Re: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-02-23, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig8A6162A10A29BD9D157868EB > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Charlie schreef: >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:48:3

Re: Checking which patches was used to compile the kernel.

2010-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-02-22, Miguel Da Silva - URI wrote: > Is it possible to do that? Right now I have to work with a server I did > not installed and I don't have much information about the kernel > configuration. > Check if the file /proc/config.gz exists, which is the kernel configuration file. -- To U

Re: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-02-23, wzab wrote: > > --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > Hi, > > I have two different debian/testing systems. The common feature is the > Intel graphics chipset. > Both of them stopped to boot after upgrade which I performed b

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-31, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > --3gk1bTGVZuaU9V5/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Jeffrey Cao: >> On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>=20 >>> A go

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > --YzdYn+D7cUqe+VA3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Mike Iowa: >>=20 >> 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based >> system and tell whe

Re: Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-29, Tech Geek wrote: > --00504502ce5da6db1a047e5657d2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > So I have been using my current Debian instalaltion for almost a year now > and over this time I have installed, purged and deinstalled a lot of > packages. It seems that the status

Switch from X to any tty freeze the machine

2010-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Cao
This problem happens when I upgrade some xorg packages recently. When I switch X to any tty, the machine freeze. The same symptom happens when I reboot or shutdown the machine from X. But if I do not start X, it's OK to switch between tty1-6. The xorg version is: 1:7.5+2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up

2010-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Cao
When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: "INIT: Entering runlevel 2" Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5 rather than just sta

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > --nextPart7215540.ksqcIOTIpo > Content-Type: Text/Plain; > charset="iso-8859-15" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 06:39:24 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >> Now, I get why the

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-20, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 13:50:58 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >> Today when I ran "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", >> I got the message that the package elinks will be removed. I cancelled >> this u

Re: console resolution

2010-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to > work fine right now. > > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed at > the star

Re: Problem with Lenny

2010-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/20/2010 9:26 PM: >> Jan 20 21:59:37 mail kernel: [0.00] Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 >> (Debian 2.6.26-19lenny2) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 >> 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 20:45:37 UTC

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-20, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 14:44:20 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >> On 2010-01-20, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> > Ouppsss, sorry >> > >> >> And libtre5 is in squeeze, so you to wait for it to move to sdueeze >> > >

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-20, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Ouppsss, sorry >> And libtre5 is in squeeze, so you to wait for it to move to sdueeze > > > I mean > And libtre5 is in "sid", so you to wait for it to move to squeeze > Thierry > > But I installed elinks one year ago without dependency problem. I did "u

elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

2010-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
Today when I ran "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", I got the message that the package elinks will be removed. I cancelled this upgrade, since that I'm now using elinks. Anyone know why elinks will be removed from squeeze? Or this is just a mistake? Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-05, hadi motamedi wrote: > --0016e6d566adaf99a1047c693cbc > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman < > sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote: > >> hadi motamedi schreef: >> >> Dear All >>> I have my Debian server installed from De

debian Tags integrated into apt-get?

2009-07-22 Thread Jeffrey Cao
I found there's Tag section in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages. Does this mean debian tags is integrated into apt-get and I need not run "debtags update" to update the tags? and "debtags update" is obsolete? Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Boot from 2.6.26-2-686 fails - unable to find root device

2009-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-07-21, Bruce Ward wrote: > Juha Tuuna said: > >>> The boot fails with messages: >>>Gave up waiting for root device. >>>ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. >>> Dropping to a shell! >>> >>> At that stage there is no /dev/disk directory (let alone a by-label >>

Re: ThinkPad freezing after hw update?

2009-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-07-02, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some > screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally > started to die completely, going to black shortly after > startup--so I sent it back for a warranty repair. I pulled the > hard

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-05 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-07-05, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of=20 > resolving dns taking a long time.

Re: reconfigure X

2009-07-05 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-07-05, Paul E Condon wrote: > I need to reconfigure X, because I have switched to a newer, larger > monitor. I google for info and find > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" > > but when I run this (as root) I get only questions about the keyboard > and nothing about the monitor (or video c

Re: DNS lookup problems after upgrade from Etch to Lenny

2009-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-06-16, Stackpole, Chris wrote: >> From: Adrian Levi [mailto:adrian.l...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:19 AM >> Subject: Re: DNS lookup problems after upgrade from Etch to Lenny >> >> >> didn't have it before and on another system running a fresh build > of >> >> Lenny runni

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-06-18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > When I reboot my laptop, my wireless card sometimes gets recognized as eth2. > Other times it gets recognized as wlan0_rename. > > Because of this, sometimes I end up with a booted machine with no network. > > Using Debian Lenny (stable), > > $dmesg

Re: trouble with custom kernel

2009-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Cao
> > Temporarily rename /lib/firmware/mts_edge.fw to something else (eg. > /lib/firmware/mts_edge.fw.old) and reinstall 2.6.30 > No, you can't just rename the file. The package installation information is kept in the database. Try "--force-overwrite" option to dpkg. Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: regarding upgrade

2009-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-23, Lenny Jaan wrote: > > --=-RGKxjrJfS0h2o/y5be2e > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Now I have peace mind, Thanks 2 Thierry. > How do I get rid of other 2 entries from the boot screen ? > How do I view the versio of Lenny using command line ?

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

2009-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-23, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig96969A47323B843026EC6D74 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Kurian Thayil wrote: >> Hi All, >> =EF=BF=BD >>

Re: dist-upgrade to linux-image-2.6.26-2(Lenny5.0.0 to 5.0.1).Disk space question.

2009-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-17, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > --tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > >> > Still I wouldn't think it would take 70 mb, but maybe I'm wrong... :) >> It's not only about the kernel image. The whole modules for the new kernel >> will b

Re: Kernel Memory corruption error messages

2009-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-16, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > Has any lately seen the following memory error messages (from dmesg) after > resuming from Suspend to Ram (S3). I am using Debian Lenny with 2.6.28 kernel. > > > [ 179.822885] Corrup

Re: dist-upgrade to linux-image-2.6.26-2(Lenny5.0.0 to 5.0.1).Disk space question.

2009-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-17, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:18:44PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: >>=20 >> apt-get tells me that to dist-upgrade to th

Re: Login problem at debian lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-13, Mahmudur Rahman Jami wrote: > --000e0cd331dcd3fd6c04676d5094 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > I am using Debian lenny. I am unable to login to my system since today > morning. It shows the following message when I put user

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-14, 明覺 wrote: > 2009/4/14 David Fox : >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: >>> I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get >>> upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back >>> packages? thanks >> >> They're put on temporary hold.

Re: how to find out all the domain names that etch looks up

2009-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-04-07, Long Wind wrote: > Thanks! > > /etc/hosts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-26, Yanyuan Zhu wrote: > gksu synaptic > choose the package you want, right click -- complete remove > then reinstall it > > it's a little stupid, though > Sylvain Viart wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? >> >> Example: I would l

Re: Netinstall and ADSL

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-10, German wrote: > Is that possible to netinstall Debian with ADSL? Thanks. > > I don't think so. At least you have to set up dhcp service in your local network and provide a mini ISO. I don't think you can config pppoe before you get your minimal system installed. Better options are t

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-20, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/3/20 Matthew Smith : >> Hi Folks >> >> Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.)  Setting up >> VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial >> one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >> > Then, you can change root password. >> >> Ah..banging my head why I did not think of

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. Then, you can change root password. On 2009-03-20, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : >> "We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed but the >> operator is getting the following message on the console port when trying