Re: Which kernel will Lenny likely use when it is released?

[Mark Monty Montague]

2.6.25 has produced unbootable machines for me on both amd64 sid boxes
I've tried. In both cases, the solution involved changing
MODULES=most to
MODULES=dep in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (and rerunning
update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.25-2-amd64 or similar) but it didn't work
out of the box. I didn't really investigate the details, but it took
me a bit of googling to find that solution... It appeared to be unable
to boot the initial ramdisk because it was too big, and perhaps it's
an issue that both machines use the nvidia driver module, which is
kinda huge (and doesn't need to be on the initramfs) but it's still
pretty painful for people who expect lenny to be moderately stable. I
wouldn't want it in lenny until some remedy or improved sanity
checking is included.

- M

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Karl Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Lennart Sorensen wrote:


 2.6.25 is a stable kernel, just as 2.6.24 was and 2.6.26 will be.  The
 old 'odd number development' stuff would have meant development would be
 in 2.7.x kernels, but that hasn't been used for years.

 OK, I understand I had the odd even part mixed up.

 But what I still don't understand is why 2.6.25 isn't in lenny yet if it is
 stable?

 I'm thinking of pulling in 2.6.25 from unstable, but don't want to create
 other problems.

 How can I find the ETA of 2.6.25 entering lenny? (I think some of lenny is
 already frozen - would that include the kernel?)

 I would think that they would fix the 2.6.24 4G bug if that is what they
 will release with?




 
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Re: java plugin lenny

[Mark Monty Montague]

This is what I've done with etch, I don't know if it'll work for lenny. Note
that there are sarge and sid variants to try (but no lenny) in the
sources.list.

After various frustrations with the latest Sun Java not having a plugin on
AMD64, I just decided to go back to the blackdown java's older version that
worked for me last year:

I put this in my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/debian/ etch non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/debian/ etch
non-free

and then did

sudo apt-get  -f install j2re1.4 j2sdk1.4 j2sdk1.4-doc

and I've been much happier. Of course, if I was developing applets and
wanted do do it with a current sun-java that's happily open-source and
everything, this wouldn't be so good. But for viewing web java content, it's
fine. And I still have the sun-java5-jre stuff installed, too.

I'm not saying this is the best or only solution, just another thing to
consider.

- M

On 10/21/07, Alexandru Cabuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello list,

 Does anyone know if its possible to get java plugin working in
 iceweasel, in lenny amd64 without installing a whole chroot?

 In particular, does nspluginwrapper work with java? If so how do I go
 about setting up the java plugin? It seems like I would have to
 install the 32bit java plugin, then run something like nspluginwrapper
 -i [path to .so plugin file]

 But I can't install the 32 bit version of the java plugin,
 sun-java6-plugin because apt-get refuses, because it's 32bit and my
 system is 64bit. I tried the linux32 wrapper, but apt-get still won't
 install sun-java6-plugin.

 I have sun jre 64 installed.

 [cabuz ~]java -version
 java version 1.6.0_03
 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode)


 So how do I do this? Has anybody got nspluginwrapper working with java
 plugin?

 Thanks for any suggestions.

 I am not subscribed, please copy me.

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