Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Memory has always worked without errors. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ba3a43.3090...@gmail.com

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
set the Memory Multiplier to x4.00 (instead of x8.00) then Memtester86+ gets all the way through test #5 (where all the errors had been coming from) with no errors. I am now running memtester and it has passed the 'Solid Bits' test and 'Block Sequential' (which were the first that had errors

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread David Christensen
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg01468.html From: Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com Last weekend I put together a new box to replace the one that has been locking up repeatedly. The components are: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM When I purchase

(SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
through 2 full passes of Memtest86+ with no errors. Thank you, everyone, for your input. Thanks especially to Stan for triggering my memory that I had written down the output from Memtest86+ so that I could see that it did not match what the package, and the sticks themselves said they were

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
out of the Kingston that I had been thinking about so I got a pair of 4GB Corsair sticks at 1333 MHz. I have run them through 2 full passes of Memtest86+ with no errors. Good to hear it's all working now. Curious, the pair of Patriot sticks with the problem: did that package show signs of being

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
people will buy memory, swap stickers and put their old memory in the package and return it. This can happen at retail, but is very unlikely with Newegg et al as anything returned is sold as open box not new. No. It was two sets of Patriot memory. After the first pair gave errors, I returned them

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-29 Thread Gary Dale
it. Well, it's not just Memtest86+ that is reporting errors. I decided to get a second opinion, as it were, and installed memtester from the Debian repository. I let it run through 5 cycles of its tests. I have included the results of the first loop below. The other loops were similar. None

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 23:38 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Do I really have bad memory? You are using the computer without issues, while your RAM is stressed. Did you run a RAM test that is not from a Debian distribution? You RAM could be bad, but it's not likely. As I've written several times.

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU Timing is at 200 and the memory is at x8.0

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
a A mobo with the dual channel DDR400 memory controller in the nVidia Northbridge and two sticks of Geil DDR400 that routinely threw memory errors until I backed the timings off SPD by 1 clock. Typically these memory errors are caused by a few marginal transistors in some cells that simply won't

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
In the absence of an updated Debian install (it's wiser not to update a digital audio workstation too often) I used another install of current Ubuntu Quantal 64-bit, Memtest86+ v4.20 and instead running it from the same Parted Magic live CD, I run it from the lastest Parted Magic 64-bit Live CD,

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Gary Dale
there's no guarantee that the RAM is ok. Memtest86+ can help to find a broken RAM, but it's not a secure test, when there's no suspicion for new RAM. Hth Ralf I disagree. My experience with MemTest86+ has been that when it detects errors, you have a problem. The other side of the issue is that memory

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Doug
On 11/28/2012 02:32 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: My apologize, but I don't have the time to read everything. I read that you get errors when running Memtest. Do you have issues using the computer? Did you run Memtest from different distros (live media)? I never have issues when using my computer

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
been that when it detects errors, you have a problem. The other side of the issue is that memory can test OK but that doesn't mean your memory is being accessed reliably. Klaus Knopper recently reported, and I can confirm, that sometimes chipsets aren't able to handle simultaneous disk

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:42 -0500, Doug wrote: I'm surprised that Memtest gives different results depending on what disk you run it from, I guess it would be a good idea to download a stand-alone version and run a sanity check on the download. BTW, Memtest has been around forever. I think I

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Gary Dale
been that when it detects errors, you have a problem. The other side of the issue is that memory can test OK but that doesn't mean your memory is being accessed reliably. Klaus Knopper recently reported, and I can confirm, that sometimes chipsets aren't able to handle simultaneous disk and memory

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
+ that is reporting errors. I decided to get a second opinion, as it were, and installed memtester from the Debian repository. I let it run through 5 cycles of its tests. I have included the results of the first loop below. The other loops were similar. None of the five loops found any errors in the first 9

Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
the box, but before I even installed the HD (from my old machine), I booted up and ran Memtest86+. Memtest said that there were errors, but I finished the install and everything seemed to run properly. Over the next few days, I got Squeeze installed and did most of my configuration with no apparent

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
in the nVidia Northbridge and two sticks of Geil DDR400 that routinely threw memory errors until I backed the timings off SPD by 1 clock. Typically these memory errors are caused by a few marginal transistors in some cells that simply won't function correctly at SPD timings. I won't go as far as saying

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologize, but I don't have the time to read everything. I read that you get errors when running Memtest. Do you have issues using the computer? Did you run Memtest from different distros (live media)? I never have issues when using my computer. If I run the same version of Memtest from

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 nov 12, 21:29:19, Marc Shapiro wrote: Last weekend I put together a new box to replace the one that has been locking up repeatedly. The components are: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM AMD FX-4100 Quad Core CPU ASUS DVD/CD Writer MSI

reopening 617940 and archive software (was Re: xsesssion-errors)

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Bannister
threads transversing month boundaries? hence CC'ing listmaster. listmaster, please keep debian-user in CC, as it concerns debian-users searching the archives for information. --- OK, found http://lists.debian.org//debian-user/2012/08/msg02006.html (Despite .xsession-errors being spelled

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:19:49PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 01/09/12 12:45 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:40:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I have much egregious noise in that file. It would be good if there was a campaign to clean it up. But it is a distributed culture of sloppy programming over years that has contributed to it. It would take a large effort to clean

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:07:09PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status: This was the message that

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: What I see by looking now is: * 617940 is/was assigned to the libvdpau1 package * notfixed 617940 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2 removes any indication that version 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2 was fixed. * libvdpau1 never

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:43:11AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: At least there is a bug open: see chameleon's post in this thread. Correction was open, now closed and archived. :( -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:59:04 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:07:09PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: (...) This was the message that closed it. It was sent to 617940-done and so the bug was marked as closed. The other bug was forcibly merged with this one and so it

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: So what now? If the bug needs re-opening, unarchive it and reopen it: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control Probably something like this to cont...@bugs.debian.org unarchive 617940 reopen 617940 thanks It would be

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:43:41 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status: This was the message that closed it. It was sent to 617940-done and so the bug

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status: This was the message that closed it. It was sent to 617940-done and so the bug was marked as

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread lee
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/01/2012 03:54 AM, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread lee
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: On 09/01/2012 03:54 AM, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 10:02 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/01/2012 03:54 AM, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 08/31/2012 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:13:41 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 10:38 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 08/31/2012 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? Failed to open VDPAU backend

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 10:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:13:41 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:21:35 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 01/09/12 10:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:13:41 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/09/12 12:45 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Camaleón wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? I have much egregious noise in that file

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:40:50 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Camaleón wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status: This was the message that closed it. It was sent to 617940-done and so the bug was marked as closed. The other bug was forcibly merged

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Frank McCormick
in xsession-errors. But since mplayer depends on the library I can't reinstall or use it. Strange the bug has been hanging around so long with little or nothing being done about it. But then this one (thunderbird:3332): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.32.3-1-i386-987P8N

xsesssion-errors

2012-08-31 Thread Frank McCormick
I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging around from those days ?? (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared

Error messages on .xsession-errors

2012-07-08 Thread Davi Garcia
Hey guys, After many years, I finally returned to Debian. Now I'm using Debian Wheeze on my Thinkpad W510 for around 1 week now. The system is updated and it is being shown as a very stable platform, even though this branch is called Testing. I have being checking the logs, looking for errors

Re: Error messages on .xsession-errors

2012-07-08 Thread Camaleón
and it is being shown as a very stable platform, even though this branch is called Testing. I have being checking the logs, looking for errors and I found some that I would like to check if they are already known or if they are specific to my hardware. Checking the .xsession-errors file I found

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-03 Thread Camaleón
These entries are logged in a later stage so it means that all of the sata ports are throwing exception errors. To list them run: dmesg | grep -i ata[1-12] On boot i receive a message that my Marvel controller on my mobo can only handle 2.5Gb/s so ASUS has given the incorrect specs for this mobo

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:06:40 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: On 01/07/2012 18:11, Camaleón wrote: Is ata2 your hdd? Run dmesg | grep -i ata2 to find out. yes looks like it: [0.900101] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf3ff7000 port 0xf3ff7180 irq 35 [1.722809] ata2: SATA link up 1.5

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Panen
On 02/07/2012 16:26, Camaleón wrote: Is ata2 your hdd? Run dmesg | grep -i ata2 to find out. ata8 is my HDD [0.888232] ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf7fff800 port 0xf7fff980 irq 36 [1.371432] ata8: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 370) [1.375914] ata8.00: ATA-8:

Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I recently purchased a WD Cavier black 2TB SATA 6 HDD and it uses Marvel on my motherboard with AHCI enabled. Debian 6 is the only OS that will install on that drive, i have tried many. I get this error while booting: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED Booting up takes very

apticron reporting errors, aptitude not

2012-07-01 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, I use apticron on my debian stable server to get notified about updates. Lately I keep getting messages like: /etc/cron.daily/apticron: W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release.gpg Verbindung mit ftp.de.debian.org:80 nicht möglich (141.76.2.4).

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:56:25 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: I recently purchased a WD Cavier black 2TB SATA 6 HDD and it uses Marvel on my motherboard with AHCI enabled. Debian 6 is the only OS that will install on that drive, i have tried many. I get this error while booting: ata2.00:

Re: Marvel controller gives errors Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Mark Panen
On 01/07/2012 18:11, Camaleón wrote: Is ata2 your hdd? Run dmesg | grep -i ata2 to find out. yes looks like it: [0.900101] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf3ff7000 port 0xf3ff7180 irq 35 [1.722809] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Am i right it's only

Re: apticron reporting errors, aptitude not

2012-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:59:58PM +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: Lately I keep getting messages like: /etc/cron.daily/apticron: W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release.gpg Verbindung mit ftp.de.debian.org:80 nicht möglich (141.76.2.4). - connect

i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Joby Mathew
the script header dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: initscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin

Re: i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Darac Marjal
apport reports �� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �Errors were encountered while processing: �initscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. �Trying to recover: [cut] OK, so you have a conflict in the LSB headers for subversion

Re: i am getting errors when i run aptitude upgrade in debian squeeze

2012-06-28 Thread Mika Suomalainen
Errors were encountered while processing: initscripts E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up samba (2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8) ... insserv: warning: script 'subversion' missing LSB tags

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-23 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Huh. Whadya know. I loaded Wheezy 64-bit and the same problem occurred. Connected the system directly to the network interface and the problem vanished. Connected it directly to the IPCop

Floppy disk output errors (was: any ideas?)

2012-06-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:29:39 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Next time use a more descriptive subject to catch the user's attention ;-) Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 08:26:58 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mdir a:/ plain_io: Input/output error plain_io: Input/output error init A: could not read

Re: Floppy disk output errors (was: any ideas?)

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:44:21 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mformat a: -f 7020 mformat: init: set default params jude@stmarys:~$ exit exit Script done on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:45:00 AM EDT That last line is strange since I did not erase /etc/mtools.conf and mtoolstest also reports finding

Re: Floppy disk output errors (was: any ideas?)

2012-06-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:52:19 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:44:21 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mformat a: -f 7020 mformat: init: set default params jude@stmarys:~$ exit exit (...) Sir, if you remove the portion of the text you are replying to we lost the

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Neal Murphy
there, I'm going to reinstall. Or maybe just install wheezy to keep both sites the same (the other site's hardware is too new for squeeze). Uhm, did you try using a different mirror? The GPG error is probably because APT feed GPG a non-existing/empty file (due to the networking errors). Yes. I

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Installed the https transport package to try https: in sources.list. But now I see a few Failed to connect to 2001:500:61:28::70: Network is unreachable (or address 2607:ea00:101:3c0b:207:e9ff:fe00:e595). Why are any IPV6 addrs

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
both sites the same (the other site's hardware is too new for squeeze). Uhm, did you try using a different mirror? The GPG error is probably because APT feed GPG a non-existing/empty file (due to the networking errors). Best regards, Claudius -- Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
. Checked. The host I'm working on shows no networking errors. The firewall shows no errors. The resets do seem to come from the remote (seen using tcpdump on the internet link). There've been no complaints from anyone at that site about poor or flaky network connections. It only seems to happen

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've been encountering these errors persistently for about the last week too. I usually do echo $? to check the error level after any aptitude operation now. I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 iun 12, 04:09:29, Jude DaShiell wrote: I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary mirrors are only to be used to push files to other secondary mirrors. If that's the case, terciary

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Checked. The host I'm working on shows no networking errors. The firewall shows no errors. The resets do seem to come from the remote (seen using tcpdump on the internet link). There've been

what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Neal Murphy
Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? The system was fine until I installed updates recently. -- Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/non- free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.31.0.36 80] Looks like a connection problem. Is your

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:48:44 -0400, Neal wrote in message 201206131348.44297.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu: Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? The system was fine until I installed updates recently. -- (...) E: Some index files failed to download

RE: APT errors with Sid/armel on LaCie NAS

2012-05-29 Thread Jeffrey Langerak
17:50 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: APT errors with Sid/armel on LaCie NAS On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:20:52 +0200, Jeffrey Langerak wrote: Hi! Hi... please, no html formatting, thanks. I have a LaCie Networkspace 2 and a EDMini V2, both ARM devices running Debian Sid / Armel

APT errors with Sid/armel on LaCie NAS

2012-05-21 Thread Jeffrey Langerak
Hi! I have a LaCie Networkspace 2 and a EDMini V2, both ARM devices running Debian Sid / Armel. Since a week or 2 it seems that the devices cannot be upgraded anymore via APT itself, issuing a apt-get update seems to go well, but doing apt-get dist-upgrade fails with hash hum mismatches:

Re: APT errors with Sid/armel on LaCie NAS

2012-05-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 May 2012 10:20:52 +0200, Jeffrey Langerak wrote: Hi! Hi... please, no html formatting, thanks. I have a LaCie Networkspace 2 and a EDMini V2, both ARM devices running Debian Sid / Armel. Since a week or 2 it seems that the devices cannot be upgraded anymore via APT itself,

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-14 Thread Shaun
On 11/05/2012 17:31, Camaleón wrote: Have you turned auto-negotiation off? :-? No I haven't but it was disabled on the switch for some reason. I had it enabled and now I have full duplex and the errors have gone. Ta :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-11 Thread Shaun
Background. I have a machine with two NIC interfaces. I run them in a bond (failover mode). I then have a bridging interface, br0, which uses bond0. The bond0 is showing errors in ifconfig -a. bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:ad:6f:92:eb:c3 inet6 addr: fe80::baac:6eff:fe92

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 May 2012 14:33:27 +0100, Shaun wrote: Background. I have a machine with two NIC interfaces. I run them in a bond (failover mode). I then have a bridging interface, br0, which uses bond0. The bond0 is showing errors in ifconfig -a. bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:ad

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-11 Thread Shaun
On 11/05/2012 16:52, Camaleón wrote: A couple of articles talking about transmission errors: http://www.johnnypez.com/linux/ifconfig-eth0-shows-packet-errors/ http://www.linuxweblog.com/ifconfig-packet-errors Thanks , I'll have a read of those tonight. While the amount of packet errors

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-11 Thread Shaun
This could be it.. root@foxy:~# mii-tool eth0 eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok root@foxy:~# mii-tool bond0 bond0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok Looks like the bond0 is on 10Mbit and the slaves on 100Mbit. Oops! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-11 Thread Shaun
On 11/05/2012 17:08, Shaun wrote: This could be it.. root@foxy:~# mii-tool eth0 eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok root@foxy:~# mii-tool bond0 bond0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok Looks like the bond0 is on 10Mbit and the slaves on 100Mbit. Oops! ... which is a

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:08:26 +0100, Shaun wrote: This could be it.. root@foxy:~# mii-tool eth0 eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok Have you turned auto-negotiation off? :-? What's the output of ethtool eth0? root@foxy:~# mii-tool bond0 bond0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok

Re: debian on aacraid controller. - getting lots of errors.

2012-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 May 2012 12:59:02 -0400, Joey L wrote: Guys - I posted this earlier and did not get enough options to run down - does anyone have a few more ? I am getting the errors below on an IBM X3650 7979 with Debian Squeeze - with a SerRaid 8K Controller : [ 90.376722] aacraid: Host

Re: debian on aacraid controller. - getting lots of errors.

2012-05-03 Thread Joey L
more ? I am getting the errors below on an IBM X3650 7979 with Debian Squeeze - with a SerRaid 8K Controller : [   90.376722] aacraid: Host adapter abort request (0,0,0,0) [   90.376797] aacraid: Host adapter abort request (0,0,0,0) [   90.376874] aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang

Re: debian on aacraid controller. - getting lots of errors.

2012-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 May 2012 14:11:33 -0400, Joey L wrote: Thanks for your input - that was me asking the same type of question again. What I really need to know is how do I update latest Debian Squeeze DVD with the correct drivers for my controller? DO you know where I can get the latest aacraid

debian on aacraid controller. - getting lots of errors.

2012-05-02 Thread Joey L
Guys - I posted this earlier and did not get enough options to run down - does anyone have a few more ? I am getting the errors below on an IBM X3650 7979 with Debian Squeeze - with a SerRaid 8K Controller : [ 90.376722] aacraid: Host adapter abort request (0,0,0,0) [ 90.376797] aacraid

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 apr 12, 14:34:33, Tom Roche wrote: (Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.) This is the correct list for apt-get/aptitude usage in Debian ;) [snip] I see that you fixed your problem by using

which errors are critical for integrity of ext[234] file system?

2012-04-18 Thread Martin T
I was playing with dd conv=noerror option. It continues reading the input file(for example HDD/SSD partition) even in case there are read errors. Which errors are critical for integrity of ext[234] file system? As I understand, Linux views the file system as a common set of objects- superblock

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-17 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/16/2012 09:26 PM, Tom Roche wrote: Wayne Topa Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:24:26 -0400 I just looked for lmde in the debian packages and it is not there and it's not in the original post @ http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg01217.html either, because LMDE is not a package I am

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: So I did sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get -f install which got the packages fixed and installed, as verified by subsequent In future, you might want to run sudo apt-get upgrade before sudo

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: Tom Roche wrote: So I did sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get -f install which got the packages fixed and installed, as verified by subsequent In future, you might want to run sudo apt-get upgrade before sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to make the

how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Tom Roche
, at the end of a very long scroll (thank you, gnome-terminal :-) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of with regard to 35 different packages (followed by details for each one) before ending with Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted by me brasero evince file-roller gconf2

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Wayne Topa
finished. However, on finish it reported, at the end of a very long scroll (thank you, gnome-terminal :-) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of with regard to 35 different packages (followed by details for each one) before ending with Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Indulekha
configuration of with regard to 35 different packages (followed by details for each one) before ending with Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted by me brasero evince file-roller gconf2 gdm3 gnome-applets gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center gnome-disk-utility gnome-panel

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Mika Suomalainen
(followed by details for each one) before ending with Errors were encountered while processing: # sorted by me brasero evince file-roller gconf2 gdm3 gnome-applets gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center gnome-disk-utility gnome-panel gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Tom Roche
Wayne Topa Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:24:26 -0400 I just looked for lmde in the debian packages and it is not there and it's not in the original post @ http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg01217.html either, because LMDE is not a package I am guessing the lmde might be a Linux Mint

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 - UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Indulekha
Tom Roche wrote: Indulekha Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:52:34 -0500 Have you tried apt-get -f install? No, and using apt-get rather than aptitude was the right idea:

Re: SATA SB700/SB80 io errors

2012-03-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
The nvidia sata drivers aren't working with the latest kernel either. I wrote about that earlier and was told the drivers are present but the drive isn't detected correctly by the installer. As of now, both Slackware 13.0 and archlinux do not have problems installing on my sata drive. I'll

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