Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-09-29 Thread Francesco Pietra
Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging system, their support infrastructure, their release schedule/policy, and how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for. Thanks. Now my project at the Italian supercomputer center is going to

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-24 Thread Zhang Cong
Hi, I am not currently a porter but I would like to be one for the Hurd. I do some test on QEMU and public Hurd host. I am familiar with system programming and have some embedded and printer driver development experience. I use Linux for 11 year, family with cross compiling tool chain. I

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-24 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For sh4, I - test packages on this architecture - triage arch-specific bugs - fix arch-related bugs - maintain buildds For armel and armhf, I - test packages on this

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-23 Thread Martin Lucina
Hi, b...@decadent.org.uk said: I've also provided a couple of kernel patches in the past. I'm cross testing with Gentoo to ensure that bugs I report are Debian-specific or ia64-generic. I'll continue testing/software development activity on ia64 for the Jessie cycle, and more

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-22 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, I am an active tester/user for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For powerpc, ppc64, I - test most base packages on this architecture - test d-i on this architecture - follow debian-powerpc on at least a daily basis -

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, I'm a long-time ia64 Debian user ( 10 years). I'm mostly focused on desktop aspects (GNOME, Iceweasel, LibreOffice, Qt Creator, C++ 3D software development) while most other ia64 users that I know are more inclined on server use. I'm not a DD/DM, but daily update my ia64 workstation, report

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-21 Thread John David Anglin
Hi, Although I'm not a DD/DM, I currently do the majority of the Debian unstable package builds for parisc. As noted by Helge, these are available at www.parisc-linux.org . While not fully complete, the archive contains several thousand packages that are constantly being updated. We are

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 19:36 +0200, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: Hi, I'm a long-time ia64 Debian user ( 10 years). I'm mostly focused on desktop aspects (GNOME, Iceweasel, LibreOffice, Qt Creator, C++ 3D software development) while most other ia64 users that I know are more inclined on server use.

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread John David Anglin
On 21-Sep-13, at 7:23 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'll continue testing/software development activity on ia64 for the Jessie cycle, and more generally, until Debian drops ia64. I'm already waiting for Wayland on ia64 and other big updates. So please, keep ia64 in the bandwagon ;-) But I

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Gasha
Hi, I am an active tester (not always porter) for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: i386, amd64, armel - test most base packages on this architecture (every day tasks) - test arch-related things - test lots of ipv6 related issues

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Michael Cree
FWIW, I am a porter of the Alpha architecture in the following ways: - run a buildd - kernel support - work with upstreams for toolchain support - general porting work including filing bugs and patches I doubt if I will continue that for the life cycle of Jessie given that many of the former

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Wickens
software software engineer Sent from Samsung Mobile Original message From: Gasha ga...@pie-dabas.net Date: 09/20/2013 9:32 AM (GMT+00:00) To: Debian Release Team debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-po...@lists.debian.org,debian-de...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Roll

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Federico Sologuren
i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running. i would like to get involved. will need some additional information on what is needed

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Federico Sologuren wrote: i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running. i would like

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an overview of which of the porters are (still)

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I'm not a DD or DM, but an upstream contributor and maintainer for the toolchain, both for different things at work, and in my free time for the Hurd. I have no plans to stop this, so this will cover the jessie lifetime. As time permits, I also work on the Hurd itself, and advise

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 09:33 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For hurd-i386, I - test most packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs -

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: hurd-i386 ia64

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm particularly keen to see communication packages working on as many architectures as possible because otherwise two-way communications opportunities are missed if some users are excluded. In short, I'm not formally volunteering, but if people

Re: Does jessie install grub on both raid0 disks?

2013-09-15 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
Am 15.09.13 07:58, schrieb Francesco Pietra: Hello: I was unable to trace whether new debian installers include for amd64 an option to install grub on both disks of a raid0. If yes, it would be convenient to carry out a new installation of jessie instead of dist-upgrading from wheezy. Wheezy -

RE: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2013-09-07 Thread Customer Care
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Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-05 Thread Helge Deller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am not currently a porter but I would like to be one for the architecture parisc/hppa. I currently have lots of parisc hardware (5 workstations and 4 servers), all currently running debian unstable from our own debian repository at

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For powerpc, i386, amd64, armhf, I - test most base packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs - fix arch-related bugs - run a

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Bill MacAllister
Hi, I am an active porter for the alpha architecture in that I run two buildd servers and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For alpha, I - test some packages on this architecture - maintain buildds I am not a DD/DM Bill MacAllister -- Bill MacAllister

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Steven Gawroriski
Hello, I am not currently a porter but I would like to be one for the architectures ppc64 and sparc64. I currently have no hardware, but I will be obtaining ppc64 and sparc64 systems in the very near future (within 2 weeks). I do have advanced C knowledge and have programmed for 12 years. I

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For SPARC64, I - test a lot of the packages for KDE4 Desktop - testing and currently preparing patches for Iceweasel - test Vanilla build of the Linux

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For kfreebsd-*, I - test packages on this architecture This includes running a Desktop (Notebook) System on testing and am therefore testing the relevant stack

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Adam Holland
Hi, sorry I'm not a skilled programmer, I just have a historic SGI O2 to play around with a bit. If the hardware dies, I won't really have any reaspn to stay involved with this port. -Adam On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 20:18 -0400, Adam Holland wrote: Hi, sorry I'm not a skilled programmer, I just have a historic SGI O2 to play around with a bit. If the hardware dies, I won't really have any reaspn to stay involved with this port. Still cool that you have one though! -- Kip Warner --

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Schepler wrote: Actually, after the initial phase where I was getting x32 multilib support into gcc and eglibc, and starting up the port, the email activity related to this has settled down to virtually nothing. So I actually don't see any need for a dedicated list for this anymore

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Schepler
Actually, after the initial phase where I was getting x32 multilib support into gcc and eglibc, and starting up the port, the email activity related to this has settled down to virtually nothing. So I actually don't see any need for a dedicated list for this anymore (at least for now). -- Daniel

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Schepler
I'd say probably just cc me (or maybe x...@debian-ports.org though I haven't tested yet whether that address actually forwards to me). I don't usually read debian-amd64. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.comwrote: Daniel Schepler wrote: Actually, after the

Re: raid metadata version - grub-pc 1.99-27+deb7u1 (grub2 wheezy)

2013-08-18 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 08/16/2013 06:18 AM, Karl Schmidt wrote: Back in 2011-sep-29 There was a problem booting from a raid partition with raid mdam metadata version 1.2. There was a workaround - but I'm trying to update some documentation for wheezy. It looks like this has not been dealt with? At issue is

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Daniel, Daniel Schepler wrote: It would be nice to have a mailing list for the Debian port to the X32 ABI on amd64 http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/. Most likely debian-x32. So far, discussions on it have been scattered around, and mostly in private mails, so it would be nice to have

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-18 Thread Robert Goley
I would recommend the Lubuntu distribution. It is light on resources, the gui works in a similar manner to windows and does not have too many easy to mess up settings. On Aug 18, 2013 10:51 PM, Aeon gaeaesse...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best and most Recommended Distro for someone that has

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Yes I did both as root, never worked with cp will try with cat. Thanks. Will report soon ▼ Hide quoted text On Aug 11, 2013 11:19 AM, Marian Corcodel corcodel.mar...@gmail.com wrote: cat debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /dev/sdc is right and sync on root. On Aug 11, 2013 11:19 AM, Marian Corcodel

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-10 Thread Ivan Kovnatsky
Hey Anubhav, Not sure if you will like the way I would install in you situation (in case of lack of internet connection). Since you're debian user I'm proposing to install in the following way: https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap. You need to get ready debian-based system, configure /etc files,

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-10 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Thanks Ivan for the reply, I feel the only modification would be the grub as I will have to install it over the whole hard disk as I have a dual boot of windows. Can you tell me more about my /home partition (Point # 2) I will try your method and will report. But I want to know, even after

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures

2013-08-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 09:06:31PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 06/22/2013 07:26 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: * sparc: no working nflog (mild concern); no stable kernels in stable (compiling clisp for instance crashes the kernel reliably on smetana). We need to run sparc with oldstable

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures

2013-07-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/22/2013 07:26 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: * sparc: no working nflog (mild concern); no stable kernels in stable (compiling clisp for instance crashes the kernel reliably on smetana). We need to run sparc with oldstable kernels to provide

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: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-06-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hello: I noticed that in my country supercomputer center all machines, both CPU (FERMI) and GPU (AURORA, PLX) run on RedHat Linux. As a long time user of Debian GNU Linux amd64, I am curious whether such machines elsewhere also

Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-06-26 Thread Chip
On 06/26/2013 10:40 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hello: I noticed that in my country supercomputer center all machines, both CPU (FERMI) and GPU (AURORA, PLX) run on RedHat Linux. As a long time user of Debian GNU Linux amd64, I

Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-06-26 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Lennart: I forgot that what is found on supercomputers might result also from what you say. I found it problematic to compile a code for molecular dynamics (MD) inclusive of an elaborate plugin. Better, I succeeded when only the simplest part of the plugin was implemented, getting a valid MD

Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-06-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi Lennart: I forgot that what is found on supercomputers might result also from what you say. I found it problematic to compile a code for molecular dynamics (MD) inclusive of an elaborate plugin. Better, I succeeded when

Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-06-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
RedHat are focusing their product on suiting the needs and idiosyncrasies of companies that 'think' in the 'old iron' mentality. RedHat have moved from being disruptive in the small end of town (start ups, small ISP's etc) to chasing large fortune 500 companies. They have unashamedly shaped

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures

2013-06-22 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Martin Zobel-Helas (zo...@debian.org) wrote: [please consider replacing debian-ports@ldo with the appropriate port specific list when replying.] * armel: no remote management (being worked on); no archive kernel for the machines we use. * armhf: no remote management (being worked

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures

2013-06-22 Thread Rtp
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org writes: [please consider replacing debian-ports@ldo with the appropriate port specific list when replying.] Comrades! At our recent Essen sprint, DSA went through the release qualification matrix (for wheezy, as there isn't one for jessie, yet) and

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 14-06-13 21:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Wouter, Mikael: input on switching C/C++ to 4.8? We don't have much data either way, do we? I suppose it shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I can't be sure. In the past we've usually taken the plunge, and filed bugs if things go really bad. --

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net wrote: Hi Aurelien, On 18-Jun-13, at 6:05 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: This is true that they have recently contacted me through another email address, but I haven't found time to work on that. Just stay tuned. That's

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-18 Thread Aurelien Jarno
porters). I did not get any feedback from other port maintainers, so unless this does change and port maintainers get involved with toolchain maintenance, the architectures staying at 4.6 or 4.7 shouldn't be considered for a successful release (re-)qualification. I trust

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-18 Thread John David Anglin
Hi Aurelien, On 18-Jun-13, at 6:05 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: This is true that they have recently contacted me through another email address, but I haven't found time to work on that. Just stay tuned. That's great news. Helge and I have been working away as best we can to maintain the

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 15.06.2013 03:22, schrieb Stephan Schreiber: GCC-4.8 should become the default on ia64 soon; some other changes are desirable: - The transition of gcc-4.8/libgcc1 to libunwind8. - A removal of the libunwind7 dependency of around 4600 packages on ia64 - when they are updated next time

Re: Printer driver for Epson AcuLaser C1100 please convert to x64...

2013-06-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 02:08:12AM -0700, DutchGlory wrote: I have printer driver here for Epson AcuLaser C1100 if someone is able to convert this to x64... (amd64) i'll (and many others) be *MORE* than happy :) It has no source code, only binaries, and the binary is 32bit only. Now you

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 13.06.2013 21:47, schrieb Thorsten Glaser: Matthias Klose dixit: The Java and D frontends now default to 4.8 on all architectures, the Go frontend stays at 4.7 until 4.8 get the complete Go 1.1 support. I’d like to have gcj at 4.6 in gcc-defaults for m68k please, until the 4.8 one

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Matthias Klose
unless this does change and port maintainers get involved with toolchain maintenance, the architectures staying at 4.6 or 4.7 shouldn't be considered for a successful release (re-)qualification. I trust these are the architectures that are okay so far: | gcc48_archs = amd64 armel armhf arm64

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klose dixit: I’d like to have gcj at 4.6 in gcc-defaults for m68k please, until the 4.8 one stops FTBFSing. please send a patch. For gcc-defaults? I think that one is trivial… For gcj? I did not take Compiler Design in what two semesters of Uni I managed until I ran out of money. I

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Schreiber
GCC-4.8 should become the default on ia64 soon; some other changes are desirable: - The transition of gcc-4.8/libgcc1 to libunwind8. - A removal of the libunwind7 dependency of around 4600 packages on ia64 - when they are updated next time after the transition. The libc6.1 should (likely)

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
maintainers, so unless this does change and port maintainers get involved with toolchain maintenance, the architectures staying at 4.6 or 4.7 shouldn't be considered for a successful release (re-)qualification. The Java and D frontends now default to 4.8 on all architectures, the Go frontend stays

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Tobias Frost
other port maintainers, so unless this does change and port maintainers get involved with toolchain maintenance, the architectures staying at 4.6 or 4.7 shouldn't be considered for a successful release (re-)qualification. I trust these are the architectures that are okay so far

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klose dixit: The Java and D frontends now default to 4.8 on all architectures, the Go frontend stays at 4.7 until 4.8 get the complete Go 1.1 support. I’d like to have gcj at 4.6 in gcc-defaults for m68k please, until the 4.8 one stops FTBFSing. From me nothing against switching C/C++

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 13/06/13 20:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: From me nothing against switching C/C++ to 4.8 for m68k at this point, but I’d like to hear at least Wouter’s opinion on that, and possibly Mikael [...] Before that can be changed, I think the gcc-defaults package expects package version (=

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steven Chamberlain dixit: Before that can be changed, I think the gcc-defaults package expects package version (= 4.8.1-2) whereas m68k still has only the 4.8.0-7 you uploaded. Right. That’s because gcj FTBFSes. You will also first need newer binutils (= 2.23.52) which is still in the build

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

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Goley
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 using a python script for your backup script so you can more easily

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

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Goley
Wasn't sure it had been thought out. Thought you were doing a single backup script expecting blacklisting the single PID to work. The method you have should work great. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Giacomo Mulas gmu...@oa-cagliari.inaf.itwrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Robert Goley wrote:

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

2013-06-06 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, 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 using a python script for

Re: Wheezy: mcelog not getting notified of ECC errors anymore?

2013-06-04 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 02:32:39PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: This is serious - I sure hope you wrote up a bug report? I first wanted to make sure that the serious error isn't on my side. Up to now I seem to be the only one affected... S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-04 Thread Francesco Pietra
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 problem. There are many raids, not limited to raid1. Perhaps it is

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: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Did I miss something during the debian installation? Why wasn't grub automatically installed on both disks? Seems like it should have been. I would file a bug against the debian-installer or installation-reports. I started this

Re: Wheezy: mcelog not getting notified of ECC errors anymore?

2013-06-03 Thread Karl Schmidt
This is serious - I sure hope you wrote up a bug report? Karl Schmidt EMail k...@xtronics.com Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://secure.transtronics.com

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: I just did 2 reinstalls in the last two weeks (upgrade from sqeeze to wheezy screwed up my grub config and then my 6 year old drives started failing - so much fun :), but basically during both reinstalls and creating MD devices with debian installer (md0/md1/md2)

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-02 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
2, 2013 at 10:11 AM Subject: Re: RAID1 all bootable To: Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca, amd64 Debian debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, debian-users debian-u...@lists.debian.org Is this recipe devised for installing grub on both sda and sda with an undamaged

Re: RAID1 all bootable

2013-06-02 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Nonetheless, I'll try to digest your manual. At this point, could you also describe how to safely proceed, on this situation, to have grub on both disks? It would be useful community wide, to complete the raid1 installation from the Debian installer. As

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:40 PM, peter green plugw...@p10link.net wrote: :-) I'm one who asked there some time back why java7 is no longer in the archives (unstable/experimental), while the last binaries I had installed still work OK on my mini-pc... I'm just curious, sorry for asking to

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-23 Thread peter green
:-) I'm one who asked there some time back why java7 is no longer in the archives (unstable/experimental), while the last binaries I had installed still work OK on my mini-pc... I'm just curious, sorry for asking to the lists... I want to understand if the mini-pc is still a low performance

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-23 Thread Peter Chubb
Émeric == Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com writes: Émeric Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Wheezy Émeric using the netinst CD on a spare HDD, using default parameters Émeric (using entire HDD and one single partition as partition Émeric scheme) except for

Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday

2013-05-22 Thread Émeric Maschino
Hi, Sorry for the late reply, I didn't have access to my zx6000 workstation until now. Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Wheezy using the netinst CD on a spare HDD, using default parameters (using entire HDD and one single partition as partition scheme) except for

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-13 Thread Harry Prevor
Thanks again for all your help guys. I was having a lot of problems, but I somehow managed to start the computer for just long enough to quickly install memtest86+ before it crashed with a kernel panic. On memtest, every single test was failing, so I decided to try taking out my two 8GB RAM sticks

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-13 Thread James Page
Hey Matthias On 06/05/13 15:22, Matthias Klose wrote: It's time to change the Java default to java7, and to drop java support on architectures with non-working java7. +1 Patches for the transition to Java7 should be available in the BTS, mostly submitted by James Page. Some may be still

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:02:00AM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote: Thanks again for all your help guys. I was having a lot of problems, but I somehow managed to start the computer for just long enough to quickly install memtest86+ before it crashed with a kernel panic. On memtest, every single test

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: It's time to change the Java default to java7, and to drop java support on architectures with non-working java7. Just asking as a loongson-2f user, :-) What makes java7 not to work on those architectures? Building issues?

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-11 Thread Артём Н.
10.05.2013 21:23, Harry Prevor пишет: On 5/10/13, Артём Н. artio...@yandex.ru wrote: 10.05.2013 05:04, Harry Prevor пишет: The normal images didn't work for some reason now forgotten, so I had to use the unofficial installation images that included nonfree drivers. What are the drivers?

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-10 Thread Артём Н.
copy /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog (and send to list, of course)? Also /etc/fstab plus result of sfdisk -lxuM /dev/sd command (or pvs --all lvs --all, if you use LVM)... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-10 Thread Darac Marjal
likely to be pottering about at the command line anyway. I would start by checking SMART logs on both drives (in case they've failed badly), then try fscking the filesystems. Then try something like debsums -c to search for changed files. With luck, you may just need to re-install the kernel

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-10 Thread Harry Prevor
Thanks a lot for your helpful responses guys. I'm at a public computer right now and haven't had a chance to try your ideas yet, but I've noticed a few things that I'd like to clarify: On 5/9/13, Chris Swenson ch...@cswenson.com wrote: Given that these problems were occurring before, I'm

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:23:09PM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote: Thanks a lot for your helpful responses guys. I'm at a public computer right now and haven't had a chance to try your ideas yet, but I've noticed a few things that I'd like to clarify: On 5/9/13, Chris Swenson ch...@cswenson.com

Re: Wheezy

2013-05-09 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
No I didn't uninstall them and I don't know how to list them... Do you know how? I have iceweasel and multimedia files... On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Chris Swenson ch...@cswenson.com wrote: The instructions for upgrade note that removing third-party software (including software from

Re: Wheezy

2013-05-09 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Yes I have the debian packages for nvidia... On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:18:09AM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: After my upgrade to wheezy my X has failed. I tried to find the problem to fix it, and I

Re: Wheezy

2013-05-09 Thread Chris Swenson
Using synaptic, you can see the various categories of the packages, including Installed (local), which means synaptic is not aware of where you got it. Further, if it's in a backport, then it will show without a debian logo to the left, and those should be downgraded or uninstalled, too. – Chris

Re: After a few weeks of almost no issues, Wheezy doesn't boot anymore

2013-05-09 Thread Артём Н.
10.05.2013 05:04, Harry Prevor пишет: The normal images didn't work for some reason now forgotten, so I had to use the unofficial installation images that included nonfree drivers. What are the drivers? please mute the audio Interesting music... :-) Any ideas as to how to debug this? I

Re: Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Swenson
The instructions for upgrade note that removing third-party software (including software from Debian testing or sid) should be uninstalled, which would include the proprietary nvidia driver. I know I've installed some unofficial backport packages that may cause this problem, and I plan on taking

Re: Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:18:09AM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: After my upgrade to wheezy my X has failed. I tried to find the problem to fix it, and I was not be able to do it... I have a partial success narrowing the problem... And I ask you for help to find it clearly I don't

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Mon 06 May 2013 16:22:30 +0200, a écrit : - hurd never had openjdk support, and afaik, nobody is working on that. There has been work towards this, notably by Jeremie Koenig. I don't know the status, we just have not made it a strong priority so far. Samuel -- To

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klose dixit: Currently java bindings/packages are built for all architectures, however some architectures still use gcj as the (only available) Java implementation, and some OpenJDK zero ports are non-functional at this point, and Debian porters usually don't care about that. So the

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: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread Michael
Karl, I can see nvidia-kernel-source in my debian unstable package list, though i have no 'src' line in sources.list. Probably because that package can not have a binary counterpart unless you used it :) When i used this package (along nvidia-glx and module-assistant) in the past, i just

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread Michael
'm-a a-i' sorry, should be: m-a a-i nvidia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130429154448.7c88e...@mirrors.kernel.org

Re: Cannot use Debian

2013-04-27 Thread Michael
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 tricky thing. Even if you install and use the 'cpuid' tool, you

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-26 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work, as the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared for this at the moment. Just download the installer from the nvidia website and execute it -

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