Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?
On 11/01/11 01:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Stefan Monnier put forth on 1/9/2011 10:42 PM: I have no idea what makes you so angry against "green" drives. I am against using any drive, at this time, in Linux, with a native sector size other than 512 bytes. The Linux partitioning tools still do not easily/properly handle these hybrid drives with 4096 byte per sectors that translate 512 byte sectors to the host. Simply partitioning them correctly requires Ph.D. The average, and even some advanced, users cannot configure them for correct performance. ... In my experience with these drives, aligning to 4k sectors has always fixed any performance issues, and was achieved by creating partitions within fdisk invoked as follows: fdisk -cu -H224 -S56 /dev/sdx Greg -- 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/4d2cf98d.9070...@maths.otago.ac.nz
Re: SCSI - SATA device name conflict
Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:45:28AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: Hello, Is there a way to rebuild the initrd to tell it to load sata drivers first, or some flag to pass to the kernel to force the first hard disk to sda? instead of using /dev/sda or /dev/sde use UUID notation. Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately that notation is only good if the hardware does not change. If we dd that disk to another one it won't work. Also a number of system tools I believe are hard-coded to use explicit device nodes, which is why I need sda to be, well, sda. thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI - SATA device name conflict
Hello, I have an Athlon64 Etch box running a backported 2.6.20 kernel. 2.6.20 is necessary to fix a broken LAN driver in 2.6.18. The root file system is on partition 3 of the only present SATA drive, sda. When I connect an LTO Tape drive to the PCI SCSI controller this tape drive at next boot becomes sda and the SATA disk becomes sde. This breaks the boot sequence, which tries to load the root fs from /dev/sda3, which is now a non-existent partition on the tape drive. The kernel loads, but before it can load INIT, it comes up with the message"Begin: Waiting for root file system ..." and stalls. Now if I change the GRUB boot line from root=/dev/sda3 to root=/dev/sde3, the kernel helpfully renumerates the devices again so the tape drive is sde and the hard drive is back to sda, so again no boot. At first I thought I was encountering a random naming collision as mentioned by George Michalopoulos on this list. However this problem appears 100% consistent across multiple reboots. There are two kludgy workarounds we've found so far: one is using BSD disklabels to boot with root=LABEL=/SATAROOT. The other involves using UDEV to create named symlinks based on the disk model ID. Both are rather inflexible and sub-optimal for a server, where sda should always be the first (non-raid, non-pata) hard disk. Is there a way to rebuild the initrd to tell it to load sata drivers first, or some flag to pass to the kernel to force the first hard disk to sda? thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch released.
Great news. But what happened to the 60-odd outstanding release-critical bugs that were present yesterday? Were they all miraculously fixed overnight, or were they just shelved? http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP3 Support
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:30:52 -0500, Carl wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I thought that MP3 was one of the "questionable" formats that goes against the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong. In any event, I was pleasantly surprised. I find that mp3 and ogg are supported by almost any media player, even mp3blaster on the console. Lame isn't in debian though (the mp3 encoder). Even wma is supported by xine now and I'm sure others too. True but doesn't answer Joe's question. MP3 is a patent-encumbered technology for compression only. ..last time I read about this, the Fraunhofer Institute went after those who streamed mp3's out on the net without paying the mp3 patent license. http://www.google.com/search?num=100&&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mp3+license+site:groklaw.net http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mp3+"Fraunhofer%20Institut"+license Players (IIRC) don't require a licence. Whether that's DFSG-acceptable I couldn't say. Hardware ones at least do. Take a look at http://www.vlsi.fi/orderform/Price_List_www.pdf. ..3 mp3 license policy pointers: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22mp3+patent%22+%22Fraunhofer+Institut%22+license+policy All the more reason to encourage people never to use or speak of mp3 again. Ever. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.20 kernel in unstable?
Any idea when kernel 2.6.20 is going to show up in Sid? The most recent version I see in Sid is 2.6.18-4. Both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 have a critical cifs bug that makes any machine that mounts windows shares pretty much unusable. thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purging mailboxes in mutt
Gidday, I'm running a Sarge server with Postfix/Procmail/Dovecot and Maildir style mailboxes. I have a number of users that want to use a local text-based mail reader from time to time. Pine is no longer an option, so I've shifted to Mutt. I almost have it working, but can't figure out one thing: If I have an IMAP client somewhere that moves/deletes messages from the INBOX, they're flagged as Deleted and appear in Mutt as such. However when I go to quit Mutt and it prompts me to purge the deleted messages, if I answer 'no', then it will always un-mark any messages I have deleted in that session, and there seems to be a 50/50 chance it will also un-mark messages deleted by other sessions. One workaround appears to be to set maildir_trash=yes in /etc/Muttrc. This purges the mailbox on program exit, but that can be dangerous if someone accidentally deletes a message and quits Mutt. any ideas? thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Massive load average, can't log in
Hi there, This morning I noticed that my Etch box wouldn't let me start up a web browser window. Odd I thought, so I took a look at the load average, which was sitting at 210! Some processes such as vi or firefox can no longer launch, but some simpler ones such as ps or top can still be run from a regular user terminal. A ps uaxw reveals dozens of crond processes in the all too familiar 'D' state, each one having a similarly stalled mrtg process. I've never even used mrtg on that machine save just doing an apt-get install mrtg. If I try to su - to kill some processes, that particular terminal goes into an interruptible sleep and I have to switch to another one. I get something similar when I try to log in remotely - it never gets to a password prompt. CPU is at 0%, memory usage is below 50% and there is no disk activity. So in light of this I have two questions: 1. Why would the mrtg cron job be stalling? Is there a known problem with this program or is it looking for some non-existent nfs share? 2. Why can't I log in or start any new large processes? Is there some load average threshold in Debian above which no one is allowed to log in? A high load average does not suggest high disk/cpu/memory usage, just stalled processes so there is plenty of computing power available. Perhaps the load average calculation needs to be updated to ignore processes that have stalled for a period? thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will Debian supports Intel 64 bit processor?. How to set mirroring.
Colin wrote: Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Muthukumaran Saravanan wrote: Will Debian supports Intel 64 bit processor. Yes: http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/ I don't think Muthukumaran means Itanium. The amd64 architecture is probably what he means. ... information for which is available here: http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pam and winbind
Hi, I'm running a Sarge box that I want to authenticate against a Win 2003 Server. I understand that the old RH way of doing it was to use pam_smb_auth.so, which was easy to set up but inherently insecure. So, I've configured pam, winbind and samba, but obviously not quite correctly. When I try to su to a user with a windows password it fails and I get the following error in /var/log/auth.log: pam_winbind[12063]: request failed: No such user, PAM error was 10, NT error was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER This user definitely exists in both /etc/passwd, and in the windows ADS tree. I can log in as the same user with the unix password, so at least the pam_unix module is working. Another clue: wbinfo -u on its own fails, but it works fine if I run: wbinfo --set-auth-user=gregt -u and enter a password. Any ideas? thanks, Greg Extract from /etc/samba/smb.conf - workgroup = my.domain.com realm = MY.DOMAIN.COM security = DOMAIN password server = server1 server2 winbind uid = 3-4 winbind gid = 3-4 template shell = /bin/bash winbind separator = + pam.d/common-auth - authsufficient pam_unix.so nullok_secure authsufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so use_first_pass /etc/nsswitch.conf -- passwd: compat winbind group: compat winbind shadow: compat hosts: files dns networks: files dns protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc:db files netgroup: nis Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice Bug
Wayne Topa wrote: Thomas H. George([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: The latest testing dist-upgrade of openoffice.org (1.1.2) will not print newly created documents. Documents created before the dist-upgrade continue to print with no problems. Sorry. I just completed a dist-upgrade 20 minutes ago. No OO packages were upgraded tho. My latest OO files were installed on 2004-11-08. Just made a new .sxw file, saved it, exited OO. Restarted OO and printed the file. No problem here. ii openoffice.org 1.1.2dfsg1-1 high-quality office productivity suite ii openoffice.org 1.1.2dfsg1-1 OpenOffice.org office suite binary files ii openoffice.org 1.1.2-5+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org ii openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English) ii openoffice.org 1.1.2dfsg1-1 English (US) language package for OpenOffice Did that just say openoffice.org 1.1.2, in testing? Why such an old version? What happened to 1.1.3? Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD 64 and Debian
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: ... Not that I know anything about gaming, but just one question: since most games are designed for windows, why don't you just play them in windows, you know, double boot... Is there any particular reason you want to try them in linux? And AMD64 Debian unstable moreover? You think the performance might be that much better that it will be worth the hassle? Hi Alexandru, I can't speak for "downtime null", but for me there are several reasons for running games in Linux: 1. I don't want to have to reboot every time I want to play a game. I generally only reboot my machine to do a kernel upgrade or to shift the computer. 2. I don't want to buy a licence for a crippled operating system that I will only use for playing games. 3. If I had wanted to separate linux use from gaming, I would have bought a Playstation 2. 4. I don't want to support the paradigm that equates PC gaming with Microsot Windows. Anyone else care to comment? Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit
Hi, I recently tried to apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, since rcconf seems to have dropped off the repos, and got this: Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/rc', which is also in package sysvinit Does sysv-rc replace sysvinit or something? Is it safe to overwrite this file with the version distributed by sysv-rc, or is this a temporary fix? thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Test message
Gidday, Is anyone getting this message? So far no messages I post end up on the list that I can tell. Is the list set perhaps so that messages exclude the originator? This is strange, since the mailer daemon thinks otherwise: - You have added to the subscriber list of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By default, copies of your own submissions will be returned. - Anyone else getting problems like this? Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: two projectors from one laptop
Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to connect two projectors from one laptop sorry for the question quite irrelevant Yes it is (possible to connect two projectors from one laptop, I mean, not irrelevant). You need a VGA splitter cable which sends the signal from one VGA source to two destinations. You do lose some brightness and contrast though, so you'll need to fiddle a bit with the projectors. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Turbo LED
Gidday, I have an old 300MHz debian testing machine running on (I believe) an i430tx motherboard. I have found at different times that the turbo led on the case seems to turn on and off at seemingly random intervals. It might be on for a day and then off the next two. At first I thought perhaps there's a dodgy connection to the motherboard, but no it's solid. Are there any debian packages that take control of the turbo LED as a status light? I understand some SCSI drivers used to use it, but I don't have any SCSI (or mass storage) devices so I don't think that's it. perplexed, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
