Installation shadows: where is mkinitrd ?
Hi all, I am installing a sarge with uml; everything works well until kernel installation, then it tries to start mkinitrd. I get something like: uml device is not a valid block device. I wanted to bypass the problem commenting out some lines of mkinitrd script, but I cannot find it in the ram mounted filesystem, I can't understand since I see an error message in console3 coming from, at least apparently, mkinitrd. I also tried to grep -r mkinitrd through the whole filesystem (not when the installation is running, just mounted as loop device): I found no lines containing mkinitrd, so where does the reference to mkinitrd comes from ? thanks -- Andrea Tasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://andrea.tasso.info) GnuPG key: search for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on http://www.cam.ac.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html Key fingerprint: 1DD5 98C8 289A C1DF 7CFF B676 BDB6 6DC9 AD6A 745E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache
Hi all, I started from an hybrid istallation, say 50% woody and the rest mainly sarge, and then apt-get dist-upgrade but from apache post-install (1.3.33-2) I got Unpacking replacement apache ... Setting up apache (1.3.33-2) ... dpkg: error processing apache (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: apache apache-ssl does the same. any clue ? thanks -- Andrea Tasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://andrea.tasso.info) GnuPG key: search for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on http://www.cam.ac.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html Key fingerprint: 1DD5 98C8 289A C1DF 7CFF B676 BDB6 6DC9 AD6A 745E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian kinderware ... wo ?
hello, sorry I can not write in german. I need something like this http://www.cafepress.com/debianstuff.5384919 (an infant creeper) to make a gift to a friend, but if I buy it from cafepress it will take a long time to get to italy. Nope to find something even less specific in italy, maybe in germany there are some chances. Do you have some links of good deb merchandise sites in germany (or europe ?) vielen dank und Tschus! -- Andrea Tasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://andrea.tasso.info) GnuPG key: search for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' on http://www.cam.ac.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html Key fingerprint: 1DD5 98C8 289A C1DF 7CFF B676 BDB6 6DC9 AD6A 745E pgpmfHp8LRTEv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HELP - tried to apt-get kscreensaver, now I have a real mess!!!
if you man apt-get and dpkg, you will see dpkg for sure (maybe not apt-get) has a --force-something option. Choose (and/or) try the one that is better for you, then dpkg -i --force-something /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb the overwrite error should become only a warning, and you will have you package installed. I am sure more expert debian user than me has better solution, but this dirty one should work Andrea Replacing files in old package koffice-data ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop', which is also in package openoffice-de-en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing different versions of debian package
This may sound stupid, but is it possible to install different versions of a debian package at the same time? It is in some way not in agreement with debian distributions idea, but you could, in the source, change dependencies (in the control file) and rebuild, then install the deb w dpkg, and have both versions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does nice-ness exist for bandwidth? [sic]
maybe shaper can help, and also have a look at network queueing options in the kernel and netfilter On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:52:33AM +1000 or thereabouts, Lex Hider wrote: Can I nice various network jobs [eg, web-browsing, apt-get update, mail-get] like I would a CPU process. Here's the deal. Using nice on my linux box is great. eg. nice make-kpkg --revision=x kernel_image While compiling my kernel I still get priority to other things that I'm doing [mozilla, ooffice, etc] but if I'm not doing anything all my cpu cycles go to the compile. [I'm sure most people know what nice is but I want to make sure my point is clear.] I'd like to do the same thing with respect to bandwidth. eg. netnice wget http://foo.com/dirty_big_download netnice apt-get dist-upgrade Now if I'm web-browsing and reading a page already loaded all the bandwidth goes to wget/apt-get. But when I am loading a web-site or checking my mail then the priority for the bandwidth goes to the browser like in the cpu-nice example. === Does an application that achieves the above exist currently? If not; is it possible or even a good idea? Thankyou, Lex. PS - I'd appreciate a CC because I'm not on user list but I will check the web archives regardless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updated kernel 2.2.20 broke my NIC; relatively novice user.
which kernel do you run now ? the version is the same or is it different from that you run before and used to work. You could post a dpkg -l | grep kernel, too. Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bttv card and 2.6 kernel - same problem
me too, I also experimented unsolved :-( problems with bttv, if anyone has solved, let us know, thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound has stopped working...
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0 - - Any idea? 8-? It sounds you use oss ... try alsa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dma timeout
if it helps, there is hdparm to check hd status -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound has stopped working...
What about sound init in dmesg ? Hallo! I'm using sid 2.6.1 (before 2.6.0) on a centrino laptop (sound i810). Sound was working fine using alsa, but now it has stopped working with no error. Everything seems to be fine (modules are loaded, mixer settings can be modified and are not muted). The only strange things I've noticed are xine logs: snd_pcm_open failed. Check if another program don't already use PCM TIA - -- Joan Tur (aka Quini), Eivissa-Spain Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo AIM: quini2k www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//y8Pok8j9RhtetwRArl6AKClMJYxN7d8VitO+2N40Swb0AZ5+QCeM2op n0SvlZ3ipBUVCnfDfR4z8hE= =SasL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need advice on fixing my home lan
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:52:53AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul E Condon wrote: I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. iptraf is a good package -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update question
I think things do not go like this. If you comment out some lines from your sources.list and then apt-get update, you will build another database with only the packages of the lines not commented out. On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:48:12AM +0800 or thereabouts, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Following is the content of /etc/apt/sources.list in my Debian box #deb copy:///cdrom/ sarge main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20031118)]/ unstable contrib main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib If I expect update only taking effect on testing main whether I have to comment out; # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib # deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib # deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib And if I expect update only taking effect on stable main whether I have to comment out; # deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main # deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main I failed to find information on man apt-get Kindly advise TIA B.R. Stephen Liu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
openwebmail 2.21 first time run: holidays permission denied !
hi all, I tried openwebmail 2.21 after loggin in and pushing the button of the Please click continue to proceed to the Open WebMail configuration screen page I get an error Open WebMail ERROR Couldn't open /usr/lib/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/holidays directory for reading! (Permission denied) I had a look to permisions adn they looks OK ... any help ? thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with networking on boot
sorry ? what do you mean with Here is another one!! ? I have a router, and my adsl works with those eth0 settings, I do not know if it is the same with a modem, I know there is pppoe around On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:41:43AM +0200 or thereabouts, David Baron wrote: Here is another one!! I have no broadcase no PPPo? anything. If an ADSL modem is sitting on 10.0.0.138 -- will setting the gateway to this enable ADSL to work correctly?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with networking on boot
uhm, you have dhcp, I do not, so I have 4 ex auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.1 network 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gateway 10.0.0.138 On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:43:49PM -0500 or thereabouts, Lou Losee wrote: * Andrea Tasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-09 14:32]: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:02:49PM -0500 or thereabouts, Lou Losee wrote: I am having problems getting networking to start up on boot. I can get it running manually, but it seems like there is an interface problem between ifup/down and ifconfig. what do you have in /etc/network/interfaces ? Here it is: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Lou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with networking on boot
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:02:49PM -0500 or thereabouts, Lou Losee wrote: I am having problems getting networking to start up on boot. I can get it running manually, but it seems like there is an interface problem between ifup/down and ifconfig. what do you have in /etc/network/interfaces ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-installer-demo not working
hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the language selection screen, I mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to go on, it does not. any experience ? thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for backup solutions
I use dar (not tar, dar) On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:48:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dan Anderson wrote: I have a 40 GB hard disk I want to back up to CD. I figure I could run dd but the man page was unintelligible. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?
Me I have an unfortunately negative experience with mondo/mindi. OK it is my fault, but I switched to dar + bootcd. It works, I did incremental backups and true successful restore. I was not able to make that with mondo/mindi On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0600 or thereabouts, Paul E Condon wrote: An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian package in Woody, and did the standard apt-get ... . I had mostly no problem understanding the man page. But some puzzles lead me to look at the Mondo web site, and ... From reading the Mondo web site, it appears that there are no documented instances of mondoarchive being used successfully on a Debian system, and that Debian kernels are somehow non- standard, and difficult to work with. Is this true? And, if true, why is there a Debian package of Mondo Archive? And if not true, who, on this list has experience? Is there a different Debian list where I should be going for help on this particular package? Thanks. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc broken?
if you have another linux box installed on another partition, boot it and then mount the corrupted one and reinstall libc6 to that target, with the --root option of dpkg. If you have not, two choices: try to do what above with the deb install cd, or install a small box on a free partition and go. On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:14:57PM -0300 or thereabouts, Raul Montagne wrote: Hi! Suppose that when I was trying to apt-get install imagemagick and upgrading some libraries, one of the libraries was libc6... and was not completely upgradedit might be broken giving as a result an useless linux installationisn't it? In fact, the booting process just freezes! 1.- how can I check which was the last package tried to install (apt-log? dpkg-something?) 2.-In case I have a libc6 or akind, is it there any way to fix it without installing everything from scratch? thanks talueguito raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to self-connect with ppp
hi all, I am still struggling to debug my system, since my ppp connection on a null modem cable to the lap and the palm, both do not work any more. How can I self-connect, to have a local loop ppp connection, if possible to a tty or in some other way, to see if at least this works ? thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strace pppd: open(/dev/ttyS1, O_RDWR unfinished ...
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:04:20PM +0300 or thereabouts, Shaul Karl wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:49:15AM +0200, Andrea Tasso wrote: hi all, pppd does not connect any more (to another pc with null modem cable), it used to work perfectly. the command pppd -detach debug crtscts 192.168.6.1:192.168.6.2 lock /dev/ttyS1 38400 gives no output, and finally exits if I strace it the last string is open(/dev/ttyS1, O_RDWR unfinished ... my libc version is 2.3.2-3 and ppp 2.4.1.uus-5 What is written in the log file? Are you trying to run it as root? -- Shaul Karl,shaulk @ actcom . net . il nothing in the log file, I suppose at least (I checked many log in /var/log, the most common). I run pppd as root. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strace pppd: open(/dev/ttyS1, O_RDWR unfinished ...
hi all, pppd does not connect any more (to another pc with null modem cable), it used to work perfectly. the command pppd -detach debug crtscts 192.168.6.1:192.168.6.2 lock /dev/ttyS1 38400 gives no output, and finally exits if I strace it the last string is open(/dev/ttyS1, O_RDWR unfinished ... my libc version is 2.3.2-3 and ppp 2.4.1.uus-5 thanks and bye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with wireless products
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ or get a kernel image and look at wireless modules or a source and do the same, or get my working config is w netgrar ma311 linux-wlan-ng-modules and wireless-tools ask in wlan and orinoco ml also On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:40:38AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael Ward Cole wrote: I tried the D-Link dwl650+ which didn't have a driver for linux. Then I tried the Linksys wpc11 ver4 but there is no driver for this either. What wireless network card works with linux? Is orinoco now Proxim? Later, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mondo backup: is there someone successful ?
I decided to put mondo in stand-by, and give a try to dar. I need a boot cd also, I am going to set up an average debian box from scratch on that cd, with bootcd. On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:17:22PM -0700 or thereabouts, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: That Linux Journal article is a little old: refers to mondo 1.13 and stable is 1.66. I use 1.62. Both mondorestore and mondoarchive work. Archive has a fluke on my Debian Testing system: the CD that is created has not got vi so you have to use pico on the 2nd vc to edit files which he ignores on the primary vc. Other than that it does things well. I would love to create a bootable CD with midnight commander but so far no success. What are the errors you are getting? Hugo Vanwoerkom __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mondo backup: is there someone successful ?
hi all. I am struggling with mondo backup, I can do backups to cd, but restoring and comparing both fail. Did someone succeeded with mondo ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
openbabel
hello, is there someone here who is using openbabel ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Source Code for Kernel Modules
1 - try if it is possible to search kernel.org 2 - google sundance.c On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:34:20AM -0400 or thereabouts, Paul Galbraith wrote: Apologies for what ought to be very straightforward, but after trying for a few hours I still can't find what I'm looking for. I'm trying to find the source file sundance.c that was used to compile the sundance.o ethernet driver module for Debian 3.0r1. I can't find it in the linux kernel sources for 2.2.20, and I don't know where else to go, really. Can someone help me find this source file? TIA, Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question
unpack the kernel source tree in /usr/src cd to /usr/src/linux-2.whateveryouhave configure your options with make-menuconfig build the deb with make-kpkg kernel_image cd .. install it w dpkg -i kernel-image-whateveryouhave_i386.deb On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:00:12PM -0500 or thereabouts, Abrasive wrote: Okay, after loading a new machine with Debian 3.0r1, I've found that I need to install a newer kernel. Without the kernel, debian won't recognize my NIC or my display adapter. So, I don't have internet access on that computer. I'd like to download all the necessary files to upgrade the kernel from 2.2.x to a 2.4.x kernel. But, I don't know which files to download, and I have no idea how to upgrade the kernel the 'Debian Way' Once I have the files,(once I find out which files I'll need) I'll download them to this machine, and burn them to a CD. Then I'll copy them to the new machine. From there, I'm at aloss. Any help that I can get would be MUCH appreciated. I'm not new to linux/unix, just new to Debian. And I don't understand the package system very well, or doing things the Debian Way. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
