Re: apt-get not working anymore

2009-09-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de writes: Hi, maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too although I am not subscribed there. If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the locales.

Re: apt.conf and ia32-apt-get

2009-07-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: Does the new 'ia32-apt-get' system honor anything in /etc/apt after initially being installed, such as 'apt.conf'? Or should 'apt.conf' be copied to '/etc/ia32-apt'? Dave W. It does honor it. It actualy comes with

Re: ia32-apt-get on Sid

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new ia32-apt-get facility. I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in /etc/ia32-apt

Re: ia32-apt-get on Sid

2009-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes: I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new ia32-apt-get facility. I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in /etc/ia32-apt After reading /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian, I'm a bit confused on

Re: progress, but... - re. fixing LVM/md snafu

2009-04-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com writes: Hello again Folks, So.. I'm getting closer to fixing this messed up machine. Where things stand: I have root defined as an LVM2 LV, that should use /dev/md2 as it's PV. /dev/md2 in turn is a RAID1 array built from /dev/sda3

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 2008-04-25 16:07:51, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: You are asking generically Packages without specifying a mirror. Are they granted to be identically replicated among all mirrors? Of course they *probably* are due to how mirroring works, but is it

Re: Header files amd64 etch

2007-07-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A mixed compilation (ifort/gcc 4.1.2) of Amber9 on amd64 etch dual-core-opterons (Linux deb32 2.6.18-3-k7 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:23:11 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) requests the following header files; WcActCB.c:22:28: error: X11/IntrinsicP.h: No such file

Re: etch RC1 installer

2006-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aimed at adding X to my amd64 etch workstation, I wonder whether X is treated in amd64 (no 32 chroot, pure 64 as far as it may be pur) like in i386. In a new installation of i386 etch netinstall with latest etch RC1, no nvidia driver was installed.

Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061114 14:58]: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:19:13AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: * The 2.6.17 kernel should support installing from most CD-ROM/DVD drives in systems with a SATA controller. However, there

Re: Problems with Wine on Debian AMD 64

2006-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Glen M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi , I'm a total noob to linux so bare with me, I've had a friend help me through alot of this so far. I am trying to get 'wine' installed with 32bit libraries in order to run some 32 bit applications. Initially I started with installing ia32-libs and

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006:07:13:13:47:58+0200] scribed: snip / The amd64.debian.net is at the same level as sarge if you include the proposed updates. The only difference to official sarge is that the ftp-master hasn't pushed those

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excuse me for chiming in, but I think many places simply look for the best performance and productivity/dollar(euro). We do use the PGI compiler, mostly because gnu had not had a f90-f95 compiler, and partly because of, maybe, a 10% improvement in

Re: boolean search

2006-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francesco, Any text editor will have hotkey search on case-insensitive character strings, which allows you to use a text file to store and find unstructured text data. For ease of use, I especially like the incremental search feature in emacs. A

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This confirms that I was right in reserving the 64bit machine for 64bit applications and the 32bit machine for 32bit applications. It is easy to communicate between the two. Because the calculations at 64bit are long lasting, I use a usb card

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They were installed by default in my case. I carried out a net installation (mirror debian.inode.at) on multi-dual-opteron from debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso etch beta2 release, downloaded 20 May 2006. It was raid1 with partitions /, /usr/,

Re: ia32 chroot caveat(s)

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues should be raised: 1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve as a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant binding. a chrooted application only

Re: native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment some recommend that AMD64 users set up a chrooted environment, I would like to know: 1. The practical disadvantages of installing the ia-32 libraries to run, for example, open office Ia32-libs

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via SSH. I

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michal Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot $ cd / $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Fun, fun

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably trust gcc not to screw

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there. I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer countries seem to have. It

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold? You are assuming wrong. You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between ubuntu and Debian. MfG

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I simply edit the sources file to return

Re: One stage rsync

2005-12-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Olleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: That said, what happens when e.g. the rsync stops halfway? I make experiment, kill rsync server on transfer. Does it update the files it already has? No Does it keep the files delayed and resume on the next run? Does it remove

Re: One stage rsync

2005-12-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Olleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I am working on debian and debian-amd64 mirror. There are two recommended mirror scripts. In both two stage rsync, first to download packages, second to update index files after download. I use one stage, here example: rsync --verbose --recursive

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Krzysztof Wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell Shaw wrote: S. Massy wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim Connors wrote: Or what about automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing this)? Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the

Re: Can I autogen Build-Depends like I can Depends, with shlibs?

2004-03-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Number Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is more of a -user question, but only devs would know: My dh_make -generated debian/control and debian/rules uses dh_shlibdeps to automatically generate the Depends: line, which rocks. Do I have to manually specify the Build-Depends line, or can

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have been asked to give a talk at my local LUG with that topic. The audience is fairly technical, and there is going to be a companion talk Why FreeBSD later in the year. Why not debian bsd? :) Might be a nice addon at the end to

Re: initrd with sshd ?

2003-11-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
e-bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am just curious if something like this is possible. I essentially need a two part boot process. I would like to have linux first boot to an initrd with a sshd running on it. Then, after connecting to this system over the network, I would like to