Re: usrmerge in bookworm

Greg Wooledge writes: > Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages. $ apt-get changelog usrmerge | tail -n2 -- Marco d'Itri Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:42:44 +0100 Fetched 11.0 kB in 0s (58.9 kB/s) Not what I'd call 'early' stages. > Part of the reason for this is that it's

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

Marco writes: > Am 06.10.2023 schrieb Steve Keller : > > > I have always been sceptical about /usr merge, since all binaries now > > appear in two places, "type sh" in bash gives the strange looking > > /usr/bin/sh where all Uni*ers are strongly used to /bin/sh. But also > > things like the

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

Kamil Joñca writes: > kjonca@alfa:~%man shutdown > SHUTDOWN(8) > > shutdown >

How to check for scheduled shutdown

After shutdown -h I see no way to see this scheduled shutdown. Before systemd, I could always see the shutdown process with its arguments using ps(1). Now, the call to shutdown returns to the shell immediately leaving no process. It probably communicates to the init process 1, but, as usual for

Re: Gnus/procmail doesn't read new mails

Eric S Fraga writes: > Just in case, what happens if you expand "~" in the path to PROCMAIL? That was one of the first things I've tested but that didn't change anything. urs

Gnus/procmail doesn't read new mails

I want to move my mail server and Gnus MUA from a very old machine (emacs 20.7.1 and gnus 5.8.8) to a Debian bullseye machine with emacs and Gnus 5.13. The mail is filtered by procmail into several files in the ~/PROCMAIL directory. From there it should be read by Gnus and stored in mail groups

texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library

To me this looks somewhat surprising that in Debian buster a package depends on 2 versions of a library: # apt-cache depends texlive-binaries |grep lua Depends: libtexlua52 Depends: libtexlua52 Depends: libtexlua53 Depends: libtexlua53 Depends: libtexluajit2 Depends: libtexluajit2

After uprade to buster: QEMU doesn't support -drive if=scsi

After uprading from stretch to buster on my server (x86_64), I cannot start one of my VMs anymore. The guest is a *very* old Linux (non Debian, i686, kernel 2.4, GRUB 1.99) and uses the Symbios Logic sym53c8xx_2 SCSI driver in its init-ramdisk to mount the root file system and another virtual

Re: I've been caught out

Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch > > That's not how you do it. patch(1) can only accept one patch at a time, > and it expects to see it on standard input. > > for p in

Re: Single broken package blocks whole package management

"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > Raspbian _isn't_ Debian. Wolfram-engine is a third party (commercial) app - > Wolfram Mathematica which the Raspberry Pi foundation licences with a > special educational arrangement. > > You might be able to force a reinstall of wolfram-engine to produce >

Re: Single broken package blocks whole package management

Richard Hector writes: > Firstly, the standard response is that Raspbian is not Debian :-) > There are differences which might be related to your problem. Yes, of course. I know. But my question was not about the Raspbian specific packages but on apt, dpkg, aptitude & co. I assume, these

Single broken package blocks whole package management

After an dist-upgrade from Raspian 8 (jessie) to 9.13 (stretch) hundreds of packages still need to be upgraded and aptitude reports numerous conflicts. I first wanted to upgrade everything which doesn't causes any conflicts, which fails because of problems in wolfram-engine: root@uranus:~#

Re: RAID-1 and disk I/O

David Christensen writes: > You should consider upgrading to Debian 10 -- more people run that and > you will get better support. It's on my TODO list. As well as upgrading the very old hardware. Currently, it's a Gigabyte P35-DS3L with an Intel Core2Duo E8400 CPU and 8 GB RAM. It's only my

RAID-1 and disk I/O

On my server running Debian stretch, the storage setup is as follows: Two identical SATA disks with 1 partition on each drive spanning the whole drive, i.e. /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Then, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 form a RAID-1 /dev/md0 with LVM on top of it. The disk I/O shows very different

Re: /home as a symlink?

Jesper Dybdal writes: > Thanks for your response.  That would be the natural way of doing it > if I were partitioning a new disk.  But I don't want to do that, and > the target disk also has other data, so /home cannot be a complete > partition. IIUC, you have a directory on that disk where you

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

David Christensen writes: > Thanks for the explanation. It seems that pvcreate(8) places an LVM > disk label and an LVM metadata area onto disks or partitions when > creating a PV; including a unique UUID: > > https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/pvcreate.8.html Yes, correct. You can

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

Urs Thuermann writes: > IMO the best solution is to use LVM. I use it since 2001 on most > drives and I don't have partitions. And I prefer to use device names > over using the *UUID or *LABEL prefixes. With LVM, device names are > predictable /dev/mapper/- with symlinks > /de

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

David Christensen writes: > AIUI the OP was mounting an (external?) drive partition for use as a > destination for backups. Prior to upgrading to Testing, the root > partition was /dev/sda1 (no LVM?) and the backup partition was > /dev/sdb1 (no LVM?). After upgrading to Testing, the root

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

"Rick Thomas" writes: > The /dev/sdx names for devices have been unpredictable for quite a > while. Which one is sda and which sdb will depend on things like > timing -- which one gets recognized by the kernel first. > > The best solution is to either use UUID or LABEL when you fsck > and/or

aptitude why (Was: Re: After software update systemd runs into timeouts)

David Wright writes: > On Wed 05 Aug 2020 at 22:53:26 (+0200), Urs Thuermann wrote: > > > Should this be considered a bug? Shouldn't 'aptitude why' show the > > packages that depend on it? > > Why not read the man page: > >Note >aptitude why

Re: After software update systemd runs into timeouts

Andrei POPESCU writes: > It's of course possible to reopen the bug if it still exists, though > stretch is oldstable now and in LTS mode. I plan to upgrade to buster, but only after August 15th. > On a server it might be possible to simply not use systemd-logind. E.g. > (at least on

Re: After software update systemd runs into timeouts

Andrei POPESCU writes: > The package 'needrestart' hooks into APT and offers to restart any > affected services. Thx, I didn't know needrestart until today, but learned about in in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770135 and

Re: After software update systemd runs into timeouts

Greg Wooledge writes: > Google led me to > which, although it's for Arch Linux and not Debian, might possibly > be relevant for you. > > In particular, what does "ls -ld /var/run" say? The symlink /var/run -> /run is OK. My problem is

After software update systemd runs into timeouts

I run a server with Debian 9 and haven't resisted the conversion to systemd strong enough, therefore I now have a couple of problems with stability and availability. One of them is, that often after software updates systemd-logind.service fails to start and ssh logins take a very long time. I

Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

The Wanderer writes: > if you > want to know "what's the dependency chain which is keeping this from > being safe to remove?", you're probably better off running 'apt-get > --dry-run remove [packagename]', and seeing whether the result wants to > remove anything that you care about. Well, I

aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian jessie: Some time in the past there were probably packages that needed

Re: Don't disable recoomends by default

Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting John Crawley (2019-07-12 22:52:55) > > > Anyway, even if your system default is to install Recommends, apt-get > > (and apt too?) always gets user approval before installing anything > > beyond the package asked for. If the list looks too long (s)he can > >

Re: Don't disable recoomends by default

Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Stephan Seitz (2019-07-12 09:30:38) > > On Fr, Jul 12, 2019 at 09:13:29 -0300, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > >Wrong. Suggests are for packages useful only "sometimes", recommends > > >are for pacakges needed in "all but unusual installations." > > > > From my

Re: en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8

info writes: > Why can I not fint "en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8" when I install a normal os from > you (it is not a server version)?? > > I know that I can set it after the installation, but it is not the same!! You have to generate all locales you want to use. Run dpkg-reconfigure locales and

Re: pthread_mutex_init man page

Riccardo Paolo Bestetti writes: > In Debian 9, the > $ man pthread_mutex_init > command results in: > No manual entry for pthread_mutex_init. > > Other pthread man pages (such as pthread_create, pthread_join, ...) are > available. > > The "manpages-posix-dev" non-free package is available to

Re: Prevent Linux kernel from logging segfaults of user processes

Steve Keller writes: > Since quite a long time the Linux kernel prints log messages about > processes that cause a segmentation fault, but it has not always > been that way (Linux 2.x, maybe also 3.x versions, AFAIR). > > On a multi-user system, where users develop & debug software it is >

Embarrassing security bug in systemd

Yesterday, my 10 years old son logged into my laptop running Debian jessie using his account, and curiously asked if he is allowed to try the /sbin/reboot command. Knowing I have a Linux system as opposed to some crappy Win machine, I replied "sure, go ahead and try". Seconds later I was

Re: Removing old python packages installed with pip

deloptes writes: > yes it is more or less safe - it depends how you let it install - perhaps > there is also something under /usr/local/bin Thanks, I'll do it then. And yes, there are 3 binaries in /usr/local/bin from the theano package with the same installation date,

Re: Removing old python packages installed with pip

Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> writes: > On Friday, December 1, 2017 3:24:47 PM -03 Urs Thuermann wrote: > > On a machine running Debian stretch I have installed python3, which is > > currently python3.5. Nothing of python3.4 is present. > > > > But in /usr/

Removing old python packages installed with pip

On a machine running Debian stretch I have installed python3, which is currently python3.5. Nothing of python3.4 is present. But in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/ a number of packages is still installed. Probably, these have been installed using pip3 when python3.4 was current. Now,

Re: Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system

Dejan Jocic writes: > Can you check what happens if you use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > followed by apt-get dist-upgrade? Aptitude is not really best tool for > upgrades between distribution releases. I changed to aptitude quite some time ago, because it seems to

Upgrade from jessie to strech wants to bloat by system

After fully updating my jessie system using aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade I edited sources.list to dist-upgrade to strech. A folloing aptitude upgrade wants to install additional 1.5 GB on my system which is currently ~5 GB, i.e. a 30% increase: # df -h / /usr Filesystem

Which driver for Nvidia card on jessie

After a hardware change my workstation with X11/XFCE has a new Nvidia graphics card and the nouveau driver doesn't seem to work with new card. Before the hardware change I used xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. The new Nvidia card is listed by lspci as 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA

Re: Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

Peter Ludikovsky writes: > Ad 1: Yes, the SATA controller has to support Hot-Swap. You _can_ remove > the device nodes by running > # echo 1 > /sys/block//device/delete Thanks, I have now my RAID array fully working again. This is what I have done: 1. Like you suggested

Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

In my RAID 1 array /dev/md0 consisting of two SATA drives /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 the first drive /dev/sda has failed. I have called mdadm --fail and mdadm --remove on that drive and then pulled the cables and removed the drive. The RAID array continues to work fine but in degraded mode. I have

Re: ISDN call logging

Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: Are you able to install your stable OS (Debian, Linux 2.4 kernel) on the newer hardware perhaps? No, that's not an option. The intention is to replace the old server (Linux 2.4, not Debian) by the new server (new hardware, Debian jessie). Almost all

ISDN call logging

My ISP provides VoIP and the DSL modem/router provides an internal ISDN S0 bus where my ISDN telephones are attached. I have also hooked an old Linux server with an ISDN card to the S0 bus. This server runs a Linux 2.4.37.8 kernel with isdn4linux and isdnlog to log all incoming and outgoing

Re: How do I pad files in Linux?

Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: One possibility might be ~$ cat file1 file2 file3 where file1 is your binary and file2 contains 64 nulls. Now you simply need to create a file containing exactly 64 nulls. I've never screwed with this, but I'd guess it can be done with one

IP/IP and IPv6/IP tunnels and dynamic IP address

My ISP provides a single, dynamic IPv4 address to me. I have configured several tunnels, IPv4 in IPv4 and IPv6 in IPv4, to several sites. This is running on a very old Linux installation and I want to move that to a Debian system. I know how to set up /etc/network/interfaces for such tunnels if

Wy no clang in jessie

Squeeze, wheezy and sid seem to have clang packages but no jessie. It seems clang was removed from jessie at 2013-06-04 but I could not find a reason. Why doesn't jessie have a clang package? urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Strange load average

Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: Probably not. It's probably just a rounding/display issue. Rounding issues cannot explain the numbers. When the load average for the last minute, sampled every 10s, is 0.00 a each sample, it cannot be higher when averaged over a longer time.

Strange load average

I run Debian testing/amd64 with current kernel on an Intel Core2Duo: $ uname -a Linux bit 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux When the system is idle even for long periods, the 5-minute load average and 15-minute load average don't drop: $ while sleep 10; do

Decoding QR

I have searched the Debian repository for packages to decode QR codes but haven't found anything suitable. I often take photos of QR codes e.g. with my SLR camera, saving them as JPG, that I want to decode later on my Debian machine. I'd like to have a simple command line tool that I can call

Re: Decoding QR

Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net writes: An example image would be helpful. I have put some to my home page, see below. I haven't installed libdecodeqr-dev since that seems to have completely ill dependencies. It’s a development library (-dev) intended for use if you want to,

Re: Why the 64 bit ISA is better

Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: Given the recent threads regarding 32 vs 64 bit I thought I'd take a moment to present information often omitted in responses to these posts. [ some good explanations ] Another often underestimated bit is the new addressing mode relative to the

Re: time zone and UTC issue

J. B baksh...@gmail.com writes: My box is configured to the local time zone from beginning, both hwclock and system time. But linux always favor hwclock to UTC. What is the advantage of doing that ? Although time, timezones and clock setting are quite a simple topic it seems to be major

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: If I save BIOS settings as a file and the hwclock is set to UTC, the files don't get the German time. The BIOS is the BIOS, it's neither Windows, I don't use Windows, but nor the BIOS is Linux, so Linux can't translate UTC to local time, when I

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: If the clock does use local time, then the time for all BIOS and all Linux files are ok. This is not completely true. If there is change from/to daylight saving time to/from standard time between saving the files using the BIOS and booting your

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com writes: spinymouse@q:~$ ls -l /media/spinymouse/INTENSO/ total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 304 Oct 22 2011 B22OCT11.CMO -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 304 Sep 30 2011 B30SEP11.CMO -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 15644 Nov 10

Re: [OT] End of the world

darkestkhan darkestk...@gmail.com writes: Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) You cannot specify a year using crontab(1) or in /etc/crontab. You could, however, specify that the end of the world will happen on each December 21, in any

Re: cp, but preserve the dest attribute

T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: cp -a, or rsync -a, or cpio normally preserve the source attribute and set the destination attribute accordingly. Now my question is, is there any way for me to preserve the destination attribute and disregard the source attribute. Any way to make it

No static libmpg123.a

The changelog for libmpg123-dev says: mpg123 (1.13.7-3) experimental; urgency=low * Enable LFS aliases, attempt to fix FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386. * Drop static library. * Improve ARM CPUs optimizations. -- Alessio Treglia ales...@debian.org Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:13:02 +0200 Why has the

How can I select the locale for a Gnome seesion?

When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose US English as language and selected a couple of locales to generate. When I login using gdm3, everything is English. But my wife prefers German. I know I can run programs from the shell like LANG=de_DE foo but how can I change the language for a

How to make X11 server listen to TCP connections?

I use Gnome and gdm3 for login. I want my X11 server to listen for TCP connections on port 6000 from remote machines. But I haven't found anything in the documentation of gdm3 and in gdm's config files. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Hard drives with 4 KB sectors and small file systems

Has anyone experience or can provide a link to information on performance impact with the new hard drives with 4 KB sectors when using file system with 1 KB block size? My question is not about the alignment issue caused by physical/logical sector size of 4096/512 Bytes. I haven't yet played

several debian installer questions

I have a couple of questions concerning the debian installer (from the testing distribution): 1. When downloading the iso image which I combine with boot.img.gz to get an image for an USB stick, I have to choose the Debian release (i.e. stable or testing) and the architecture I want to

audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

When I rip audio CDs, I typically use both cdrdao and cdparanoia and compare the results to make sure that I really really have the correct digital audio data. I run Debian testing with current versions of cdrdao 1.2.2 and cdparanoia III release 10.2. For each CD I run cdrdao read-cd

package management begins to annoy me

I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more and more to annoy me, for several reasons. Maybe, and I hope so, this is only because i

Prevent aptitude from starting services

Is it possible to prevent aptitude from automatically running services after install? That is, when I install some daemon or some other package with a start script in /etc/init.d, e.g. bind or ferm, I don't want that init script to be executed. This is annoying when services are started before I

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try setting 'CONCURRENCY=startpar' in /etc/init.d/rc, but do read the notes before. Interesting to know, but I didn't need this, since your other suggestion below also solves the boot delay. Using wpa-roam, ifup returns quickly and the boot process

Re: wpa_supplicant and dhclient

Dominique Dumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. DHCP is not accepted in roaming mode. Where did you get that from I tried and I got an explicit error message ;-) Only manual mode is accepted. As Andrei wrote, read /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.Debian. There you'll find

wpa_supplicant and dhclient

I want to connect an embeded mobile WLAN station to a WLAN network with WPA-PSK and DHCP. In /etc/network/interfaces I have auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/ww.conf My problem is when I boot while the WLAN is not available.

debootstrap and GRUB bootloader

I want to build a Debian system using debootstrap and install that on a Compact Flash card for an x86 embedded system. I have created and mounted a fresh file system on a logical volume which I install the new Debian system into using debootstrap. That works fine and I can chroot into the new

Re: Uniq is not unique ?

Chris Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uniq only filters consecutive repeated lines, e.g. A A B A will become A B A If you need it to filter such that only 1 unique line remains, you will need to sort first then pipe to uniq (not a good solution for really large files). I

what happened to xon?

I run Debian testing and have upgraded many packages recently. After the upgrade I noticed that the xon(1) utility has gone. It has been part of the xutils package before. That package also contained a number of other tools which seem to have been moved to other packages named x11-*, but no

tcpdump doesn't show VLAN IDs

tcpdump ion current Debian testing does not show the VLAN ID in 802.1q tagged Ethernet frames. I have observed this using two machines: (A) Linux-2.4.34.4, almost everything compiled on my own from scratch tcpdump-3.9.5 and libpcap 0.9.5 (B) Debian testing, up to date, kernel 2.6.18-4-686,

Re: Which software to copy and edit video from MiniDV camcorder

Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't tell us which branch (Sarge, Etch, testing, Sid) and version of kino that you are running. Yes, sorry. I use kino 0.92-3 on Debian testing. I also forgot to mention another detail, which might be the cause for my problems[1]: The kino and

Re: Which software to copy and edit video from MiniDV camcorder

Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: copy: dvgrab edit: cinelerra -DVD: mencoder, transcode, dvdauthor. Gentoo forums have a nice howto. OK, thanks. I'll look at these. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Which software to copy and edit video from MiniDV camcorder

I want to copy video recordings from my MiniDV camcorder to a Linux machine, edit it, convert it to MPEG2, and burn it to DVD. What software is available in Debian for these tasks. I have read something about kino, installed it, but it seems to be quite instable. After starting and clicking on

Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if you want it to reply to broadcast pings: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Ah, thanks. This not only causes replies to broadcast pings to be sent but also multicast to 224.0.0.1 (which is allhosts multicast and essentially the same as

Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

I have currently 4 Linux machines in my network, one embedded system running Linux-2.4.20, a system build from scractch over the last 13 years running 2.4.34.2 and two Debian boxes, both running Debian's Linux kernel 2.6.18-4-686. When I ping to the broacast address or the allhosts multicast

Xen and PAE

I have two separate questions, actually, concerning Xen and PAE: Today, I installed Xen on a Pentium4 machine running Debian testing. I did aptitude install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 which installed besides others the two debian packages xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae and

Re: How to install Debian on a diskless NFS client?

Sorry for my late reply. I have been busy with other things so continued my diskless install a couple of weeks after your answer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think what you want to do now is something like this: mount -t proc none /tftpboot/client-dir chroot

How to install Debian on a diskless NFS client?

I want to install Debian testing on a diskless machine (i.e. no floppy, no CDROM, no hard disk) using DHCP/TFTP and NFS. Besides being diskless, the machine is a standard Pentium PC with a NIC which has an etherboot EPROM to boot via DHCP/TFTP. As described in the Debian Installation Guide,

Re: aptitude update and pdiff files

Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apt is configurable in this respect, it just isn't documented yet (see Bug #376158): apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false or, to make this setting permanent, put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf: Acquire::PDiffs false; Thanks, works much

aptitude update and pdiff files

For a couple of month I have seen an annoying change in behavior of aptitude update and apt-get update. Formerly, a couple of package files where downloaded which took a few seconds. Now I normally see that aptitude update downloads hundreds of files named like Get:282

Re: debian testing netinstall via pppoe?

Dave Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using the netinstall ISO (not the businesscard), do a normal installation, leaving the network unconfigured. This will be a base install only, but the package pppoeconf is on that cd. Once you have the base install in, simply apt-get install

Problems booting from SCSI disk (with LVM2)

I have installed Debian testing using the binary-1 CD. After fiddling with the grub install (see below [*]) the kernel-2.6.15-1-i686-smp boots and starts from the initramfs. The initramfs initializes among other things the SCSI subsystem (AIC7899), device mapper and LVM2, and my ethernet card

debian testing netinstall via pppoe?

Is it possible to use the etch netinstall CD to install a debian testing system via pppoe? I have tried but didn't succeed. The installer only lets me choose between the two ethernet network cards and then asks me for IP configuration for the selected NIC. But I'd need to configure ppp

Re: Disk Defragmentatio

I know that, but I'm running a pair of debian etch boxes over vmware, and the disk images have grown to almost tripple the size of the actual installation. I want to reclaim the 3+ GBs on the partition (I'm running a bit short on disk space), and in order for the vmware utility to compact the

xlock and logout button

since my last aptitude upgrade, xlock shows a logout button 10 minutes after having locked my Xserver. I think this is a new feature since I don't remember having seen this behavior before. I haven't found a way to disable the appearance of the logout button, neither in the man page nor in

Re: tzfile Modifications for the United States

Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the new energy bill was signed in to law, the existing tzfile information for all those parts of the United States that use DST needs to be tweaked so the automatic change will occur at the correct times. Will there be new tzfile sets we

position independent executables (PIE) on Debian?

Newer versions of gcc and binutils support generation of position independent executables (PIE) using the option -fpie for gcc and -pie for ld. the result is a ELF shared object that can be executed instead of a ELF executable. The difference is that PIE executables can be loaded at any address

Re: mtab very long

Sebastian Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my problem is, that the output of mount is very long (and also the /etc/mtab file.) it has double entries over and over: Haven't tried it, but I think the following would help: : /etc/mtab mount -a -f urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: want to change /var/log partition to a directory in /var --help

Ionut Georgescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please send fdisk -l /dev/hda. Judging by your /etc/fstab, you can't do anything because you have /home and /tmp between /var and /var/log. The best you cand do is to move /tmp and /var/log to /var and extend /home :-) I will describe the next

how to change hostname

What is the debain way to change to hostname of a system. Only editing /etc/hostname is not sufficient, because there are other places where the hostname is stored, e.g. /etc/hosts, /etc/mailname, etc. Should it be done by running base-config? urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: how to change hostname

Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you just issue the following command as root: hostname your host name No. The hostname command only sets the current hostname in the running kernel. I want to change the hostname permanently. urs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: how to change hostname

Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I *think* the hostname command will set /etc/hostname for you, as well as forcing the running system to update its own idea of what the hostname is. It only sets the hostname in the kernel using the hostname(2) syscall. For /etc/mailname,

Re: apache2 install problems

Marcos Carneiro da Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try to apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork instead of apache2. apache2 is a virtual package to another package but there is a conflict between apache2-mpm-prefork and apace2-mpm-worker and apache2-mpm-perchild - you should choose one of

apache2 install problems

I tried to install apache2 on a debian testing system. However, I get the following error: # apt-get install apache2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-common apache2-mpm-worker

Re: partitioning hard drive /usr is already 96% full

Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only thing I have done is install KDE 3.1 and OpenOffice.org and now /usr is 96% full. (/home is large due to temp. storage from another install) Question for the list: What is the lists advice in managing my /usr partition so it does not completetly

Re: partitioning hard drive /usr is already 96% full

Hans Wilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How what about LVM? Can it make things easier? If you can, for example, just throw in a new disk, create a partition on it and somehow add the additional space to an existing partition, dealing with running out of disk space would be easy. Yes, that is

Re: crontab on UTC?

Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: however, every night at 8 PM, the job executes, and not at 2 AM. i'm 6 hours behind UTC -- could my crontab be on UTC somehow? both 'date' and 'hwclock' produce the local time output, and i've never seen this before. Is /etc/localtime a symlink to