Re: fam uses 100% of CPU problem
On Monday 13 March 2006 10:16, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:47 +0100, Tobias Krais wrote: > > Hi Joost, > > > > > I am experiencing problems with fam, using 100% of CPU (actually 50% as > > > I have 2 processors ;-)). There is already a bug report for this > > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896) . > > > > > > Can anyone tell me which programs depend on fam or why it is installed? > > > Can I safely uninstall the program? > > > > I just uninstalled it. My system still works :-) > > That does not really surprise me, as the account under which fam runs is > an ordinary user account. So I don't expect it to be system critical. > But assuming that there is reason why it is installed, do you have any > idea what program is not functioning as it should be because fam is not > running? Fam did this on one of my boxes. I eventually tried writing a script to kill and restart it when it started consuming 100% of the CPU time but I never got it to work correctly. Anyway after much research I concluded that no one really knew what was wrong and no one was looking at fixing it - I removed fam. Nothing stopped working but konqueror no longer detects changes to the file system as quickly as it did before. As I understand it this is because it now has to poll rather than simply listen t fam. Graham > > -- > Groeten, > > Joost Kraaijeveld > Askesis B.V. > Molukkenstraat 14 > 6524NB Nijmegen > tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 > fax: 024-3608416 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.askesis.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fam uses 100% of CPU problem
On Monday 13 March 2006 10:16, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:47 +0100, Tobias Krais wrote: > > Hi Joost, > > > > > I am experiencing problems with fam, using 100% of CPU (actually 50% as > > > I have 2 processors ;-)). There is already a bug report for this > > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896) . > > > > > > Can anyone tell me which programs depend on fam or why it is installed? > > > Can I safely uninstall the program? > > > > I just uninstalled it. My system still works :-) > > That does not really surprise me, as the account under which fam runs is > an ordinary user account. So I don't expect it to be system critical. > But assuming that there is reason why it is installed, do you have any > idea what program is not functioning as it should be because fam is not > running? > Fam did this on one of my boxes. I eventually tried writing a script to kill and restart it when it started consuming 100% of the CPU time but I never got it to work correctly. Anyway after much research I concluded that no one really knew what was wrong and no one was looking at fixing it - I removed fam. Nothing stopped working but konqueror no longer detects changes to the file system as quickly as it did before. As I understand it this is because it now has to poll rather than simply listen t fam. Graham > -- > Groeten, > > Joost Kraaijeveld > Askesis B.V. > Molukkenstraat 14 > 6524NB Nijmegen > tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 > fax: 024-3608416 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.askesis.nl -- .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`· Shallow Sea Aquatics .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`· .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯ http://www.shallowsea.com ¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`
Re: Please don't laugh...
Ok, I feel very very stupid now. I have found the menu bar (kicker) it was where it's always been at the bottom of the screen :o). I have the kicker set to auto-hide. Under 3.4 moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen causes the kicker to pop-up. It would seem that under 3.5 one has to move the mouse to the bottom left corner to make the kicker pop up. I, of course, wasn't expecting that and rarely put the mouse in the bottom left corner of the screen. Thanks for the help anyway. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please don't laugh...
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 12:13, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (10/01/06 11:53), Graham Smith wrote: > > If you use the interactive capability of aptitude it now has a pretty > nifty dependency resolution function. I'm not sure why you're having a > problem with KDE3.5 because I recently upgraded to it using pure sid > sources and nothing seems unduly broken. Having said that I don't use > it much and there may be some packages missing (I use Xfce). I normally use synaptic as I never got along with aptitude - perhaps it's time to learn. Anyway, the problem seems to be that there are some packages that are fairly central to KDE (kcron for instance) that are still at 3.4 in unstable. I am pretty much resigned to just sitting tight now. I tried to use packages from experimental but they have version numbers slightly too low. Graham > I suggest you use aptitude to try to resolve any conflicts/dependencies > using sid sources. > > YMMV > > Regards > > Clive > > -- > www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... > ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please don't laugh...
Hi, Ok, you can maybe have a bit of a chuckle. I have just done an upgrade and, because I wasn't paying attention, I installed a load of KDE 3.5 packages which has left we with a less than perfect KDE experience. I have managed to get most things working again but due to dependency issues I can get the menu bar to work. The way I see it I have three options 1)Attempt a complete downgrade of all the KDE stuff. I would rather not do this. 2)Add alioth to my sources list and cross my fingers that the packages in there will fulfil the dependencies (they mainly have version numbers along the lines of 3.5.0-01 where are packages in the official repositories are 3.5.0-03). 3)Wait it out and hope that the other 3.5 packages enter unstable soon. I really don't want to do this as I need to get on and work. Do I have any other options? What would you recommend? (Be more careful when upgrading would be my recommendation to myself). Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice-2.0.
: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]
Re: How to install nvidia driver
On Sunday 13 November 2005 00:30, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat November 12 2005 04:01 pm, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > Hello, > > > > next week I will try to install debian-amd64 on a new computer > > with a nvidia graphic card (7800GTX). > > > > I don't really like these closed source drivers from ati and > > nvidia, but I think I have to use it. > > > > I have just done some google search about debian and nvidia > > drivers. Some people recommend not to install the nvidia way, > > but to use the debian way. I found only one detailed explanation > > about how to do it: > > > > http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html > > > > This tutorial is very nice, but I am not sure if it is an > > official debian recommendation and if it will work for AMD64 > > too. > > > > Can you comment on this? Are there other tutorials around? Will I > > have only textmode available until I install the nvidia driver, > > or will the X-Org driver give me an unaccelerated graphical > > display? > > You can use the "nv" driver in the mean time. That's what I have been using > here and it works fine. I don't know for sure what the difference is but I > think if you want 3D acceleration (for gaming) you may need the nvidia > drivers. I've been trying to get them installed too, so I'll be watching > this thread. The difference, at least to my eyes, is much better font rendering and a generally over all shaper image with the nvidia drivers compared to nv. I didn't realize that a driver could make so much difference but switching to nvidia after using nv for a while was like getting a new monitor. Having said that I can't get the nvidia drivers to work with 2.6.14 but they work fine with 2.6.12. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to ANY desktop !
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:13, Graham Smith wrote: > > You have probably updated openssl / libssl0.9.8. > > This prevents ssh to start and ssh-agent also. > > You should have the following messge in your syslog: > > kernel: ssh-agent[10943]: segfault at 66cd1b2c rip > > 2ac40817 rsp 7fb72da8 error 4 > > > > The best way is to revert openssl and libnssl0.9.8 from > > 0.9.8a-1 to 0.9.8-3 > > For those like me that are very new to downgrading a package: > > download this: > > http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/pool/main/o/openssl/openssl_0.9.8-3_am >d64.deb > > then use: > > dpkg -i openssl_0.9.8-3_amd64.deb > > to install it. You will be given a warning that you are downgrading the > package. Sorry to quick for my own good. Forgot a bit. You also need to download http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8-3_amd64.deb and install with dpkg -i libssl0.9.8_0.9.8-3_amd64.deb that should do it :o) Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to ANY desktop !
> > You have probably updated openssl / libssl0.9.8. > This prevents ssh to start and ssh-agent also. > You should have the following messge in your syslog: > kernel: ssh-agent[10943]: segfault at 66cd1b2c rip > 2ac40817 rsp 7fb72da8 error 4 > > The best way is to revert openssl and libnssl0.9.8 from > 0.9.8a-1 to 0.9.8-3 > For those like me that are very new to downgrading a package: download this: http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/pool/main/o/openssl/openssl_0.9.8-3_amd64.deb then use: dpkg -i openssl_0.9.8-3_amd64.deb to install it. You will be given a warning that you are downgrading the package. Graham > Regards > > Jean-Luc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latest libssl0.9.8a-1 causes ssh to segfault
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:49, Bharath Ramesh wrote: > I just did a apt-get upgrade which upgraded libssl to libssl0.9.8a-1. > After this ssh segfaults. Reverting to libssl0.9.8-3 fixes this problem. > Is anyone else noticiing this. Yep, me and just about everyone else it would seem. Nearly every message posted today seems to be related to this problem. Thanks for the work around though. Graham > > Thanks, > > Bharath > > --- > Bharath Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bramesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to ANY desktop !
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:23, moi 1392 wrote: > This morning I could start a desktop session (kde), I apt-get upgrade, > and after shutting down and up my computer I was unable to start any > desktop session ! > > I tried kde / gnome / enlightenment with xdm / kdm / gdm and startx, > with my account, root and an account that I just created to test !! > > Each time, after I enter my password and validate, X restart and > reprompt x/g/kdm or I return under my VT. > > I can't get any useful message from Xorg.0.log, /var/log/syslog, dmesg > and /var/log/daemon.log. > > In gdm, I get this error message : > > /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and > utmp /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w > var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" > "moi" > /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... > > And that's all... > > Someone have an idea or an advice ? I'm really clueless !! This looks like the same problem that I am having at the minute as I am getting exactly the same error message when I try and login. In think the problem is to do with the openssh-client segfaulting. My guess is that you are using ssh-askpass (as I am) to start your kde / gnome session. The bug that seems to be most relevant is this one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328606 only it was filed against 1:4.2p1-3 and the current version that seems to be in error is 1:4.2p1-5 I suppose the bug might have popped back up. Can anyone confirm that this is what is causing this bug. What makes me think this is the problem is whenever I try and use anything that relies on openssh-client such as ssh or ssh-askpass I get a segfault message in the syslog like this: Oct 18 14:07:20 localhost kernel: ssh-agent[6705]: segfault at 000114211b2c rip 2ac40817 rsp 7fdbaa48 error 4 Oct 18 14:13:06 localhost kernel: ssh[6763]: segfault at 00014a00432c rip 2ac40817 rsp 7fce6e58 error 4 Anyway that's my best guess. If it's not related I would apprecaite help with this problem because I too can't log in. Cheers, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Office 2.0
Ok, I suppose someone has got to ask this. Are their plans to make an OOo 2.0 .deb for AMD64? AIUI it should compile for AMD64 so I assume there will be a package eventually. It's now in the RC stage so I presume it is close to being ready. If there are plans when can we expect to see it appear as I am really fed up of maintaining a chroot? Cheers, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: state of Java on amd64
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:42, Jo Shields wrote:
> Adam Stiles wrote:
> >On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:01, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Is there anything special to getting the JRE running on amd64?
> >>
> >>I used:
> >>deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian sid non-free
> >>and installed the j2re1.4 package (it's a blackdown.org mirror).
> >>
> >>But azureus causes java to segfault
> >
> >There is now a version of Sun Java 1.5 for AMD64. It's not available as
> >a .deb file, but the self-extracting executable {not the RPM} works
> >reasonably well.
>
> make-jpkg works fine on the amd64 .run files
>
> still no browser plugin, though
My experience is that make-jpkg works fine for installing the amd64 Sun JVM
but that it is basically not worth using unless you are using the box solely
as a web server. The problem is that the Sun package (at least last time I
checked which wasn't long ago) only came with a server mode version of the
JVM which grabs all available memory. Client applications (NetBeans in my
case) run like a three legged dog because they rely on the incremental GC
offered by the client mode VM.
After struggling with trying to use the server mode VM for a couple of days I
switched to the 32 bit version. I found it works best with the 32 libs
package installed rather than trying to use the libs out of a chroot.
Graham
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OT chroot problem
Hi, Sorry this is a bit off topic but there isn't a debian-chroot list :o) but I reckon most people here run a chroot so here goes. I have just installed (an experimental version of) pgadmin3 into my chroot. The program itself works fine but for some reason it can't connect to the postgres database running on the same machine in the host (64bit Debian) OS. I have had a similar problem when trying to run tomcat inside the chroot so I presume there is something about the way a chroot handles ports that I don't quite understand. What am I missing? I realize this question is a little vague but I'm not sure where to look for the problem. Many thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is nvidia-glx package ?
> > Hi, > > It's broken in dependencies : > # dpkg -i nvidia-glx_1.0.7174-3_amd64.deb > Sélection du paquet nvidia-glx précédemment désélectionné. > (Lecture de la base de données... 80634 fichiers et répertoires déjà > installés.) > Dépaquetage de nvidia-glx (à partir de nvidia-glx_1.0.7174-3_amd64.deb) ... > dpkg : des problèmes de dépendances empêchent la configuration de > nvidia-glx : > nvidia-glx dépend de nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174 ; cependant : > Paquet nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174 n'est pas installé. > dpkg : erreur de traitement de nvidia-glx (--install) : > problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré > Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution : > nvidia-glx > > It reclaims "nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174", but can't find it... > I can't find it using google, my situation is the same as here : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/05/msg00266.html > > Well, seems nvidia driver is broken on amd64. > Any solution ? It's not broken although I'm not sure I would try installing it again :o) This information may be a bit out of date as I installed the drivers a few months ago but I got the packages from here http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/debian-amd64-alioth-old/pure64/ I don't even know if it is still up and running. I seem to remember reading something about the nvidia drivers being removed from the normal repositories which is why I got them from here. After that the uses module-assist install works fine. Graham
RealPlay and sound
Hi, I'm running the AMD64 port of Debian and have real player (shudder) installed in a normally set up chroot which I use to listen to the radio. It all works fine and I get sound but real player blocks the sound card stopping other sounds being played. I am using KDE at the moment and have tried running real player through artsdsp (in the 64bit system) but had no joy with that. What bit of magic am I missing? TIA, Graham. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Last dist-upgrade of sid breaks a little kde
On Sunday 21 August 2005 11:36, Michelasso wrote: > Hello everybody, > after last upgrade of sid (I am using only official repositories, I > have decided to wait for kde 3.4 to come into unstable) my kde 3.3 has > a problem: the applications list in the 'K' menu is empty, even if all > applications are still here, and I can launch them form a shell. Also > the applet I had installed on the panel are missing; I have tried to > delete my .kde directory but nothing has changed. All relevant > packages of kde seems to be installed, only some of them are held back > due to missing dpendencies: > > arts kdelibs kdelibs-bin kfocus kphone ksimus ksimus-boolean > ksimus-floatingpoint > > Is anybody experiencing the same problem? > Any suggestions? > TIA This is a known problem and I asked the same question a couple of days ago :o) so your not alone. Here are the steps to fix it. 1) Grab "kdelibs-data_3.3.2-6.1_all.deb" or silimar 3.3 version from a mirror (look under pool) or your apt-cache (/var/cache/apt/archives IIRC). 2) Install with dpkg -i kdelibs-data_3.3.2-6.1_all.deb 3) Log out and back in (you may need to restart (k|g)dm but I didn't). 4) Enjoy menus again. Put the lib in hold or be careful when upgrading. If you join the debian-kde mailing list they have promised to post a message when kde 3.4 is ready. The bug report is http://bugs.debian.org/323747 if you are interested. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound and a chroot
Hi all, I'm having a bit of a problem getting sound to work correctly from / with my chroot. I fancied listening to the radio the other but the station I wanted to listen to only broadcasts in Real media. Taking the holy water in one hand and a cross in the other I installed real player 10 in the chroot. I have got it working just fine and can listen to the radio except that real player take exclusive control of the sound card. I've met this problem before so I tried running real player through artsdsp (I'm using KDE) but to no avail - exactly the same problem. Anyone got any ideas? What would be really helpful is a page / site about the Linux sound system(s). I am perpetually confused about how they all hang together and they seem to be about the most fragile part of all my Debian systems. Many thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading C lib problem
Hi, I just tried to do an upgrade and apt hit a problem when it tried to upgrade the C libraries (see below). This problem seems to be related to the chroot but that is about as far as my knowledge goes. I suspect that it has something to do with letting the linker use the 32b-it libraries. Any ideas on how I fix it? Thanks Graham # These libraries were found in /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib: libc.so.6 libdl.so.2 libm.so.6 libpthread.so.0 librt.so.1 Another copy of the C library was found via /etc/ld.so.conf. It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation; please remove the directory from /etc/ld.so.conf and try again. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.5-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.5-3_amd64.deb # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has anyone ever....
I haven't tried it, but I suspect if you tell it to use them as DDR400, it will either automatically pick slower timins for CAS and such, so it will at best be rather slow DDR400 memory, or you have to make it use slower timings to make it work. I have used PC100 CAS 2 memory as PC133 CAS 3 memory before and that seemed reliable. Len Sorensen Probably very unlikely that it would be stable with the same latencies and timings as the 2700 settings then? I know that some chips far out perform what they boast, where others barely meet the expectations. No clue if Corsair can hold these expections or not. : / Thanks for the reply, Nathan Code is poetry. You'll need to test them and see what happens. Corsair is generally "overclockable" but by how much you can't tell until you try. If possible position a fan over the memory to cool it when it is overclocked as this can help achieve higher overclocks. Of course this is predicated on you having a motherboard that allows you to tweak the memory speeds and timings which not all do. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Confused about 64bit
Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using a 32bit kernel and 32 bit libraries (eg WinXP). 2)mixed mode with a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit libraries (eg "Normal" Debian with 64 bit kernel) 3)full 64 bit mode (64bit Debian port) I thought that in full 64 bit mode it was impossible to run 32 bit applications unless the 32 bit libraries had been tweaked to allow it. But, and here's the strange bit, I am running the 32 bit Sun Java VM under the 64 bit environment quite happily without the ia32-libs package installed. How come this works? Surely the VM is compiled against 32 bit libraries and therefore shouldn't work when running against the 64 bit ones? That of course then raises the question why don't other 32 bit applications like OO work under 64 bit? I suspect there is a hole in my knowledge but I don't know where. A quick lesson would be appreciated. Many thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fam problems
Adam Skutt wrote: Graham Smith wrote: I, as I am sure many of your do, suffer from the "fam problem". Basically it goes like this: I will be working away quite happily, I go to open a file and fam hits 100% cpu load and never stops. This has happened with all my Debian boxes (testing and unstable on i386 and pure64). One easy way to try this is to hit a mounted remote file and not have portmap running. famd will go into 'D' and never leave. Use gamin instead. FAM is dead technology. However, interesting, even though gamin is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for FAM, I've had it break with courier-imap before. Adam LOL. This goes from bad to worse. I ran apt-get -u install gamin and got The following extra packages will be installed: libgamin0 The following packages will be REMOVED: fam libfam0c102 The following NEW packages will be installed: gamin libgamin0 which I thought "yeah great that looks about right, Gamin really is a drop in replacement for fam". Just after it got the packages though apt comes back with the stuff below (a list of about 100 packages that depend on libfam0c102). Correctly me if I am wrong here but I thought apt was supposed to resolve dependency issues _before_ installing and removing packages. dpkg: libfam0c102: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: kaboodle depends on libfam0c102. ksnapshot depends on libfam0c102. kmoon depends on libfam0c102. ... ... Anyway, should I re-install libfam (fam doesn't depend on libfam for some reason) or will the gamin libraries act as replacements? I have tried a couple of the applications on the list and they seem to still work but maybe I haven't tried any of the bits that actually rely on libfam yet :o) Thanks, Graham PS Is there some technical reason why none of the Debian mailing lists don't set the Reply-To header? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fam problems
I, as I am sure many of your do, suffer from the "fam problem". Basically it goes like this: I will be working away quite happily, I go to open a file and fam hits 100% cpu load and never stops. This has happened with all my Debian boxes (testing and unstable on i386 and pure64). On my old machine I wasn't that worried about it. It was a pain to have to restart fam (it has to be done as the root user) but the processor was slow enough that 100% load didn't generate that much heat. With my new box though we are talking crispy processor after it's be banging away at 100% load for a couple of hours because I didn't notice fam was playing up. What's the best way to fix this? I tried writing a cron job that would check to see if fam was using more than 50% of the processor but for some reason top always reports 0% processor usage when run via a cron job. I don't mind disabling fam even but what's the best way to go about this? I would like to remove it but Gnome depends on it. As you will see if you have a look at the bug reports this is a well known problem and it doesn't look like it's ever going to be fixed. Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange KDE Problem
I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE which causes the background picture to disappear and the right click on the desktop to be ignored (no menu pops up). I get no messages in /var/log/syslog when it happens. I'm running the pure64 port of sid with KDE 3.3.2. I think, but I can't confirm this because it doesn't happen every time, that it has something to do with Open Office or the chroot it is running in. I say this because the problem seems to occur shortly after I start or stop Open Office (it might just be the screen saver though but it seems more common with OO). I have my /home NFS mounted which is then bound into the chroot as is a /data directory. /data holds the background picture and is accessible to both the main system and the chroot (in other words it's not an NFS problem). Any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`· Shallow Sea Aquatics .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`· .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯ http://www.shallowsea.com ¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯` -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange KDE Problem
I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE whereby for some unknown reason it switches to Gnome (while I'm logged in - I didn't think that was possible). The most obvious sign that this has happened is the background picture set under KDE disappears and the right click on the desktop is ignored (no menu pops up). I get no messages in /var/log/syslog when it happens. I'm running the pure64 port of sid with KDE 3.3.2. I think, but I can't confirm this because it doesn't happen every time, that it has something to do with Open Office or the chroot it is running in. I say this because the problem seems to occur after I start Open Office (it might just be the screen saver though but it seems more common with OO). I have my /home NFS mounted which is then bound into the chroot as is a /data directory. /data holds the background picture and is accessible to both the main system and the chroot (in other words it's not an NFS problem). Any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB timeout
Hi, This might or might not be a problem specific to the 64 bit kernel but I thought it was probably best to ask here first. About 1 time in 15 the boot process fails and locks solid due to, I think, a time-out problem while initializing the USB system. The following are the last (useful looking) messages ehci_hcd :00:02.1: USB 2.0 enabled EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-may-10 usb 1-8: device not accepting address 2, error -110 usb 1-8: new full speed USB device using address 4 usb 1-8: control timeout on ep0out the last message is the last thing to be printed before the boot process hangs. On normal boot it would produce ehci_hcd :00:02.1: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 localhost kernel: usb 1-8: new full speed USB device using address 3 hub 1-8:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-8:1.0: 4 ports detected usb 1-9: new low speed USB device using address 4 Hardware: * Motherboard (spec): Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI * Video (spec): Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP * Sound: On Board (8 Point Surround) * Network: On Board (2 * Gigabit Ethernet, 1 * Wireless) * Processor: AMD Athlon64 939 3000+ "Venice" * Memory: 2 * Corsair XMS 512MB PC3200 C2 uname -a: Linux doozer 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 #1 Wed May 4 20:27:04 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux Many thanks Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia drivers
Rupert Heesom wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I followed the instructions on that page, but I'm still stuck; some weird things. I installed the needed deb files: gcc-3.4, nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-kernel-common, kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp. Then I tried to run the make-kpkg cmd from the header dir:... ...and I got a problem.. It seemed to have a problem with the kernel version number, so I tried changing it, or leaving it out etc. Nothing. I tried taking a look at the Makefile in the headers directory. Couldn't do that either! I stat'd the files in the headers directory, all stat'd wierdly (below). This has got beyond anything I know in Linux, so some help would be appreciated! How can files stat to be a symlink to a directory that does not exist??? -- rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# CC=gcc-3.4 make-kpkg --append-to-version -11-amd64-k8-smp modules_image We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory tree. However, there are kernel headers that may be suitable to build external kernel modules. Since you do not have non-module targets, let us continue. Warning: The file include/linux/version.h exists The contained UTS_VERSION string: "2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp" does not match expectations: "..-11-amd64-k8-smp" I'll try and recover touch: cannot touch `Makefile': No such file or directory touch Makefile failed:256 at /usr/bin/make-kpkg line 981, line 3. rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# ls arch fs ipc Makefilenet sound crypto include kernel mm scripts usr drivers init lib Module.symvers security rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# rahdebian:/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp# stat Makefile File: `Makefile' -> `../kernel-headers-2.6.8-11/Makefile' They all stat the same way. On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:47, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, check out the amd64-howto at http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id274891 it explains how to compile and install nvidia drivers on debian-amd64. Kind regards Frederik Schueler Hi, I've just installed pure64 and I ran in to similar problems. I found the howto a little confusing in a couple of places so I re-wrote them for myself for future reference. Here's the relevent section on installing the nvidia drivers Add this to your sources.list as the non-free stuff isn't in the normal repository at the moment. deb http://bytekeeper.as28747.net/debian-amd54-alioth-old/pure64 sid non-free * Update sources.list as show above to include non-free. * Install gcc-3.4, nvidia-kernel-source, nvidia-kernel-common and kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8. The last one you will have to check to make sure it matches your system use uname -a to find out what kernel you are running. * Swtich to /usr/src * Unpack nvidia-kernel-source with "gunzip nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz" then "tar -xf nvidia-kernel-source.tar". Which should leave you with a modules directory in /usr/src. * Switch to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 and run "CC=gcc-3.4 make-kpkg modules_image". Which will create a package in /usr/src called something like nvidia-kernel-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8_1.0.7174-3+10.00.Custom_amd64.deb although your name will probably be different. * Install the created .deb with "dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8_1.0.7174-3+10.00.Custom_amd64.deb". * Install the nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-dev packages. Note: you don't need the "--append-to-version -11-amd64-k8-smp" part of the command if you are in the kernel headers directory specific to your kernel as that gets appended automagically (at least it did for me) if you have run teh command with that argument you need to run make-kpkg clean first. HTH Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
