GRUB: "error incompatible license. Entering rescue mode..."

Hello Yesterday I created an empty guest system on a VMware Host, bootet it with a GRML CD, copied over a running system and installed a boot loader using grub-install. When rebooting this newly cloned guest system I got the following error: GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB!

Cups does not find shared Windows printer while smbclient does.

Hello I would like to print to a remote printer that is connected to a Windows system from my Debian (squeeze) host. Samba sees the remote printer: # smbclient -N -L mrdarcy Domain=[MRDARCY] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment -

Custom kernel-headers package with all headers? (arch/i386/Makefile.cpu)

Hello What is the right way to build a custom kernel from e.g. upstream 2.6.17.4 sources and produce a kernel-header package that contain at least "arch/i386/Makefile.cpu" and similar files? "make-kpkg kernel_header" produces a kernel-header package which lacks this file. In Sarge this file is p

Kernel for Dell 6850 Quad-Dualcore-HT (16 CPU), 8GB RAM server?

Hello I have to install Linux on this pretty cool server described in the subject but sadly all tried kernels fails with Softlockups, messages that only 8 CPUs are supported, not detecting the full 8GB of RAM or the RAID controller or just halting without any error message. As Dell only supports

Loading 3w-xxxx module from initrd.img at boot time?

Hello The standard kernel-image-2.6 does not automatically load the 3w- driver needed for the 3ware (P)ATA RAID controller. While browsing the corresponding initrd image (mount with "-t cramfs") I found the module present in /lib though. Is there any way to tell the kernel to load this mod

Sarge+Kernel 2.6.8 -> Why not 4GB of heap memory for Java?

Hello With Debian (Sarge+2.6.9) on a machine with 4GB RAM, I cannot get SUNs Java (1.4.2-02) to allocate >1GB of heap RAM. This works on a RedHat machine though. Now our customer wants this to be fixed, if we don't want to switch to RedHat :-( Any ideas what this might be? Missing Kernel feature

Creating a DVD from .avi movies?

Hello Can anybody recommend me a working solution to easily make DVDs from normal avi movies (DivX5, XviD with AC3 or mp3, the usual stuff...)? So far every program I tries crashed somewhen in between or was too low level to be used with fun (mencode/transcode). thanks, -christian- -- To UNS

gnome + nautilus prevent xstarfish from setting background

Hello I changed from my .xsession based setup to Gnome but now xstartfish seems to be unable to set the background. Gnome's background preferences is already set to "no background" but that just seems to mean that it paint it black :-( Any idea? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

Hello Cut & paste from xterm via mouse-middle-click does not work with mozilla-firefox on a Debian Sarge desktop. It used to work with Mozilla 1.7 and it does work on my Debian Sid desktop at home. When I paste it via middle-click into a gnome-terminal and then explicitly use the edit->copy clipb

Looking for 17" TFT X11 config (mine is flickering...)

Hello My brand new LG "Flatron L1715S" TFT display with max resolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] and recommended resolution "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is flickering like hell in the first and at least a bit in the second resolution. A collegue of mine uses the same TFT with Windows and has, surprise, no problem

Re: lsof +L1 - mysql.err.1 unlinked ...

Hello On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:25:18PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > >I have always these mysql.err.1 files not unlinked in all my > >mysqlservers, and only a mysqld restart resolve these (nor reload > >neither mysqladmin refresh doesn't unlink them). The err file is created by safe_mysqld

Survey: Should MySQL be chroot'ed?

Hi I'm currently preparing the 4.x version of mysql (see /experimental/) and thinking about chrooting the daemon in /var/lib/mysql. This would be more secure although it would be a bit of work for me and limit the LOAD DATA INFILE and SELECT INTO OUTFILE commands to this directories. Now I'm w

tracing PAM?

Hi Has anybody a good idea how to trace/debug PAM? I use postfix and courier pop3/imapd as well as in future passwd to authenticate user agains an LDAP database and use PAM for this. Sadly everything between passing the credentials to PAM and getting a return value is one big black box :-( bye,

program to burn .cue/.bin files on CD-ROM?

Hello I got a couple of pdf files as a .cue and .bin file which are supposed to be burn with the CDRWIN programm under windows. Does anybody know how I can burn them under Linux? Or is this a proprietary format thats only writable by cdrwin? tschüss, -christian- -- Save the

StarOffice "failed to load necessary components"

Hello Has anybody running the 5.2 staroffice on a woody (unstable) Debian machine? I always get the message above. An strace is at http://www.westend.com/~ch/so.strace! TIA, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Staroffice and Debian

Hello Was anybody here successfull in running the latest 5.2 Staroffice with Debian "woody"? It always tells me something about "missing components" but works on a SuSE box. bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/70133

Debian rescue-cd (instead of those spartanic rescue-disk)?

Hello Last week my system was absolutely unusuable due to some foolish lilo experiments and I had trouble getting it working right again as I use reiserfs which is sadly not supported by any rescue disc or installation CD I have floating around here. The only collegue whom I gave reiserfs, too sa

What font for xterm in 1152x864 on 19" ?

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Re: mysqldump

te actions take place to the specific table. > Clinton bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel.: 02404

Re: dselect and mysql-server

.23.16 in main/misc. > abe bye, -christian- (mysql maintainer) -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel.: 02404-256

Re: secret data for php pages

hp has to be called as cgi but it's ok from the security point of view. http://stein.cshl.org/software/sbox/ bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christ

Re: Mouse troubles

o start. > Dietmar bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel.: 02404-25624 0AA3 E879 1D82 F59E 77

gpm as repeater for X11

port databse and turned "PNP BIOS INSTALLED" off in my BIOS. I find no Option there telling something about "PS/2 support on/off". bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet & Security for ProfessionalsFax 0241/911879

Re: Who eats my buffers?! (kernel leaks memory?)

Hello > Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CH> I have a serious problem. One of the servers I administrate seems to > CH> have a buffer leak. free and vmstat show me that the buffer size > CH> increases by some K every second leading to a 15M memo

Who eats my buffers?! (kernel leaks memory?)

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Re: using wwwoffle

http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/"; for to use with lynx. Contact me if you have further questions. bye, -christian- (maintainer of wwwoffle) -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://

Re: netscape6 mirrors?

he GNU generation ! Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624 50 3C 52 26 3E 52 E7 20 D2 A1 F5 16 C4 C9 D4 D3 1024/925BCB55 1997/11/01

netscape6 anyone?

for Navigator nsCollationUnix::Initialize mLocale = de_DE nsCollationUnix::Initialize mCharset = ISO-8859-1 Inside netscape.xul overlay... bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet & Security for Profe

Re: rlt8139 ethernet driver

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Re: Recomendation for Web <-> Mail interface

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Re: mysql problems

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Re: how to burn 80 min CD ?

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Re: Problem compiling program with -lmysqlclient

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Re: cran-md5

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Re: ZIP drives

of days so I am not sure. bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624 50 3C 52 26 3E 52 E7

Re: X hell!!

that Eterm is really called Eterm and not eterm or ETerm etc. Try ~$ dpkg -L eterm | less to get a listing of files included in a debian package. bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

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Re: MySQL from Netgod hoses DBI???

public :-) -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624 50 3C 52 26 3E 52 E7 20 D2 A1 F5 16 C4 C9 D4 D3 1024/925BCB55 1997/11/01

netscape and xfs-xtt and windows TTF

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Re: need help with gdb

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Re: color in xterm

it is, but my .lesskey file only works that way. > Happy turkey holidays, BTW: Why do you americans call thanksgiving like that european country ? > jack bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project

Re: enlightenment themes

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Re: chroot

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how to print RTF ?

Hello What program can print RTF ? Or how can I convert them to ps/pdf ? bye, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aachen u. Dueren Fax 0241/911879

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

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Re: apt-get problem

es to update. read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624 50 3C 52 26 3E 52 E7 20 D2 A1

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

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Re: ide disks > 8.4gb

Will 13GB work in LBA mode ? read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624 50 3C 52 26

GID und groups ?

Hello list ! If a user was given GID 42 in /etc/passwd, does the appending of his UID to the specific group in /etc/group make ANY sense ? read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aachen

boot from cd but load kernel from hd ?

Hello is it possible to boot from CD but then load the kernel and the root from harddisc (i.e. rescue root=/dev/hda1 boot=/dev/hdb3) ? The boot command does not seem to work on the LILO prompt. read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241

gdm does not start gdmchooser ?!

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compiling GNATS

nstant On a debian 1.3 machine it works, why ? read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aachen u. Dueren Fax 0241/911879

Was this a DOS attack ?

As we booted the the computer everything was fine. Nothing was logged. (i.e. since about 3h ago there were NO syslog entry) Yesterday we had have a "similar" effekt. But this time the computer was ok after about 5 minutes What can that be ? read you, -christian- -- Christi

boot from CD ?

uot;normal" CD content. How to make this boot .raw file ? (Seems to me that there must be some README, but I can't find it.) read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers Westend Informatik und Netzwerke GbR Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aa

cucipop, apop and db2

e "makedb2: Can't init db subsystem" if I compiled it myself, or "makedb2: Can't create /etc/mail/vpop.db" if I use the Debian shipped binary. I use ii libc6 2.0.7u-4 ii libdb2 2.3.16-7 ii cucipop 1.31-5 Can anyone help me ? read you

"last","w","who" not working !

Hi ! Since updating to the hamm (libc6) version (and maybe also before) my "last", "w" and "who" do not work !!! It seems that something happend to the utmp or wtmp file ? Or has it changed in the last kernel releases ? I'm using 2.0.32 and 2.1.75. Which packages must I update/install to get