Re: Plugins

2007-05-07 Thread Simone Soldateschi
On 5/4/07, Pepo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends. Please, How do I can use plugins in Iceweasel if I am using Lenny-AMD64? (java, flash player) Thanks. hi, afaik adobe flash player comes in 32bit version only You might want to consider Installing a Debian IA32bit chroot system: take a

Re: Howto create 64bit Kernel?

2007-05-07 Thread Jonas Bardino
* Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 01. 2007 23:08]: snip I´m working with many new hardware because of that, i need an kernel with updated driver and debian doesn´t update the kernel after an freeze. you might want to track unstable or even testing ... or try out a kernel from

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Julius
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for swap file) to a raid1 system? What do you mean with low-quality? You certainly want a reliable driver there since a failin swap drive can take down the whole system. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:11AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just as additional space where to point the swap file thanks Running a raid1 system with non raid swap just doesn't make sense. If the swap drive fails, your system dies horribly

Re: New box crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 04:53:19PM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I just got a new box (Athlon 54 X2 4200+ on a Gigabyte Technology NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Socket AM2 AMD ATX Motherboard). I'm getting miscellaneous crashes on Etch. They usually occur during I/O intensive operations, and

Re: New box crashes

2007-05-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Jack Malmostoso wrote: I've gotten a few traces in /var/log/messages, which I'll post to the appropriate place as soon as I find out what the appropriate place is. If it's kernel related, the LKML is the right place. Yeah ... once I try a 32-bit kernel, that's where I'm going. Etch,

Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hello all, Ever since I bought my AMD64 system (AMD 64 3000+, Asus K8U-X motherboard) I've been experiencing random freezes, in which the system completely stops to respond, or sometimes automatic reboots. Sometimes the system halts during boot with a message such as HARDWARE ERROR CPU 0:

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Len, Patrick: Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work on

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Daniel Schröter
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Running a raid1 system with non raid swap just doesn't make sense. If the swap drive fails, your system dies horribly possible in ways that could mess up the filesystem. On the other hand you (mostly) don't have redundant RAM modules in your system and if one fail it

Re: New box crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:15:25AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: So far it has about five hours with no errors. I'm hoping there are other diagnostics I can use. Well a lot of people who have reported stability problems with new athlon 64 machines ran memtest and got nothing, and still

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:42:08AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hello all, Ever since I bought my AMD64 system (AMD 64 3000+, Asus K8U-X motherboard) I've been experiencing random freezes, in which the system completely stops to respond, or sometimes automatic reboots. Sometimes

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Len, Patrick: Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work on

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:42:08AM -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI said: So, am I really unlucky to have two memory modules with problems, or what else should I suspect? Motherboard? Processor? What would be the possible ways to diagnose the problem? Have you tried running the box with two

Re: New box crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Mon, 07 May 2007 16:20:09 +0200, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: So far it has about five hours with no errors. I'm hoping there are other diagnostics I can use. That's the most accurate I know about. As suggested by Lennart, check that the timings in the BIOS are set to auto. This seems

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Giorgio
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hello all, Ever since I bought my AMD64 system (AMD 64 3000+, Asus K8U-X motherboard) I've been experiencing random freezes.. Hi Eduardo, I get the same problem with my Asus K8V Deluxe - AMD Athlon 64 +3200, but only with debian (etch) AMD64. With other

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Eduardo M Kalinowski
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hello all, Ever since I bought my AMD64 system (AMD 64 3000+, Asus K8U-X motherboard) I've been experiencing random freezes.. Hi Eduardo, I get the same problem with my Asus K8V Deluxe - AMD Athlon 64 +3200, but only with debian (etch) AMD64. With

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Stephen Olander Waters
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 17:35 +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 16:50:13 +0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: HARDWARE ERROR CPU 0: Machine Check Exception:4 Bank 4: b2070f0f TSC a38a02f0b This is not a software problem! Turn

Swap area shorter than signature indicates

2007-05-07 Thread Matteo Vescovi
Hi all. The subject of this mail is the message I can find for every boot in my /var/log/messages file. I've set up a RAID1 environment with etch amd64; it's composed of 2 identical HDDs. The partitioning scheme is the same for both the devices. I've put the swap area (a /dev/md1 made by

Re: Random Crashes

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:34PM -0300, Eduardo M Kalinowski wrote: The power supply could indeed be the problem. It's no great power supply, and I have two (PATA) HDs. No fancy graphics card, though --- only a SIS 315. I have also a DVD burner. However, I've been able to successfully burn

Re: Swap area shorter than signature indicates

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:24:18PM +0200, Matteo Vescovi wrote: The subject of this mail is the message I can find for every boot in my /var/log/messages file. I've set up a RAID1 environment with etch amd64; it's composed of 2 identical HDDs. The partitioning scheme is the same for both the

Re: Shouldn't this work?

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:35:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Did I misunderstand somthing? I 'thought' I read that the Athlon was a 64 bit processor. Am I wrong, again? The Athlon64 is a 64-bit processor, as is the Opteron. The regular Athlon is definitely a 32-bit processor. Regards,

Re: Swap area shorter than signature indicates

2007-05-07 Thread Cedar Cox
Everything seems setup correctly. What's in /proc/swaps? Probably you initialized the swap partitions before creating the raid array (on /dev/sda5 and/or /dev/sdb5). Software raid steals a bit of space from the device so your resulting mirror is smaller than each device. Make sure first that

Re: Shouldn't this work?

2007-05-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:35:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: I just purchased a set of DVD's to install Debian Etch (4.0) on my system. I also got a Ubuntu Ver 6.06 AMD 64 DVD to see how a amd64 compared to the K7 I'm currently running. On bootup the Ubuntu DVD say that I am not running on

Re: Swap area shorter than signature indicates

2007-05-07 Thread Matteo Vescovi
On 05/07/2007 10:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: That message is what to expect for a raid1 with both devices up and running (U = Up) I kind of knew that, but needed some confirm ;-) Is the swap area working right despite the message above? If so, why do I get that strange message in the

Re: Plugins

2007-05-07 Thread Simon Bruenler
Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 23:05 -0500 schrieb Pepo: Hi friends. Please, How do I can use plugins in Iceweasel if I am using Lenny-AMD64? (java, flash player) Thanks. On sid-amd64 there is nspluginwrapper. With that little piece of software you can run the Adobe Flash-Player on

64bit hassles (exim + domainkeys truecrypt)

2007-05-07 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Just wondering if its me, but I have been running into some 64bit hurdles recently. I tried installing truecrypt - because of licensing its not part of the main repository, and you have to build it from the source tree. Of course somebody has been kind enough to make a build package - works

Re: Shouldn't this work?

2007-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Lennart Sorensen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:35:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: I just purchased a set of DVD's to install Debian Etch (4.0) on my system. I also got a Ubuntu Ver 6.06 AMD 64 DVD to see how a amd64 compared to the K7 I'm