image. -o outfile Write to outfile. -r root Override ROOT setting in mkinitrd.conf. See mkinitrd(8) for further details. + exit 1 --- gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5) Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -- I have noticed that ldd and mkinitrd seem not to packages unto themselves, otherwise I would have re-installed them. Can you interpret this? Thank you. Chris W. On December 22, 2004 09:43 pm, Harald Dunkel wrote: Chris Wakefield wrote: | using: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.10-rc3 2.6.10-rc3 | I'm now getting: | /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open | shared object file: No such file or directory Sorry, but I cannot reproduce this (using amd64 (gcc-3.4)). There are no platform dependent binaries in initrd-tools, so the problem must be in the environment. But mkinitrd uses ldd to get a list of libraries to add to the initrd.img. Do you have some environment variables set affecting shared library handling (e.g. LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_RUNPATH)? Maybe you could run bash -x /usr/sbin/mkinitrd ... to see what goes wrong in mkinitrd? Regards Harri
mkinitrd linking issue.
I think I finally figured out why none of my kernels have been booting, I haven't been appending the kernel version to the mkinitrd command ...so: using: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.10-rc3 2.6.10-rc3 I'm now getting: /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Output of: linux-2.6.9# ldd /lib/libdl.so.2 libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x002a9566b000) /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 = /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00552000) So I guess the kernel or minitrd can't find libdl.so.2 for some linking mistake? Can someone please suggest a fix of some kind? Thanks, Chris W.
can't mount drive.
Greetings to all. I have an ide drive on my system that I can't mount for some reason. I'm currently running pure64. dmesg reports the drive being present: - debian:/home/crow# dmesg|grep hda hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive However fdisk -l only issues this: -- debian:/home/crow# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1206716603146 83 Linux /dev/sda22068425517575110 83 Linux /dev/sda342564500 1967962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris - To make sure the drive is working, I performed an install to one of the partitions of this drive and can boot to it via a floppy no problem at all. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Thanks in advance for any responses, Chris W.
Re: can't mount drive.
Thanks Rob, Loading the ide_disk module did it. I'm guessing that ide_core loaded with ide_disk, as I was able to mount the harddrive after running modprobe against ide_disk. My /etc/modules didn't have ide_disk listed either. Chris W. On December 19, 2004 11:04 pm, Rob wrote: I had the same problem after an upgrade. For me, it had to do with ide_disk and ide_core missing from /etc/modules. I made sure the correct modules were working, then I could mount the drive again. While that somewhat fixed the problem, my system still fails on boot up without intervention. It gives me a maintenance prompt upon trying to mount my IDE drive and failing--then I just enter the maintenance prompt, type 'mount /dev/hda1' and it works, then I continue the boot. Not sure what's going on with mine either. Thanks, Rob Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings to all. I have an ide drive on my system that I can't mount for some reason. I'm currently running pure64. dmesg reports the drive being present: -- --- debian:/home/crow# dmesg|grep hda hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive However fdisk -l only issues this: -- debian:/home/crow# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1206716603146 83 Linux /dev/sda22068425517575110 83 Linux /dev/sda342564500 1967962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris - To make sure the drive is working, I performed an install to one of the partitions of this drive and can boot to it via a floppy no problem at all. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Thanks in advance for any responses, Chris W.
Re: qt compile error?
On December 7, 2004 01:41 pm, Norbert Schultz wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2004 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all: I'm compiling a 2.6.10-rc3 kernel and getting this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux-2.6.9$ make xconfig HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 [..] When my install was fresh, a few days ago, I was able to compile 2.6.10-rc2 with no problems. It wouln't boot, the initrd module thing is still a problem, but at least I could run xconfig...) Has anyone encountered this error and have a suggestion? Chris W. Mm.. I can't reproduce your error, but $ ld -lqt ld: cannot find -lqt $ apt-get install libqt3-dev ... installing ... $ ld -lqt ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address Perhaps Qt was changed by a apt-get dist-upgrade? NoB Thanks, I remember, that amongst the flurry of commands and output, that dpkg wanted to remove kde-devel when installing libqt3-dev. So now I have dumped kde-devel in favour of libqt3-dev. Chris W.
rescue boot.
Greetings x86_64 users. I'm trying to boot to my x86_64 debian install on /dev/hde11 I am wanting a simple way to boot from the mini.iso (netboot.img??) or the debian from scratch iso or some such image. With the old 32 bit debian rescue floppy, I used to be able to use: rescue root=/dev/hdxx . I've tried grub every which way I can think of, but despite what *everybuddy* says about grub, I find it very fussy and annoying to use, but I'm unwilling to go back to lilo at this time, other than lilo on a floppy or whatever. I've tried chroot from suse x86_64 9.1, but I've got some Nvidia/XFree86 weirdness preventing console accessCTRL-ALT-F!, etc Can someone post some steps with one of these boot.cd's or, some other image, to enable me to boot to /dev/hde11? Thanks, Chris. W.
Booting, grub x86_64 kernels.
Greetings all. I have an installation of Debian-amd64, upon which I have compiled (a bunch of) kernels. My problem is that I am trying to get grub to boot these new kernels. It won't. I've compiled hundreds of kernels on 32 bit that usually worked fine. My x86_64 kernels boot only up to a point, then they fail with the messages like: can't mount root partition ... can't find partition ... initrd.img too big and another that is something like: please append a proper root= boot option. Naturally I've compiled a several monolithic kernels and many with different module configurations ... point is I've done every darn thing I can think of ... even read man pages ... %^) One monolithic booted, but ran so slow, it was useless. I've tried lilo as well, no go. My questions are: Is there a source I can study that deals with booting personally compiled x86_64 kernels with grub ... and ... does the 64 bit kernel need an initrd.img to boot? I have been using Linux-2.6.7 from kernel.org, I have a Asus K8V 1 gig mem module. Thank you for any ideas, Chris w.
Migration from unstable to testing.
Greetings all: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers and people involved in porting Debian Linux to amd64. Debian is my favorite Distribution and it's so great to finally be able to run in 64 bit mode! I have been reading most of the posts, since the beginning of this year, and I could see that it has been a lot of work and stress for you all. Thank You !!! My only concern at this point is: when Debian-amd64 finally makes it into testing, how likely would a migration from unstable to testing succeed? ... and would it be as simple as editing the sources.list and _not_ involve pinning? (-- not to be confused with my pining for Debian-amd64!) or should I wait and do a reinstall to avoid the possible difficulties? With great appreciation and gratitude, Chris W.
Re: Migration from unstable to testing.
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:17 +, Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers and people involved in porting Debian Linux to amd64. Debian is my favorite Distribution and it's so great to finally be able to run in 64 bit mode! I have been reading most of the posts, since the beginning of this year, and I could see that it has been a lot of work and stress for you all. Thank You !!! My only concern at this point is: when Debian-amd64 finally makes it into testing, how likely would a migration from unstable to testing succeed? ... and would it be as simple as editing the sources.list and _not_ involve pinning? (-- not to be confused with my pining for Debian-amd64!) or should I wait and do a reinstall to avoid the possible difficulties? You're already running pure-amd64? Hi Ron Well, I may have embarassed myself, but I assumed that installing from: http://debian.inode.at/pure64/ with the http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images/sid-amd64-monolithic.iso image, and that: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib non-free is listed in my sources.list, that it would be a pure64? I have noticed that in the .config file of: vmlinuz-2.6.7-5-amd64-xeon has this: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y Maybe I'm mistaken? Please inform me if I am. Thanks, Chris W.
