Re: ISS is running GNU Linux Debian :)
On 2022-02-10 21:39 +0100, dude wrote: > International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into > airlock X-D > > > https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/International-Space-Station-adopts-Debian-Linux-drops-Windows-Red-Hat-into-airlock Or at least was in 2013/4. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
unable to upgrade past kernel2.6.7 with SATA RAID
: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,0) TIA Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 and ARM
+++ Pol [04-02-22 22:49 +0100]: Hi, i would like to install debian on ARM with ext3. On what particular arm hardware? i guess i need bf2.4 floppies, but i cannot find them on the official debian site. In practice there is generally a special version of bootfloppies for each platform, as there is usually something wrong with the official version. I started updating the ports pages with the current situation on various hardware items, but I haven't finished. tell us what you are trying to install and we can probably point you in the right direction. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help with dpkg --configure error message
I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? At the moment I get this: stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# dpkg --configure proftpd Setting up proftpd (1.2.4+1.2.5rc1-5woody2) ... dpkg: error processing proftpd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: proftpd stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# After some poking about I found that the package scripts are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info but I can't tell which bit of which script is going wrong. How do I get some debug info. In fact I got proftpd working anyway so I really just want this complaint to go away (leaving the package database in a sensible state). Can someone tell me what to do or what I should have read? thanx -- Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stopping kernel packet deny messages
Hi people, This feels like a stupid question but I've failed to find the answer anywhere, so here goes. Summary - I run ipmasq and this means that loads of netbios (137 and 138) packets which wander round the net cause Packet log: input DENY eth0 . messages These bung up both my log files and (much more seriously) my console. As they appear every minute or so it makes the console almost unuseable. But I can't work out how to stop them appearing on the console. I do know how to filter them out of my logcheck messages, so the fact that they fill up my log files isn't really a problem. Presumably where kernel messages go _ought_ to be controlled by /etc/syslog.conf, but so far as I can see mine is configured not to send any messages to the console, and kernel messages should go to /var/log/kern.log Is there something special about kernel printk messages like this which means they are controlled by some other mechanism? Here is the /etc/syslog.conf file: # /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd. # # For more information see syslog.conf(5) # manpage. # # First some standard logfiles. Log by facility. # auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.*-/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log uucp.* -/var/log/uucp.log # # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files. # mail.info -/var/log/mail.info mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn mail.err/var/log/mail.err # Logging for INN news system # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit news.err/var/log/news/news.err news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice # # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages # # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in. # #*.emerg* *.crit @blackbox.aleph1.co.uk # # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual # console I usually leave idle. # #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: # #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole Background: The netbios packets come from a wireless access point thing, that so far as I can tell is too stupid to stop sending them to all and sundry. I'm running Debian 3.0. When I had 2.2 they didn't appear on the console, only in the logs, which was fine Hope somebody can give me the relevant clue - this is slowly driving me nuts. (please cc: me - I'm not subscribed here, hope that's not deemed rude on this list - there are only so many debian lists you can read in one day!) Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X unstable with S3 server - fonts broken with SVGA server
Hi, At home I have a potato box. It's an x86 PC, P233MMX, 96Mb RAM, all pretty conventional except that the primary HD and floppy channels are dead (free motherboard :-) so they are served via an isa multi IO card. I can't get X to work reliably. The video card is a 'Diamond stealth 64' - ie an S3 Trio64 chip. 1Mb RAM. If I use the S3 server then the machine just hangs after 10-20 minutes, apparently during an HD access because the HD light is stuck on and there is often filesystem corruption when I reboot. It never crashes when the same machine is left (with X still running) but in a text mode. It can run for days like this. I have no idea how to trace this bug - any suggestions. I assume this is a hardware interaction problem. Are there speed options I can turn down somewhere. Are there S3 server options I can turn on/off to see if it helps? Recently I changed to using the VGA server on this card for a bit. Horrible display but no crashes for some hours - seems stable. Next I installed the SVGA server and that also doesn't seem to cause crashes when left sitting there but I can't really use it as something is badly wrong with the display of fonts. Many font are just random blockiness where the writing should be. gdm (ie gnome) menu text is OK but the 'welcome' and user/password text is unreadble. Xterms are illegible as are eterms and gnome terminal. emacs body text is OK but the menus are illegible. Gnome Help browser links are illegible. Gnome filer text is OK as are all the menus. I don't know how all these fonts are generated but I assume the broken ones are all generated or rendered in the same way. Anyone seen this before? I'd like to either make the S3 server work reliably or the SVGA server display fonts. TIA please cc me responses. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)
On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? - start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported (asynchonously, after something had triggered diald) This is a 'standard' diald problem. It occurs due to the differences between 2.0 and 2.2 kernel network interface support. From memory of old diald list discussions: The metric parameter is no longer supported on 2.2 kernels but the diald code still uses it, producing this harmless-but-irritating warning. Changing to the newer ethertap mechanism makes it go away - otherwise you just ignore it and everything will work just as before unless you are doing something very obscure that depends on the metric parameter to differentiate cpnnections. ie in summary - you can safely ignore this if you are just using diald in the usual way (for bringing up and down a ppp phone link) Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel (00 44) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
