Re: Sarge to Etch upgrade report

2007-03-11 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. F. Cano wrote: > if test "$DISPLAY" ; then > export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo \ > -ne "\033]30;`echo $PWD | sed \ > -e "s/^.*\(.\{20\}\)$/\1/" > `\007\033]31;$PWD\007"' > fi Thanks for the little script. It works great. It's now in my .profil

Re: Sarge to Etch upgrade report

2007-03-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are more ways to do it, but I prefer creating a > file /etc/modprobe.d/00local with all my customizations. This has the > benefit of preserving your settings across upgrades. And for completeness here is mine: ~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/00local # we

Re: Sarge to Etch upgrade report

2007-03-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
"A. F. Cano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the longest time, I had been annoyed that shells in a konsole did > not execute startup files. The last time this worked was in woody. Don't know about konsole, but other xterm's I tried have an option called 'login shell'. [snip] > [...] I > notic

Re: Sarge to Etch upgrade report

2007-03-10 Thread Cédric Lucantis
> A related issue is: Is there an easy way to go through the system and > identify (and possibly purge, after being asked) old files that are no > longer needed/used? I presume that the packaging system would take care > of files no longer needed, but what about old packages from previous > distr

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > I tried several S3 video cards as well, all with exactly the same result. > > I am trying to contact HP. However, I fear their response will be > something along the lines of: "We don't support Debian on hardware that > old!" > > I

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-06 Thread Trey Perrin
I tried several S3 video cards as well, all with exactly the same result. I am trying to contact HP. However, I fear their response will be something along the lines of: "We don't support Debian on hardware that old!" I grabbed the Etch kernel source, built and installed a 2.6.18 kernel, an

Re: Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:12:03AM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > The box will not touch the internet, and will be quite secure. It won't > be a server, I am just using server hardware. > > Forwarding X isn't an option for me. > > Whether I "should" be running X is irrelevant. X "should" work on t

Re: Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-06 Thread Trey Perrin
The box will not touch the internet, and will be quite secure. It won't be a server, I am just using server hardware. Forwarding X isn't an option for me. Whether I "should" be running X is irrelevant. X "should" work on this hardware. Trey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Stevens
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:35 -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > All, > > I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI > video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely > lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to start X. If I remove > the PCI

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:21:35PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > > > I have multiple applications that require an X server. > That's why you have a workstation :-) You ssh in, forward the X connection back to your workstation and viola. You can also use VNC if you would prefer to see the entire

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Trey Perrin
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:35:21PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: All, I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to st

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:35:21PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > All, > > I have several Compaq Proliant 1850R servers that have add-on Matrox PCI > video cards. Sarge installs with no problems, but the servers completely > lock up (power cycle required) when attempting to start X. If I remove >

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:17 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Well, I'm not exactly the world's most experienced systems > administrator - in fact, the term "incompetent amateur" is perhaps > more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for > others. I've been running Etch for so

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 01:17, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Now, you've got to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and then soon >> upgrade from Sarge to Etch. That 2-step process is much slower >> and error-prone than the one-st

Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > *sigh* You are the second person to suggest in effect never actually > > upgrading a debian system, > > We'd *never* say that. Well, what the other fellow said was that in his shop, they prefer to reinstall from scratch, at least when going from woody

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 19:10, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: >>> On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: >> [snip] >>> I'll make one tonight, and try

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > [snip] > > I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. > > Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stag

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > [snip] > I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. > Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stage

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > > sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot > > record - but I don't even know the right terminology to figure out > > wh

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this list can point me at the > right TFM. I'm also somewhat inclined to vent. > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > sarge.

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >> Returned: >> >> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. >> Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0. >> done. >> >> Then a

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Heard
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:12:32 -0500 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:24 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >>> > >> assigned by the gateway, 192.168.0.114, was not reported by >>> > >> ifconfig, pre

Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 14:19, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above >>> 600GB? >>>

Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: >>> I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. >> Why? Sarge on that is definitely not supported. You should >> definitely go with Etch. >> > Why woul

Re: size related questions for file system types (was Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB))

2007-02-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: Hi, Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above 600GB? I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. Why? Sarge on that is definitely not supporte

Re: Sarge on AMD64 (was Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB)

2007-02-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > > 600GB? > > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. > > Why? Sarge on that is defini

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >>> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >>> > > Returned: > > Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. > Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0. > done. > > Then a series of messages scrolle

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.02.1403 +0100]: > Is it common, that a failure of a raid disk leads to a system freeze, > even though the affected drive is _NOT_ part of / or any FSH directory? I bet you this is an issue with hardware, and x86 notoriously sucks at that

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:19:48PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > These messages look similar -- but not identical -- to the ones I had > > while installing an etch system -- and eventually I came to suspect the > > file-system-damage bug in the Debian 2.6.18-3 k

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > First the good news: after some repairs, the system appears to be > 'clean' again, running as usual. > > The box has three hard disks: /dev/hda with the root partition and > /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd with a raid1 for data. I agree

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > These messages look similar -- but not identical -- to the ones I had > while installing an etch system -- and eventually I came to suspect the > file-system-damage bug in the Debian 2.6.18-3 kernel (sometimes > because of a race condition a buffer is not written to ha

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Personally, I run something like samhain, not so much to check for > intrusion as to monitor data integrity. > > I wonder if the failed /dev/hdb took out the controller (ide0) and so /dev/hda > got corrupted. No idea how to figure that out. > Its too bad that your sy

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > First the good news: after some repairs, the system appears to be > 'clean' again, running as usual. > > The box has three hard disks: /dev/hda with the root partition and > /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd with a raid1 for data. > > /--

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > First the good news: after some repairs, the system appears to be > 'clean' again, running as usual. > > The box has three hard disks: /dev/hda with the root partition and > /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd with a raid1 for data. > > Y

Re: sarge iptables

2007-01-08 Thread web8_debian
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:59:44AM +0100, Marc wrote: >> Hi there, >> my kernel (2.6.18) has hashlimit support for iptables compiled in. >> Now I try to insert a rule using hashlimit, then the following appears: >> >> iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match >> `hashlimit':/lib/iptables/libipt_hashl

Re: sarge iptables

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:59:44AM +0100, Marc wrote: > Hi there, > my kernel (2.6.18) has hashlimit support for iptables compiled in. > Now I try to insert a rule using hashlimit, then the following appears: > > iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match > `hashlimit':/lib/iptables/libipt_hashlimit.so

Re: Sarge: name resolution weirdness

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:34:19PM -0500, Marty wrote: Carl Fink wrote: >So, do I hold the record for "questions debian-user can't answer"? The broken link sounds like an issue for the maintainer to sort out. My guess is the name resolution with non-existent resolv.conf files

Re: Sarge or Etch for Apache 2.2?

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:13:28AM -0600, Peter Michaux wrote: > Hi, > > My new hosting company has standard choices of Fedora Core 5 or 6 or > Debian Sarge. They suggest Fedora Core because it comes with Apache > 2.2 which I want. They say that they could install Debian Etch for me > because that

Re: Sarge or Etch for Apache 2.2?

2007-01-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:13:28AM -0600, Peter Michaux wrote: > Hi, > > My new hosting company has standard choices of Fedora Core 5 or 6 or > Debian Sarge. They suggest Fedora Core because it comes with Apache > 2.2 which I want. They say that they

Re: Sarge: name resolution weirdness

2006-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:34:19PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >So, do I hold the record for "questions debian-user can't answer"? > > The broken link sounds like an issue for the maintainer to sort out. My > guess is the name resolution with non-existent resolv.conf files is someho

Re: Sarge: name resolution weirdness

2006-12-31 Thread Marty
Carl Fink wrote: So, do I hold the record for "questions debian-user can't answer"? The broken link sounds like an issue for the maintainer to sort out. My guess is the name resolution with non-existent resolv.conf files is somehow related to virtualization. Happy new year to everyone (w

Re: Sarge: name resolution weirdness

2006-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
So, do I hold the record for "questions debian-user can't answer"? Happy new year to everyone (who uses the Gregorian calendar--and to the rest of you, too, just less appropriately). On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:19:23PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > So yesterday my Sarge server couldn't resolve any hos

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-18 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:58:33AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > >

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from >

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:51:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from > > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC. > > Interest

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from > > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC. > > Actually

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 December 2006 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots > > > without either

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots > > without either a functioning X or a functioning net. udev complains > > t

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-11 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:04:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, after the mass upgrade yesterday, the system now boots > > without either a functioning X or a functioning net. udev complains > > t

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mail

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:40:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried that, and got a *huge* raft of proposed deletions -- just from > asking for aptitude to be upgraded. what did you use to upgrade aptitude? you might want to use something that thinks its less intelligent to do this. I

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > and tried to ins

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:05:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > Sound like what I have seen "as usual" while doing dist upgrades (Debian > > and Ubuntu). Several a

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > and tried to ins

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > one, only t

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > an

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > one, o

Re: Sarge 3.1 installed. Can i add SATA support?

2006-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Javier Viegas wrote: > Hi everyone, i have Debian Sarge 3.1 installed as a file server, and i > need > to add another hard disk, as i already have the 4 ide ports bussy i can use > sata ones to add a big sata hd, the problem is that sarge 3.1 doesn´t > support sata controlers. I have an Asus mothe

Re: Sarge 3.1 installed. Can i add SATA support?

2006-12-04 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 12/4/06, Javier Viegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, i have Debian Sarge 3.1 installed as a file server, and i need to add another hard disk, as i already have the 4 ide ports bussy i can use sata ones to add a big sata hd, the problem is that sarge 3.1 doesn´t support sata controle

Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

2006-11-27 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Thorsten Haude wrote (2006-11-27 16:33): >* Sven Arvidsson wrote (2006-11-27 15:54): >>You can use "dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o" to find >>out which package a file belongs to, and reinstall it. > >Thanks for the hint! It's xserver-xfree86, one of the packages I >already

Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

2006-11-27 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Sven Arvidsson wrote (2006-11-27 15:54): >You can use "dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o" to find >out which package a file belongs to, and reinstall it. Thanks for the hint! It's xserver-xfree86, one of the packages I already reinstalled. But now I also removed three files l

Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

2006-11-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:36 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > * Thorsten Haude wrote (2006-11-27 15:24): > >after a recent upgrade, my X server will not start up. Log entries seem > >to indicate that X chokes on the Matrox drivers for my G550 DH AGP. > > Forgot something: A logfile can be found here:

Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

2006-11-27 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Thorsten Haude wrote (2006-11-27 15:24): >after a recent upgrade, my X server will not start up. Log entries seem >to indicate that X chokes on the Matrox drivers for my G550 DH AGP. Forgot something: A logfile can be found here: http://www.vranx.de/XFree86.0.log.gz Thorsten -- He wh

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adrian Midgley wrote, On 2006-09-22 04:35: David Mulcahy wrote: I understand that, (but they do provide desktop software) but if you are running debian on a server you probably know a bit about what you are doing and are probably prepared for a kernel compile. That set the bar high. I don't

confused. (was: Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel)

2006-09-21 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:18:27PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > > > Hello All > > > > > > > > Just di

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-21 Thread Adrian Midgley
David Mulcahy wrote: > I understand that, (but they do provide desktop software) but if you are > running debian on a server you probably know a bit about what you are doing > and are probably prepared for a kernel compile. That set the bar high. I don't think people who run NT/2003 on a serve

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-21 Thread David Mulcahy
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > Hello All > > > > Just did a sarge -> etch upgrade. > > > > Aptitude update , upgrade complained about libfam0 problems and stopped. > > > > apt-get worked. Although I hav

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-21 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:18:27PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > > Hello All > > > > > > Just did a sarge -> etch upgrade.

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > Hello All > > Just did a sarge -> etch upgrade. > > Aptitude update , upgrade complained about libfam0 problems and stopped. > > apt-get worked. Although I have in the passed disable

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
David Mulcahy escribe: > On my hardware a fully functional desktop is still a problem (eg music and > video) without a preemptive kernel so if debian is aiming at this sector then > a preempt kernel would be most welcome. Desktop optimized (preemptive) kernels are still not a trend in mainstream

Re: [sarge] devfs_mk_dir errors at boot

2006-08-24 Thread Joseph Le-Phan
Joseph Le-Phan wrote: > I recently completed a Sarge installation on lvm2 on raid. While the > system appears to be working fine after a reboot, i found the following > error message slightly distracting: > > devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to > parent for /disc > >

Re: Sarge - how to write a filesystem backup directory to a DVD ?

2006-08-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 03:23:07PM -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > The capacity of the DVD is 8gb, write speed is 16x, and the size of the > directory to be burned to the DVD is about 7gb so there should be plenty > of space. No, unless you're using DL media, the capacity of the DVD is approximate

Re: Sarge - how to write a filesystem backup directory to a DVD ?

2006-08-07 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 07 August 2006 17:23, Keith Christian wrote: > Having gotten a new internal DVD burner, I'd like to know the best > way to burn a directory of files to a DVD for system backup. (Also, > I'd rather burn the DVD using a command at the BASH prompt instead of > from a GUI.) The capacity of

Re: Sarge - how to write a filesystem backup directory to a DVD ?

2006-08-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Keith Christian [Mon, Aug 07 2006, 03:23:07PM]: > Having gotten a new internal DVD burner, I'd like to know the best way to burn > a directory of files to a DVD for system backup. (Also, I'd rather burn the > DVD using a command at the BASH prompt instead of from a GUI.) The capacity

Re: sarge to sid

2006-08-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/08/06 16:57), S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > tring to move to sid from sarge but getting some file missing message. > > Get:15 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main debconf 1.5.2 [134kB] > Err http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main gcc-4.1-base 4.1.1-9 > 404 Not Found [IP: 204.152.191

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2

2006-08-05 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/05/2006 05:33 PM, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: [...] If somebody know a site that where I get these cds I will apreciate your help very much. [...] There are many vendors of Debian. Look at the Debian vendors on the web site http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 ?

2006-08-05 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
Exactly Florian !!! :D jojo THANKS A LOT ! Luis Ariel Lecca - Original Message - From: "Florian Kulzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:12 PM Subject: Re: Sarge 3.1r1 ? > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 21:41:05 -0300, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: >

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 ?

2006-08-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 21:41:05 -0300, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > Hello again, I will apreciate some help: > > > Hello all, > > Could any body tell me where could I get Debian Sarge > > > > 3.1r1. I can't find somes cds that I need (cd4, cd8 and cd11). > > > > Should I use the cd3 of 3.1r2

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2

2006-08-05 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
of security > that comes from having the entire Debian system on a bookshelf in case > the internet goes permanently, irrecoverably down. > > -- hendrik - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Sarge 3.1r1

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2

2006-08-05 Thread Luis Ariel Lecca
Thanks Mumia. It was usefull, Luis Ariel Beca - Original Message - From: "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User" Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:42 PM Subject: Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2 > On 08/04/2006 01:50 PM, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > >

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2

2006-08-05 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 05:42:38PM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > On 08/04/2006 01:50 PM, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: > > Hello all, > > Could any body tell me where could I get Debian Sarge > > > > 3.1r1. I cant find somes cds that I need (p.e. cd3). > > > > Should I use the cd3 of 3.1r2 instead these and

Re: Sarge 3.1r1 -> 3.1r2

2006-08-04 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/04/2006 01:50 PM, Luis Ariel Lecca wrote: Hello all, Could any body tell me where could I get Debian Sarge 3.1r1. I cant find somes cds that I need (p.e. cd3). Should I use the cd3 of 3.1r2 instead these and mix the releases ? It breaks the stability of my dpkgs and system ?

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-25 Thread Angelina Carlton
Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:02:33PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: >> "Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a >> > segfault. This is new. >> > >> > Anyo

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Sack
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:06:11PM +0100, Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office) wrote: > > Uninstalled Athens Toolbar. Working fine so far. > > Athens toolbar then... > You have a safe way to reproduce the crash with athens toolbar installed? - Alexander -- GPG messages preferred.| .''

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Sack
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:02:33PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: > "Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a > > segfault. This is new. > > > > Anyone else? > > Yeah I am getting regular segfaults wi

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Angelina Carlton
"Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a > segfault. This is new. > > Anyone else? Yeah I am getting regular segfaults with the following message , | The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Kemp wrote: > > Disable all your extensions one by one until the problem goes away. > > If that works then report back here and let us know which one(s) > caused the problem. Extensions present:- Greasemonkey Athens Toolbar Mouse gest

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:25:32PM +0100, Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office) wrote: > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a > segfault. This is new. Probably a result of the recent security update? I'd suggest it is the result of an extension which was erron

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hi Mike, Before we proceed, please pardon me if I'm rehashing, but I don't know your level of skills. > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > > > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,ho

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a > > problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a > problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~$, what do i do from > there to browse web

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:58:39AM -0700, mike williams wrote: > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont > have a problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~$, what > do i do from there to

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
mike williams: > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... Sure it is! I am not sure what you mean by "downloading programs". With Debian, you will usually be installing software from (semi-) official repositories. The t

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-14 Thread Wackojacko
I did it the other way round and when installing the 64 bit debian, grub found my 32 bit install and added it to menu.lst. I have successfully maintained both systems current on unstable for over a year now. Most of the upgrading can be done from within the chroot, although occasionally I ha

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-14 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:58:32PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: ... > I did it the other way round and when installing the 64 bit debian, grub > found my 32 bit install and added it to menu.lst. > > I have successfully maintained both systems current on

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-14 Thread Wackojacko
Dave Ewart wrote: On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 22:40 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64 bit capabili

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-14 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 22:40 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > > > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > > > Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64 > > > bit capab

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-13 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 07:22:10PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > > > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > > Sempron which has AMD64 suppo

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64 > bit capability ? It's alway

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