Re: Finding superblocks, etc. (long)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a disk full of data and no way to reach the data because my partitions are screwed. If I could find my superblocks or my old partition map I could probably salvage it at least a little, do something about it, and I'm wondering if anyone can help. Because it involves issues with the Sun disklabel I believe it is sparc-specific. The sun disklabel is stored in the first 512 bytes of the disk. It sounds like you will need to recreate this. If you know how your disk was set up, you can recreate it with fdisk, otherwise you could try experimenting with guesses at what it was. You may need to wipe the label out with dd first. Of course, when practical you should copy the entire disk with dd before you try messing with it. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
RE: Yet another Mouse problem...
Thanks those who offered suggestions. Turns out that the keyboard was faulty, and not the mouse. Replaced that, and Volia! the mouse was once again mouse-ing around. David --- David J. Novak GSM Radio Firmware GSM Products Division CE/NSS Motorola Life v7.0 -- Not all who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Morris Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 6:41 PM To: Novak David-DNOVAK1 Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Yet another Mouse problem... On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:46, Novak David-DNOVAK1 wrote: My /dev/mouse = mouse-sunmouse gpm is NOT running my XF86Config-4 file looks OK, my configued mouse points to /dev/sunmouse protocol = busmouse, then my generic mouse points to /dev/input/mice, and protocol = ps/2. I've also changed the protocol of the 2 instances of the mouse in XF86Config-4 to just about every permutation of busmouse and ps/2. What am I doing wrong? What am I missing? Thanks in adnavce for any info! What worked for me (and forgive the lack of detail -- I have no access to my Ultra2 from where I am right now) was configuring the mouse through gpm (pointing to /dev/sunmouse with a type of busmouse if I remember right), then using /dev/gpmdata for X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#227306: flex: incompatible libfl.a
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:20:11 +, Magosányi Árpád [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Package: flex Version: 2.5.31-21 Severity: normal cc -o checkpolicy ebitmap.o hashtab.o symtab.o sidtab.o avtab.o policydb.o services.o y.tab.o lex.yy.o queue.o write.o checkpolicy.o -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.3/../../../libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [checkpolicy] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/tmp/checkpolicy-1.4' make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2 This sounds more like a bug in the sparc tool chain somewhere. Why is the library incompatible? manoj -- The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out. Tennessee Williams Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
Re: Bug#227306: flex: incompatible libfl.a
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:44:29AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:20:11 +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Package: flex Version: 2.5.31-21 Severity: normal cc -o checkpolicy ebitmap.o hashtab.o symtab.o sidtab.o avtab.o policydb.o services.o y.tab.o lex.yy.o queue.o write.o checkpolicy.o -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.3/../../../libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfl.a when searching for -lfl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [checkpolicy] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/build/tmp/checkpolicy-1.4' make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2 This sounds more like a bug in the sparc tool chain somewhere. Why is the library incompatible? Sounds like someone is doing a compile that is actually 64-bit, and the link fails because libfl.a is 32-bit. Tell them to prepend sparc32 to their compile command line. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
woody installer stops after prompting for root floppy
I saw mention of this problem in the list archive, but without an obvious resolution. I am running the woody installer on an Axil 235 which is a SparcStation 10 clone. In case it matters, I am using a serial console since the monitor for this machine broke. I booted from the rescue floppy dated 2002-05-21 and got to the point of floppy0: WARNING disk change called early VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER I followed the instruction, but nothing happened. I can post a complete log of boot messages if that's useful. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
Kernel for a sparc5...
I've a ss5 uniprocessor that happily runs: neo:~# uname -a Linux neo 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 24 14:42:52 CEST 2002 sparc unknown from years. ;) If i want to upgrade the kernel, it is better i go to latest 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6?! This is my mail/dhcp/dns/... production kernel, so i don't want speed or some exotic feature, only a kernel that run. ;) I'm running debian stable/woody. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711fax +39-0434-842797 Linux Day 2003: Terza giornata nazionale di Linux e del Software Libero http://www.lilliput.linux.it/ld2003/linuxday.php
Re: Kernel for a sparc5...
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:24:52PM +0100, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've a ss5 uniprocessor that happily runs: neo:~# uname -a Linux neo 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 24 14:42:52 CEST 2002 sparc unknown from years. ;) If i want to upgrade the kernel, it is better i go to latest 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6?! This is my mail/dhcp/dns/... production kernel, so i don't want speed or some exotic feature, only a kernel that run. ;) I'd say stick with what works :) You could go with a newer 2.2 kernel with no problem. You could try a 2.4 kernel, since they work pretty well on uni-proc sparc32's. I can't even suggest 2.6, since I've no idea how they are working. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
Re: Kernel for a sparc5...
Hi boyzs Just have a look at http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ I run a 2.4.24 on a SS5 uniprocessor, it works very well I'm about to test jumping to 2.6, maybe this sunday . Have a nice day Momo On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:24:52PM +0100, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've a ss5 uniprocessor that happily runs: neo:~# uname -a Linux neo 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 24 14:42:52 CEST 2002 sparc unknown from years. ;) If i want to upgrade the kernel, it is better i go to latest 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6?! This is my mail/dhcp/dns/... production kernel, so i don't want speed or some exotic feature, only a kernel that run. ;) I'd say stick with what works :) You could go with a newer 2.2 kernel with no problem. You could try a 2.4 kernel, since they work pretty well on uni-proc sparc32's. I can't even suggest 2.6, since I've no idea how they are working. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This mail was sent via DEBIAN GNU/Linux v3.0.r4 running IMP3.2 Webmail.
[edd@debian.org: Re: PLplot FTBFS on sparc due to Octave problem]
Debian-sparc folks, I am looking for help to solve the FTBFS problem that I discussed below with Dirk Eddelbuettel. Thanks in advance, Rafael - Forwarded message from Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PLplot FTBFS on sparc due to Octave problem Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:47:55 -0600 To: Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:37:09PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: Hi Dirk, Here we go again. My plplot packages FTBFS on sparc because Octave is segfaulting. Here are the relevant parts of the buildd log: (http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=plplotver=5.2.1.cvs.20040115-3arch=sparcstamp=1074204496file=logas=raw) [...] Setting up octave2.1 (2.1.52-1) ... [...] ./configure [...] [...] checking for octave... yes checking Octave version... panic: Bus error -- stopping myself... attempting to save variables to `octave-core'... save to `octave-core' complete In other architectures, the last line read: checking Octave version... 2.1.52 The configure script runs something very simple, like this: octave -q -f 21 EOF printf(octave_config_info(version)); EOF The last successful buildd of plplot on sparc was done with octave2.1_2.1.50-3. Are you aware of any problems regarding Octave 2.1.52 on sparc? No, not really. I think it took it a while to get built there, but then it looks as if the entire buildd daemon system was lagging after the security incident. As for Octave, I don't think it has any new code in which Sparc is treated differently as a platform. Could it be the gcc toolchain that is acting up? Dirk -- Mr. O'Neill comes off as obnoxious and arrogant, but smart. It seems the president never got beyond the first two characteristics. -- David Wessel, Wall Street Journal, 15 Jan 2004 - End forwarded message - -- Rafael
Re: Kernel for a sparc5...
Had you experimented some problems with ffb_*.o drivers at /usr/src/linux.../drivers/char/drm ? Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.24 (in stable, using egcs64) and always the process stoped compiling the kernel image at this point. I couldn't find a way to solve the problem. I decided to come back to 2.4.21 that was the last I had compiled. My machine is a ultra30. Another question: some days before, I was trying to compile a kernel in testing (gcc3.3, and so on). Using sparc32 make ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig everthing went well. But only until that. make dep, and the others in sequence don't work at all. I gave up and come back to stable. Some times what really import is that the system works, and works with confidence :^) Regards, A. L. Pacifico Momo wrote: Hi boyzs Just have a look at http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ I run a 2.4.24 on a SS5 uniprocessor, it works very well I'm about to test jumping to 2.6, maybe this sunday . Have a nice day Momo On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:24:52PM +0100, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've a ss5 uniprocessor that happily runs: neo:~# uname -a Linux neo 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 24 14:42:52 CEST 2002 sparc unknown from years. ;) If i want to upgrade the kernel, it is better i go to latest 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6?! This is my mail/dhcp/dns/... production kernel, so i don't want speed or some exotic feature, only a kernel that run. ;) I'd say stick with what works :) You could go with a newer 2.2 kernel with no problem. You could try a 2.4 kernel, since they work pretty well on uni-proc sparc32's. I can't even suggest 2.6, since I've no idea how they are working. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This mail was sent via DEBIAN GNU/Linux v3.0.r4 running IMP3.2 Webmail. -- Antonio Luiz Pacifico Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas do Estado de Sao Paulo S/A Agrupamento de Engenharia Termica Av. Prof. Almeida Prado, 532 - Cidade Universitaria Cep: 05508-901 Sao Paulo - SP Tel: (11) 3767-4520 Fax: (11) 3767-4784
Re: Bug#227853: debian-installer: [PATCH] small fix for sparc, installs discover-udeb
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:11:50PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Don, den 15.01.2004 schrieb Thomas Poindessous um 10:22: Package: debian-installer Version: [PATCH] small fix for sparc, installs discover-udeb Severity: normal Hi, here is a small fix, which adds discover and discover-data in sparc netboot image. Did you check if discover is actually usable on sparc? Yes, and it's usable. Here is a log on my Ultra5 : ultra5:~# /etc/init.d/discover Detecting hardware: ide-scsi sunhme Loading ide-scsi module. Skipping sunhme module; assuming it is compiled into the kernel. ultra5:~# exit Does sparc use PCI Buses? Mine yes. Does it fail gracefully on sparcs without PCI? I don't know. I assume that some bugs would have been reported if it didn't work. I CC-ed debian-sparc for additional information. -- Thomas Poindessous
Re: Kernel for a sparc5...
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:45, Momo wrote: Hi boyzs Just have a look at http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ I run a 2.4.24 on a SS5 uniprocessor, it works very well I'm about to test jumping to 2.6, maybe this sunday . I run a 22.23 kernel from osinvestor on my IPX webserver and it works great, whereas the stock Debian kernels from Woody testing would crash every 5 days or so. Very nice to have these kernels available. Peter
LVM10/LVM2/EVMS?
My apologies if this isn't the list to discuss this (I sent it here, as I'm considering implementing one of these on our E450, running Debian, of course :) ). I'm curious as to how people have gotten along with LVM10, LVM2, or EVMS. How do these three volume management systems compare? Thanks! -- Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Newark campus 973-353-5440 x246
Re: Kernel for a sparc5...
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:31:21 EST, Ben Collins writes: You could go with a newer 2.2 kernel with no problem. You could try a 2.4 kernel, since they work pretty well on uni-proc sparc32's. hmm, I don't concur: I'm running three sun4ms (one SS4-110 and two SS5-110) and I've had oopses in the ext3 code on two of the three boxes (2.4.20 to .23) between once every two days and once a week :-(( The kernels used are stock kernel.org-issue, and I don't know the extent of fixes in the Debian kernel-source packages. Ben? regards az -- + Alexander Zangerl + DSA 42BD645D + (RSA 5B586291) cc:Mail is a wonderful application, as long as you don't want to read or send mail. -- Jan van den Broek pgpyQmnQ1uN9C.pgp Description: PGP signature
