On 28/12/2020 09:34, Tixy wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 23:56 +0000, Graham Seaman wrote:
>> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection.
>> My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to
>> get this fix
Hi Tomas
On 28/12/2020 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:56:21PM +0000, Graham Seaman wrote:
>> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line
>
> Wow. Memories fading :-)
>
> OK, my recollection on inittab is a bit dusty, and
I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection.
My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to
get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime). When the line
goes down, I get this sequence:
Dec 27 01:35:03 snoopy pppd[22798]: No response
On 02/08/2020 04:31, Tom Dial wrote:
On 8/1/20 11:09, Graham Seaman wrote:
I already reinstalled grub-pc (using a rescue-usb) , that's how I got
the system booting again. But I don't know if the current grub is
trustable or not.
My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it
On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote:
>
>> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote:
>>> I have a laptop that became unbootable because
>>> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked.
>&
On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote:
I have a laptop that became unbootable because
the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked.
Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot. One explanation has it
that this happened because the MBR and the remainder of grub were not
On 21/07/2020 04:35, David Wright wrote:
However, this laptop, the lenovo, no longer has a functioning power
regulation. The battery shows full at all times, but if the AC is
interrupted, it's dead. It doesn't help that the connector (a USB-A
look-alike) is loose fitting, so the laptop now has t
On 18/07/2020 21:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
often for the price of a new battery you are already
a large part of the way towards just getting a newer
system (a raspberry pi might work for some people and
be much better instead).
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (acc
On 18/07/2020 21:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in
the £40-50 range in the UK.
Most of the ones on Amazon ar
On 18/07/2020 21:42, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC
adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu' or 'dell vostro 1520
power supply', but all
On 18/07/2020 13:47, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the l
On 18/07/2020 13:39, Dan Ritter wrote:
Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the lapt
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has
been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is
genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power
cable attached the laptop is completely dead.
I guess it's most likely this is a hardware fa
I've previously used either Gnome or Enlightenment as my main
environment; I just installed Debian on an old laptop and decided to
give KDE a go instead. I often want to switch keyboard briefly to do a
bit of text editing with non-english characters (pt, de, ru). I don't
ever want to change loc
On 17/02/2020 22:41, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 17 Feb 2020 at 15:27:06 (+), Graham Seaman wrote:
I hadn't thought of running a VM clone of the server - might be
generally useful. But the server's main jobs are as a router,
firewall, dnsmasq, mail server, which is where the mai
On 17/02/2020 06:30, john doe wrote:
On 2/16/2020 11:45 PM, Graham Seaman wrote:
Of course, though this would be easier if I was more sure where
everything was. But the data's no use without the software to read it.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html
Thanks
On 14/02/2020 17:39, john doe wrote:
On 2/14/2020 5:42 PM, Graham Seaman wrote:
I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few
years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I
work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these
I run a debian house server for firewall, routing etc. The last few
years I've also run gitlab on it, which I use to manage text files I
work on from an assortment of laptops/PCs; I have a lot of these files
(currently around 12 Gb) and really don't want to lose them. After the
initial setup I
This turned out to be a hardware problem after all - short in an
ethernet cable. Though I don't understand how I got quite the symptoms I
did, it has now all been working for a couple of days so I guess that
was it.
Graham
On 03/11/15 15:33, Graham Seaman wrote:
> On 03/11/15 15:15, Ren
On 03/11/15 15:15, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:49:44 +
> Graham Seaman wrote:
>
>> For some years I've been using a debian system as my household
>> firewall/router. It's been sitting quietly working without any major
>> chang
Hi
For some years I've been using a debian system as my household
firewall/router. It's been sitting quietly working without any major
changes, but has suddenly stopped doing so following my last aptitude
update/upgrade.
Server eth0 is connected to my modem, and eth1 is connected to internal
devi
Hi
I have an elderly machine which has been successfully running backuppc,
mainly with linux clients but including use of smb to backup Windows
hosts. I recently upgraded from squeeze to wheezy and found that
backuppc no longer worked correctly with smbclient: the backup
terminates with no warning
On 0, graham wrote:
>
> [...]
> libhdf4-alt-dev: Depends: libhdf4-0-alt (= 4.2r4-6) but 4.2r4-5 is
> to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> [...]
>
The first thing to do would be to try a dist-upgrade. If that still fails
I've had similar problems with the gentoo version ('bon echo') on dumb
sites which recognise browsers by name, instead of testing for
javascript capabilities. The fix was to install the User Agent Switcher
plugin and tell the site you're anything but what you really are (IE7
seems to be a re
Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a
full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... please
ignore previous message...
Graham
Graham Seaman wrote:
Hi,
I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for
a while and
Hi,
I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for a
while and when etch was formally released like an idiot decided I could
do the final upgrade without reading the upgrade documents...
Result: I rebooted before having upgraded the kernel (I'm on
2.6.8-2-686) and so
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Clive Menzies wrote:
>You might find the following useful:
>
>http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html
>http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid
>http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/
>http://deb.riseup.net/storage/software-raid/
>http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/
I just bought a new machine and installed the new debian on it. It has 2
drives and I wanted
to run software raid on them so I was really impressed when it came up
as an install option.
The problem is, now I can't always boot: as far as I can work out (after
about 10 attempts,
so it does seem to be
Hi,
I have a little old Pentium 2 machine I decided to set up as a print
server. No usb,
so I bought a Belkin pci usb card. Running on stable, but upgraded to
2.4.24 with
usbcore, OHCI, and usb printer modules. Now I'm trying to use it with a
Brother
HL-5040 laser printer, but it just won't se
Hi,
I've probably wrecked my system and will need to reformat
and start over, but am hoping I'll be able to recover without.
But I'm stuck - any advice appreciated (as you will see from below,
I don't have much idea what I'm doing).
I had an old potato system.
Problem 1:
I tried to upgrade X to
Hi,
I have a printer problem which must be absolutely simple but
have tried everything I can think - this is now desperation!
I'm using magicfilter etc. My printer (a laserjet 4) works
fine - except that it doesn't flush the last page of a
set, so that the next thing I print gets its first page p
>
> There are no install disks for potato yet. I also had trouble with this
> very problem a while back. My solution was to borrow a supported
> controller for installing slink and then building a new kernel and
> swapping the controllers back. There was really no other way.
>
> BTW, the 2.0.37-
Hi,
I've been using debian for a while but am still a relative
newbie. I just bought a new pc with Advansys Initio SCSI driver.
The supplier asked me what OS I wanted; I asked for Linux. They
told me I would have to use RedHat, since the Initio drivers
(which are only supplied in binary format) ha
Hi,
I'm having problems setting up X which I think are due to
my graphic card settings. I have what I thought was a pretty
standard card which the drivers are there for. The card has
a Cirrus CL-GD5446BV with 2 MB of ram. Superprobe identifies
both ok. I used xf86config to set up the configuration
Hi,
Having problems setting up ppp. I think its actually a unix
problem rather than a hardware one, but this is my first try with
a Linux system so may be wrong. Here's the details anyway:
I have a Sysprano internal modem with Rockwell chip set (uart
is labelled RCV336ACF/SF). setserial reports:
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