Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

2009-09-17 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/9/16 Simon Reap si...@simonreap.com: Simon Reap wrote: Tony's talk on the structure of debian packages was particularly dense (in the information sense of the term) Sorry, Anton, that was *your* talk!! Indeed - and I am happy to give it again at another time if people want me to, though

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-17 Thread Imran Chaudhry
Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down and be brought back on line again without impacting the others. The amount

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-17 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2009/9/16 Chris Simmonds ch...@2net.co.uk: Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:13:45PM +0100, Chris Simmonds wrote: Hi and thanks to everyone who replied. I'm busy researching some possibilities at the moment. However, just to clarify, the issue is high availability among the 50 or

[Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Graeme Hilton
Hi, This is one for the kernel hackers amongst you. I've got a system [1] on which I have installed CentOS 5.2. Everything I need to use works out of the box with kernel 2.6.18-92. However, I've recently been asked to add the ability to synchronise the internal clock with a GPS time source and

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Graham, On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Graeme Hilton wrote: Attached is the boot sequence captured on the serial port from kernel 2.6.27. It doesn't include the text that only appears on the screen that refers to the kernel being unable to find a root filesystem. This kernel

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Graham, On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:37:56PM +0100, Graeme Hilton wrote: 2009/9/17 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net: WHat does your grub/menu.lst look like?  Your /etc/fstab?  Can you put them into a pastebin for us to see? menu.lst: http://hantslug.pastebin.com/m601e25ef /etc/fstab:

Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

2009-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chris, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Chris Simmonds wrote: Hi, I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in sync. As others have said, before going any further with this, I would be making sure tat there is absolutely no way that the requirements

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Alan Pope
2009/9/17 Vic l...@beer.org.uk: I've put a fairly poor shot of the remainder of the boot screen on flickr [1]. It's not all that clear, is it? :-) You can view the big size too.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/31252...@n08/3929197742/sizes/l/ Cheers, Al. -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Graeme Hilton
2009/9/17 Vic l...@beer.org.uk: I've put a fairly poor shot of the remainder of the boot screen on flickr [1]. It's not all that clear, is it? :-) Camera phone... needs must ;-) Maybe there's a further hint in there.  I notice the Trying to resume line and it can't find that partition

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Thursday 17 September 2009 16:51:59 Graeme Hilton wrote: 2009/9/17 Vic l...@beer.org.uk: I've put a fairly poor shot of the remainder of the boot screen on flickr [1]. It's not all that clear, is it? :-) Camera phone... needs must ;-) Maybe there's a further hint in there. I

Re: [Hampshire] Kernel compilation

2009-09-17 Thread Graeme Hilton
(sorry for top post, need to figure out how to change my phone settings) I've been using make oldconfig when going from one kernel to the next, answering the necessary questions as they come up. As the first kernel I had was a CentOS kernel it's probably got lots of stuff in there I don't need,