Re: Debian Installation upon an Alpha Server 4000 5/400
[this has nothing to do with the debian installer AFAICS; M-F-T set.] On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:44:16PM -0400, Robert Garron wrote: > To Whom It May Concern at Debian: > First -- Love the release 4.0r1 -- best yet! Used Debian on 32 bit before. > Next, not sure who to report this to and/or ask the question, as I am > relatively new to using the Debian site (used Redhat and SuSe in past), > anyway hopefully I have the right people I am e-mailing to in Debian ---> > The issue is booting Debian Disk1 KDE on an Alpha Server 4000 5/400 system > -- after many iterations and contortions with different Ultra Wide > Differential SCSI controllers -- I was able to utilize an Adaptec > AHA-2944UW controller card to have Debian locate a disk and complete a full > installation 99% successfully. > The last 1% is the booting of the formated, file system created, installed > Debian system which does NOT boot with the AHA-2944UW controller because > the driver for this card is in the distribution and thus found a disk > during the cdrom boot process, but the Alpha BIOS does NOT know about this > card so any "auto" boot sequence is out of the question... So reporting to > Debian my experience(s) is that: > *** the Adaptec AHA-2944UW - ultra wide differential scsi card is NOT > supported in the BIOS of Alpha Server 4000 and 4100's It's possible that this is a question of firmware versions, either on the alpha or on the SCSI card. The card I'm currently booting my alpha from is: 00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01) I previously booted the machine using the QLogic ISP1020 that came stock, but unfortunately the driver support for that card seems to have atrophied in Linux 2.6 and it can no longer access the disks. > *** the preferred controllers (used for VMS clusters and/or Tru64 Unix on > any 4000 or 4100 Alphas) KZPSA, KZPSA-BB, KZPSA-BB_N, or KZPSA-PS used for > Raid support with Ultra Wide Differential SCSI support for SCSI disks and > Storageworks is supported withing the BIOS of any 4000/4100 AlphaServer but > there is NO DRIVER within the Debian Linux Distribution that I could find > (or any Linux that I can find) and thus auto booting is impossible. How does these cards show up under lspci? The only useful reference to KZPSA that I find on Debian lists seems to imply that this is the same as the Mylex DAC960 so commonly seen. The DAC960 module is included in the installer, as part of the scsi-extra-modules udeb; I know this was historically supported, but that there were also some problems with it early in 2.6 because of the non-standard device names that it exposed. These are probably worth a try, anyway. Of the other cards you inquired about, the DAC960 cards and the QLogic ISP1040 are probably the best bets. The ISP1020 does not work for me, but the later QLogic cards are still widely used. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A specialista nyilt levele azoknak, akiknek...
Ez egy nyílt üzenet minden otthonszeretőnek, akinek valaha problémát okozott a lakberendezés... (itt olvashatod ...) >> http://www.perfetti.hu/index.php?lang=hu&mid=175 Üdvözlettel A PERFETTEAM --- Ez a levélcím feliratkozás vagy ajánlás útján, illetve nyílt internetes forrásból került az adatbázisunkba. Ha úgy kívánod, hogy ne küldjünk több levelet, elnézést a zavarásért, és kérjük, itt iratkozz le :>> http://www.perfetti.hu/index.php?lang=hu&mid=115 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel
On 2007-10-19, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reply to list: > http://cweiske.de/misc_extensions.htm#replyToList Oddly enough this one isn't working for me on testing's TB! (2.0.0.6). I have both MHengy and Enigmail installed. :( -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 1FC01004 | And dream I do... ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiz-fusion trouble
Hi there, I'm having this issues with Compiz-Fusion on Debian Etch, nVidia FX5200, KDE: 1. I can't start fusion-icon: * Detected Session: kde * Searching for installed applications... * NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING * Using the GTK Interface * PyGtk 2.10.0 or later required ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt4 Interface * No module named PyQt4 ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt3 Interface * Interface not installed *** Error: All interfaces failed, aborting! 2. i get 16 desktops ( Desktop1 is multiplicated ) Any thoughts? :) Bogdan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with Debian Install
Ed wrote: > Is there a different install image I should download and use. I was not too keen on downloading the 20+ cd images for a complete CD install. Do you know which ones I would need just for gnome and firefox for starters? I didn't notice anyone address this yet-- You can get a full system up and going with just the first CD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any gammu or gnokii users out there?
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm looking for a mobile phone management utility that work under >> Debian Sarge stable. Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> nice and cool prog is moto4lin . >> >> http://moto4lin.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page. Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have experimented with this, and have been able to use it to >> nevigate the filesystem and upload and download audio and image files, >> I still havn't found a way to upload/download the content of the phone >> book or backup text messages. Rodolfo: > Then it is not what I'm looking for. I want in particular to download > telephone numbers and sms messages from the phone (Nokia 6100 and 6630) > to the PC. See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=20424 Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Save sms messages from mobile phone
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that I managed successfully to `sync' Contacts, Calendar and Notes > between the PC and my Nokia 6630, via usb cable, using opensync, but > unfortunately didn't manage to read and save sms messages from phone to PC. I > couldn't imagine it was such a hard matter. > > Please, if someone from this list has a *direct* experience about that, > i.e. managed him/herself to save sms messages (and in cases also pictures and > movies) from phone to PC, please be so kind to report its direct experience. See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=20424 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Read messages and contacts from mobile phone
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] All I found was that maybe opensync was the best tool > (all others failed in my experience) but I found it tremendously difficult to > install and configure it with Sarge, without knowing if it would then really > work or not. A year after: can anybody say a definite word upon this matter, > someone who really managed to see its mobile phone through Debian? See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=20424 Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What project use Z ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:26:58PM +0200, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> After a short academic course in Z >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation) i was wondering if it is >> implemented in big Projects (GNU) i had been noted that Free Desktop >> use the approach of Z (formal specification to find potential bugs) > > Interesting, I hadn't heard of that. Do you know if anyone has done > work to link this with a system like Conquoction and get mechanized > proof-checking for real languages? > > Daniel It's aint Free software (bummer) but the source code checking system that is used in Ben Gurion University uses mathematical approach to calculate potential places with bad code (sorry for the 3rd grade language). there is also use of CICS systems (IBM developers can help there ... ) that used Z in the design (that what had been said in wikipedia). - -- - -- Could you at least use man ? Jabka Atu (aka mha13/Mashrom Head) || bsh83.blogspot.com - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRxnJTW9p6JnF9I1qAQKAbw//S7duuKMQe+H3ejiWbOVtAiGP0sQSyVFt CuQFaq4lNDh3lnpobKAhZDE3DShMN+uQaLknbORPGFp/A9Mp7uXRSapdwhlKF2xF 8np4+xPiZfD0Xo8VG2WtbLw1ZmGcHW5NdbNQ36LD7BA/c+/YWT85VHkCHN6lXudt M6kQc6a9l0gjaWpRz9p4LnDGbjdE+F+zZ81s7WRzbuZF3SxfBV83LzqWh0QYfA6m COFYzdUk0P1g3ACN6LxzkSXQaiAQQSnf/UiP55Xa7fekVbySEkmGefxKt2+vAfOH CkPAlNcW55EEZ7luX+yXFQIZ48zX92MZqeiKJ+E6XSWNwWPTut3gQlCQEjAcLqxa JCbfbBrzIN1mCAgMBXtwxI9lLPIEgrt6/8Gj6G+iRBrT/s85WB3m4YpSQq+FOVLG zVuzh5DZsP/QYNuhEB2qVIcGHR4kcHEjaK6cssKwbakF1EM91NVNpHAcHXSu0ZIf 4YkmU1ZxGUPfrrlgSTtpmkeMPbmQB9n8VUeldOZ2Tpg5df0iaofDZ6pbZV2PeRFU PP50LbHvxpZu42sL1//eAIQ1HGYMHzc00gbEIAqaQBYHZvxOFdB/nGadO6VxJGJD SleRH3hoT4S4O2lbckjX1zW3EBmCgkOdUEXCpWx4Ip85plIRZbrhhdWVmDimSUC4 4aNZys3YKZs= =3Dy2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailmail and postfix : comments on the distro docs
I am using Debian/Etch 4.0 and so far have been successful in following README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/mailman In the file /var/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py We are told to make edits to /etc/postfix/main.cf: /etc/postfix/master.cf /etc/postfix/transport /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py Now I am getting continued error messages in /var/log/mail.info. NOTE that one of the messages has to do with transport.db, not transport. At this point I was lost and the docs were no help. I was supposed to run postmap on the the transport file, but no docs said to do so. This should be fixed. Oct 20 04:37:47 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: process /usr/ lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 21321 exit status 1 Oct 20 04:37:47 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: /usr/lib/ postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 20 04:38:47 li2-168 postfix/trivial-rewrite[21324]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/transport.db: No such file or directory Oct 20 04:38:48 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: process /usr/ lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 21324 exit status 1 Oct 20 04:38:48 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: /usr/lib/ postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 20 04:39:48 li2-168 postfix/trivial-rewrite[21333]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/transport.db: No such file or directory Oct 20 04:39:49 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: process /usr/ lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 21333 exit status 1 Oct 20 04:39:49 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: /usr/lib/ postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 20 04:40:48 li2-168 postfix/anvil[21287]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:64.233.182.185) at Oct 20 04:30:48 Oct 20 04:40:48 li2-168 postfix/anvil[21287]: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:64.233.182.185) at Oct 20 04:30:48 Oct 20 04:40:48 li2-168 postfix/anvil[21287]: statistics: max cache size 2 at Oct 20 04:33:42 Oct 20 04:40:48 li2-168 postfix/smtpd[21334]: connect from nf- out-0910.google.com[64.233.182.184] Oct 20 04:40:49 li2-168 postfix/trivial-rewrite[21335]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/transport.db: No such file or directory Oct 20 04:40:50 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: process /usr/ lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 21335 exit status 1 Oct 20 04:40:50 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: /usr/lib/ postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 20 04:41:50 li2-168 postfix/trivial-rewrite[21336]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/transport.db: No such file or directory Oct 20 04:41:51 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: process /usr/ lib/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 21336 exit status 1 Oct 20 04:41:51 li2-168 postfix/master[21195]: warning: /usr/lib/ postfix/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 04:40:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm on an etch box running XFCE, and now I would like to play with Gnome > some (after a long pause from it). Trying to install > gnome-desktop-environment (or other packages pulling in gnome) using > aptitude I run into some unmet dependencies and clashes gamin->fam. Is > there a smooth way around this on an Etch machine? > > --8<-- > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > gamin: Conflicts: fam but 2.7.0-12 is to be installed. > Resolving dependencies... > The following actions will resolve these dependencies: > > Keep the following packages at their current version: > fam [Not Installed] > > Leave the following dependencies unresolved: > gnome-desktop-environment recommends fam > nautilus recommends fam > --8<-- The solution proposed by aptitude seems reasonable to me. libgamin0 provides and replaces both libfam0c102 and libfam0, so any feature that relies on FAM libraries should also work with gamin installed. Furthermore, the package description of gamin states that it "has been designed as a drop-in replacement for FAM". -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with Debian Install
The internet service provider could have an outage in the area or the modem/router may need updating. With a web browser what happens when you surf to http://192.168.1.1/? If you get the modem, it could need reconfiguring or updating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on a biostar p4m900 motherboard
Hello folks, I want to install debian lenny on a biostar p4m900 motherboard micro ATX on a touchscreen pc...have you ever tried it? what abuot linux support? Thanks AF. Please cc me i'm currently off list and sorry for my poor english :) -- |_|O|_| Andrea Ferraresi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_|_|O| KeyFP= CFE7 223E EB7A E729 9675 BA93 5152 C043 3817 D93A |O|O|O| Registered Linux user #388877 and Machine #289399 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian Install help
Interesting. From the affected machine, I can NOT ping 192.168.1.1 but from affected machine, I CAN ping other machines on my local lan. I can not ping anything on the internet from the affected machine, but can from any other machine on my home lan. The output of 'route' looks essentially the same on the affected machine as it does on working machines. So, I think it is definietely some kind of problem with my router/old machine. (This old machine 'used' to work with win95 and also redhad 7.0 through the same router and dsl modem and same network card years ago.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
customizing the keyboard layout
To customize my keyboard layout, i have created a new file "my_kbd" for the default alphanumeric_keys in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols, then i have added that new file to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst list. Also added my new file to the xorg.conf line Option "XkbLayout" "my_kbd" Is that the correct way to get my layout both in the character terminals and in the kde environment? It has worked for one year, yet broke a few weeks ago. Hnything changed in the base.lst format? thank you -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Installation upon an Alpha Server 4000 5/400
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:44:16PM -0400, Robert Garron wrote: > > The issue is booting Debian Disk1 KDE on an Alpha Server 4000 5/400 > system -- after many iterations and contortions with different Ultra Wide > Differential SCSI controllers -- I was able to utilize an Adaptec > AHA-2944UW controller card to have Debian locate a disk and complete a full > installation 99% successfully. > > The last 1% is the booting of the formated, file system created, installed > Debian system which does NOT boot with the AHA-2944UW controller because > the driver for this card is in the distribution and thus found a disk > during the cdrom boot process, but the Alpha BIOS does NOT know about this > card so any "auto" boot sequence is out of the question... So reporting to > Debian my experience(s) is that: > > *** the Adaptec AHA-2944UW - ultra wide differential scsi card is NOT > supported in the BIOS of Alpha Server 4000 and 4100's I know nothing about Alphas, so my questions will be of generic how-to-get-the-beast-to-boot nature rather than 'ideally...'. What hardware do you have that the bios will boot? Does the box have a floppy or CD that will boot? Will a grub-disk of some sort work? Can you make a boot CD with a boot-loader and kernel that then points to the root directory on the hard drive? What about net-booting? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with Debian Install
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:54:51PM -, Ed wrote: > I am not really sure. This is an old computer, but years ago, it had > Redhat Linux 7 and Windows 95 dual boot running fine. As time went by, > this computer was replaces with newer ones and slowly became obsolete. > Now I want to revive it and probably make it a print server, and maybe > web browser only machine, only running linux. I have never used debian > before, but heard it was a good candidate for an old machine. On my > other machines I run fedora 6 or 7. (and yes, I run Windows 2000 or XP) > > Is there a way I can find out the network card and driver without taking > the machine apart. It is in kind of a hard place to get at right now. Just do a minimal install from the netinst.iso. When you get to choosing a mirror, choose none. Let it try to contact security.debian.org, which will fail, but it will put a commented-out line in your sources.list file. When you get to task selector, deselect everything. You will then just get a base install minimal system. When you boot into the system and log in for the first time, you can type: # dmesg | less and look for what hardware was found. The dmesg is a ring-buffer that is filled by the kernel as hardware is found by the drivers. You should see everything. However, if this computer doesn't have a PCI bus but instead and ISA/EISA bus, then there may be some more work to do since the hardware set-up is different and not so automatic. What kind of computer is this: Processor: Memory: Hard drive space: System bus type: As long as you are able to install a base system, dmesg will tell you most of this. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install help
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:39:20PM -, Ed wrote: > > > Interesting. From the affected machine, I can NOT ping 192.168.1.1 but > from affected machine, I CAN ping other machines on my local lan. I can can your *other* machines ping to 192.168.1.1? I think maybe you've got some architecture issues in your network. Maybe you are somehow misusing an uplink port on a switch or something like that? > not ping anything on the internet from the affected machine, but can from > any other machine on my home lan. The output of 'route' looks > essentially the same on the affected machine as it does on working essentially the same means different, so how about providing us a working and non working route? > machines. So, I think it is definietely some kind of problem with my > router/old machine. (This old machine 'used' to work with win95 and also > redhad 7.0 through the same router and dsl modem and same network card > years ago.) what are you using for a router? maybe you've somehow cnofigured a firewall such that this machine is not allowed out? Is your whole lan on dhcp? if so, are any of the "statically" defined? is your router/firewall limiting which parts of the address range are allowed out? do you have separate dhcp ranges with different rules? can you try giving the install machine a fixed ip for the install process? can you plug the machine directly into the router just for the install and if so does that help? (that would have the effect of removing all other variables and help pinpoint the error). Maybe you've got a borked dhcp system and its assigning the same address to multiple machines? etc etc etc there are many possible causes or work around for this issue. Hopefully, I've spurred you to find something A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:24:04 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm on an etch box running XFCE, and now I would like to play with > Gnome some (after a long pause from it). Trying to install > gnome-desktop-environment (or other packages pulling in gnome) using > aptitude I run into some unmet dependencies and clashes gamin->fam. Is > there a smooth way around this on an Etch machine? gnome, on my machine, works with gamin instead of fam. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch and Audio CDs
On 10/19/07, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem under Etch reading the last track on some CDs. I've > googled around enough to know I'm not the only one having the problem, > but can't find a solution. Have you tried cdparanoia? It may have better success reading the contents. And based on your second post, it may be a media issue (dirty disc?) rather than a software one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux stuck when serial cable is disconnected
Hi all, I am running on a MIPS machine, with my kernel and debian distribution (file system). The kernel messages are configured to get out from the serial connection, i.e. serial console. When the serial output of my MIPS is connected to my PC everything is OK and I can see the outputs in the terminal. When I disconnect the serial cable my Linux get stuck. Even my telnet connection doesnt responds. When I re-connect the serial everything is OK again. Do you know what can be the problem? I am working with HW flow control? can it be the problem? Thanks a lot! Hagit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
naive bind question
Hi, I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several pages of instructions on installing and running bind8 for use on a standalone computer. I just used aptitude to install bind9, and without any additional effort I think it's working. ps aux shows the named daemon, and I can browse the web no problems. Is that all there is to it? My browser seems to be a little snappier, without the usual lookup times, but that could be wishful thinking. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:21:24 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 04:40:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm on an etch box running XFCE, and now I would like to play with Gnome > > some (after a long pause from it). Trying to install > > gnome-desktop-environment (or other packages pulling in gnome) using > > aptitude I run into some unmet dependencies and clashes gamin->fam. Is > > there a smooth way around this on an Etch machine? > > > > The solution proposed by aptitude seems reasonable to me. libgamin0 > provides and replaces both libfam0c102 and libfam0, so any feature that > relies on FAM libraries should also work with gamin installed. > Furthermore, the package description of gamin states that it "has been > designed as a drop-in replacement for FAM". > I was a bit worried it would screw up my xfce install, but discovered that running aptitude --without-recommends did the trick. Thanks guys! /Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid 5 : partitioned array VS lvm
Alex Samad samad.com.au> writes: > > Lately I tried some different configurations (lvm & partition) to divide > > my raid > > 5 array. > you might want to check out http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html talks > about why you might not want to use raid5 in this config and maybe raid1/0 Thank you for the information. I read few articles but I'm not a company, and raid1/0 is too expensive for me. Anyway, it does not explain why there is so much performance differences between lvm and partitioned array. Here is some additional information : # pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name raidvol1 PV Size 1,34 TB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 65536 Total PE 21908 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 21908 # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name raidvol1 System ID Formatlvm2 Metadata Areas1 Metadata Sequence No 11 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV0 Cur LV3 Open LV 3 Max PV0 Cur PV1 Act PV1 VG Size 1,34 TB PE Size 64,00 MB Total PE 21908 Alloc PE / Size 21908 / 1,34 TB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 # lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/raidvol1/data1 VG Nameraidvol1 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size849,25 GB Current LE 13588 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/raidvol1/data2 VG Nameraidvol1 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size500,00 GB Current LE 8000 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/raidvol1/home1 VG Nameraidvol1 LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size20,00 GB Current LE 320 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update failure
Thanks for all the comments. Yes, Andrew, you are absolutely correct, I didn't read the output from aptitude carefully enough, partly because I didn't understand what much of it meant. So I'm especially grateful for your tutorial. Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h shows below there is still some space left in / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/redcube-root 268M 215M 40M 85% / tmpfs 471M 0 471M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 52K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 471M 0 471M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 236M 28M 197M 13% /boot /dev/mapper/redcube-home 136G 12G 118G 9% /home /dev/mapper/redcube-tmp 380M 11M 350M 3% /tmp /dev/mapper/redcube-usr 4.7G 3.4G 1.1G 76% /usr /dev/mapper/redcube-var 2.9G 293M 2.4G 11% /var [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ However, now I understand that the remaining room is not sufficient for aptitude to do its work. I think there are two possible solutions to this problem. One is to rm 2.6.18/4-amd64 from /lib/modules, shown below [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules$ ls -a . .. 2.6.18-4-amd64 2.6.18-5-amd64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lib/modules$ However, this may be a bad idea because it could cause another, new problem. Even if it doesn't break something it would be only a temporary solution: a future upgrade would probably run into the same problem. A better solution would be to move some space from /home to / , and perhaps to /usr. My HD has a big, non-encrypted partition for everything except /boot created by Logical Volume Management. This should make shifting space around fairly straight forward, although I don't yet know how to do it. I'll read the literature on this and if I'm confused I'll start another thread on LVM. Thanks again for all your help.
Re: naive bind question
On 20 Oct 2007 17:20:16 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several > pages of instructions on installing and running bind8 for use on a > standalone computer. I just used aptitude to install bind9, and > without any additional effort I think it's working. ps aux shows the > named daemon, and I can browse the web no problems. Is that all there > is to it? My browser seems to be a little snappier, without the usual > lookup times, but that could be wishful thinking. I don't think bind is set up to even do caching out of the box, but I could be wrong. You can use the command line utility dig to see what your name server is doing. See dig's manual page for more info. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: naive bind question
On 2007-10-20, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20 Oct 2007 17:20:16 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm working through an old-ish book on web programming. It has several >> pages of instructions on installing and running bind8 for use on a >> standalone computer. I just used aptitude to install bind9, and >> without any additional effort I think it's working. ps aux shows the >> named daemon, and I can browse the web no problems. Is that all there >> is to it? My browser seems to be a little snappier, without the usual >> lookup times, but that could be wishful thinking. > > I don't think bind is set up to even do caching out of the box, but I > could be wrong. You can use the command line utility dig to see what > your name server is doing. See dig's manual page for more info. > I looked at dig and also nslookup. nslookup produces: tyler:bind-> nslookup > www.cbc.ca Server: 127.0.0.1 Address:127.0.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.cbc.ca canonical name = www.cbc.ca.edgesuite.net. www.cbc.ca.edgesuite.netcanonical name = a1849.gc.akamai.net. Name: a1849.gc.akamai.net Address: 142.176.121.5 Name: a1849.gc.akamai.net Address: 142.176.121.8 Does this mean that I'm using 127.0.0.1 as my name server? That's what I want isn't it? dig produces: tyler:bind-> dig ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24999 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: . 508217 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS k.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 508217 IN NS j.root-servers.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: a.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 198.41.0.4 b.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.228.79.201 c.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.33.4.12 d.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 128.8.10.90 e.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.203.230.10 f.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.5.5.241 g.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.112.36.4 h.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 128.63.2.53 i.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.36.148.17 j.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 192.58.128.30 k.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 193.0.14.129 l.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 198.32.64.12 m.root-servers.net. 508217 IN A 202.12.27.33 ;; Query time: 6 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Oct 20 16:02:07 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 436 tyler:bind-> Thanks for your help. I know these are very basic questions. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update failure
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:59:19PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Thanks for all the comments. > > Yes, Andrew, you are absolutely correct, I didn't read the output from > aptitude carefully enough, partly because I didn't understand what much of > it meant. So I'm especially grateful for your tutorial. > > Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h shows below > there is still some space left in / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/redcube-root > 268M 215M 40M 85% / ... > > A better solution would be to move some space from /home to / , and perhaps > to /usr. My HD has a big, non-encrypted partition for everything except > /boot created by Logical Volume Management. This should make shifting > space around fairly straight forward, although I don't yet know how to do > it. I'll read the literature on this and if I'm confused I'll start another > thread on LVM. man resize2fs man lvresize backup! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 21:51:37 +0200, andreas DOT ronnquist AT gmail DOT com wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:21:24 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 04:40:17 +0200, andreas DOT ronnquist AT gmail DOT > > com wrote: > > > I'm on an etch box running XFCE, and now I would like to play with Gnome > > > some (after a long pause from it). Trying to install > > > gnome-desktop-environment (or other packages pulling in gnome) using > > > aptitude I run into some unmet dependencies and clashes gamin->fam. Is > > > there a smooth way around this on an Etch machine? > > > > The solution proposed by aptitude seems reasonable to me. libgamin0 > > provides and replaces both libfam0c102 and libfam0, so any feature that > > relies on FAM libraries should also work with gamin installed. > > Furthermore, the package description of gamin states that it "has been > > designed as a drop-in replacement for FAM". > > I was a bit worried it would screw up my xfce install, but discovered > that running aptitude --without-recommends did the trick. Maybe my previous message was not clear enough (I did not want to make a stronger statement since you did not post the full list of what aptitude wanted to do): As far as the fam vs. gamin problem is concerned, aptitude figured out the correct course of action all by itself. It proposed to ignore the recommendation of fam by these two packages and to leave fam uninstalled, thus keeping gamin intact on your system, for both XFCE and Gnome to use. All you had to do was to accept the proposed solution. Running aptitude --without-recommends sidestepped the problem, but now you might be missing some Gnome features which are implemented by other recommended packages. You could run aptitude in interactive mode, press "l" to limit the package view and enter !~i~Rrecommends:~i as the criterion. This will limit the display to packages which are not installed even though they are recommended by packages which are installed. Then you can go over this list, check the descriptions and decide if you need any of these recommended packages. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update on: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:48:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > I still cannot wifi with my laptop but I can see that the laptop is > > sending it's DHCP requests to the network, I can see the request being > > answered by the server but somehow/somewhere the the response gets lost. > > > > If I try to make a connection through the NetworkManager I see (using > > tcpdump) the following traffic. > > I don't trust NetworkManager, FWIW. > > I've been playing with this a bit and have gotten mine to work > reliably in the house here connecting to an ad-hoc network. I'm just > using iwconfig and ifconfig > > iwconfig eth2 essid "blah" > iwconfig eth2 key restricted s:foo > ifconfig eth2 up also need (for my ad-hoc config) iwconfig eth2 mode ad-hoc one more thing I've learned, at least for my steup: power saving doesn't work. If I set any of the power-saving modes I get lots of dropped packets, no web access, and my ssh sessions lockup until I turn it back off. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Linux stuck when serial cable is disconnected
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:09:37AM -0700, hagit wrote: > I am running on a MIPS machine, with my kernel and debian distribution > (file system). > The kernel messages are configured to get out from the serial > connection, i.e. serial console. > When the serial output of my MIPS is connected to my PC everything is > OK and I can see the outputs in the terminal. > When I disconnect the serial cable my Linux get stuck. Even my telnet > connection doesnt responds. > When I re-connect the serial everything is OK again. > Do you know what can be the problem? > I am working with HW flow control? can it be the problem? Sure. HW is telling the serial port that the kernel thinks is its console that it is not Clear To Send; so it waits. Do you have another device that could also be a console? I.e. on a normal i386 with both a VGA console and a serial console, the console messages will go to both. If the serial is disconnected, the kernel can still send to the VGA. I don't know MIPS to know what other console options there are. I could be wrong and its not hardware flow-control (RTS/CTS) that's the problem but things like DSR and DTR. You could try tying DSR and DTR together at the cable end so that it gets its own signal. Or, I could be totally wrong and the kernel should be able to send to the console serial port even if nothing is connected. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update failure
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:59:19PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h shows below > there is still some space left in / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/redcube-root > 268M 215M 40M 85% / > tmpfs 471M 0 471M 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 52K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 471M 0 471M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda1 236M 28M 197M 13% /boot > /dev/mapper/redcube-home > 136G 12G 118G 9% /home > /dev/mapper/redcube-tmp > 380M 11M 350M 3% /tmp > /dev/mapper/redcube-usr > 4.7G 3.4G 1.1G 76% /usr > /dev/mapper/redcube-var > 2.9G 293M 2.4G 11% /var > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > However, now I understand that the remaining room is not sufficient for > aptitude to do its work. With separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp, 268 MB should be more than adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the one that currently runs, and room for one to be updated. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: naive bind question
On 20 Oct 2007 19:09:06 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked at dig and also nslookup. nslookup produces: > > tyler:bind-> nslookup > > www.cbc.ca > Server: 127.0.0.1 > Address:127.0.0.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > www.cbc.ca canonical name = www.cbc.ca.edgesuite.net. > www.cbc.ca.edgesuite.netcanonical name = a1849.gc.akamai.net. > Name: a1849.gc.akamai.net > Address: 142.176.121.5 > Name: a1849.gc.akamai.net > Address: 142.176.121.8 > > Does this mean that I'm using 127.0.0.1 as my name server? That's what I want > isn't it? I'm not so good at dns, but that looks good. I think you do have a working caching name server. For dig try: "dig @127.0.0.1 cbc.ca" The @ sign means use the dns server at the following address. The next argument is what record to look up. Cheer, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install help
You could have a bad cable running from the affected computer to the router. Why not try a cable swap and find out if you can take another of your machines down? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openssh and avoiding multiplexed connections
Even after re-reading the man page a few times, I'm unclear as to how I can open a new connection to the same host without re-using the master connection if ControlMaster is set to auto in ~/.ssh/config. In other words, if I have an existing forward opened with -fN, but I want a fresh connection instead of multiplexing the existing socket, how can I do that on the command line? Am I missing something obvious? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install help
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:00:17 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:39:20PM -, Ed wrote: >> >> >> Interesting. From the affected machine, I can NOT ping 192.168.1.1 but >> from affected machine, I CAN ping other machines on my local lan. I >> can > > can your *other* machines ping to 192.168.1.1? > > I think maybe you've got some architecture issues in your network. Maybe > you are somehow misusing an uplink port on a switch or something like > that? > >> not ping anything on the internet from the affected machine, but can >> from any other machine on my home lan. The output of 'route' looks >> essentially the same on the affected machine as it does on working > > essentially the same means different, so how about providing us a > working and non working route? > >> machines. So, I think it is definietely some kind of problem with my >> router/old machine. (This old machine 'used' to work with win95 and >> also redhad 7.0 through the same router and dsl modem and same network >> card years ago.) > > what are you using for a router? maybe you've somehow cnofigured a > firewall such that this machine is not allowed out? Is your whole lan on > dhcp? if so, are any of the "statically" defined? is your > router/firewall limiting which parts of the address range are allowed > out? do you have separate dhcp ranges with different rules? can you try > giving the install machine a fixed ip for the install process? can you > plug the machine directly into the router just for the install and if so > does that help? (that would have the effect of removing all other > variables and help pinpoint the error). Maybe you've got a borked dhcp > system and its assigning the same address to multiple machines? etc etc > etc > > there are many possible causes or work around for this issue. Hopefully, > I've spurred you to find something > > > A Hi Andrew, You ask great questions - THANKS Here are some answers. On the machine that does NOT reach the Internet, here is the output from route command. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 Here is the output from ifconfig command. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:1E:66:90 inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:10462 (10.2 KiB) TX bytes:5752 (5.6 KiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6200 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4352 (4.2 KiB) TX bytes:4352 (4.2 KiB) On a machine that DOES work, here is the output from route command. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 And on machine that DOES work, here is output from ifcongig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:24:89:1A inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fe24:891a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1158648 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:729749 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1555494197 (1.4 GiB) TX bytes:69461364 (66.2 MiB) Interrupt:5 Base address:0x6000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9376692 (8.9 MiB) TX bytes:9376692 (8.9 MiB) >From the bad machine, I can ping the good machine and vice versa. From the good machine, I can ping the router at 192.168.1.1 but from the bad machine, I can NOT ping the router - I get Destination Unreachable. >From the good maching, I can ping linux.csua.berkeley.edu which is at 169.229.49.36, but from the bad machine, I can not ping 169.229.49.36, again getting Destination Host Un
Re: Compiz-fusion trouble
Bogdan Marian wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having this issues with Compiz-Fusion on Debian Etch, nVidia FX5200, > KDE: > > 1. I can't start fusion-icon: > > * Detected Session: kde > * Searching for installed applications... > * NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING > * Using the GTK Interface > * PyGtk 2.10.0 or later required > ... Trying another interface > * Using the Qt4 Interface > * No module named PyQt4 > ... Trying another interface > * Using the Qt3 Interface > * Interface not installed > *** Error: All interfaces failed, aborting! > > 2. i get 16 desktops ( Desktop1 is multiplicated ) > > Any thoughts? :) > > Bogdan > > 1. Although I'm using the shame repo right now but it also worked with the regular unstable repository. With KDE I think you need to install compiz-kde if you don't have it already. 2. If you already have 4 desktop workspaces, they were getting multiplied when compiz started. I think I made a change in the number of desktops in the compizconfig-settings-manager ... which isn't starting for me right now :( HTH /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clamdscan error
I'm getting the following error with clamdscan: $ formail -ds < $MAIL | clamdscan --disable-summary --stdout - WARNING: Can't write to the socket. Clamscan works fine, and so does piping an individual file into clamdscan, so there seems to be a problem with clamdscan and larger pipes. What should I do? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openssh and avoiding multiplexed connections
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:12:18 -0700 "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even after re-reading the man page a few times, I'm unclear as to how > I can open a new connection to the same host without re-using the > master connection if ControlMaster is set to auto in ~/.ssh/config. > > In other words, if I have an existing forward opened with -fN, but I > want a fresh connection instead of multiplexing the existing socket, > how can I do that on the command line? Am I missing something obvious? > You could force a new connection as follows: ssh -o ControlPath=none -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update failure
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:44:54 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do > you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the > one that currently runs, and room for one to be updated. I usually have at least one custom compiled one, and one stock Debian one. The latter is indispensable for ascertaining that some problem or lack of functionality is due to my custom (mis)configuration, and for quickly getting that functionality if I need it immediately. I also like to keep one or two older ones around in case there's some kind of regression and for possible help in pinpointing exactly when some change occurred. > Doug. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install help
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:24:58PM -, Ed wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > You ask great questions - THANKS I'm just going through the same process I would for my own systems. It a matter of asking more and more questions until you hit the one that does it. :) > Here are some answers. > > On the machine that does NOT reach the Internet, here is the output from > route command. > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 > eth0 > default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 > > Here is the output from ifconfig command. > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:1E:66:90 > inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:10462 (10.2 KiB) TX bytes:5752 (5.6 KiB) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6200 > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:4352 (4.2 KiB) TX bytes:4352 (4.2 KiB) that all looks good. you could try traceroute on your bad machine and see what happens. but I doubt that's available from the installer > > On a machine that DOES work, here is the output from route command. > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 > eth0 > 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 > eth0 don't sweat that entry. its from avahi-daemon or something like that. > default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 > eth0 > > And on machine that DOES work, here is output from ifcongig > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:24:89:1A > inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fe24:891a/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1158648 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:729749 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:1555494197 (1.4 GiB) TX bytes:69461364 (66.2 MiB) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x6000 > > loLink encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:2454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:2454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:9376692 (8.9 MiB) TX bytes:9376692 (8.9 MiB) > it all looks good to me. I'm down to two suggestions: 1) follow Jude's advice and swap cables around. Be sure to do it methodically so you can test both the cable and the ports on your switch. 2) complete the install without configuring apt, and reboot. It may just work. You can always configure apt later and get more installing done after that. If it still doesn't work, then I'd look at tcpdump perhaps as a way to try and see what's happening, but that's out of my league. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Update failure
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:00:06PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:44:54 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do > > you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the > > one that currently runs, and room for one to be updated. > > I usually have at least one custom compiled one, and one stock Debian > one. The latter is indispensable for ascertaining that some problem or > lack of functionality is due to my custom (mis)configuration, and for > quickly getting that functionality if I need it immediately. I also > like to keep one or two older ones around in case there's some kind of > regression and for possible help in pinpointing exactly when some change > occurred. > I have to second that. have enough room in /boot for at leas the current kernel and one previous, known working, one. plus enough room for the next upgrade. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Update failure
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:00:06PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:44:54 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do > > you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the > > one that currently runs, and room for one to be updated. > > I usually have at least one custom compiled one, and one stock Debian > one. The latter is indispensable for ascertaining that some problem or > lack of functionality is due to my custom (mis)configuration, and for > quickly getting that functionality if I need it immediately. I also > like to keep one or two older ones around in case there's some kind of > regression and for possible help in pinpointing exactly when some change > occurred. I figured that only kernel developers need to compile custom kernels :) OK, so one stock that works, one custom that works, room for a new custom to test, and room for a new stock to test. That's room for four kernels, their initrds, and their modules in lib. So how big a / does that mean if the usual separate filesystems are used? And how big does that make /boot should someone need a separate /boot (e.g. / is on LVM over raid1 with /boot on a separate raid1)? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkboot -- "if GRUB is installed it does nothing .."
This is what "man mkboot" tells me. "If GRUB is installed, it does nothing. If LILO is in use, it runs /sbin/lilo. If SILO is installed, it does nothing. Otherwise, mkboot will make a new bootdisk." Well that's not true. lilo is not installed on this system and yet when I ran mkboot it did create a boot floppy alright. I was installing a new kernel and as recommended by Kevin McKinley's excellent document: "Creating custom kernels with Debian's kernel-package system" I decided to create a boot floppy just in case. As usual I had no problem booting either the new or the old kernel but I was never able to boot off of the floppy created by "mkboot". Couldn't find the "root system" or something. Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a thing of the past? Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable? If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for us grub guys? Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkboot -- "if GRUB is installed it does nothing .."
> Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue > disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a > thing of the past? > > Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable? > > If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for > us grub guys? With 2.6 kernels being so big, plus needing an initrd, I haven't seen an acutal boot floppy since 2.4 days with Woody. To just get to a Grub prompt, you can create a grub disk, either following the directions in the docs or by installing grub-disk and then dd'ing the image file it gives you. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arecord and level meters
Hello, If I have a recoding going on using arecord (perhaps automated by using the at command) in the background, is there any way I can see the input meter levels by logging in to the machine? At present, on Debian Testing, if I am recording using arecord and fire up audacity just to check the input levels in audacity, I get this and no monitoring of levels: $> audacity& [1] 17219 $> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm] Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 786 Expression 'ValidateParameters( inputParameters, hostApi, StreamDirection_In )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1774 Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 786 Expression 'ValidateParameters( inputParameters, hostApi, StreamDirection_In )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1774 Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 786 Expression 'ValidateParameters( inputParameters, hostApi, StreamDirection_In )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1774 But if I am not running arecord, audacity shows the levels properly. Probably some trouble with device sharing(?) So, how do I go about seeing the input levels while arecord is working in the background? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chroot weirdness with hostnames
I've created a chroot and placed "sid" into the /etc/debian_chroot file inside the jail. If I use schroot as a mortal, I see the chroot hostname, but if I change to the chroot as root, or su to root inside the chroot itself, I see the original hostname. Why isn't the chrooted-root account seeing the /etc/debian_chroot name at the bash prompt? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mkboot -- "if GRUB is installed it does nothing .."
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:12:27PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue > > disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a > > thing of the past? > > > > Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable? > > > > If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for > > us grub guys? > > With 2.6 kernels being so big, plus needing an initrd, I haven't seen an > acutal boot floppy since 2.4 days with Woody. Yes, like folks .. they seem to be getting plumper with every new generation. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1366960 2007-02-21 10:56 vmlinuz-2.6.20.1.20070221 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365560 2007-10-19 22:30 vmlinuz-2.6.23.20071019 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1013692 2004-12-13 17:54 vmlinuz-2.4.27.041213 Not sure about the initrd, though. /boot on this machine does not have anything that looks like one. .. config .. System.map .. and vmlinuz .. that's it. Have they moved it to some other location? Or is it that I wisely built in everything that's needed at boot time? > To just get to a Grub prompt, you can create a grub disk, either > following the directions in the docs .. like grub's man page? .. would you be referring to the Texinfo manual? :-) > or by installing grub-disk and then dd'ing the image file it gives > you. OK. Looks like I need to grab the grub manual. lilo used to have _two_ manuals with all the gory details exposed .. a short user manual and a much longer reference manual IIRC (?) but as far as grub is concerned I haven't seen anything that comes close. Probably looked in the wrong places as usual. I'll give it another try tomorrow. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chroot weirdness with hostnames
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:34 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I've created a chroot and placed "sid" into the /etc/debian_chroot file
> inside the jail. If I use schroot as a mortal, I see the chroot
> hostname, but if I change to the chroot as root, or su to root inside
> the chroot itself, I see the original hostname.
>
> Why isn't the chrooted-root account seeing the /etc/debian_chroot name
> at the bash prompt?
The following assumes that you are referring to the hostname displayed
as part of your shell prompt.
I believe that if you check the respective .bashrc of these accounts,
you will find that the "mortal" account contains something like this:
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" -a -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color)
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;[EMAIL
PROTECTED]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
;;
*)
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '
;;
esac
Whereas the root account does not. Add these lines to the root .bashrc,
and your root prompt will also reflect the current chroot.
-davidc
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Re: clamdscan error
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 14:51 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm getting the following error with clamdscan: > > $ formail -ds < $MAIL | clamdscan --disable-summary --stdout - > WARNING: Can't write to the socket. > > Clamscan works fine, and so does piping an individual file into > clamdscan, so there seems to be a problem with clamdscan and larger > pipes. What should I do? > Have you checked to ensure that clamd is, in fact, running? If not, it would explain why clamscan works, and clamdscan (which passes the scanning off to the clamav daemon) does not. -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Wiki page automation (POST method with urlencode)
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 11:14 -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:49:58PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am looking for tool to create application/x-www-form-urlencoded data. > > > > Here is the background. > > > > As I use wiki.debian.org sometime but I was tired of slow response. So > > I now use local wiki to edit text fist and cut-and-pase to > > wiki.debian.org. > > > > Then I was wondering how to do this more efficiently > > This is not what you're asking for/about, but mediawikiafs aims to > map from/to a 'mediawiki' wiki as an ordinary filesystem, so you > can edit files locally and so on. It handles the wiki interface, > and maybe it'd be worth seeing how they do it. It only works for > the mediawiki flavor, so may or may not be applicable directly. > > I'll be interested in seeing other responses to your query, as I > have a hard time editing using browsers. I wonder if there's a > browser which uses a vi-like interface?... > There's always vimperator (http://vimperator.mozdev.org/). I vacillate between thinking that this is incredibly cool, and thinking that it is completely insane. -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Where is linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb?
Hi, I installed Debian with kernel 2.6.18-4 on my PC, but I could not find linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb, I can only find a linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-7_i386.deb which caused error when I install it.Where can I find linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb? Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
