Bob McGowan wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
why do you use /boot/boot/grub/ and not the default /boot/grub/?
what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ?
Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own
I tried to do an update this morning and ran into the problem below when
it came to installing the kernel. I've looked in
/boot/boot/grub/menu.lst and the new kernel 2.6.18-4 hasn't been added
(I'm running 2.6.18-3 and that is the top kernel in the list).
Any ideas what's gone wrong?
dpkg:
Hi,
I'm having problems with a couple of applications and reading about the
problem indicates its probably caused by locking not working correctly
on NFS. The problem seems to lie with the server end of the set up - my
guess is that it's not accepting the locks from the client machine. Both
gunnar wrote:
I've carried out a network-installation of debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso
and my problem is that I cannot shut it down. The only way of shutting
it down seems to be to press the Reset-button, choose my
Windows-partition in GRUB and carry out the shutdown from Windows. Thank
God
Hi,
I installed Bacula yesterday which was a painful experience because I
mistakenly answered no when it asked me if I wanted to install the
database. Anyway, I installed the database by hand, configured Bacula
and went to fire it up.
Running /etc/init.d/bacula-director start gives me a pid
Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
I installed Bacula yesterday which was a painful experience because I
mistakenly answered no when it asked me if I wanted to install the
database. Anyway, I installed the database by hand, configured Bacula
and went to fire it up.
Running /etc/init.d/bacula-director
On Sunday 17 September 2006 04:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:50:51AM +, Gustavo Franco wrote:
FYI, we had more than 1.2 million web servers (yeah, just web servers)
running Debian[0] in 2005.
If you add Debian web servers not publishing this information,
Hi folks,
I've got a little bit of a problem with my main server that has been
driving me to distraction. Something is constantly trying to make a
connection to an external IP address using the internal interface. The
firewall is fairly tightly set up so I get log messages about these
Quoting Anuradha Weeraman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 9/15/06, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sep 15 10:54:39 compost kernel: Output: IN= OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.0.1
DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=74 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=1 DF PROTO=UDP
SPT=56190 DPT=5353 LEN=54
UDP port 5353 is being used
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:02, Adam Funk wrote:
I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon,
Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian
architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those
processors?
I'm also concerned
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:42, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit
port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra features and
the Althon 64 in 32 bit mode is just
As far as the JDK / JRE goes I would stick with the Sun VMs for now. They are
fairly easy to install on Debian (Google for debian java).
There are plenty of development environments for Java but the two most widely
used are eclipse and netbeans. I use netbeans but I am considering switching
to
Hi,
I'm running AMD64 sid and I am experiencing an exceedingly annoying problem
with Kontact. I think the problem is actually Kmail as when I try and run
Kmail on it's own I see the same problem. Anyway, the symptoms:
When I start Kontact almost immediately exits with a SIGSEGV. It last just
I wrote the page below a couple of months ago. I haven't got round to
configuring the accelerator yet though which is why there aren't any
instructions for that yet.
Installing Windows XP under Debian with QEMU
http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/xp-under-debian-with-qemu.jspx
Hope
I've just downloaded and compiled up the latest CVS version of sphinx-4. I
haven't had much time to play with it but I'm quite surprised how accurate it
can be when the number of possible inputs is limited.
Unfortunately, I don't have a very good microphone so the quality of my speech
wasn't
Hi,
I would like to get my sound card working correctly (using all 4.1 speakers)
but I can't seem to figure out how. I have a GigaByte GA-K8NXP-SLI
motherboard with a built in RealTec ALC850 sound chip. At the moment I get
sound but only from 2.1 speakers. I think these drivers
Hi,
This is perhaps one of the stranger questions to be asked but I'm looking for
a utility that will copy a file slowly.
Part of my ad hoc backup system is to copy the nightly backup tar file from
our production machine onto another machine. The problem is that the
production machine is not
Hi,
I have been keeping a close eye on one of my systems as it locked up a few
days ago. This particular machine runs fwanalog as a cron job. I get a daily
email fine but I have noticed what to my mind seems to be bad behaviour by
the cron job.
The job itself runs are midnight IIRC but at 10
Hi,
Hope you can help me with a rather serious failure on one my machines last
night. When I went to access it this morning it was as dead as a door nail.
No network activity, not even local keyboard or video - totally dead. I
initially thought a kernel oops but having a look at the logs makes
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
* snip *
What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help
in identifying the culprit.
This is no help. :-(
H
It's running
Linux compost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux
the machine
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
* snip *
What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help
in identifying the culprit.
This is no help. :-(
H
It's
Hi,
Having a touch of trouble with SSH. Anything that goes near SSH fails horribly
with a segfault. For instance running SSH at a command prompt gives:
Oct 18 14:13:06 localhost kernel: ssh[6763]: segfault at 00014a00432c rip
2ac40817 rsp 7fce6e58 error 4
in the syslog
On Saturday 15 October 2005 06:03, Marty wrote:
Hendrik Boom wrote:
Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered
that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond
about 128 gig, tha other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G.
I don't know
Sorry this request for help is a bit off topic for this group but I am really
stuck and could do with some help. If you can't help but know where I might
be able to get help I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction.
I run a few sites off one static IP address using virtual hosting.
On Friday 14 October 2005 19:03, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Like I said, I don't have enough space in the new apartment to set up
multiple computers, but I dislike having computing power going to waste.
Can anyone suggest a way to network/connect all four to possibly
distribute the load among them?
The problem is there is a world of difference between doing up and old car as
a hobby and trying to use a 486 as a desktop machine.
Your old Model T is never going to do 60MPH or have air con but that is
understood from the outset.
If the intention is to save some computing history go for it.
On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
The problem is there is a world of difference between doing up and old
car as a hobby and trying to use a 486 as a desktop machine.
You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why
use a modern
On Monday 10 October 2005 15:57, Gabe Granger wrote:
Does anyone have any good suggestions about good webserver logfile
analisers. Specfically when it comes to website written in php?
I'm currently using webdruid and webalizer but these can not report
back anything more then the fact the
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 03:15, Bruno Buys wrote:
Thanks Alan,
No openoffice.org for amd64 can be an issue, really. I didn't know that.
Also, I don't have mirrors close to me. So, I guess 'keeping an eye' is
the right movement, for now.
You own a amd64 machine? Does it run too hot? Here in
Hi,
I would really really like to use pgadmin3 but there is, and has been for
ages, a problem with dependencies. When I try and install it I get this
Depends: pgadmin3-data but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwxgtk2.5.3 (=2.5.3.2) but it is not installable
Ok. The data package is
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:27:52PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
I would really really like to use pgadmin3 but there is, and has been for
ages, a problem with dependencies. When I try and install it I get this
Depends
Hi,
I'm seeing loads of these types of message from Bind
Aug 29 13:40:35 sever named[7713]: lame server resolving
'181.162.65.222.in-addr.arpa' (in '181.162.65.222.in-addr.arpa'?):
202.96.209.5#53
Aug 29 13:40:53 server named[7713]: lame server resolving
'101.63.195.81.in-addr.arpa' (in
On Saturday 27 August 2005 16:12, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
I am looking for a drawing (vectorial) program, i read about:
Sodipodi
Skencil
Karbon14
Any other?
Any suggestion about which is better?
PAolo
What you are looking for is inkscape :o)
It has a basic but good range of features and
Hi,
I know this might seem a little strange but my system seems to have developed
a blind spot for Java.
I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to execute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java
I get
bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or
( http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch11.html ) all
went quite well.
On Friday August 26 2005 7:32 am, Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
I know this might seem a little strange but my system seems to have
developed a blind spot for Java.
I have a JDK installed in /usr/local
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:10, Kent West wrote:
How 'bout showing us the output of ls -l
/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java? Here's mine:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 Sep 15 2004 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
Well if you show
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:47, Kent West wrote:
Try performing some other action on the file, such as renaming it.
Yep I can rename it.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 2005-08-26 12:21 javarenamed
# ./javarenamed
-su: ./javarenamed: No such file or directory
Also try it from a different
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:30, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory
This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java does
not exist. But that is sometimes wrong. Look if this file
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:34, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
Hi Graham,
- make shure, that file is not a symlink. It should tell you if you do 'ls
-la'.
nope it's not a symlink
- make shure that not one of the directories has obscure permissions.
drwxr-xdrwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2005-08-22
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:43, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Then maybe it's a shared library that's missing? I had a problem like this
years ago with Modula 3. There's some kind of command (strace ? -- I
forget the name; I use it so rarely) that will trace all the system
calls while your program
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:37, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
What happens when you do
strace -f /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java
In another post there is a strace without the -f option here is one with it.
# strace -otrace.txt -f /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java
strace: exec: No such file or
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:32, Kent West wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:34, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
or 'ldd java',
this looks bad
$ldd java
/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:46, David Jardine wrote:
Cheers,
Unfortunately I had thought of that and the java file in question is a
binary not a shell script.
You haven't got an invisible character (space, for example) at the
end of the name by chance, have you? I.e java .
Nice try
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:42, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
or 'ldd java',
this looks bad
$ldd java
/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127)
Here we go. Let's concentrate on this. Normally,
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:55, Kent West wrote:
I'm a little hazy on the chroot; is your ./java command failing to be
found while in chroot, or while not in chroot. If while in, that seems
odd, as the symlink is there. If while not in, I'd just create a new
symlink:
ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:56, Michael Marsh wrote:
On 8/26/05, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$file java
java: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
Crazy question: You are trying this from
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:45, Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
I have just upgraded my mantis bug tracking database but it has died during
the upgrade. Whenever I visit any page that requires database access
(basically all of them) I get the error message:
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening
* kernel 2.4.27 was installed in my box. It's been a suprise since in
Fedora i'm running kernels 2.6.x. Why this 2.4 kernel? Does Debian
consider 2.6 kernels unstable? I'd like to upgrade my kernel; how can i
do it using apt-get?
I've wondered why a 2.4 kernel is installed by default as well
Hi,
I have just upgraded my mantis bug tracking database but it has died during
the upgrade. Whenever I visit any page that requires database access
(basically all of them) I get the error message:
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required
'/usr/share/mantis/gui/core/adodb/adodb.inc.php'
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:36, Daniel Ramaley wrote:
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 03:06 am, A. Lanza wrote:
i've been running Fedora linux for about 3 years now but... i wanted
to explore Debian as well. Recently, i had to set up a mail system
and i installed Debian Sarge on an old Pentium 3
Hi,
Sigh. I know that there are likely to be problems with with unstable,
especially at the moment, but could anyone tell me how I could get back my
kde menu entries. The whole application menu system in the kicker (I think
thats what it's called - the equivalent of the start button on
On Saturday 20 August 2005 13:48, Kent West wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
Sigh. I know that there are likely to be problems with with unstable,
especially at the moment, but could anyone tell me how I could get back my
kde menu entries. The whole application menu system in the kicker (I
On Thursday 18 August 2005 18:15, Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
I seem to be missing a device node but I am unsure as to how I should get
it back.
I have a machine that has just two ide devices the hard drive and an old
DVD drive. There is a device node /dev/hda that corresponds to the HD
Hi,
I seem to be missing a device node but I am unsure as to how I should get it
back.
I have a machine that has just two ide devices the hard drive and an old DVD
drive. There is a device node /dev/hda that corresponds to the HD but
not /dev/hdc for the DVD drive. This latter node has only
Hi,
I have a bit of a problem with audio in kaffeine when playing a dvd and was
wondering if anyone else has seen this problem. The audio is very slightly (1
or two seconds in every 10 minutes) slower than the video. It starts off
alright and then slowly slips out of sync. Pausing and
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 20:36, Andreas Fester wrote:
A segmentation fault occurs when an application tries to access
memory it is not allowed to access (similar to an access violation on
other OSs)
I had guessed that was probably what it was. I'm a Java developer (no
laughing :o)) so things
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:28, Graham Smith wrote:
I forgot to mention, when I shutdown FF (rather than let it crash) it spits
out this error message (all on one line)
Cutting log (size: 102170, max: 10)Component returned failure code:
0x80470002 (NS_BASE_STREAM_CLOSED
Unfortunately taskjuggler isn't packaged as a .deb because I would be
interested in having a look at it. It seems there was a shot at packaging it
a while ago but it's not been touched in an age. Might have a go at compiling
unless someone knows of a .deb source.
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:37,
Hi,
My firefox keeps dieing with a segmentation fault. First question is: what's a
segmentation fault? Second: what can I do to find out what is causing it and
fix it?
There doesn't seem to be any particular cause although I think it is related
to page rendering. Going to this page
Hi,
I was just given a small USB pen drive and would like to get it working with
Debian. I am sure you are probable thinking Oh god not another n00b that
can't mount a drive but thankfully you would be wrong. I don't have any
problems mounting the device but it feels very clunky compared to
Hi folks,
I've got a bit of a problem with setting up forwarding on my firewall and I
can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong.
I have a tomcat server running on port 8080 on a machine in my network. I have
set up the following rules so that the outside world can get to it:
iptables -A
| iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -d 192.168.0.10 -p tcp -j ACCEPT
|
| iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 8080 -j DNAT
| --to-destination 192.168.0.10
Change this to:
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 8080 -d YOURPUBLICIP
-j DNAT --to-destination
Hi, I've got a bit of a problem with sound on my system. It works in
most applications but not all. As it was Friday I decided to install a
few games and oddly enough sound doesn't work in any I have tried so far
for instance NeverBall and TuxRacer. Now I think the problem might be
that they
Cam wrote:
Hi,
is there an error regarding sound when you start the game? I would
think it's probably more likely that the sound daemon is tied up by
esd or something. look for errors like '/dev/dsp: resource busy'...
if that's the problem you could try installing the libsdl-esd package.
Tong wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:01:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
Obviously all this from standard debian packages if that is possible
I've noticed that many of the answers for this thread suggest to avoid the
blackdown. Any justification for that?
The reason I'm asking is that I
Alan Chandler wrote:
I have decided the time has come to learn java and use it to develop some web
based applications. In particular I have a family tree project I want to
conduct.
I am a complete newbie as far as java is concerned.
I have two debian environments.
Server: Runs Sarge - and
Almut Behrens wrote:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:44:02AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 11:42, Kevin Coyner wrote:
I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python
and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more
functionality under apache
Hi,
Sorry for the slightly off topic nature of this question but I thought
this was probably the best place to ask it.
I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new
small business. If possible I would like colour but if a sufficiently
good black and white is available
how about putting 'linux' and 'printer' into a search engine, you may
find something like http://www.linuxprinting.org/ which tells you what
works with Linux (but not Debian/testing specifically)
Personally, I've a Brother HL-5150D which does duplex and wasn't
expensive but I do have some
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
When I first tried out the new installer yes I did read what documentation was
available (the version of the installer I used was a pretty early release so I
thought it would be worth mugging up
I'm not saying I'm right and I often bottom post to not annoy
people but I have to try and convince you to switch.
Who died and left you to rewrite the English language?
No one. I ask you the same question though?
As far as I can see bottom posting has as many advantages and drawbacks
as
Derek Wueppelmann wrote:
So I've been trying to figure out why when I upgraded from Woody to
Sarge (now stable whu-hoo) my Apache system got all fubar'd. Here is
what I'm seeing.
When accessing the page: http://beta.monkeynet.ca/misc.php I have no
problems. However if I try to access
If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer
lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a
physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From there you can
create volume groups, which are analogous to partitions but can be
resized at
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer
lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a
physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From
Lech Karol Pawaszek wrote:
On Thursday 09 of June 2005 22:13, Mike Ward wrote:
[...]
Afterall, I honestly never had heard of 'top-posting' before until
now, but just this gentle reminder means that at least one occasional
user is now posting more 'correctly'.
Hooray! :-)
If you would like
I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE whereby
for some unknown reason it switches to Gnome (while I'm logged in - I
didn't think that was possible). The most obvious sign that this has
happened is the background picture set under KDE disappears and the
right click on
I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE which
causes the background picture to disappear and the right click on the
desktop to be ignored (no menu pops up). I get no messages in
/var/log/syslog when it happens.
I'm running the pure64 port of sid with KDE 3.3.2. I
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE whereby for
some unknown reason it switches to Gnome (while I'm logged in - I didn't think
that was possible). The most obvious sign
Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:36 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
Hi all,
I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's
boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little
confused about how to go ahead and do this.
I have installed
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Graham Smith:
Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:36 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's
boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little
confused about how to go
Hi all,
I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's
boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little
confused about how to go ahead and do this.
I have installed the grub package but it doesn't seem to have set itself
up as other packages do. There
I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a
problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the
past when I have had problems with apt they have resolved themselves in
a couple of days when a working version of a package appears but this
problem
A re-install seems to have fixed it. Although I have no idea how it
broke in the first place.
Thanks
Joris Huizer wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a
problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the
past when I
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