Live usb version of testing

Hi, My machine keeps crashing on Bookworm, and most of the drivers aren't working. I wanted to try a live usb to see if it's just my system's rather crufty history rather than bookworm. How would I get one of these? Thanks James

Problems with the nouveau driver

Hi, I've just had to replace the motherboard, cpu and ram in my PC, and after a few hoops got to the point where I can boot Debian Testing in kde. However I keep getting screen windowing problems before eventually X shuts down. Mouse still works for a while, the graphics card is an nvidia GT

Start ZFS partition on boot.

Hi, I'm having lots of trouble starting my zfs /var partition as part of boot, after an upgrade to Bullseye. I can manually import the partition with zpool import -a and the status of the pool says "no known data errors". journalctl | grep zfs gives the following error; udevadm =>

Re: Errors scrolling on boot

Hi, I found dmesg -D which stopped the errors scrolling but I can't find the problem in the logs, or why it's not booting further. Would not having these firmwares installed prevent the boot continuing? I'd understand that I wouldn't have any wireless, but I've a very old usb dongle that will

Errors scrolling on boot

Hi, I've just upgraded my system to Bullseye and run into a problem on reboot. I'm just getting an error, endlessly: [timestamp] Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-22) [timestamp] Bluetooth: hci0: There's an iwlwifi*.ucode error near the start but everything gets

Trying to work out what non-Debian or non-Buster packages I need to remove

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade to Bullseye at the moment, but a bit stuck on which non-Debian packages I need to remove; root@hawaiian:~# apt-forktracer | sort | awk -F ' ' '{print $1}' containerd.io docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-ce-rootless-extras docker-scan-plugin elasticsearch google-chrome-stable

Re: Changing hardware

Hi, Thanks for all your help, just starting upgrading to Debian 11. Reasons for going with nvidia was it was the cheapest thing I could find, passively cooled, and I do a bit of stuff with Cuda so nvidia is the only game in town. I am using nouveau at the moment, thank god, I'd hate to do this

Changing hardware

Hi, My old core2 (8gb ram) died after a power cycle,so I bought an AMD Ryzen 5800 with 32Gb Ram and a new motherboard and a new nvidia graphics card.I converted the boot system over to EFI ( https://blog.getreu.net/projects/legacy-to-uefi-boot/). I was going to upgrade to Debian 11 anyway, but is

KDE and Pulseaudio; swapping users

Hi, Does anyone have a solution for the problem that when I switch users, to have any sound as the new user, I have to su to root to kill the other users Pulseaudio. If I don't do this I'm left with a dummy sound card. Thanks James

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

Also, you could spend a bit on money on an SSD, I did. On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:31, James Allsopp wrote: > Yeah it will work, although it'll work a lot better if you can get an > extra 4Gb off Ebay, I paid about £25. > > For reference I was running it on a 3Ghz 4GbRam Core2Duo. &g

Re: Could KDE work adequately on a PC with 4 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 2.33 GHz?

Yeah it will work, although it'll work a lot better if you can get an extra 4Gb off Ebay, I paid about £25. For reference I was running it on a 3Ghz 4GbRam Core2Duo. On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 11:23, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > I would not do that. I run xfce under Debian 10.4 in 8GB, it's

Install Xrdp on debian 10

Hi, I'm having trouble getting this to work as I'd like, which is pretty much like it works in windows. I want to login through windows and not have to log in using the horrible X11 dialog, which means I can't use a password manager because I can't cut and paste into that window. I only ever

Photos on corrupted SD card

Hi, Does anyone know if there are any good tools in Linux for fixing corruption on FAT32 SD cards. It was in my phone, but I dropped it and broke the phone. Couldn't turn it off as the screen was broken and thoughtlessly removed it whilst on. The files are there, I can see it in Linux, it's just

Cloud-init in Debian

Hi, Does anyone have an example or tutorial for using cloud-init with debian images. I'm currently trying to do terraform with kvm, but struggling as although terraform picks up the cloud-init, the fqdn and the ssh key isn't working. I'm trying to use this image

Re: Import and Export of Zfs pools

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 12:32, Dan Ritter wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a zfs pool that works fine in normal use on my debian system and > > remains after a reboot. > > When I reboot into recovery mode, I have to reimport the pool manually > &g

Import and Export of Zfs pools

Hi, I've got a zfs pool that works fine in normal use on my debian system and remains after a reboot. When I reboot into recovery mode, I have to reimport the pool manually using zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id I export before I reboot, but when I reboot into the full version of Debian 10, the

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 22:30, Lucas Castro wrote: > > On 9/22/20 5:54 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro wrote: > >> >> On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I've got a computer that

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute wrote: > Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > > Thanks > > James > > > > You need to answer to the mailing-list email address, not mine. &

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro wrote: > > On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The > > machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS > > to the

dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Hi, I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on eth1 used for a bridge I've set this file up for the bridge in

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

98304 2 zfs,icp znvpair90112 2 zfs,zcommon spl 122880 5 zfs,icp,znvpair,zcommon,zavl So if I just modprobe those from the column on the left, it should work? Thanks, James On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 22:06, Dan Ritter wrote: > James Allsopp wr

Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

Hi, Just trying to move var to a zfs partition. Rebooted into recovery mode, but could access the zfs pool. I tried to modprobe zfs, but still nothing. Is there something else I should be doing? Thanks James

Core Q9650 in a case with 5 hard drives

Hi, I'm using an old Core 2 processor in a case with 5 hard drives, one of which is an SSD. It's a server but doesn't get hit particularly hard, so I'm wondering what the options are to try and conserve power with it as it's generating rather a lot of heat. I've looked at powertop, but there

Re: add 2FA to ssh

Hi, You can do it at the same time with a yubikey and editing your pam file. https://developers.yubico.com/yubico-pam/YubiKey_and_SSH_via_PAM.html#:~:text=The%20Yubico%20PAM%20module%20for,YubiKey%20assigned%20to%20the%20user. Been doing this for years, James On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 15:24, Toni

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

Thanks for that. Is it simply a case of installing the DKMS module, building the pool (two drives in my case), formatting and mounting? James On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:18, Dan Ritter wrote: > elvis wrote: > > > > On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > James A

Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Thanks James

Re: Cups no longer accepting remote connections for printing.

:7D:0D:2A:9D (Giga-byte Technology) Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.53 seconds On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 12:13, Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Feb 2020 at 02:06:22 +0000, James Allsopp wrote: > > > HI, > > My printer on a remote machine works when access from

Cups no longer accepting remote connections for printing.

HI, My printer on a remote machine works when access from that machine, I've checked port 631 isn't blocked using Xnat, but I can't work out why I can't print. All the user pages say forbidden, and a test page from my local cups hangs. I'm using Buster on this machine currently. Here's my

Upgrading from Stretch to Buster with docker 3rd party installed

Hi, I was going to upgrade to Buster, but I've got docker installed and am running a container as an ldap server. Consequently I don't want to get rid of it, but the install guide I read suggested removing all 3rd-party repositories before starting. This is the current situatioin with my sources

Realtek RTL8188CUS wireless usb stick on Stretch

Hi, I'm having lots of problems getting this usb wireless dongle (Edimax) to pick up and connect to a wireless network. I'm not sure if there's a config from an older wireless getting in the way. The hardware for that isn't installed anymore. I'm running network manager in KDE It's detected by

SSH root login from one ip via certificate only, all other logins password only.

Hi, I need to have one computer I can ssh to other computers as root for Ansible. To do this I've set up a strong certificate with a password, but what I want is to only be able to log in as root from one IP using that cert. All other users should only log in via a password and can do so from any

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

As far as I can see "su -" saves a lot of grief if you're the only admin on a system. Tried sudo ing to a protected directory? Doesn't work. Tired of entering your password every couple of minutes? sudo does mean that the admin actions of a particular user are logged, but unless you lock down

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

+1 for Sqlite unless you need multiuser access. James On 27 February 2017 at 13:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using dBaseII > on a MS-DOS machine. > What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? > > I

Redirecing root emails to a gmail account

Hello, I want to have the root e-mails sent to my gmail account if possible. I can send email here via commandline echo "This is a test." | mail -s Test but despite editing /etc/aliases so that root points to the external address I can't get this to work. echo "This is a test.(root)" | mail

Pulse audio always starts in suspended; have to restart before anything

Hi, I'm having a problem with pulseaudio where I have to restart it before I can play any music whatsoever. If I list the sinks, my single sink comes up as suspended. My system is relatively fresh install of Wheezy, with pulseaudio running in as my user. My default.pa is: .nofail ### Load

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

How would I go about checking those? James On 24 March 2015 at 14:51, Eric Sharkey e...@lisaneric.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:31 PM, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry, didn't make myself clear, the sound card is an intel hda onboard and there's a small cable

No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

Hi, Just reinstalled debian and are having lots of problems getting the sound to work through HDMI. I had it working but now it has just stopped. I'm watching the screen through the same HDMI so I presume hardware is good. Eventually I want to use this system to run MPD. Here's my setup as

Re: No sound in Wheezy; Pulse audio through Nvidia graphics card to HDMI

Included some more hardware information below, Thanks, James On 23 March 2015 at 21:26, Eric Sharkey e...@lisaneric.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:41 AM, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Just reinstalled debian and are having lots of problems getting the sound

Re: Trying to install nvidia-settings

Ah, yes that's worked perfectly. Thanks James On 27 February 2015 at 16:46, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:34:03 + James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to use. I

Trying to install nvidia-settings

Hi, I'm trying to install nvidia-settings but I'm not sure which option to use. I don't want to break anything or leave the system in a bit of a mess. Here's what happens, james@Hawaiian:~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-settings The following NEW packages will be installed: libxnvctrl0{a}

Re: Very small fonts in KDE after installing Nvidia drivers

Ok, that worked brilliantly! I just followed Mark's suggestion of putting that line in my 20-nvidia.conf. Thanks! On 26 February 2015 at 19:46, Mark Neyhart mark.neyh...@akleg.gov wrote: On 02/26/2015 02:28 AM, James Allsopp wrote: Hello, I've just installed the nvidia drivers after

Very small fonts in KDE after installing Nvidia drivers

Hello, I've just installed the nvidia drivers after following the instructions here https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but now my fonts are so small they are unreadable. My display is a HDMI television. I think this could be related to the EDID settings but I'm not sure how to set

Disk in a raid array

Hi, I've got home mounted on a LVM partition over two RAID 1 arrays. Unfortunately one of the disks in the second array has dropped out. I can still fdisk -l it, but when I ran dd if=/dev/sdd1 of=/dev/null it got about 132M through a 2Tb drive before crashing out. This doesn't bode well. I can't

Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy

Hi, I've not had access to my machine for a while, and I've just tried to do an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy using the instructions found here; http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy and I got to the aptitude full-upgrade part which seemed to hang I've tried dpkg

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy

there was a method to step through the boot sequence item by item. Could I wait until the network came up, then drop into a shell? Thanks James On 15 December 2014 at 20:10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: I've not had access to my machine for a while, and I've just

Re: the developers have spoken

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/11/msg00171.html On 19 November 2014 14:41, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:11 PM, songbird songb...@anthive.com wrote: the vote is in. let us thank each one of them for their efforts to continue making Debian what

Re: Let's have a vote! I was just banned from debian forum for posting a systemd critical message.

Your posts were massively over the top, so I not surprised you got banned. Thanks for flagging up that debian forum, it's gone beneath my radar up to now! On 25 September 2014 20:46, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:51:38AM -0700, Gregory Smith wrote:

Systemd resources

Hi, I'm really cynical about the Systemd concept, but if it looks like it's happening anyway, could we start making a list of recommended tutorials on using it. It would help if people recommending the tutorials had successfully followed them themselves. Yes, I could use Google, but it's a bit

Using LTSP on a Debian server with Raspberry PI thin clients

Hi, To simplify things I was thinking about running a couple of RPI thin clients off my debian server? I would be using either powerline networking or wireless. I think I'll need to install a special bootloader on the RPI as they can't boot using PXE. I was wondering if anyone had actually

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

Hi, After reading through all the pros and cons, it seems that there isn't a good replacement at all, so it would be better to wait. Admittedly I use OpenRC on my gentoo machine and it's fine. Systemd seems to violate too many Unix principles and Upstart has problems with the canonical copyright

Re: FW: [CTTE #727708] Default init system for Debian

:36, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/02/14 20:27, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, After reading through all the pros and cons, it seems that there isn't a good replacement at all, so it would be better to wait. Admittedly I use OpenRC on my gentoo machine

Re: testing wants to install systemd

Hi, From a casual perusal of the lists systemd, seems to be getting a reputation as one of the those projects to avoid like pulse-audio and mono, but the link you sent sounds more reasonable. Is there a good balanced discussion anywhere? James On 20 November 2013 10:00, Zenaan Harkness

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy

You can't. You have to install a different DE. I went for XFCE, but people rate Mate. This is a sore point for a lot of people, but that's the simple options. let the flamewar commence On 10 July 2013 16:56, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I updated

Re: Debian machine not booting

/mdadm.conf //edit the file to remove duplicates dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r) then reboot. Huge amount of thanks go to Bob Proulx for all the help along the way, James On 7 July 2013 21:53, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I've been too nervous to reboot, so I've

Re: Debian machine not booting

process, mounted filesustem or active volume group? I tried unmounting /home which stretches onto this disk via LVM, but this made no difference. Any idea how I should proceed? Thanks, James On 5 July 2013 01:10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: I'd like to hear about

Re: Debian machine not booting

Thanks Bob, like I say, very much appreciated and I'll let you know how it goes! I'd like to hear about the optimisations, but I think I'll wait till I get the system rebuilt! James On 4 July 2013 00:47, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: Thanks Bob, really can't thank

Re: Debian machine not booting

Thanks Bob, really can't thank you enough. Just to be clear about this, I'd do these commands from the rescue disk after I have assembled the arrays and gone to the bash shell? Much appreciated, James On 2 July 2013 22:44, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: One other

Re: Debian machine not booting

2013 00:46, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md126 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sdc3[1] 972550912 blocks [2/2] [UU] So sdb3 and sdc3 are assembled into /dev/md126. That seems good. One full array is assembled

Re: Debian machine not booting

it automatically, Really appreciated, James On 2 July 2013 00:46, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md126 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sdc3[1] 972550912 blocks [2/2] [UU] So sdb3 and sdc3 are assembled into /dev/md126

Re: Debian machine not booting

Update Time : Tue Jul 2 13:51:05 2013 Checksum : 94e2b4a1 - correct Events : 114 Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : .A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) Thanks James On 2 July 2013 13:52, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: One other point sda isn't

Re: Debian machine not booting

=a529cd1b:c055887e:bfe78010:bc810f04 If there's any commands you need me to run, please ask, Thanks, James On 18 June 2013 20:47, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just moved house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot

Debian machine not booting

Hi, I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just moved house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot. My 4 harddrives are organised in pairs of RAID 1 (Mirrored) with LVM spanning them. Originally there was just one pair, but then I got two new hard drives and added them. I

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

Hi, What I meant was I wan to upgrade an existing system from Squeeze to Wheezy but replacing Gnome2 with XFCE, which seems a more natural upgrade path. I'd rather not have the grief of trying to remove a load of gnome3 libraries. I think I'll have to install XFCE then remove Gnome2 before the

PureFTPd

Hi, I've a pureFTPD install that I need to increase the quota and max size of one file on. How can I go about doing that? Thanks, James

Using VMware graphics drivers in a kvm windows guest?

Hi, I've heard that kvm windows guests have better graphics performance using the VMware drivers. I've tried to follow some instructions found on the web but can't get the install to run. Has anyone tried this, and if so how did they achieve it? Thanks, James

Re: Poll GNOME 3 + Shell usage

Hi, Another option would be, How many are using Gnome 3 under duress, and would go back to 2 if given the chance?. Really is the first Linux DE I've used where I thought I'd rather be using Windows. James On 11 February 2013 15:23, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at

Adding a new Raid-1 array to a LVM partition

Hi, Originally set my Debian system up on a raid array (raid 1 made up of 2x1Tb drives) containing four logical volumes, containing the following ext4 partitions. /boot is ext3 and separate, and swap is one partition on each drive. /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol00 /

Re: networking with virtual machine

Hi, I think I had a similar problem. To solve the problem first you need to set up a bridge, there's instructions in lots of places on how to do this, auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 #broadcast 192.168.0.255

Networking for kvm virtual machines

Hello, I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2. What I really want

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:23914 (23.3 KiB) TX bytes:21043 (20.5 KiB) so the question is how did virbr0 get here, and how do I alter it to make my VM look like a normal network machine. Thanks, James On 28/08/2012, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: James Allsopp wrote: I'm trying to learn

WICD

HI, I'm running wicd on debian stable and unfortunately wicd can't maintain the connection. Absolutely nothing about the rest of the wireless network has changed. It keeps oscillating through putting interface up obtaining IP addresss Done connecting not connected. When you can get a ping

Moving packets from one port to another

Hi, I'm trying to route packets from ones from one interface to another, without using NAT i.e. eth0: 192.168.1.31 (connected to rest of world and DHCP server) eth1: 192.168.1.32 (connected to other computers.) The other computers would be on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet and hopefully be able

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

Ok, sorry for the delay in replying, here's what I've found out: I'm using squeeze with a 2.6.32-5-686 kernel. Adding this to the xorg.conf; Section ServerFlags Option AutoAddDevices False EndSection results in the USB mouse not working or keyboard. I've since removed this. However,

PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

Hi, I'm really sorry to bother you all about this, but I'm really no closer to solving this problem and am having a lot of difficulties with it. Any advice or pointers on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated as at the moment I just can't use the computer. Thanks, James Hi, I'm

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze. The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh, the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal. It seems

PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

Hi, I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze. The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh, the keyboard doesn't respond on the terminal. I'm all up to date on upgrades

Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-06-19 01:19 +0200, Brian wrote: On Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 23:21:03 +, James Allsopp wrote: [drm] failed to load kernel module nouveau (EE) [drm] failed to open device http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting and also look

Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

Brilliant, updated the kernel and everything seems fixed now! Thanks very much! James On 20 June 2012 08:18, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, That's really odd about the kernel. The computer was working fine on an old CRT via VGA, and I just plugged my new flat screen

Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

22:47, Brian wrote: On Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 22:29:04 +, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Got one of my old PC's lying around and I'm trying to get it to work with my nice new LG IPS225V flatscreen. It used to work fine with my CRT over VGA but although I can get a console up, I can't get X to start

Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

Hi, Got one of my old PC's lying around and I'm trying to get it to work with my nice new LG IPS225V flatscreen. It used to work fine with my CRT over VGA but although I can get a console up, I can't get X to start. I've listed the Xorg log out at the bottom of the e-mail I think it could

Installing packages from Wheezy in Squeeze

Hello, Is there an easy way of installing a package (namely virtinst) from Wheezy in Squeeze? I've tried variations of aptitude install -t wheezy virtinst and aptitude install virtinst/wheezy but with no joy, It goes through the start process but says there's nothing to update or upgrade

Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

Hello, I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? Thanks James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Differences between using KVM and virt-install?

Hi, I was trying for ages to build a KVM virtual machine using virt-install and it always failed, tried KVM command directly following Gentoo instruction and got it to work first time. Is there any difference in the end result between these two methods? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

VNC into a Debian Machine

Hello, I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like to be able to do is just view a whole screen as if I was actually there. I'd

KVM virtualisation

Hi, I'm having trouble building a kvm virtual machine, The script I'm using to build this is: #!/bin/bash virt-install \ --connect qemu:///system \ -n deb1 \ -r 512 \ --vcpus=1 \ --os-variant=debiansqueeze \ --accelerate \ -v \ -c /var/lib/libvirt/images/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso \ -w

Trying to build a virtual machine

Hello, I'm trying to build a virtual machine using the following command, ja@Hawaiian:~$ virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n vm10 -r 512 --vcpus=2 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm10.img,size=4 -c /var/lib/libvirt/images/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, Found the problem, forgotten to install the nvidia-kernel-dkms package. Very happy all work great now and all of the CUDA stuff I installed also works! Thanks for your comments, Jim On 12/09/11 14:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I

Creating a debian virtual machine for Nagios

Hi, I'm trying to create a debian virtual machine to run Nagios on using the following command. virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n nagios -r 2048 --os-type=linux --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/nagios.img,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=5,sparse=true,format=raw -w bridge=br0,model=virtio --vnc

Nvidia drivers

Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get CUDA to work. I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove all of the packages using apt, and them used m-a prepare m-a

Re: Nvidia drivers

/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get CUDA to work. I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried

Re: Nvidia drivers

Hi, Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be very grateful. Also I find the whole kernel situation in Debian quite confusing as

Re: Nvidia drivers

I get this happening Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. so not really sure where to go from here. Jim On 18/04/11 11:43, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp jamesaalls

Re: Nvidia drivers

main contrib non-free but I'm not sure what you mean about reloading? Best regards James On 18/04/11 12:35, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:50:51 +0100 James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello James, I get this happening Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia

Re: Nvidia drivers

. W: Did not understand pin type * I think the pin type error is where I tried to force grub to not upgrade to grub2, Thanks, Jim On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com said: Hi, My source.list has

Re: Nvidia drivers

advice, and I'd be very grateful, Best regards James On 19/04/11 02:16, Vivek Periaraj wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, James Allsopp wrote: On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com said: Hi, My source.list has

Nvidia drivers

Hi, I'm having trouble with my Nvidia drivers, glxinfo gives me the following error. I'm not sure how this happened, during an update I presume. The problem is that I don't seem to be able to update the nvidia-glx package. Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA libGL.so and libGLcore.so

Installing Joomla on Debian

Hi, I want to install Joomla 1.6 on Debian, but am wondering why most instructions on the internet include Xampp. I don't think I need this as I already have apache2, mysql and php5 installed. If I installed xampp, would this cause conflicts with the existing installed software? Any help or

Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

Hi, Unfortunately, samba doesn't seem to be picking up any changes to my smb.conf even after a restart. Compare the printer related output from testparm [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable =

Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

Hi, Not sure really what you mean about the first point, where should I put that in, but smbclient -L server shows the printer, it's shown on /etc/printcap and if I set windows to print to \\192.168.1.2\printer name I get a test page fine. Not sure if this last one bypasses Samba. What I can't do

Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

Thanks Pablo, I'll try that if I can't get it to work through samba. Problem seems to be with the config file not picking up the printing declaration. I have restarted samba after editting the file. Testparm gives me the following [global] workgroup = ETHICSGRADIENT server string = %h

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