Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?
On Ma, 08 ian 13, 17:20:37, J B wrote: > Hello, > > Since long new packages are not coming in wheezy. As it is in frozen state. > Does anyone has any idea when can we get new versions again ? Probably never. Wheezy will only get security and major bug fixes until its end of life. If you need newer versions some package managers are uploading to experimental (in order not to disturb the release). Hope this explains, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to make snd-aloop use index 0?
On Ma, 08 ian 13, 10:35:53, Robert Latest wrote: > Hello Andrej, > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > Try removing all snd- modules and then manually inserting snd-aloop with > > option index=0. > > I tried that, and it works. So, technically, my problem is solved - > but what I'm after is a solution that works automatically on each > boot-up. At least you know it's possible ;) I'd try with 'option snd-hda-intel index=-1' Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Local copy of ALL man pages
On Jo, 10 ian 13, 15:11:44, Darac Marjal wrote: > > I think I have found the solution to your problem. In the debian-goodies > package there is a program called "debmany" that will show a man page > from an installed or uninstalled package. It seems to rely on fetching > the manpages from a repository, so you would need to make a local > repository out of all those *.deb files, but that's a common enough > task. Bash's auto-complete found also debman. Both seem to be able to extract manpages from a given .deb as well. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installing Debian on an SSD
Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Earlier in this mailing list there has been much discussion about > > partition alignments because people see what looks like wasted space > > but is there specifically to work with the new advanced format > > partitioning. It will work fine. > > [snip] > > I'm the one who started the discussion. Can you elaborate on the > details of why the "gapping" is needed? Or a reference link would > be even better. As far as I know all SSDs use the Advanced Format 4k sector size. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_format And therefore need to be aligned properly to avoid wasted block reads. I don't have a list of known good references but searching just now turned up these that seemed interesting and useful. YMMV. I am sure I missed many other excellent references. http://blog.nuclex-games.com/2009/12/aligning-an-ssd-on-linux/ http://lifehacker.com/5837769/make-sure-your-partitions-are-correctly-aligned-for-optimal-solid-state-drive-performance http://tytso.livejournal.com/2009/02/20/ Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem - Solved
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 07:54:54AM -0500, Lázaro wrote: > Thread name: "Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem" > Mail number: 3 > Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 > In reply to: Darac Marjal > > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:38:31AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > I have had the following problem for months but didn't want to break my > > > system: > > > The answers I have found like install ruby1.9.1-dev give the same prpblem. > > > > > > /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot > > > load such file -- > > > > I'm not an expert in ruby by a long shot, but "--" is used as a comment > > marker in some languages. Have a look at the specified line in the > > specified file (line 36 in /usr/lib/.../custom_require.rb) and see if > > there's a line commented out. That line might be illegal in ruby. > > just like bash, use # as comment, ruby is not so weird > > > If > > so, try removing the line and trying again. > > > > I suggest purge the debian's ruby and compile your own. For dependency > problems you can use "equivs" and simulate an installed ruby. If you > will work with gems, debian's version would crunch your head... That inspired me to use dpkg to purge the file. That allowed to continue updating. Unfortunately I ended up with a broken system and reinstalled. Thanks for everyone's help!! Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130111063931.ga8...@joy2.joy
Re: Installing Debian on an SSD
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > Sorry, Bob, but I disagree. I could be wrong. :-) The part in particular I am thinking of is the installer partitioning the SSD disk. I didn't think the Squeeze installer did 4k byte alignment. I thought it did only 512 byte alignment. If the partitions are not aligned then performance will suffer. Since as far as I know all SSD devices use 4k alignments. > I installed Squeeze on an SSD both four months ago on my own new box > and last weekend on my husband's, both times with no issues at all > that were due to the SSD. I run Squeeze just fine on my SSD too. But I recall that I needed to force the alignment prior to installing. Could you check your disk alignment? # sfdisk -d /dev/sda Bad (for SSDs, okay for spinning disks): /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 995967, Id=83 Good: /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 997376, Id=83 If it says 2048 and you didn't do anything to force it then I am wrong and Squeeze supports it okay. And thank you for correcting me. :-) I had remembered needing to force the alignment. But maybe that was in the previous release and I am simply confusing the two. I am sure that the Wheezy 7.0 installer sets up the alignment properly. > The only "problem" was that I do net installs, and there was a > driver issue with the ethernet card on the newer box. But that is a > motherboard problem, not an SSD one. > > I did not install Gnome, which may, of course, be relevant. I agree that neither of those is relevant. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Wheezy is not booting after install
Steve Dierker wrote: > I decided to check the SiliconImage SATA controller first, so I > unplugged it from the mainboard including both hard drives connected > to it. Good. > Then I booted the system and voilà GRUB was appearing normaly and I > could but the system with some failures because two hard drives where > missing. Yay! > Ok, so grub has a problem with the SiliconImage controller. But is > there anyway to fix that? I don't have good suggestions. Sorry. But I would plug the PCI card in but without any drives in the SATA port. Then boot. This should boot because without any drives it should scan past it and boot from the main sata ports. Assuming that works then you can get to the card id information. Record the lspci -v output for that card. With that information it should be possible to search the web for more information. And also post that information here and maybe there will be help here. $ lspci -v But that will produce a lot of output and only the section about the SiliconImage PCI card is desired. Brainstorm ideas would be to install the latest experimental 3.7-trunk kernel. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: What happens when you upgrade a package with modified config files?
David Guntner wrote: > Dom grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On 08/01/13 19:25, David Guntner wrote: > >> If, as someone else replied, it at least leaves a copy of the new config > >> file behind with a .new extension or whatever, then I guess I can at > >> least go through the process manually. What fun! > > > > It does. If you choose to retain your customised file it will save the > > new version with a ".dpkg-new" extension (iirc), and if you choose to > > replace your config it'll save your version with ".dpkg-old" on the end. > > Cool, that's good to know. Thanks! > > > (I think I got those the right way around) > > :-) After upgrade you should look for all of the configuration files that are different and deal with them as you desire. I always remove or move the extra ones out of the way so that I can look through the etc directory easier in the future and not need to look at the same files again and again. After an upgrade look for files: find /etc -name '*.dpkg*' -print find /etc -name '*.ucf*' -print The name will make it obvious where it is old or new. foo.dpkg-new or foo.dpkg-old or foo.dpkg-dist and so forth. The "ucf" files are the same thing but that use the ucf (Update Configuration File) program to manage this instead of dpkg. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Solved! (Re: Now won't boot (was: Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other
Hendrik Boom wrote: > The first problem was that I hadn't fixed up mdadm.conf and hadn't > rebuilt initrd. > That fixed, I could find the gpt partitions. Yay! > But reconfiguring the kernel package also had the effect of > overwriting my boot disk, and the version of the system I > was running happened not to have a proper lilo configuration, > so I ended up with an unusable boot floppy. I am sure that I don't understand your boot arrangement. There is the MBR and then "/boot" and then "/" in the boot sequence. If you are booting from floppies then your MBR is on the floppy. It sounds like your /boot is on the floppy too? If I remember correctly, it has been a while since I used lilo, it is required for lilo to update the MBR with the updated boot information. If you are using lilo then the lilo boot area must be re-frozen with the new kernel boot information every time the kernel is updated. When using grub this is different. Grub uses a multi-stage boot loader. The MBR portion doesn't change. It reads the configuration from the filesystem. So with grub the MBR no no need for updates. As I recall in the Lenny 5.0 release notes when using grub it was recommended that the MBR should be updated with the latest bits since it isn't otherwise updated and there had been changes in that release cycle. With both grub and lilo it will update the /boot/initrd.img-X.Y.Z-$ARCH matching the currently running kernel. But that is what we wanted. > The lilo.conf was out of date, and referred to a nonexistent > root partitino. Out of date because of the recent changes in disks? That sounds like the root of the problem. Good that you were able to debug to that point. > Somehow, the boot process failed to notice this and instead > of the kernel complaining about not having a root partition, > it complained about the absence of /sbin/init. That does seem odd. > Or maybe it found a stray partition and happened to mount it on > /root, uselessly. Hard to say. I don't think it mounts "stray" partitions. > When I use the mount command in the initramfs shell all it'll rell > me is that /dev/root is mounted on /. Not very informative. Nope. > But I managed to boot using an old lilo floppy left over from > another Linux I had on the machine a while ago. > It still had the ability to boot into squeeze but with an very > old kernel. I immediately write-protected the floppy, just > in case. Good idea! > Using that, I could edit the lilo.conf file. I inserted a variety > of stanzas, requesting different kernels and specifying the (same) > root partition in a variety of ways. Yay! System mostly rescued. > root=/dev/mapper/VG1-squeezeroot worked. > root=/dev/VG1/squeezeroot did not. > Both the old and new kernels would boot and find the gpt partitiions, > but only the new kernel could access the ext4 file systems on > them. Ah, yes, because ext4 is newer than those kernels. Makes sense. > But what still doesn't work is booting with grub2. I thing the BIOS > is having a hard time figuring out which of my four hard drives to boot. > I suppose it's time to look into the BIOS parameters and/or switch cables > connecting the disks to the disk controller cards. I have debugged one issue lately where the motherboard silkscreen labels for the SATA ports were different from what the BIOS order reported. That is, SATA 0 mapped to BIOS 4, SATA 1 to BIOS 2, and so forth in a strange order. The motherboard labels were mismatched from the BIOS order. I had to determine the correct mapping so that I could get my boot drive into the BIOS SATA 0 position. The standard BIOS will try to boot from the lowest numbered SATA port. For example if disks are in SATA 2 and SATA 3 then it will try to boot from 2. If in SATA 0 and SATA 1 then it will try to boot from SATA 0. That lowest SATA port disk is the disk that should be your desired boot disk with the MBR on it. Any other disk order won't work. This is sometimes confusing. Adding new disks can cause the "first" BIOS disk to change to a different disk. For example if you had previously had disks in 2 & 3 with the system booting fine from number 2 and then added new disks to 0 & 1. It would then try to boot from 0 and unless an MBR had been installed there it will fail. I always order the cables so that the BIOS order meets my desire of which disk I want to have as the boot disk. After the kernel has booted almost all of the modern systems such as mdadm, lvm, the fstab use filesystem UUIDs to identify the drives. So after the kernel has booted everything using UUIDs will be okay regardless of the disk cable ordering. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Kwallet + Networkmanager
On 11.01.2013 04:40, Beco wrote: > On 10 January 2013 12:12, wrote: >> Aptitude said me that networkmanager is a software which does not seem to >> have a dedicated desktop environment (it's website is located at gnome.org, >> but I did not see any gnome dependencies in it, simply some modules usable >> but not mandatory for gnome). On the other hand, kwallet, seeing it name, >> sounds like a KDE's softwares. >> >> I bet on compatibility problems. >> >> The solution is probably to use a KDE equivalent of networkmanager, but I >> can not help you on a name: I do not use desktop environments :) >> > I'll try to find some "k" network manager as a possible solution, it > sounds reasonable. If you want desktop integration for KDE, use "plasma-widget-networkmanagement" network-manager is just the core daemon. GNOME shell uses and integrated NM client, GNOME 2 and 3 classic use network-manager-gnome and KDE the aforementioned plasma-widget-networkmanagement. This ensures best possible desktop integration. In case of KDE and pnm, that also means kwallet. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Kwallet + Networkmanager
On 10 January 2013 12:12, wrote: > Aptitude said me that networkmanager is a software which does not seem to > have a dedicated desktop environment (it's website is located at gnome.org, > but I did not see any gnome dependencies in it, simply some modules usable > but not mandatory for gnome). On the other hand, kwallet, seeing it name, > sounds like a KDE's softwares. > > I bet on compatibility problems. > > The solution is probably to use a KDE equivalent of networkmanager, but I > can not help you on a name: I do not use desktop environments :) > Hum... funny... Never tought of that (about desktop environments) I'll try to find some "k" network manager as a possible solution, it sounds reasonable. Thx for now. I may report back. Beco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caluyw2xtt9q9sjzxgsnuk_1gh2kymw7oqe9uujsydgntbap...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Using wheezy or squeeze.
> > If you're > really paranoid, I suppose you have three servers: Live, Copy-of-Live > and Development. :) I wouldn't call that paranoid at all, I'd call that good practice... Use 'stable' (Copy-of-Live) to check your application will run ok with the packages/versions available on squeeze. Sometimes it'll mean falling back to backports, creating your own backport, or adjusting your application. I've found such problems on several occasions - developing on testing and finding a dependency wasn't available in squeeze, was too old to support feature X, or a library's API had changed. Use 'testing' (Development) to check there're no surprises when testing becomes the new stable. One memorable one that came up in the lenny->squeeze transition was the removal of the MySQL Cluster engine from MySQL Server between 5.0 and 5.1 (the projects forked). -Steve On 9 January 2013 13:48, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:25:47AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:58:01AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: >> > This is the whole point of the testing distribution, AFAIUI. You run >> > 'stable' on your production server and 'testing' on your development >> > server. >> >> Really? >> >> Wouldn't you want your development server/environment to be setup as >> close as possible to your production server? > > For most of the lifespan, yes. But at some point you need to start > looking at the new version of the OS and start working out how you're > going to upgrade the production server with minimal fuss. If you're > really paranoid, I suppose you have three servers: Live, Copy-of-Live > and Development. :) > >> >> BTW, I believe development, and upgrading from one stable distribution >> to the next one as two different concepts. >> >> -- >> "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people >> who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the >> oppressing." --- Malcolm X >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130109112547.GA28651@tal >>
Re: employee attendance system
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Gordon Haverland wrote: > Are you familiar with FreeCode.com? It used to be known as > Freshmeat.net. It is one place where FOSS gets advertised. The > following projects seem to be active, and solve your problems. I > have not used any of them. The freecode pages have links to the > software. > > > TimeTrex - AGPL > http://freecode.com/projects/timetrex > > OrangeHRM - GPL > http://freecode.com/projects/orangehrm > > phpgw - GPL > http://freecode.com/projects/phpgwtimetrack > > PHP Timeclock - GPL > http://freecode.com/projects/timeclock > > SimpleHRM - AGPL > http://freecode.com/projects/simplehrm > > Timeclock software - GPL > http://freecode.com/projects/timeclock-software > > Gord Thanks this seems quite interesting. i think i need to try them Thanks a lot, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMnxBC_2wAYKW0DO7p5kHM-543kDQR9TVSDR5f40p6R=z...@mail.gmail.com
bnx2 netboot FW problem
Hi, I'm trying to clone many servers at once using DRBL live + Clonezilla, I'm using the las version of DRBL from the site and I came across with the folowing problem: I have HP DL385G7 servers, those comes with 4 Broadcom Netextreme II interfaces with work fine on the DRBL live CD and some others I tested, the BNX2 module loads fine and the firwmare is loaded whitout an issue too. The problem arises when I set up the enviroment for the other servers boot so I can clone them with clonezilla, the PXE stage works fine and both the pxe kernel and initrd loads normally, but when the time comes for the interfaces to get linked I get the following message: bxn2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw" I assumed that the module cannot find the firmware, but I think that's not the case because the files are in place in the initrd image (/lib/firmare/bnx2). Then I tryed getting both the module and the FW inside the kernel but I get a similar error: firmware: agent did not handle request for bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw I'm using the kernel that comes with DRBL which is 3.2.0-4-amd64.img and I compliled 3.2.35 using debian packages. I think the problem is something missing in the initrd enviroment prevents the firmware to be loaded, but I cannot pinpoint the problem, hope someone can shed some light here Regards -- /* Luis Vinay XTech - Soluciones Linux para empresas */
Solved! (Re: Now won't boot (was: Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:45:10 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:42:24 -0500, Tom H wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:20:45 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Won't boot. Gets stick at the initramfs prompt after complaining >> that it can't run /sbin/init >> >> I look with ls, and discover that /sbin exists, bit is totally >> empty. that seems a good reason to be unable to run /sbin/init. > > Does seem to be a good reason. I can't remember what is in the bin > directories of an initrd bootstrapping image. Pretty sure there is at > least something in /sbin though. And noting that for the most part I > think you will be working out of a busybox shell which is used to > reduce the amount of file system storage space needed in that early > boot time environment. Would it really be complaining about missing /sbin/init on the initrd ramdisk, or about /sbin/init being missing on the real root partition, which could be caused by not having mounted it yet? >>> >>> There isn't a "/sbin/init" in the initramfs. There's "/init", a shell >>> script. >>> >>> You've reached the point where the initramfs expects the root fs to >>> have been moved. It seems to have failed but I don't understand why >>> there's an empty "/sbin" rather than no "/sbin". >> >> I've taken the initrds apart for the kernel that boots and the kernel >> that doesn't boot. They both seem to have everything they ought to and >> not the empty directories I'm seeing. >> >> That isn't the problem. > > Of course it isn't the problem but it's weird. > > Have you tried to boot with "break=bottom" and assembling > disks/partitions manually? The first problem was that I hadn't fixed up mdadm.conf and hadn't rebuilt initrd. That fixed, I could find the gpt partitions. But reconfiguring the kernel package also had the effect of overwriting my boot disk, and the version of the system I was running happened not to have a proper lilo configuration, so I ended up with an unusable boot floppy. The lilo.conf was out of date, and referred to a nonexistent root partitino. Somehow, the boot process failed to notice this and instead of the kernel complaining about not having a root partition, it complained about the absence of /sbin/init. Or maybe it found a stray partition and happened to mount it on /root, uselessly. Hard to say. When I use the mount command in the initramfs shell all it'll rell me is that /dev/root is mounted on /. Not very informative. But I managed to boot using an old lilo floppy left over from another Linux I had on the machine a while ago. It still had the ability to boot into squeeze but with an very old kernel. I immediately write-protected the floppy, just in case. Using that, I could edit the lilo.conf file. I inserted a variety of stanzas, requesting different kernels and specifying the (same) root partition in a variety of ways. root=/dev/mapper/VG1-squeezeroot worked. root=/dev/VG1/squeezeroot did not. Both the old and new kernels would boot and find the gpt partitiions, but only the new kernel could access the ext4 file systems on them. But what still doesn't work is booting with grub2. I thing the BIOS is having a hard time figuring out which of my four hard drives to boot. I suppose it's time to look into the BIOS parameters and/or switch cables connecting the disks to the disk controller cards. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kcn46r$kf0$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: minidrive: Spinning up disk ... .not responding ...
testdisk has photorec, might help. --- On Thu, 1/10/13, Albretch Mueller wrote: > From: Albretch Mueller > Subject: minidrive: Spinning up disk ... .not responding ... > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, January 10, 2013, 10:05 AM > I need to extract the data from a > Western Digital (1 TB My Passport > 0740) mini disk that started to fail > ~ > > http://hsymbolicus.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/bus-powered-or-not-port-on-wd-1t-minidrive/ > ~ > The disk does not even show when you run fdisk -l, so you > can't even > mount it to run smartctl on it > ~ > After opening it, I realized it had other types of > connectors, but I > can't identify what they are > ~ > Any hopes or tips to get the data? > ~ > thanks > lbrtchx > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/CAFakBwhG0hiWyFrr-_tq4Dn_YaKH3fbeXWzA=5ocgxqdkl1...@mail.gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357841771.3190.yahoomailclas...@web120105.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
minidrive: Spinning up disk ... .not responding ...
I need to extract the data from a Western Digital (1 TB My Passport 0740) mini disk that started to fail ~ http://hsymbolicus.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/bus-powered-or-not-port-on-wd-1t-minidrive/ ~ The disk does not even show when you run fdisk -l, so you can't even mount it to run smartctl on it ~ After opening it, I realized it had other types of connectors, but I can't identify what they are ~ Any hopes or tips to get the data? ~ thanks lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFakBwhG0hiWyFrr-_tq4Dn_YaKH3fbeXWzA=5ocgxqdkl1...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Problem to run debian testing on my desktop computer
Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > Thank for your help Bob, I'll try that as soon as I can. I think I > should be able to do that in command line without a screen. It is too difficult to accomplish without a display and completely typo free. Instead boot the installer as a rescue media. Since you have just installed Debian Testing it means that you have the installation media still available. Use it in "Rescue" mode to do this. It is much easier. It is useful to know about. Here is the official documentation for it: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s07.html.en But that is fairly terse. Let me say that the rescue mode looks just like the install mode initially. It will ask you keyboard and locale questions and you might wonder if you are rescuing or installing! But it will have "Rescue" in the upper left corner so that you can tell that you are not in install mode and be assured. Get the tool set up with keyboard, locale, timezone, and similar and eventually it will give you a menu with a list of actions. Here is a quick run-through. Advanced options... Rescue mode keyboard dialog ...starts networking... hostname dialog domainname dialog ...apt update release files... ...loading additional components, Retrieving udebs... ...detecting disks... Then eventually it will get to a menu "Enter rescue mode" that will ask what device to use as a root file system. It will list the partitions that it has automatically detected. If you have used a RAID then one of the menu entry items near the bottom will be "Assemble RAID array" and you should assemble the raid at that point. That will bring up the next dialog menu asking for partitions to assemble. Select the appropriate for your system. Then continue. At that point it presents a menu "Execute a shell in /dev/...". That should get you a shell on your system with the root partition mounted. It is a /bin/sh shell. I usually at that point start bash so as to have bash command line recall and editing. Then mount all of the additional disks. # /bin/bash root@hostname:~# mount -a At that point you have a root superuser shell on the system and can make system changes. After doing what needs doing you can reboot to the system. Remove the Debian install media and boot to the normal system and see if the changes were able to fix the problem. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re (3): Percentage noted by network manager.
Darac & others, From: Darac Marjal Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:14:59 + > I was rather meaning how much the signal is attenuated between the > sender and receiver. My hypothesis. ... For the receiver to know the attenuation from the tranmitter, the header of each frame would have to contain a number representing the transmitted power. Than assuming the receiver knows the received power, it can calculate power attenuation. Of course, received power is not necessarily received information. In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame there is no mention of transmitted power. I suppose it might be hidden in a lower layer but probably this information and calculation just do not exist. The header has a frame check sequence and retransmission of a corrupted frame can occur. So the receiver can know how many bad copies arrived before a good copy. That might be incorporated into the signal quality calculation. > However, doing a quick bit of searching suggests that the whole "link > quality as a percentage" thing is more like voodoo: ... That was my suspicion. Thanks for the references. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057898.38779.26924@cantor.invalid
Re: Re (2): Percentage noted by network manager.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 07:43:56AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Darac Marjal > Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:07:38 + > > This being a Wireless connection, it's more likely to be signal > > strength. > > My original thought also. > > > ... no attenuation = 100% ... > > I don't understand. Any received signal which is too weak to > saturate the receiver should not need attenuation. Every such > signal is marked as 100%? Whereas any signal which saturates > the receiver will be attenuated. Such signal is marked as less > than 100%? Seems counter intuitive. I was rather meaning how much the signal is attenuated between the sender and receiver. However, doing a quick bit of searching suggests that the whole "link quality as a percentage" thing is more like voodoo: http://en.usenet.digipedia.org/thread/18494/13225/ http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/linux/sa/wifi_signal_quality signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re (2): Percentage noted by network manager.
From: Darac Marjal Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:07:38 + > This being a Wireless connection, it's more likely to be signal > strength. My original thought also. > ... no attenuation = 100% ... I don't understand. Any received signal which is too weak to saturate the receiver should not need attenuation. Every such signal is marked as 100%? Whereas any signal which saturates the receiver will be attenuated. Such signal is marked as less than 100%? Seems counter intuitive. > Don't expect to see either [0% or 100%] value as a result. The 100% annotation appears frequently. Sometimes a smaller percentage can be raised by moving closer to the access point. I don't recall ever seeing a percentage less than about 35. Appears this is another instance where the best documentation is the source code. Thanks for the interest and discussion, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057898.31480.26921@cantor.invalid
Re: employee attendance system
Are you familiar with FreeCode.com? It used to be known as Freshmeat.net. It is one place where FOSS gets advertised. The following projects seem to be active, and solve your problems. I have not used any of them. The freecode pages have links to the software. TimeTrex - AGPL http://freecode.com/projects/timetrex OrangeHRM - GPL http://freecode.com/projects/orangehrm phpgw - GPL http://freecode.com/projects/phpgwtimetrack PHP Timeclock - GPL http://freecode.com/projects/timeclock SimpleHRM - AGPL http://freecode.com/projects/simplehrm Timeclock software - GPL http://freecode.com/projects/timeclock-software Gord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301100819.57848.ghave...@materialisations.com
Re: Kwallet + Networkmanager
Le 10.01.2013 05:13, Beco a écrit : What is the point of kwallet saving the wireless password from networkmanager if networkmanager copies the password to its own dialog box under "manage connections/wireless/edit"? Or am I missing something? I tried to set networkmanager to "do not save/always prompt", but it wont trigger kwallet this way. (is that the way to go, and the behavior I see is just a bug?) It seems to me this 2 programs do not like to talk to each other... Thanks, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "My psychiatrist told me I was crazy. I told him I wanted a second opinion. He told me that I was also ugly." Aptitude said me that networkmanager is a software which does not seem to have a dedicated desktop environment (it's website is located at gnome.org, but I did not see any gnome dependencies in it, simply some modules usable but not mandatory for gnome). On the other hand, kwallet, seeing it name, sounds like a KDE's softwares. I bet on compatibility problems. The solution is probably to use a KDE equivalent of networkmanager, but I can not help you on a name: I do not use desktop environments :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6a8049b61c0cf520ca4231efaaf77...@neutralite.org
Re: Local copy of ALL man pages
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:19:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package > I've used http://manpages.debian.net . > It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally. > > Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the web? [I use > squeeze.] > > I have copied all the .deb files from the 8 DVD install set to a USB > drive. How could I extract all the man pages? I think I have found the solution to your problem. In the debian-goodies package there is a program called "debmany" that will show a man page from an installed or uninstalled package. It seems to rely on fetching the manpages from a repository, so you would need to make a local repository out of all those *.deb files, but that's a common enough task. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Ta travadãop o link para download do Debian.. assim fica difícil estudar a dist. Download a 60kbps.. isso não existe... fedora baixo a 1MB no mínimo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50eece4c.5010...@terra.com.br
Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem
Thread name: "Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem" Mail number: 3 Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 In reply to: Darac Marjal > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:38:31AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > I have had the following problem for months but didn't want to break my > > system: > > The answers I have found like install ruby1.9.1-dev give the same prpblem. > > > > /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load > > such file -- > > I'm not an expert in ruby by a long shot, but "--" is used as a comment > marker in some languages. Have a look at the specified line in the > specified file (line 36 in /usr/lib/.../custom_require.rb) and see if > there's a line commented out. That line might be illegal in ruby. just like bash, use # as comment, ruby is not so weird > If > so, try removing the line and trying again. > I suggest purge the debian's ruby and compile your own. For dependency problems you can use "equivs" and simulate an installed ruby. If you will work with gems, debian's version would crunch your head... -- Warning! 100'000 pelos de escoba fueron introducidos satisfactoriamente en su puerto USB. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130110125453.gk4...@magnox.lex-sa.cu
Re: Local copy of ALL man pages
Chris Davies wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My specification explicitly says NO connection whatsoever to the internet. The one you posted at the beginning of this thread didn't say that. However, I'm happy to think about other alternatives. Chris Apologies. It's one of those cases where I knew what I meant. Evidently others did not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50eeba51.6080...@cloud85.net
Re: Local copy of ALL man pages
Sposkpat Sposkpat wrote: Get the manpages from The Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/manpages/man.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-3.45.tar.gz Thank you. I'm new to Linux and keep finding new places to look. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50eeb972.4020...@cloud85.net
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Re: old ruby 1.9.1 problem
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:38:31AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I have had the following problem for months but didn't want to break my > system: > The answers I have found like install ruby1.9.1-dev give the same prpblem. > > /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load > such file -- I'm not an expert in ruby by a long shot, but "--" is used as a comment marker in some languages. Have a look at the specified line in the specified file (line 36 in /usr/lib/.../custom_require.rb) and see if there's a line commented out. That line might be illegal in ruby. If so, try removing the line and trying again. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] font
Your mail reader. It's just a rule built into it. BTW, -delete- does not show up specially in icedove. HTML is another story, it has tags. On 01/04/2013 11:56 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > What makes the *bold* bold? and -delete- delete. > > I can't google it out about it? just curious, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50eea905.7060...@gmail.com
Re: Local copy of ALL man pages
Richard Owlett wrote: > My specification explicitly says NO connection whatsoever to > the internet. The one you posted at the beginning of this thread didn't say that. However, I'm happy to think about other alternatives. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/gmd2s9xujs@news.roaima.co.uk
Re: start-stop-daemon : questions about retry
Hi Darac, unfortunately that’s already the case. But today I have a different behaviour. Cherokee stops, but doesn't kill php-cgi. Very very wierd. # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND www-data 1294 0.1 0.7 193960 44688 ? S Jan09 1:07 php-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:47990 root 1374 0.0 0.0 24712 764 ? Ssl Jan09 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/cherokee -d www-data 1376 0.0 0.1 794328 10528 ? Sl Jan09 0:01 /usr/local/sbin/cherokee-worker www-data 1378 0.0 0.0 76372 2156 ? S Jan09 0:00 /usr/bin/rrdtool - […] # cat /usr/local/var/run/cherokee.pid 1374 # start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile /usr/local/var/run/cherokee.pid --name cherokee #ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND www-data 1294 0.1 0.7 193960 44688 ? S Jan09 1:08 php-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:47990 […] Does this have something to do with the script, or with cherokee? Cheers Stadtpirat Von: Darac Marjal An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Gesendet: 12:32 Montag, 7.Januar 2013 Betreff: Re: start-stop-daemon : questions about retry On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:10:43AM -0800, - - wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to write an init script for cherokee webserver. Not, there is > already one, but I wanted to have one derived from skeleton. > > > > In function "do_stop()" the script executes this line: > "start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE > --name $NAME" Right, I believe that this will find a process with the name $NAME and the pid specified in $PIDFILE and then send SIGTERM to that process, wait 30 seconds, then SIGKILL and wait 5 seconds (if the process stops within that 35 seconds, that's good, otherwise s-s-d will return 2). So, probably the first thing to check is that $PIDFILE and $NAME have the values you want and that $PIDFILE exists and has a pid stored in it. > > But nothing happens. I get exit code 1, which means that the daemon was > already stopped. But that is not true. The daemon was still running and not > cherokee, nor it's subprocesses were stopped. > > Am I doing something wrong here? > > THanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/1357467043.90187.yahoomail...@web140506.mail.bf1.yahoo.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357811702.4.yahoomail...@web140503.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
