Re: shell wrapper to set ioctls before after a command execution?

2013-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 12:47:07PM -0400, Robert Goley wrote: That sounds like a good idea but you would need to blacklist the PIDs of the commands called from your backup script as well. Most likely, they are the processes opening all of the files to start with. You might want to look at

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:26:44PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hello: I started this thread not because grub on both disks should be by default but because I found difficulties in recovering. If I performed badly, and there is no problem in installing grub on the working disk, then I see no

Re: Cannot use Debian

2013-04-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:23:49PM +0200, Michael wrote: Recently, accidently inserted an Itanium64 installer in an amd64 PC and there wasn't any feedback message at all ... just the DVD did not start. I wonder if it's just grub being architecture specific ? Nailing down the CPU is a

Re: Network Install Debian

2013-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:05:51PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: For a network install, whilst you boot from some form of attached media (cd/dvd/usb) all the actual .deb files are retrieved via http/ftp/whatever then copied to disk Dean On 22/04/13 14:57, wrote: Debian has

Re: Cannot use Debian

2013-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:51:18AM -0500, Chris Swenson wrote: It's possible you have a CPU that has 2 cores, but is still not 64-bit compatible. I have a Dell laptop with Intel Core Duo that would seem to be 64-bit capable, but upon further inspection is not. Check your CPU hardware

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-03-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:32:16PM +0100, Michael wrote: I guess you meant i should download the i386 deb directly from google ? I didn't mean that but rather fixing the google earth package in debian to behave like your installing on i386 even if you are on amd64. The dependencies it

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:43:47AM +0100, Michael wrote: On my Athlon PC, multiarch (amd64,i386) is enabled and all packages are latest update 'testing', none broken. I've downgraded to testing, downloaded the latest googleearth version (6.0.3) and installed all dependencies, including

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-02-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:28:47PM -0500, Seb wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:00:00 -0500, Seb splu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Packages ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk are not installable in sid, and this prevents installation of some packages like the Debian amd64 version provided by Skype and

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com writes: Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails And why would the AMD64 list be interested in failures of I386? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: /bin/sh linked to dash?

2011-07-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com writes: I wonder whether amd64 wheezy links /bin/sh to dash instead of bash. I am getting error Bad fd number, can't run mopac.h in a mopac.sh calculation (mopac compiled fortran, in fact a FOR005 file is generated, and not deleted by mopac probably

Re: Which 64bit debian version for Intel(R) Core Quad Processor Q8300?

2011-05-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:39:50PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hi. Currently i am running windows 7 64 bit on a machine with Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8300 (http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=39107). i would like to install

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Morty morty+debian-am...@frakir.org writes: What would it take to automate an upgrade of Debian x86 to amd64? I know there is no currently-supported way to do this. What would it take to make one? Advantages: shops with a mix of x86 and amd64 systems can have one master x86 build image

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext

2010-10-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alasdair ali...@btinternet.com writes: On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 16:17 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: While gcc compiling a complex program (AmberTools of Amber suite, a molecular dynamics package) on amd64 lenny (in the past it compiled smoothly on this system): ./configure_at gcc make -f

Re: Intel mac support for Squeeze?

2010-09-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:02:31 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: [I'm not on this mailing list - it'd be kindness if you CCd any replies] Hi, What's the status of Intel Mac support in Squeeze? I have managed to install lenny on an intel mac pro, but it was a bit of a faff (and involved

Re: 32bit -- 64 server upgrade, and samba

2010-07-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael F. Egglestone mich...@estone.ca writes: Hello, I'm looking to upgrade an old Pentium4 box to a new xeon I realize I'll have to install a fresh AMD64 Debian to the new server. But I want to retain all the samba domain/accounts stuff. Can I simply just install samba on the new xeon

Re: Disk errors?

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christopher Judd j...@wadsworth.org writes: On Monday 14 June 2010 15:18:50 Christopher Judd wrote: On Monday 14 June 2010 14:48:13 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/14/2010 01:00 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:23:07PM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: [snip] You

Re: status of skype amd64

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael codejod...@gmx.ch writes: Thanks for your suggestions ! There seem to be at least 3 versions of debian packages: skype-debian_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb skype_static-2.1.0.81.tar.bz2 skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb You want the amd64 package even though that contains the just

Re: ia32-libs didn't install /usr/lib32/libGL.so ???

2010-04-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: Hi, Why doesn't /usr/lib32/libGL.so* exist on my system? (This is a fresh Sid install.) nvidia binary driver 195.36.15 installed from upstream. $ apt-cache policy ia32-libs ia32-libs: Installed: 20090808 Candidate: 20090808 Version

Re: ia32-libs didn't install /usr/lib32/libGL.so ???

2010-04-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 04/26/2010 03:31 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net writes: Hi, Why doesn't /usr/lib32/libGL.so* exist on my system? (This is a fresh Sid install.) nvidia binary driver 195.36.15 installed from upstream. $ apt

Re: Broken package?

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Antonio Luiz Pacifico alpacif...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, Yesterday I tried to upgrade my AMD64 machine. I'm using testing distribution (squeeze). There is no way regarding package python2.6-minimal to be installed. No matter what I do, as long as apt-get -f install, etc... always I got

Re: Compiling kernel (i386) using make-kpkg

2009-11-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kushal Koolwal kushalkool...@hotmail.com writes: PS: I just thought of one more thing. Try --cross-compile . I did tried it and I got the following errors: make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30' make EXTRAVERSION=-32bit  CROSS_COMPILE=i486-linux-gnu- ARCH=i386 prepare

Re: Compiling kernel (i386) using make-kpkg

2009-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kushal Koolwal kushalkool...@hotmail.com writes: Alex, just wondering if it might not be simpler to create a 32 bit chroot or a 32b virtual machine to do this ? Yes you are right and I am aware of this solution as mentioned in my earlier post in this thread. However I would like to know

Re: Compiling kernel (i386) using make-kpkg

2009-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kushal Koolwal kushalkool...@hotmail.com writes: Hi Goswin, make-kpkg --cross-compile - --arch i386 I tried the above command before posting to the list. It does not work on my system. I think I got an error at the very end of compile process. Can't seem to remember the error though.

Re: Compiling kernel (i386) using make-kpkg

2009-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kushal Koolwal kushalkool...@hotmail.com writes: Thank you for following up, Goswin. Do you have gcc-multilib installed? Yes I do: debian64# dpkg -l | grep multilib ii  gcc-4.3-multilib  4.3.2-1.1   The GNU C compiler (multilib files) ii  gcc-multilib   

Re: Compiling kernel (i386) using make-kpkg

2009-11-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kushal Koolwal kushalkool...@hotmail.com writes: Ah yes..I know this can be done using a 32bit chroot. But I am wondering is this can be done without a chroot. Kushal Koolwal I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/ or simply with make-kpkg --cross-compile - --arch i386 MfG Goswin

Re: How to get rid of orphaned data in package database?

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Am Montag 19 Oktober 2009 schrieb C M Reinehr: You might try the deborphan package (Orphaned package finder) deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs

Re: How to get rid of orphaned data in package database?

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Am Montag 19 Oktober 2009 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: There is another thing, which I discovered: apt-file is showing still /emul/ia32-linux entries, although the packages are no more installed to /emul . Outdated Contents file? MfG

Re: How to get rid of orphaned data in package database?

2009-10-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Hello all, although this is nor causing much problems, I wonder, that in my database are a lot of packages, which are no more in the repository (for example, all ia32-*-libs from the time, where ia32-apt-get was active). Is there a way, to

Re: sid acroread run-time error

2009-08-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes: On 8/25/09, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: fglrx drives your display, fglrx-glx drives your 3D acceleration and fglrx-glx-ia32 drives the 3D acceleration for 32bit programms. By removing fglrx-glx-ia32 you will make google earth

Re: 97 ia32 packages on an amd64

2009-08-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt writes: Greetings, I know with the latest changes came a new APT that can handle both 32 and 64 packages, which is great. However, i barely need 32bit packages and yet i have 97 ia32* packages installed. Most of them are libs, but i also have

Re: sid acroread run-time error

2009-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes: Hello Jan, On 8/24/09, Jan De Luyck ml_debianamd64_20070...@kcore.org wrote: Just install ia32-libs-gtk, and you're all set! Currently I have installed ia32-libs-2.7 and ia32-libs-gtk-2.0etch2. Synaptic proposes me to upgrade to

Re: sid acroread run-time error

2009-08-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes: Dear all Since installing Debian Squeeze I haven't been able to correctly install/run acroread. With either stable (8.1.6) or sid (9.1.3) versions of acroread from debian-multimedia, I am getting the following run-time error: li...@debian-liv:~$

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: I understand well, there are efforts to chose

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think, if people wish for it, then ftp-master should be asked to put it back again. However, I underrstand, it might cause trouble (as other

Re: ia32-apt-get and dependencies errors

2009-08-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: So I guess the question is how to we organise to get it back into the repro's - the debian way ? I think

Re: Squid3 and LFS

2009-08-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jerome Warnier jwarn...@beeznest.net writes: Hi guys, I'm running Squid3 on Debian Lenny for AMD64. The strange thing is that I can read the following from Squid's cache.log: Version 1 of swap file without LFS support detected... I thought that LFS was standard behavior on 64-bits

Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get

2009-08-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Hello all, I thought about this problem and I have got the idea, to add an apt-get-something, which is using ia32-apt-get and apt-get just to the reqquired needs. This apt-get-something should be configured by a apt-get-something.conf (or

Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get

2009-08-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
MRH misiek_s...@o2.pl writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Norval Watson norv2...@yahoo.com.au writes: Hi Goswin, Thanks for maintaining the new ia32-apt-get, I think it is a step forward to a true multi-arch environment. One small question: When updating a system with ia32-apt-get

Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get

2009-08-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Norval Watson norv2...@yahoo.com.au writes: Hi Goswin, Thanks for maintaining the new ia32-apt-get, I think it is a step forward to a true multi-arch environment. One small question: When updating a system with ia32-apt-get installed, should I run sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get

Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get

2009-08-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Norval Watson norv2...@yahoo.com.au writes: From: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Norval Watson writes: Hi Goswin, Thanks for maintaining the new ia32-apt-get, I think it is a step forward to a true multi-arch environment. One small question: When updating a system

Re: Q about ia32-apt-get

2009-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:51:05PM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: Hi Seems like there has been some traffic about ia32-apt-get, just wondering if this is the new way forward instead

Re: Custom kernel no longer builds initrd?

2009-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Massimo Savino north.twili...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone, Trying to recompile my kernel from source, and Debian's kernel-package used to build initrds automatically with the following: fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.2009xxyy --revision=00 --initrd kernel_image ... but now it

Re: Bug#539278: lib32z1: not installable on kfreebsd-amd64/ppc64

2009-07-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mark Brown broo...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:41:51PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note that this solution (suggested by one of the dpkg maintainers) is the one that has been tested and implemented for libc6-dev-i386. No problem have been reported so far, contrary to the

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: how many votes are against ia32-libs transitional? doesn't matter, it is not needed anymore if ia32-apt-get is working 100% and nspluginwrapper could choose between both ia32-libs and ia32-apt-get   I've send a patch to mhy (the

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:37:58AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:07:20PM -0300, Cavan Mejias wrote: 2009/7/20 Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au: If you arent able to fix breaks, you should use 'testing'

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
John Wong jo...@wonghome.net writes: Cavan Mejias 提到: 2009/7/19 John Wong jo...@wonghome.net: I add the below url to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt/ sid main then apt-get update apt-get install wine but it always said: Some packages could not be installed.

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
tyler tyler.sm...@mail.mcgill.ca writes: James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com writes: I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. But the system see only 3GB: dmesg |grep Memory [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, 54428k

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Cavan Mejias cavanmej...@gmail.com writes: 2009/7/20 Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au: If you arent able to fix breaks, you should use 'testing' which is currently 'squeeze' testing is generally solid enough but also bleeding edge enough for desktops. Ya, I agree. Exactly why I use

Re: What is the matter with the http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/?

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:28:33AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:17:04PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53:43AM +0400, James Brown wrote:

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com writes: Victor Padro wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brownjbrownfi...@gmail.com wrote: I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. But the system see only 3GB: dmesg |grep Memory [0.004000] Memory:

Re: What is the matter with the http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/?

2009-07-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de writes: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote: Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype used to have a debian repository at: deb

Re: What is the matter with the http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/?

2009-07-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Neuffer neuf...@neuffer.info writes: Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote: Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype used to have a debian

Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?

2009-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ivan Marin ispma...@gmail.com writes: 2009/7/7 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de David david.mailli...@gmail.com writes: Thank you for you reply. Not, this does not work either (same output as before): I got it by downloading the .deb

Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?

2009-07-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
. By the way, in order to keep up-to-date, do I need to do apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, ia32-apt-get update and ia32-apt-get dist-upgrade, all the four commands? Thank you, David Please Cc to me if replying. 2009/7/6 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Just the ia32-* commands

Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?

2009-07-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dist-upgrade, all the four commands? Thank you, David Please Cc to me if replying. 2009/7/6 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Just the ia32-* commands. Is there a workaround to get ia32-apt-get support in synaptic ? Thanks, Bin Maybe setting the same command line option

Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?

2009-07-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David david.mailli...@gmail.com writes: Thank you. I followed your steps, even after deleting /etc/ia32-apt and reinstalling ia32-apt-get (as the former directory did not update its sources.list's). But I am afraid that it does not work yet: # apt-get update [...] W: Failed to fetch

Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?

2009-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David david.mailli...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I have skype installed from deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./ but after ia32-libs upgrade, skype does not work any more: $ skype skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: new debian sources and servers???

2009-06-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: This behaviour only appears, when using aptitude. Using the older apt-get, all servers are found. The only thing, I had to change, was APT::Cache-limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf, but that reason is clear. Is there a difference of using the

Re: Debian AMD64 resuce disk??

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr writes: On Friday 19 June 2009 02:11:16 Whit Hansell wrote: Is there such a thing available? No, I don't need it yet. Would like to know if there is one I could have on hand, tho' if necessary. I downloaded INSERT and fired it up but it only gave me a

Re: 64 bit LFS compile error

2009-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Leslie Rhorer lrho...@satx.rr.com writes: I downloaded an application (mfs-tools) which I am trying to compile on my Debian Lenny system, but the make is failing with the following errors: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -I../include-g -O2 -MT readwrite.o -MD -MP -MF

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-05-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alexandru Cardaniuc cardan...@gmail.com writes: lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:36:54AM -0300, macdowell@dpf.gov.br wrote: can we run 32 bit pkg on amd64? specifically I would like to run skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb You could

Re: mounting ntfs partitions?

2009-05-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt ham...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:21:10PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, how can I get read-write access as a normal user to a ntfs-partition? I trioed ntfsmount and pmount (with configured pmount.allow), but i found no way to get write-access as a

Re: devpts: called with bogus options

2009-04-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stephen Olander-Waters deb...@luy.info writes: Hey guys, I can't figure this out. Any ideas? These messages in dmesg used to be harmless because devpts would be mounted anyway, ignoring bogus options: - [8.535397] devpts: called with bogus options -

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: I was waiting for the update in sid, but now I change it in the source, my skype is now working, in that way. On the other hand the libraries required are in conflict with ia32-libs and then with wine nspluginwrapper and so on... I'm not quite

Re: Bls: Google Earth

2009-03-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jack Malmostoso jackmalmost...@freesurf.ch writes: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:50:09 +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote: What the great god almighty Google hath created he now takes away from us If you trust a guy from the internet, I uploaded a .deb of Googleearth prepared with

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the scheme

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: I don't know what change but now it works and try to download skype and libs... That is an example of the errors trying to install: dpkg-deb: --control /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libjpeg62_6b-14~11_amd64.deb /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci (Reading

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jan-Hendrik Palic pa...@billgotchy.de writes: Hi. On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: ia32-apt-get Description: Apt-get and dpkg wrapper for on-the-fly ia32-libs conversion On amd64 and ia64 the kernel is capable of executing i386 binaries

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-03-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: Goswin, Hi, thanks for all your work, I have installed ia32-apt-get and modify de /etc/apt/foregin/sources.list to have

Re: making both disks of raid1 bootable

2009-03-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dennis Johansen dennis.johan...@hegnstoften.net writes: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Francesco Pietra [[chiendar...@gmail.com]] wrote: Hi: I am looking for a debian thread instructing how to make bootable both disks in a mdadm raid1. I followed

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jaime Ochoa Malagón chp...@gmail.com writes: Goswin, Hi, thanks for all your work, I have installed ia32-apt-get and modify de /etc/apt/foregin/sources.list to have the skype repo, I also include it in the /etc/apt/sources.list How does the full entry for skype look like? refugio:~#

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:59:50PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: I understand that the double recommendation is fine. Though, I am pressed by answering the referees about a submitted paper as they requested additional computation. That

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-03-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
macdowell@dpf.gov.br writes: Hello, where did get ia32-apt-get, please ? I only found ia32-libs. hp:/home/mac# apt-get install ia32-apt-get Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto Construindo árvore de dependências Lendo informação de estado... Pronto E: Impossível achar pacote

Re: raid1 issue, somewhat related to recent debian on big machines

2009-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com writes: The important bit is: Disk failure on sda1, disabling device So one of your disks failed. The kernel marked it as such and continious on the other disk alone. This is invisible to the application (apart from the short hickup) and no data is

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-03-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:50:06AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: [snip] true, depends on whos rule of thumb you use. I have seen places where mandate fc drives only in the data center - get very expensive

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-03-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:16:19AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Not to repeat myself but a GPT with an entry for /boot in its fake MS-Dos table works just fine. Perhaps, but why bother. Just using GPT works. And it won't confuse

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:54:11AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: most enterprise site don;t use 1TB size disk, if you want performance you go spindles, there might be 8 disks (number pulled from the air - based on raid6 + spares) behind 1TB

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:06:30PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:54:11AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: most enterprise site don;t use 1TB size disk, if you want performance you go spindles, there might be 8 disks (number pulled

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 02/25/2009 03:48 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:55:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Who boots off of (or puts / on) a 2TB partition? Someone with a 4 drive raid5 on a hardware controller with 750GB SATA drives. Hence the

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 02/26/2009 02:51 PM, Alex Samad wrote: [snip] I have gone through a few cycles of changing the underlying drive sizes, ie a 3 disk raid5 made up of 3 x 500Gb and replacing in line with 3 x TB. pop 1 disk replace with 1 TB once it has settled you

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:51:29AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: my rule of thumb is to always have atleast 2 partitions on the first 2 drives (3 if I have them), for a raid1 /boot and a raid1 /. the rest of the space is put into a raid

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 02/27/2009 07:50 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:58:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: As would auto-replacement of bad drives by hot spares. Usually the firmware of a raid card does that itself. If a drive is flagged

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The comparison wasn't between having the raid controller or LVM present a reasonable size /, it was between a reasonable size / and a 2TB /. No one ever wanted a 2TB /.

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.uk writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:54:11AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: most enterprise site don;t use 1TB size disk, if you want performance you go spindles, there might be 8

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

2009-02-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
macdowell@dpf.gov.br writes: Hello, can we run 32 bit pkg on amd64? specifically I would like to run skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb thanks Samuel MacDowell apt-cache show ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:07:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I think the limit is 1024 cores. Or was that fixed to allow more? I think people are working on that, but not too many machines need that yet. Most machines

Re: big machines running Debian?

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com writes: 2009/2/21 Igor Támara [[i...@tamarapatino.org]] Hi, at some Datacenter here on my country they only want the machines to be installed with RHEL or Suse, every time I dig more into those distros I fall in love more with Debian.  

Re: Can not install lenny on HP BL20

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Igor Támara i...@tamarapatino.org writes: Hi, Allan Hi Allan Allan As soon as lenny came out I tried to install it on HP BL20, but it looks Allan like the virtual cdrom through the ilo interface isn't supported, has anyone Allan else succesfully installed lenny on the BL20 ? Allan

Re: sources.list: experimental

2008-12-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:40:56AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Actualy you are verry wrong there. Not in what it is supposed to do but in what actually happens and why update is a good idea. As you say will do things involving adding

Re: sources.list: experimental

2008-12-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans-J. Ullrich: I think my original question was wrong told: It is not a matter of the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade (this difference i well known by me), my question aimed more to like Hey, if there are higher versions in

Re: sources.list: experimental

2008-12-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:35:59PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: just a question: adding an experimental source to the sources list (just to install a special application from this), will an aptitude upgrade or apt-get upgrade overwrite ALL

Re: sources.list: experimental

2008-12-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, if you always check apt(itude)'s output before confirming its actions, you don't break your system either. But it is never a mistake to try the safe alternative first. Which is a lot shorter and easier to read once the safe-upgrade packages

Re: amd64 kernel + 32-bit userland: compiling a new amd64 kernel

2008-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
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Re: compile speed

2008-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:19:29PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: yes, that is the point, I wanted to know. I suppose, higher than -j 4 will let the system make too slow. Just another last: Are the entries in /etc/apt/apt-build.conf used by

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Mader wrote: in deed the documentation is very clear concerning the command line options. What I was not able to figure out is what aptitude performs in gui mode when I hit U to schedule all

Re: Building kernel modules for any kernel ?

2008-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, is it possible, to build kernel modules for kernels, which are not running/installed ? I have installed the kernel headers for 2.6.25 and running 2.6.24. yes. Look into module-assistant. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ia32 library repository, conclusion

2008-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Javier Serrano Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: El dc 14 de 05 de 2008 a les 05:10 +0200, en/na Goswin von Brederlow va escriure: Can you repeat instructions where to get the source for creating your repository and the repository itself again? The last url I saw did just give a permission

Re: Intel compiler for amd64

2008-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, on my amd64 Etch, I installed the intel64 ball: it rocks. Note that, amazingly, some ia32 packages are needed :-) Jerome Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:51:47PM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: On amd64 lenny I would

Re: building kernel-modules at new kernels

2008-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008 20:30:14 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Is there a debian way, to automatically build additional kernel-modules (i.e. madwifi, nvidia, virtualbox-ose etc.), when installing a newer kernelversion and headers ?

Re: building kernel-modules at new kernels

2008-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 10 May 2008 20:30:14 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Is there a debian way, to automatically build additional kernel-modules (i.e. madwifi, nvidia, virtualbox-ose etc.), when installing a newer kernelversion and headers ? I wrote a (rather

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