Broken apt-get/dpkg
So, I've been having troubles recently with finding the /var partition being too small and needing to purge stuff from it to allow processes to work properly, etc. I intend to do a fresh install to a SSD with a bigger /var to avoid this, however in the meantime until I do this I seem to have deleted something I shouldn't (oops!) and broken a package called cacti. I get the following errors if I try to do any upgrades or try to remove the cacti package (in the hopes of removing the problems). dpkg -r cacti dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'cinnamon-session' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libmtp-runtime' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed ckage has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'rtkit' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libstreamanalyzer0' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'qtmultimedia5-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgucharmap-2-90-7' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed -- lots more of similar cut -- dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-core7:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed (Reading database ... 12814 files and directories currently installed.) Removing cacti (0.8.8b+dfsg-8+deb8u6) ... dpkg: error processing package cacti (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: cacti If it comes to it that I need to do the fresh install to the ssd to fix this mess up then so be it, but not feeling too well atm I've been putting that off until I was feeling well enough. Thanks in advance, Kelly
Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, running Android 2.1, but 2.3 promised by SE. Works ok, but a few niggles with it, but the camera is great on it I'm finding (8mp, carl ziess lens). Kelly -- 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/banlktikufqqkav3qkgppm488fwbvwnz...@mail.gmail.com
Re: aptitude upgrade errors
On 27 January 2011 09:37, Wolodja Wentland wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote: hi have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line [...] Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system. Anyone come across this and know how to fix? or is a system re-install needed? The easiest way is to restore that file from your backups. Don't have any? Make some now and: No problem (in this particular case) because the system kept some for you. Have a look at: /var/backups/dpkg.status.* The file named dpkg.status.0 should be identical to the original status file. There is also /var/lib/dpkg/status.old and other older versions in /var/backups/, but I would just move the corrupted file somewhere else, and copy /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 over instead. Does that solve your problem? I've used diff on all the backups of dpkg.status (all 7) and theres no difference relating to virtualbox-2.1 in them. the last backup (dpkg.status.0) is identical to dpkg.status. I'm at a loss with this. kelly -- 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/aanlktikwmymxqrumh0_56l4ceh_u9to5zr2qrn7sw...@mail.gmail.com
Re: aptitude upgrade errors
(I must of been sleep deprived when I replied last month as I inadvertantly replied directly to godo rather than the list as well) /var/lib/available seems to be empty I noticed. Removing virtualbox-2.1 from /var/lib/dpkg/status doesn't make a difference. It seems it is a bug in virtualbox-2.1, fixed from 3.1 onwards, but as it stands I cannot use ANY apt/aptitude/dpkg command on this box till this is fixed. It won't purge/remove either. I blogged about it here: http://bit.ly/gSRmbS with attached files from /var/lib/dpkg/status. -- 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/AANLkTina10TZ=baka8w3qy+f7rgnbdjschhvbmhky...@mail.gmail.com
Re: aptitude upgrade errors
solved this now. So simple in the end, simply removing the _'s from the version field in /var/lib/dpkg/status fixed it. -- 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/aanlktimnhq9cjwlmugb9bqhymmvodkwrckn4zsxoa...@mail.gmail.com
aptitude upgrade errors
hi have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1': error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number exim4-config.postinst: [WARN] Installed debconf version is broken. Aborting preconfigure. dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1': error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1': error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system. Anyone come across this and know how to fix? or is a system re-install needed? kelly -- 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/AANLkTi=khy1grzvbag8zigknaaqwpwdyk1913_jqw...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords
On 13 March 2010 10:20, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in the 1960s. http://www.hyperwords.net/ it doesn't like iceweasel.. latest version requires v3.5/v3.6 or above, so maybe thats your problem? To OP, thanks, looks an interesting addon, been thinking about wanting to do something like this for a while now! kelly -- 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/e4f72f791003132234x28f2d007y161d8be43707a...@mail.gmail.com
Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes
On 27 February 2010 15:16, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:16 +0100, Odd wrote: Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Does anybody has a list of multiple distros/operating systems comparing e.g.: security support time for a version, or what are the release cycles, etc.? Something like this? http://benjamin-schweizer.de/operating-systems-lifecycle-chart.html +1 nice chart :-) It lacks openSUSE, whose EOL is 18 months and Fedora (13 months). Neither of which are enterprise/stable releases in the same vein at RHEL, Debian stable etc, hence not ncluded. Do Fedora even do long term support versions? kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002270910p3443f92et1395e81f70719...@mail.gmail.com
Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes
Neither of which are enterprise/stable releases in the same vein at RHEL, Debian stable etc, hence not ncluded. Uh? I cannot speak for Fedora but sure openSUSE is rock-solid and has stable release cycle. I was using it in my servers and workstations for the last 6 years. Besides, the OP did mention nothing about enterprise or long term, just distros/operating systems so the table is very good but leaves many other distros (Archlinux, openSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, openSolaris...) :-) I was meaning in relation to that chart, which does state 'enterprise'. SuSE have their own offering for that, hence openSUSE isn't really valid there I guess. kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002271028q692f44ffxf16006326f8a6...@mail.gmail.com
Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to find it annoying, though it was a problem that went away when I switched to using XFS as my default filesystem, it doesn't need to do the fsck on boot, so it is much quicker booting in that regard. I do use ext2/3 for /boot and /var mind, but all other partitions use XFS. I may look to migrate the /var to ext4 sometime, but keeping /boot ext2 seems more useful (a old habit that probably isn't needed anymore, but it removes any need to worry about the / filesystem and grub support/issues). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.10) iEYEARECAAYFAkuIgi0ACgkQCynLVvu7GqdzZgCfVTLxqFfxDbZTDa9ULkZOwkLG JAwAnjJX13KAq5H4g1tN2XacnktmzkNb =q5hG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/e4f72f791002261823s235b3146m4f3ce7574f1b4...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Correct binary for Intel Core i5
My understanding was that USB3.0 was supported by Linux before any other OS, and it is meant to be backwards compatible with USB1.1 and USB2.0 anyhow, so I don't think you'll hit problems there. Besides USB3.0 is still fairly new, so it will take time for there to be devices on the market etc, by which time drivers for the controllers will be pretty stable I'd imagine. Of course take this with a pinch of salt perhaps ;) SATA3 shouldn't really be a major issue as the chipsets are meant to be compatiblew th SATA1 and SATA2, but it is a case with a lot of these things of YMMV. kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002212135x70ca9b1bs18198d88eaa8d...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Intel Atom Processor
Don't bother checking: since you had to ask the question, you won't care whether you run a 64bit or 32bit kernel, and since those processors don't support much more than 2GB anyway, there's no point running a 64bit kernel. Atom 330 supports 4GB AFAIK. It depends which chipset it is put with, theres a few combinations iirc. Some are limited to 1.5Gb/2Gb, others more. Dunno about the ION combo. kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002170010i5be0a18awb599db26485ea...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Intel Atom Processor
No, this depends on the application (and usually doesn't mean very much because applications will depend on what the machine is used for). And some people would completely disagree with you, e.g.: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=ubuntu_32_paenum=1 There's another point is favor of amd64: floating-point arithmetic. As SSE is used by default on amd64, FP arithmetic is much cleaner there in practice. whilst that is true, for a desktop box, 64bit causes more problems than it is worth i've found, especially with things like Flash. kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002170454m1651d71w733bcfb0f73f4...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Intel Atom Processor
That might have been true some time ago, but a 64-bit flash plugins exists since some time already, and works as good (or as bad) as the 32-bit one. Nowadays, the only reason I have a 32-bit chroot in my 64-bit system is because my bank's site only works with the 32-bit Java plugin from Sun. The Java plugin does exist for 64-bits, but that site in particular does not work with the 64-bit version (stupid programmers). Was still true as of last year sometime, last I checked the 64bit flash plugin was in alpha, but i suspect its probably gone past beta by now? I'll have to give it a try next time I install a distro on my machine (when i've fixed a hardware failure) and see how I get on with the 64bit version compared with 32bit+PAE. kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002170503x3bb0da67oa9f66220ef1dd...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Intel Atom Processor
On 17 February 2010 13:08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: On 02/17/2010 11:03 AM, Kelly Harding wrote: Was still true as of last year sometime, last I checked the 64bit flash plugin was in alpha, but i suspect its probably gone past beta by now? I'm not sure, I guess it's still called alpha. But that's just a label, it's as stable as the 32-bit version. I found iwhen I last used it it caused Firefox to crash if I went to BBC iPlayer. The other problem was when the 64bit version didn't work, the 32bit version was run a wrapper and was a resource hog from hell. Certainly not a pleasant time with flash in that regard :/ Will give it a try another time and see if it has improved at all... kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002170511p715232a2l8e68cf43a1763...@mail.gmail.com
Fuse issues with Debian sid 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 kernel
I'm running Debian sid on my Core2Duo based system as a server mainly, nothing major, just for home media use etc. Have been trying to set fuse up on it, but upon trying to load fuse modules I get the following errors: FATAL: Error inserting fuse (/lib/modules/2.6.32-trunk-amd64/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) in dmesg I get the following: 1898212.895694] fuse: Unknown symbol end_page_writeback [1898212.895911] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol generic_file_aio_read [1898212.895940] fuse: Unknown symbol generic_file_aio_read [1898212.895993] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol filemap_write_and_wait [1898212.896042] fuse: Unknown symbol filemap_write_and_wait [1898212.896074] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol set_page_dirty_lock [1898212.896103] fuse: Unknown symbol set_page_dirty_lock [1898212.896134] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol test_set_page_writeback [1898212.896163] fuse: Unknown symbol test_set_page_writeback [1898212.896310] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol kill_anon_super [1898212.896337] fuse: Unknown symbol kill_anon_super [1898212.896375] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol generic_write_checks [1898212.896404] fuse: Unknown symbol generic_write_checks [1898212.896434] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol filemap_fault [1898212.896462] fuse: Unknown symbol filemap_fault [1898212.896492] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol __set_page_dirty_nobuffers [1898212.896536] fuse: Unknown symbol __set_page_dirty_nobuffers [1898212.896623] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol get_sb_nodev [1898212.896651] fuse: Unknown symbol get_sb_nodev [1898212.896690] fuse: disagrees about version of symbol bdi_set_max_ratio [1898212.896718] fuse: Unknown symbol bdi_set_max_ratio Is this just a problem with the currently installed kernel or is it to do with fuse itself? System specs: Core2Duo E4600, 4GB DDR2, Asus P5Q-E kelly -- 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/e4f72f791002161524w20b17b71ye4a8b0e273078...@mail.gmail.com
Re: How much RAM can debian support?
2009/10/9 Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com: Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? Thanks in advance Dean In theory at least Debian will support the limits of the kernel version it uses. So it is a bit subjective really. IIRC, only the latest X58 chipsets (for desktop consumer PCs) support upto either 16Gb or 32Gb of RAM (forget which), and the P3x chipsets only support upto 8Gb, with the P45 supporting upto 16Gb. IIRC Intel laptop chipsets are derived from their desktop counterparts to some extent. Even though a motherboard can support upto 16Gb+ of ram, with most only having 4 slots, it'd be rather difficult/expensive to fill it so 8Gb is the realistic limit in terms of cost. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: sid upgrade: could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl
2009/9/29 Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu: hi, I am doing a sid upgrade and I got this message E: Internal error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl. Any ideas on how to procede... :) I just got this too. Not sure what cause/solution is. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny RAID+LVM Lilo/Grub Error
As you say, there some solutions, e.g., booting off a teeny-tiny flash SSD, but nothing really satisfactory. Having /boot on a RAID 1 partition is not really any more satisfactory than that, although it does avoid a separate device. At one time, I would have booted from floppy, but that is no longer practical. A boot CD? Not really easily done, but possible. (The trick would be automating the process. Don't want to require someone to always be there to hit two arrow keys and Enter, I expect.) Maybe IDE- CF adapter and a 256Mb CF card would do for /boot, as it doesn't need to be very big. Should be possible? I might give this some consideration myself and then have two RAID5 arrays (one for media, one for system/home with LVM perhaps). Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: E7400 - i386 and AMD64
2009/7/10 Dirk Neumann dirkneum...@gmx.ch: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:15:27 -0300 Pablo Armando parma...@express.com.ar wrote: # cat /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm ^^ Your CPU supports HyperThreading, so you have 4 virtual cores. Thats odd, as the E7400 Core2Duo doesn't support HT according to Intel's own site. Unless the OP got the model name of the CPU wrong? The E7xxx chips are the lower cost version of the E8xxx chips, with less cache, slower FSB and no support for Vt. None of the Core2Duo chips to my knoledge support HT. Only Xeons and i7 chips do of the Core architecture IIRC. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Dropbox in Lenny 64bit
Tried the Ubuntu package without success.(Dependency error) Also tried the source package but no luck either. Got as far as sudo make install. but said i was not in the sudoers file? Jeff Debian by default as far as I recall doens't come with sudo set up, whereas Ubuntu uses it instead of a root account. Hence the error in the Ubuntu package. I've not tried Dropbox on Debian (use it for server only), but under Ubuntu 9.04 it works fine (as long as you initially run it with sudo to let it set up what it needs). Kelly
Re: XFS frequent crashes on PE1950 with perc 5/e and 2xMD1000
2009/6/9 Tomek Kruszona bloodyscar...@gmail.com: Hello! I have a problem with system in the configuration described in subject (Dell PE1950 III + PERC 5/E + 2xMD1000) System is running Debian Lenny AMD64 version with all available updates. I have 6 VD's 2TB each (for 32bit system compatibility). Each VD is a LVM2 PV I made a LVM2 volume and formatted this into XFS. Previously it was only one MD1000 connected to PERC controller. But two days ago i added next MD1000 added new PV's to LVM2 and extended XFS with xfs_growfs. Might be a bit of an obvious thing, but have you tried running memtest to rule out dodgy memory? usually when I see anything similar to this I run a memtest to be sure (on a few occasions it has proven to be the memory. Could also be a driver bug related to multiple MD1000s? no experience with Dell perc hardware sadly though to be any further help. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Linux
2009/5/26 Martyn Dowling martyn.dowl...@equanet.com: Hi Please could you let me know if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP Proliant DL360 G5 server? Kind Regards It should work well enough I'd of thought. They're Opteron or Xeon based aren't they? A couple of links that might be helpful: http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant http://debian.catsanddogs.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: make image of a hard disk
2009/5/26 Owen Townend owen.town...@gmail.com: 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com: [snip] from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this if you're using XFS, give xfsdump a look. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Advice on raid/lvm
Hi, My server has got debian on it currently in the following configuration: 250Gb boot drive with partitions for / /boot /home 3x500Gb drives in RAID5 array, with XFS on top directly. Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot drive with LVM (With /boot / /home and so on on it). Just wondering if theres any suggestions on how best to go about migrating like this? not really worried too much about downtime, as long as data is preserved. Reasons are mostly because the 250Gb drive I believe could be getting close to failure (have backed up important data on it to another machine using xfsdump). Any suggestions gratefully recieved. Thanks, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?
2009/2/26 Kelly Harding kelly.hard...@gmail.com: 2009/2/25 Owen Townend owen.town...@gmail.com: Hal Vaughan wrote: I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. If I'm planning on using a drive for a RAID, is there any reason I should create a single partition spanning the entire drive and using that instead of just using the drive in its entirety for the RAID? I've used RAID5 with the raid mounted from /dev/md0 with XFS filesystem directly on it, without issues. This works fine for large media volumes. My intention is to move /home to a RAID1 with LVM on top so I can change the size of the partitions on top of the RAID array and have it split into more than just /home should I feel th eneed. Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple times and had no problems with it. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?
Also, with Linux Software RAID, you can convert the metadata of RAID1 to RAID5 to expand a 2 drive RAID1 mirrored array to a 2 drive RAID5 degraded array to add another drive to later. I've done this multiple times and had no problems with it. I thought it wasn't possible to convert raid type. sure it wasn't a degraded raid5 you started with ? I'm quite sure. Read this blog post: http://scott.wallace.sh/2007/04/converting-raid1-to-raid5-with-no-data-loss/ It does indeed work, as I've done it twice now. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released
Wonderful! Repairing grub and X with a click seems to be very useful to desktop users. Can't Mepis give back to Debian by providing these packages to Debian repos? Other such GUI conveniences too. Not all of these GUI packages might be GPL, or free, so may not be possible to be in the Debian repos. I could be wrong of course. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Cloning methods
2009/2/8 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an open-source software alternateive for it :P] If you use XFS the xfsdump/xfsrestore programs are very good. Theres also clonezilla which should do the job. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: low-MHz server
If you have a garage or shed that might work, keep it outside, a Sparstation or other UNIX type machine would probably handle the extremes of possible conditions if it isn't heated better than a generic pc would. Also, consider that wall-warts are often the biggest producers of EM radiation too, even stuff on standby will put out a fair amount. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)
There are special flash filesystems developed. One of these is jffs iirc. Look at embedded linux/distro information as they do a lot with these sorts of things. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-MHz server
meant to send this to the list but sent to bob by mistake oops! Read this thread with a bit of interest. In terms of non-x86 there are a lot of options. For Sun/SPARC32, theres Sparcstation 10s and 20s (I recently gave 4 away on freecycle), they're old and slow really. But you can put upto 512mb ram in them, and they'll take two internal drives (50pin for SS10, SCA for SS20). As far as CPUs for these go, they can range from 50mhz cacheless cpus models all the way up to quad hyper-sparc models. Though the best really is dual SM75 modules (SuperSparcII 75Mb with 1mb cache) for heat reasons. I found Linux on SMP Sparc32 to be a bit problematical last time I tried it. But Solaris 8 or 9 will run on SS10/20s, as well as NetBSD or OpenBSD (single cpu). PPC Macs are getting a fair bit cheap these days, and are quite easy to upgrade, the G4s start around 400Mhz though. G3s you can get at around 233Mhz, a Beige G3 with a G3/233mhz cpu should handle linux ok, though they're a bit of a tempermental machine really ime. Blue White G3s are the better bet really for G3s. As the CPUs are ZIF socketed, you can add faster or slower G3 cpus to them. They'll take a few hard drives too without a problem. Never personally tried Linux on PPC/Mac as I've always found OS X to meet my needs. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount HFS+
On 11/11/2007, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 10:49:00PM -0800, webjay wrote: How do I mount a hfsplus GUID partition table drive in Debian Etch? It's a LaCie 500gb USB drive. I can mount and rw on my Mac. Make sure hfsplus module is loaded with modprobe hfsplus. It should work, as I mounted my HFS+ drive on Debian. One gotcha, make sure you disable journalling on the HFS+ partition in OS X if you wish to mount it rw on Linux. Kelly
Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx
Linux should and does work fine with HFS+ as I used my iBook G4 the othe rnight in target disk mode and mounted it on my athlon64 (using Mepis), worked flawlessly. Fat32 (vfat) works with Macs, NTFS won't. OS X will get ZFS with v10.5, if they added XFS too it'd make life so much easier! Kelly
Re: A few questions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X It seems so. However, according to this page, the DL380 G2 does, in fact, have 2 USB ports on it. Are they only v1.1? http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10902_div/10902_div.html Yes 1.1 only Kelly
Re: HP/Compaq DL380 G2 advice/help sought
While you've obviously figured this out since, a great place to find out info about Debian on various proliant machines is: http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant I did look there, but didnn't seem to be much about the G2 servers (G2, G3, etc are all different architectures). Kelly
Re: HP/Compaq DL380 G2 advice/help sought
Is this one that you have? http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?lang=encc=usprodTypeId=15351prodSeriesId=316587submit.y=0submit.x=0lang=encc=us We got a dl380 g3 with scsi subsytem (2x76 GB) and got no problem at all with debian etch (a bit of trouble with adaptec scsi management utility). Yes the URL points to what I have. DL380 G2 and DL380 G3 are not the same as far as I know. Kelly
A few questions
Hi, Having now got Debian 'etch' installed and working nicely on my compaq DL380G2 (4*36Gb using RAID5 on the intergrated SmartArray 5i works flawlessly and fast), I now am thinking about some of the tasks I need this machine to ideally perform. One of them is as a print server. Unfortuately the DL380 doesn't have a parallel port (being rack mount it would probably, but i got it for £10 and don't have a rack cabinet, but ain't going to knock a gift horse so to speak! so will try to make best use of it as I can). Anyway, I used to have my old HP LaserJet 6L on my Beige G3 PowerMac running OS X 10.2. Worked fine till I retired the machine due to being too old, the machine that replaced it (733Mhz G4 Quicksilver) had OS X 10.4 on it, and the Belkin USB - // adapter didn't work with Tiger for some reason (though had worked with Jaguar). Anyway, I've still got the adapter, and wondered if anyone knew if it works with Linux (specifically the 2.6.18 kernel in Debian 'etch')? i'm not at home presently and not sure where the adapter is, so before hunting for it wanted to know if anyone had had any joy. Second question is regarding adding USB2.0/Firewire to the machine to enable use of USB2.0/Firewire external drives, which would allow me to move drives easily between machines. Does anyone have any recommendation for combined USB2.0/firewire PCI cards? I have a via chipset one and didn't have much joy getting a USB2.0 drive recognised/working with the previous server (dual PIII/500 intel 440gx+ board). Thanks in advance for any help anyone is able to provide, all appreciated, Kelly
Re: A few questions
On 20/05/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/19/07 19:39, Kelly Harding wrote: Anyway, I used to have my old HP LaserJet 6L on my Beige G3 PowerMac running OS X 10.2. Worked fine till I retired the machine due to being too old, the machine that replaced it (733Mhz G4 Quicksilver) had OS X 10.4 on it, and the Belkin USB - // adapter didn't work with Tiger for Return the Beige G3 to limited service as a print server? I would, but I gave it away as I had an old PC that took over to give me a quiet Linux Debian based machine. Sadly that died. Seeing as this server will be in the same place the printer could conceivably sit next to/on top of it if the USB adapter works. Hence my question, if the adapter will work then it will save a lot of faffin' around. This is the problem (issue might be a better word) with buying specialized kit and trying to shoe-horn it into functionality that it was not designed to perform. It will be used for what it was designed to perform, but a couple of extra tasks shouldn't be beyond the hardware really, and possibly worth a try. Second question is regarding adding USB2.0 /Firewire to the machine to enable use of USB2.0/Firewire external drives, which would allow me to move drives easily between machines. Does anyone have any recommendation for combined USB2.0/firewire PCI cards? I have a via chipset one and didn't have much joy getting a USB2.0 drive recognised/working with the previous server (dual PIII/500 intel 440gx+ board). If the DL380G2 has an open PCI slot, then you could buy a Firewire card. But I'd bet that the DL380 requires cards with a proprietary form factory that only Compaq/HP sells. It has 3 open PCI 64bit PCI slots. Before buying a Firewire card I want to see if people have recommendations (combined USB2.0/firewire would be better really) before buying and wasting my money on a card that won't work with Linux. Kelly
Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 and acpi
On 20/05/07, John Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I made the mistake of doing a dist-upgrade today. Kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 was upgraded. Now the system load is unusally high and things run slow. Does anyone have any advice? You could roll back to the previous kernel and mark it in apt/dpkg so it is 'held back'. I forget off top of my head now how to do this, but the documentation on debian.org should provide the answers, or someone else here can tell you how to do it. Kelly
Re: A few questions
Second question is regarding adding USB2.0 /Firewire to the machine to enable use of USB2.0/Firewire external drives, which would allow me to move drives easily between machines. Does anyone have any recommendation for combined USB2.0/firewire PCI cards? I have a via chipset one and didn't have much joy getting a USB2.0 drive recognised/working with the previous server (dual PIII/500 intel 440gx+ board). Which kernel? In the 2.4 series? 2.6.18-4 If the DL380G2 has an open PCI slot, then you could buy a Firewire card. But I'd bet that the DL380 requires cards with a proprietary form factory that only Compaq/HP sells. It has 3 open PCI 64bit PCI slots. Before buying a Firewire card I want PCI or PCI-X? To quote HP: 2 HP 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots and 1 64-bit/33MHz PCI slot to see if people have recommendations (combined USB2.0/firewire would be better really) before buying and wasting my money on a card that won't work with Linux. 99.44% of all Firewire and USB2 cards will work with Linux. The other 0.56% will be non-standard extra-cheap no-name Chinese crud. 'will work' and 'work well' are not always the same, hece asking for peoples experiences with different chips/brands. Kelly
Re: A few questions
If the DL380G2 has an open PCI slot, then you could buy a Firewire card. But I'd bet that the DL380 requires cards with a proprietary form factory that only Compaq/HP sells. It has 3 open PCI 64bit PCI slots. Before buying a Firewire card I want PCI or PCI-X? To quote HP: 2 HP 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots and 1 64-bit/33MHz PCI slot Actually, seems they're PCI-X, but those are backwards compatible right? Kelly
HP/Compaq DL380 G2 advice/help sought
Hi, I've just aquired a HP/compaq DL380 G2 server, with 2Gb RAM and 2x36Gb hard drives. I was wondering if anyone on the list has any experience with installing Debian on this hardware and know of any pitfalls, etc I should be aware of? Any other suggestions greatly appreciated. Kelly
Problems solved
Sorted the problems with LVM2/Debian/XFS. Problems turned out to be caused by Debian going into a bit of a tizwoz about device files. A reboot sorted it all out. Thanks to all those that offered help/advice etc. Much appreciated! Thanks, Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
More LVM2 Problems
Hi again, Having spoken to people on SGI's XFS mailing list, it appears the problem with lack of ability of mounting isn't due to XFS after all. But a lack of ability to read anything from /dev/3diskvolume/3diskvolume If I try: dd if=/dev/3diskvolume/3diskvolume of=foo bs=512 count=1 ? The outputI get is: 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000688 seconds, 0.0 kB/s Seems the device isn't set up right or something? Ideas? suggestions? Thanks once again in advance, Kelly -- System details: dual P/II-350(p/pro overdrive), 440FX Intel chipset, 2940u2w scsi card. LVM2 volume is 3 x 36Gb SCSI drives. begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: followup about LVM problems.
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Kelly Harding wrote: If you remember the approximate sizes/locations of the partitions, you can use parted to locate them. It is a bit iffy, but it has worked for me in the past. I've never used parted before. but the sizes/locations of the partition should be available from LVM2's data I guess, shouldn't it? As it is just one big XFS partition spanning 3 36Gb drives with are grouped together as a volume using LVM2. Kelly Then in that case, parted will certainly be able to rebuild the partition table. Of course, make sure to point it at the device that holds the partition (e.g., /dev/vg0/lv?, or whatever your scheme is). Beyond that, I can't really be any more help. You will need to read the parted docs, as it is a fairly complex tool, or use qtparted, though I am not sure how well qtparted measures up. -Roberto I'll have a read through the parted docs and see if I can make sense of them enough to attempt this. How do I work out which device it is I need to point it at? Thanks, Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: followup about LVM problems.
It appears that parted only supports 'detect' function for XFS partitions. Seems I'll have to look elsewhere for a solution I suspect then. Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
followup about LVM problems.
Thanks to a few users help from various sources I've managed to fix the problem with LVM2 I was having. It was due to 2.6 series kernel not being used that caused the problems. Downgrading to the version currently in testing rather than the version in unstable seems to have solved the problems with LVM2. however I now cannot mount the partition as XFS doesn't like it. I get the following error if I try to mount the Volume: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/3diskvolume/3diskvolume, missing codepage or other error (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so If i try using xfs_check on the partition/volume i get: xfs_check: /dev/3diskvolume/3diskvolume is invalid (cannot read first 512 bytes) Does this mean the parition is useless and needs to be recreated? or is it possible to repair and regain access to the data? Any help much appreciated. Thanks, Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: followup about LVM problems.
If you remember the approximate sizes/locations of the partitions, you can use parted to locate them. It is a bit iffy, but it has worked for me in the past. I've never used parted before. but the sizes/locations of the partition should be available from LVM2's data I guess, shouldn't it? As it is just one big XFS partition spanning 3 36Gb drives with are grouped together as a volume using LVM2. Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
lvm problems
Hi I currently run Debian Unstable on a PII/350 dual cpu machine. It is running 2.4.27 and i've recent;y had to reboot it due to a power failure. There is a 3 drive LVM volume on it, across 3 36GB scsi drives connected to a Adaptec 2940U2W car.The filesystem on all drives is XFS. The system came back up fine except for the LVM volume. It now won't load/mount for some reason. I'm getting the following errors: I get the following error if I try to run 'vgchange -a y 3diskvolume: device-mapper ioctl cmd 11 failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:0) Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree 1 logical volume(s) in volume group 3diskvolume now active It obviously won't mount after that as mount tells me it can't find the superblock etc. I also noticed from the dmesg output the following: device-mapper: one of name or uuid must be supplied, cmd(11) This appears when the previously mentioned command is run. I've no idea what this means or if it isa case of a re-install of the base system might fix this? maybe something with the base system has gone a bit fubar? any help or advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Kelly adr:;;UK email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Debian Unstable not updating?
Jules Dubois wrote: On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:56:29 -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote: Kelly Harding wrote: Hi, I've been running Debian for about a year or two now. I've had no real problems I've not been able to sort out with using google or the debian documentation. However, I appear to have a puzzling problem that I can't think where best to look for answers. Doing 'apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade' doesn't produce any updates to packages needed. Perhaps strace the apt-get process... And check /etc/apt/preferences for the Pin-Priority of the distributions. I had the same problem for months. About two weeks ago, and a certain Martin J. Hillyer suggested this. Thank you, Mr. Hillyer. changing the 'pin-priority' from 99 to 101 seems to have sorted it, now have 400 or so MB of updates to download... Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Unstable not updating?
Hi, I've been running Debian for about a year or two now. I've had no real problems I've not been able to sort out with using google or the debian documentation. However, I appear to have a puzzling problem that I can't think where best to look for answers. Doing 'apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade' doesn't produce any updates to packages needed. However, I installed Knoppix onto another pc and I've just upgraded this to a Debian Unstable system. Having updated it, I notice some of the packages are more recent than on the pc with the apparant problem. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Where might I look to see if something is preventing a proper upgrade calculation being perfomed or something similar? Thanks, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
