Re: problem installing Lenny
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 09:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: > >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. > >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > > > >'A degradated event has been detected on md device /dev/md0 > >P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following : > > > >Personalities: [raid 1] > > > >md1: active raid 1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] > >67874550 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > > >md0: active raid 1 sda1[0] > >497856 blocks [2/1] [U_] > > > >unused devices : none > >' > > Yeah, that's got nothing to do with your Lenny install, most likely. > > First run 'mdadm -D /dev/md0', confirm that this raid1 is broken -- no > redundancy; your data is at risk. > > Next run 'mdadm -E /dev/sda1' and 'mdadm -E /dev/sdb1', confirm that > /dev/sdb1 > is part of the same raid set -- differences only in 'Update Time', > 'Checksum', > 'Events', 'Array Slot', and 'Array State'. > > Finally run 'mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1' to start the rebuild. I hope > your disk hasn't failed. According to someone else's advice, I ran just : mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 and it worked right away. Since that partition /dev/sda1 and its mirror /dev/sdb1 are small (about 500 MB), the process was instant. After reboot, the changes remain, and I no longer have system messages. However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... The message goes very quickly, and I don't know where I could find a log of this. In any case, the shutdown process keeps going and it goes like this each time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: problem installing Lenny
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:51 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... > > IME, that's normal. Whatever block devices back your '/' file system can not > be shut down cleanly, but since it is remounted as read-only and then synced > to disk before the hardware reset it rarely (if ever) causes issues. Thanks. This reassures me. As you can imagine, I have a few other issues. My next concern are the error messages that keep displaying every 3 minutes or so, if I am on a console (that doesn't show when I am under Gnome Xterm). It is matter of a firmware that cannot be installed, most likely a WiFi card driver : " firmware: requesting rt2561.bin phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Fir mware. " I found this in Google : Google rt2x00 wiki Rt2.00 drivers are part of the mainline kernel tree. this is true since Jan 2008 with the 2.6.24 kernel... While the mainline kernel has the driver tree, for several reasons, can only be pulled along with the full kernel sources usint the git content tracker. " WiFi did operate on this machine on my late Debian Sarge system ; I don't know what firmware operated, but I had no such errors. Since I have higher priorities and that my PC is mostly connected through an ethernet cable, I wish to disable that module for now. How should I blacklist it of something of the kind ? Is there a better thing to do ? In any case, these repeated attempts are troublesome, they even interfere on my DSL modem/routeur box, which LED is almost constantly blinking when this PC is up and running, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
configuring Evolution on newly installed Lenny
The default install of 'Evolution' activates spell checking. Since I have chosen a French config, the dictionary that I have is a French one. So, whenever I type in English, every word gets underlined in red waves so as to point out that the words do not belong to the currently installed dictionary. On Firefox and Thunderbird, I knew how to de-activate that, but in Evolution, the "preferences" menu is very slim, and I can't find any place where to de-activate dictionaries or spell-checks while typing. Thanks for your help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
configuring printer in newly installed Lenny
I feel sorry that I installed Lenny in a somewhat automated install program. During previous installs of earlier distros, I was being asked if I wanted to configure a printer and what kind, etc... There were no such questions here, and my printer is not operating. This is an old parallel port printer (HP DeskJet 1120C), that worked perfectly under Debian Sarge. What packages should I install and run so that my parallel printer gets proper drivers and config ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
problem compiling new kernel
Hi to Everyone, With my old SARGE system, as stated here last week, I was unable to boot newly compiled kernels, most likely because of the faulty initrd.img that I got using 'mkinitrd'. For this reason, I decided to install Lenny. Now, with Lenny, I haven't so far been able to go any further in recompiling usable kernels. 2.6.30.4 did compile without errors, but then I found that I had no 'mkinitrd' on my new system. How am I to generate an initrd.img ? I was unable to find any package that I could install using apt-get with the name 'mkinitrd', there is no such thing either in the cache base. However, when I installed Lenny (72 hours ago), the install program did generate an initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 that is now installed in my /boot directory, and my /boot/grub/menu.lst file does specify this file in the boot menu. Thanks in advance for your help P.S. I did find a doc about some related subjects in the /Documentation directory of the downloaded kernel... but it was so old and obsolete that it was useless, dated 1998 and mentioning only lilo, not grub... this in a recent kernel doc (2008-2009) ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
