Re: Debian DSA-5095-1 : linux - security update

2022-03-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
ux-headers-5.10.0-11-amd64. So long as you install the metapackage linux-headers-amd64, replacements like this should be upgraded automatically. > libirs-export161_1:9.11.19+dfsg-2.1 This is the only version available in Debian. It is built separately from bind9 and is only used by the ISC DHC

Re: Debian Buster update error

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
e MODULES setting in /etc/initramfs-tools/initrams.conf to MODULES=dep - Run "update-initramfs -u" If you do this, the disk probably won't be bootable if you move it to another computer. * Compress the initramfs harder: - Change the COMPRESS setting in initramfs.conf to COMPRES

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the installer for Debian 10 "buster". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

2017-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
designed for exactly this purpose? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
4.6 (available as linux-image-4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 in jessie-backports). Then use 'reportbug' to submit a bug report against that package if the bug is still present, or the jessie package if it's fixed there, giving a summary of the problems you've described. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first y

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
ptsas here not mpt2sas as you posted - no idea what is > the difference. [...] So far as I can see, mptsas is for SAS 1.0 (3 Gbps) controllers and mpt2sas is for SAS 2.0 (6 Gbps) controllers.  They are two entirely separate drivers, probably with different sets of bugs. Ben. --

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

2016-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
This is an unfortunate effect of doing multiple things in parallel, which is really the only way to make them go fast. I think most of the problems you're still having must be caused by a bug in the RAID driver, mpt2sas (or its firmware, if that's not embedded in the BIOS). Ben. --

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
en ping works for non-root users. > > How, just by executing dpkg-reconfigure, did I tell it this is what > I wanted?  If that's the default, why wasn't it that way to begin with? It probably was, but see bug #770492. > More generally, is it somehow possible to still run debian without > capa

Re: Bug report - ext4: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)

2016-02-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
#1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) x86_64 > GNU/Linux [...] This is the original kernel image for jessie (from 8.0).  Not all the kernel modules from current jessie (8.3) will work with it. You must update your netboot images after each point release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a

Re: IMPORTEND squid3 stable needs update

2016-01-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
on in jessie: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/squid3 Do you know otherwise? Ben. > So I'd like to request to mark Version 3.5 as stable.(But Version 3.5 in > stable state) > > thank you -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
or in the kernel. Ben, what's your take on this? You're probably right but I don't know how to debug such things. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your sig. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Mainboard for Debian stable

2012-01-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2011/11/msg00347.html You probably meant: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2011/11/msg00346.html (From: Ben Hutchings). Correct, my mistake. But where can I find that backport? It is the kernel itself. See the changelog: linux-2.6 (2.6.32-36) stable

Re: Bug#636123: Info received (Bug#636123: linux-image-2.6.39-2-amd64: root filesystem not recognised - new bug report)

2011-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
bugs 636123 and 638896, the initrd file wasn't created - at all. So it's not the exact same problem, is it? this definitely warrants further investigation. Can you try to reproduce this in an etch-lenny-squeeze upgrade? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all

Re: cgroup OOM killer loop causes system to lockup (possible fix included)

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
OOM. If there is no network available, it doesn't do this because you cannot log in remotely anyway. The bug seems to be that sshd does not reset the OOM adjustment before running the login shell (or other program). Therefore, please report a bug against openssh-server. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Testing new hardware support for Debian 6.0.2

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
that the kernel log (for example, r8169 logs the 'XID' of the device). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE

2010-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
is normally debian-ker...@lists.debian.org. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
/rules, which applies those patches. But this takes a very long time because it builds several configurations and each of those enables most of the drivers and optional features. If you want just a single configuration, use linux-source-2.6.26. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:56 -0500, Boxuan Gu wrote: Hello, When I opened /usr/src/linux_2_6_26/drivers/net/Kconfig, I found the following: config TIGON3 tristate Broadcom Tigon3 support depends on BROKEN depends on PCI I don't know what does BROKEN mean. I

Re: RFH: rt2570 -- RT2570 wireless network drivers

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
supported by the rt2570 driver. So we need some users of this driver to test new versions of the package before we upload them. If you are willing to do this, please respond to this bug. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description

Re: RFH: rt2400 -- RT2400 wireless network drivers

2007-10-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
with such a card, or to test pre-release packages against it, we cannot support this driver in any meaningful way. Popcon shows 46 installations of the rt2400 driver, so I suspect at least one rt2400 user is subscribed to this list. Please can one of you offer to test new packages? Ben. -- Ben

Re: RFH: rt2400 -- RT2400 wireless network drivers

2007-10-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
, or to test pre-release packages against it, we cannot support this driver in any meaningful way. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Security bug in CAPI code; please test updates

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
personal GPG key). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: su: Permission denied, (Ignored)

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
martin f krafft wrote: I have just encountered a weird message by /bin/su: master:/tmp# su -c id collector su: Permission denied (Ignored) uid=200(collector) gid=200(collector) groups=200(collector) root su's to the collector user (pam_rootok allows this), and the command is executed.

Re: telnet problem

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
Jacco Hoeve wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Jacco Hoeve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: One more quick question: I am used to typing telnet 0 port .. but after I upgraded woody to sarge telnet 0 gives: server01:/etc# telnet 0 25 telnet: could not resolve 0/25: Name or service not known It does the same

Re: network install over nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface

2004-11-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Hello, My question concerns the correct course of action when installing Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver provided by nVidia at

Re: network install over nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface

2004-11-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
I wrote: If you have a drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB) then you must use a 2.6 kernel to avoid disk addresses wrapping around beyond that point. Sorry, I got this wrong. 2.4 should be fine as well, so I don't know what the problem might have been. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: critical install failure, most hardware attempting to use irq 1.

2004-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Levi Waldron wrote: I just tried to install sarge, using the pre-rc2 debian-installer, on an eMachines T1742 Celeron 1.7 GHz desktop system (82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] mainboard chipset). After installing the base system, the floppy drive, network card, and sound card do not work. Although they are

Re: Still can't get mplayer to play Car Talk!

2004-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
Adam Funk wrote: As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm using the current unstable version of mplayer-k6 from ftp.nerim.net and all the relevant packages. snip My /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf contains the following lines: audiocodec racook info RealAudio COOK status working format 0x6B6F6F63 ;

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
Michael Graham wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Christopher Swingley wrote: Change the ownership and permissions on their .bash_profile and .bashrc to root:root 644: -rw-r--r--1 root root 420 Sep 21 13:05 .bash_profile -rw-r--r--1 root root 746 Sep 21 13:05

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
Upayavira wrote: Otto Wyss wrote: Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together into a file. I can grep logfile grep 2 logfile but how can I redirect both together? cat foo 21 logfile or, to append to the file: cat foo 21 logfile Should do it. Redirections are

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
Christopher Swingley wrote: snip This is what I've done when I wanted to reduce the set of commands a user could run. I'm sure a reasonably competant Unix user could easily circumvent these restrictions, but it's a good first start, and making such attempts would result in account suspension.

Re: missing files in install cd - built using jigdo

2004-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
tom midgley wrote: I built an iso, using 'http://non-us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/woody-i386-7.jigdo'. The installer gave the the following message : The installation program couldn't find any directory containing the files rescue.bin, drivers.tgz - it was right, they

Re: su : must be run from a terminal

2004-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
Gilbert, Joseph wrote: There are two other standard ways to have scripts run with root privileges. 1) For automated tasks, schedule it in root's crontab. 'man crontab' for more info 2) Use setuid for scripts or programs that are to be run by users who need root perms to perform a specific task

Re: change IP and default route.

2004-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: snip Thank you very much for that - and everyone else that replied. I had not seen your post before I see others mentioning /etc/network/interfaces, so edit that. so was not sure what to put for the broadcase, although since the original ended in .255, I went for that

Re: Problems with DHCP Setup

2004-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
Joshua J. Brickel wrote: Hi Folks, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me with this or direct me to another internet group that would Summary: DHCP is not getting set-up correctly on the Linux side. snip The present problem is that the initial dhcp connection does not seem to be

Re: File System crash

2004-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
david.lozano wrote: Hi all, I've got a new PC and I've just installed that: On a 160 Gbytes HD, three partitions: hda1 with Windows 2000 (119 Gbytes), NTFS hda2 with a Linux swap partition (1 Gbyte) hda3 with an ext2 file system (40 Gbytes) My linux installation is a Debian Woody (just downloaded

Re: Bizarre NFS Problem

2004-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: Hello All, I'm currently running debian 3.0 r3 and have run into an interesting issue with my NFS mounts. On one of my debian systems (I have just done an apt-get update/upgrade on all my systems) when copying or creating a file on one of the NFS mounted

Re: Setting samplerate on /dev/dsp

2004-11-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all, while not technically debian related it has something to do with linux. I want to capture data from my /dev/dsp device but the devices defaults are 8bit mono sound, i want to know how to set the samplerate and mono/stereo from the command line, a google search showed

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
John L Fjellstad wrote: William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an external USB 2.0 2.5 hard drive, shows up as /dev/sda, with an ReiserFS partition. If I yank it with it mounted ReiserJS panics. I have the fstab entry marked as sync, rw. I think it might be because reiserfs is a

Re: executing spamassassin from sieve on some of the messages

2004-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Vadim wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: That's my understanding as well, then, is there any other way I can sort messages with cyrus? Sure, filter them before they get to Cyrus. If you want to do all decision making with Sieve, make sure the filters add headers you can test against. So

Re: Fixing errant partitions

2004-10-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
David Baron wrote: Partitions, created by linux fdisk, seem to have errors (disabling parted/qtparted, etc.) The table looks like this (I do not know whether it made it this way--I only gave fdisk types and sizes, or other things caused the errors. There were originally two fat32s plus one

Re: Replacing root device on a running system

2004-10-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to change the root device on a running linux system? Yes; use the pivot_root system call. I don't know of any command that provides access to that, though. It is mainly used to switch from the initrd to the normal root filesystem. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: regd max file size

2004-10-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
David Clymer wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:49, Micheal Mukherji wrote: My apologies if you feel its not a thing related to debian. Is the 'maximum file size' a constraint of a particular file system implementation or the constraint of operating system? Both, I believe. For example, 32bit

Re: Backup to dvd

2004-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
David Berg wrote: Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and /usr, /) to they're own dvd. Problem is I don't have room to build the tarball or iso on the hard disk before I burn it. Using a command

Building binaries for older versions of libc6

2004-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including g++-3.4 of course. This requires version 2.3.2 of libc6 itself, and any binaries I