order of IDE drives in lenny

2007-05-07 Thread Towncat
I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the onboard

order of IDE drives in lenny ..

2007-05-07 Thread Towncat
I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the onboard

Re: order of IDE drives in lenny ..

2007-05-09 Thread Towncat
In the meantime I actually found a reference to this problem in the release notes for etch. I haven't tried yet, but it should fix the problem. Here: http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-device-reorder I've been using etch for some time, I wonder why

ivtv-fb not found in Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Towncat
I'm running a Debian lenny box. I would like to set up a Hauppauge PVR-350's video out as an X server, however, I can't seem to find the ivti-fb module in Debian. (the card is otherwise working nicely with the ivtv module). Has someone had some luck with this? Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

KDM XDMCP error

2008-03-27 Thread Towncat
I have two lenny boxes, and I want to login to an X session on one of them from the other using XDMCP. If I run KDM on the remote machine and try to log in, KDM just restarts. If I run XDM on the same machine, I can login in through XDMCP. I can also log in with KDM locally on the remote machine.

Re: KDM XDMCP error

2008-03-28 Thread Towncat
On márc. 27, 13:50, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two lenny boxes, and I want to login to an X session on one of them from the other usingXDMCP. If I runKDMon the remote machine and try to log in,KDMjust restarts. If I run XDM on the same machine, I can login in throughXDMCP. I can

ppdev0: registered pardevice

2007-12-30 Thread Towncat
I am using lenny, and did an upgrade lately. Since that I am getting a message repeatedly both on console and in /var/log/messages: ppdev0: registered pardevice What happened? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Towncat
As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking (gecko:14849):

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Towncat
On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote: As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2007-12-31 Thread Towncat
On dec. 31, 02:10, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote: As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2008-01-01 Thread Towncat
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:31:47 -0800, Towncat wrote: [...] OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it, something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts. The output

Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade

2008-01-01 Thread Towncat
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:31:47 -0800, Towncat wrote: [...] OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it, something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts. The output

failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk

2008-01-01 Thread Towncat
I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1 partition that is not used, a small sdc2 for boot, unencrypted, and an sdc3 encrypted. On this there is a volume group, with

Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk

2008-01-02 Thread Towncat
On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1 partition that is not used, a small sdc2 for boot, unencrypted

Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk

2008-01-02 Thread Towncat
On Jan 2, 6:50 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:29:30AM -0800, Towncat wrote: On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto

Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk

2008-01-07 Thread Towncat
On Jan 2, 8:30 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 2, 6:50 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:29:30AM -0800, Towncat wrote: On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http

vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy

2008-01-07 Thread Towncat
I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition),

Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy

2008-01-07 Thread Towncat
On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However

Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy

2008-01-12 Thread Towncat
On jan. 7, 17:20, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system

badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Towncat
Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo 1,6, 2GB memory. Tc

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-18 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this safely. When

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-19 Thread Towncat
On jan. 18, 21:40, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point