Getting to runlevel 1
Hi. In order to rsync my root, I switch to single user mode. While I'm quite positive that it is good that I quit my desktop session before the rsync, I'm not sure what good it does to switch to single user mode. I switch to single user mode by 'shutdown -r now' and selecting it in grub. Is there a quicker way? 'init 1' seems to get me in a state where there are a few daemons running that wouldn't be otherwise. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting to runlevel 1
On Friday 29 August 2008 02:15, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. In order to rsync my root, I switch to single user mode. While I'm quite positive that it is good that I quit my desktop session before the rsync, I'm not sure what good it does to switch to single user mode. I switch to single user mode by 'shutdown -r now' and selecting it in grub. Is there a quicker way? 'init 1' seems to get me in a state where there are a few daemons running that wouldn't be otherwise. Forgot to mention I'm not subscribed :) -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network restart
On Thursday 28 August 2008 06:34, Robert Jerrard wrote: I just got a new Siemens modem for the Telus high speed enhanced service. If I turn off the modem then turn it back on my Debian amd64 system has an IP address of 169 when it should be a 192 address from the DHCP set-up. No problem, just restart the network, right? However, when I do a /etc/init.d/networking restart it claims to have reconfigured the network but the IP address is not changed. I still have the 169... address. A reboot resets the IP properly but I should not have to reboot. Any idea why the soft networking restart does not re-do the IP properly? Use dhclient. Thanks for any pointers, Bob -- Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University College of Alberta, 7128 Ada Blvd., Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada. Phone: (780) 479-9291, Fax: (780) 474-1933. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard Not working during Install of 4.0
On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the latest netinstall CD a couple of days ago. I'm trying to install it on a AMD Dual CPU MP2400 system that currently has Debian 3.0 installed. However, as soon as the install kernel boots, the keyboard stops working. The keyboard works in the BIOS, there are no settings in there that would do anything to the keyboard. And when I boot from the CD, the keyboard works. I can hit F1, F2, etc and view the different menu's and I can type install, expert, expertgui, rescue, etc. No matter what I enter, soon as the kernel boots, my keyboard stops working, and if I try a gui install X does not start. It keeps flashing the screen and spews some errors, they flash by too fast to read, but I definately see somekind of keyboard error. In textmode, it boots up to the install routine, but I can't do anything because the keyboard is DOA. I don't have a USB keyboard, but I have tried other ps2 keyboards and it is the same result. I then decided to do an upgrade of the 3.0 to 4.0 and got essentially the same result. The ps2 keyboard and mouse do not work. I can boot with the 486 kernel and the keyboard and mouse work. But not the SMP or K7 kernels. Is ps2 being dropped? Is there a kernel parameter I could pass when booting the netinstall disk to get the keyboard working? Thanks. ps2 never gave me problems... -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.
On Monday 25 August 2008 14:09, Ben Olive wrote: I am trying to install debian on a computer with one IDE drive attached. Partman on the debian installer does not see a partition table on the drive though there is one and if I write a new one it still doesn't see it. When I load the ubuntu installer, it sees the disk as a SCSI (sda) instead of IDE (hda). Even though this disk is actually IDE, it somehow only works when treated as SCSI. How can I force debian to treat the device as a scsi device? Have you looked into the options at the BIOS setup? --Ben Olive -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt sources.list and relative ssh path
On Monday 25 August 2008 15:17, Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Hi, is there any way to specify relative path on the remote ssh account in the /etc/apt/sources.list file? What does ssh have to do with the sources.list file? 'man sources.list' Currently I've only managed to make it working with specifying absolute path. Make what work? Thanks, m. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt sources.list and relative ssh path
On Monday 25 August 2008 17:13, Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Shachar Or pisze: On Monday 25 August 2008 15:17, Marcin Lewandowski wrote: Hi, is there any way to specify relative path on the remote ssh account in the /etc/apt/sources.list file? What does ssh have to do with the sources.list file? 'man sources.list' I've did that. I always do that before I ask. There's no example related to ssh transport in that man. deb ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/this/is/an/absolute/path xyz works i see no way to specify relative path here Ah, I see. But what is a relative path good for in this case? Relative to what, exactly? I don't know if there's a $PWD at all in this case, other than perhaps ~ . So you can do somehting like deb ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/here/is/good xyz . Maybe. But again; relative to what path? m. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.
On Monday 25 August 2008 22:46, Ben Olive wrote: No, I haven't. What should I look for there? I didn't change anything between debian and ubuntu but ubuntu saw it as SCSI automatically. Look for anything that may be related... Such as making IDE look like SATA (although I've only seen the opposite). --Ben Olive On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 August 2008 14:09, Ben Olive wrote: I am trying to install debian on a computer with one IDE drive attached. Partman on the debian installer does not see a partition table on the drive though there is one and if I write a new one it still doesn't see it. When I load the ubuntu installer, it sees the disk as a SCSI (sda) instead of IDE (hda). Even though this disk is actually IDE, it somehow only works when treated as SCSI. How can I force debian to treat the device as a scsi device? Have you looked into the options at the BIOS setup? --Ben Olive -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Solving sudoku with aptitude
On Sunday 24 August 2008 10:36, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Here is an interesting article where the author uses package dependencies and conflict handling mechanisms of the debian package management system to solve sudoku puzzles Daniel _rocks_ http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ Regards, Raj Kiran -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?
On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: I am quite new to ndiswrapper. For Etch, I had downloaded latest source, installed kernel headers, and then simply ./configure, make, make install. Try not to do that. You may break the package management when you install software outside of it. Now I am trying Testing, and since I supposed the official packages would be recent, I began to simply install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. But then, when I come to do modprobe ndiswrapper, I realized there was no ndiswrapper-module. http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=lennykeywords=ndiswrapper I was hoping to find something like ndiswrapper-2.6.26-subversion-i386 module, but no. So it seems I really need ndiswrapper-source (probably should remove ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 because I believe ndiswrapper contains source for both user-space utilities and kernel module). But, as I have no wired connection, I need to get packages individually using wireless on an other OS. And I find it a bit long, because ndiswrapper-source seems to depends on (in my opinion) too many packages (bzip2, debhelper, module-assistant... debhelper having it's own dependancies: binutils, dpkg-dev, file, html2text, man-db, perl, po-debconf). Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think it has everything you need for that). Now, I am seriously thinking about just downloading ndiswrapper sources and give up using Debian packages. But then, I tought I should ask help here, maybe I am missing a binary package with ndiswrapper kernel module already compiled. Install build-essential and module-assistant and the ndiswrapper packages and use m-a to build the ndiswrapper module package. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?
On Sunday 24 August 2008 20:46, Paul Dufresne wrote: 2008/8/24 Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think it has everything you need for that). I have CD #1 and #2 and that's not seems enough to get ndiswrapper-source package dependencies. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ndiswrapper-source tells me that it depends on bzip2, debhelper and module-assistant. I've a feeling that these three are in the first CD-ROM. Do you have the CD's in your sources.list? Did you use apt-cdrom to put them there? So yes, seems the easiest path is to move the computer box to the other builing with wired connection... or just 'cheat' and download normal ndiswrapper-source, not the package. Cheating hurts. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc
On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:36, Nigel Henry wrote: Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and X. I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, including some X packages. After these had been installed, I also did an apt-get install kdm, as I wasn't sure if it had been installed, and it hadn't been. Reboot, and no desktop. Obviously some X stuff is missing. Now I tried apt-get install xserver, which gave some options, including xserver-xorg-core, which is the one I went for, and at the same time installed xfonts-75dpi, and xfonts-base. Some time later, and many more packages installed, I rebooted. The reboot went ok, and I was able via KDM to login to KDE. The problem I'm having is when su'ing to root in KDE's Konsole. When su'ed to root on KDE's Konsole neither kwrite, synaptic, or gedit will open. Synaptic is on the K menu, and starting it there will open a window asking for the the root password, and entering the root password I can use synaptic as root, but trying to open synaptic as root on KDE's Konsole just fails. Output from trying to start gedit, kwrite, and synaptic on KDE's Konsole below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]$ ssh 192.168.0.197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Linux debian 2.6.26.2-rt1-libre1 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Sun Aug 10 13:45:05 EEST 2008 i686 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Last login: Sat Aug 23 14:52:38 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: msu: Authentication failure Sorry. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: debian:/home/djmons# synaptic X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. The application 'synaptic' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. debian:/home/djmons# kwrite X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. kwrite: Fatal IO error: client killed debian:/home/djmons# gedit X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. The application 'gedit' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. debian:/home/djmons# Any pointers as to what may be the problem here, gratefully received. You need sux instead of su. Nigel. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc
On Monday 25 August 2008 00:16, Nigel Henry wrote: You need sux instead of su. Nigel. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ When I try the command sux, I just get a command not found. Thanks for the reply though. I'm game for trying anything at the moment, and all replies/suggestions, no matter how off the edge, are welcome. Install the sux package. Nigel. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386
On Saturday 23 August 2008 11:57, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote, On 23-Aug-2008 5:35: On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 18:09, Luis San Martin Rojas wrote: 2008/8/22 Joris Dobbelsteen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear all, Is there an easy way to migrate an installation from AMD64 to i386? AFAIK it is impossible, or at least a _nasty_ mission Nasty if you want to do in-place migration. But if you have a separate /home partition, and you do a lttle pre- planning like save the list of installed packages, important config files, etc, then reinstalling a firewall shouldn't be difficult. Especially since firewalls are supposed to be minimal beasts. i.e. dpkg --get-selections package_list tar -czf etc.tar.gz /etc install only a base install of i386 dpkg --set-selections package_list deslect upgrade tar -xzf etc.tar.gz This is all off the top of my head, use man to get the exact syntax. Looks like what I thought should be done, but maybe there was a simpler way... I'll will try this shortly... See my script perhaps. Thanks, - Joris -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ mkpkglist.sh Description: application/shellscript
Re: IP Forward on Testing
On Saturday 23 August 2008 04:51, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello I am using Debian as a router, so that I need to enable the ipv4 forward feature. My question is how I enable it automatically, even when the machine is reboot? So that the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward still 1? Use pre-up in your interfaces file. Thank you -- Zaki Akhmad -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help with cc
On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:10, Ron Johnson wrote: It would be interesting to know how many people on this list know (without resorting to Google) what PSW means... Prickely Space Woman? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automounting in xfce
On Saturday 23 August 2008 17:07, John O Laoi wrote: Thanks to everyone. Problem solved. Yes, I misunderstood fdisk -l. I assumed that it would list the CD partition also. I think that CD's don't have partitions. You mean filesystem. I never even tried to mount the CD, as I thought that when it was not being seen by fdisk, it was not there, and there was nothing to mount. Also I've learned how to install from another version of debian, although it appears that this is not recommended. So, mount /media/cdrom0 worked perfectly, and after installing hal, I could see the CD icon on the desktop. Thanks again. John -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday, Debian!
On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:30, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:44:51AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:28, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/ install.txt (use your nearest mirror of debian-archive instead of debian.org.ua) I can't find the installation media. what's wrong with the files *.bin (in the same directory) for a floppy installation? In VirtualBox OSE 1.6.2 it boots from the floppy, apparently and all I see is the cursor in the firt line, not blinking and the CPU stays idle. -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interface for tar
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Owen Townend wrote: fuse allows users with filesystem access to an image to mount it within one of their own directories. There are fuse drivers for iso (fuseiso), ext (fuseext2), tar (archivemount, avfs), tar, gzip, bzip2, rar (avfs), network (fusesmb). e.g. iso mount: $ fuseiso /path/to/image.iso ~/mnt unmount: $ fusermount -u ~/mnt or with avfs, there's an example of using it here: http://linuxwindows.org/2008/05/how-to-use-avfs.html From the article: After installation of AVFS,establish the folder .avfs in the home directory. Then run mountavfs,which does not require root privileges. Open .avfs folder, you will see a mirror structure of the root directory,which the cabinet can be open as the folder,but not directly access to them, need with the #, such as /home/yourname/garro.rar should be visited as follows: cd /home/yourname/.avfs/home/yourname/garro.rar#/ This works for tar, gzip, rar, bzip2 and others. This sounds good. cheers, Owen. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Errors DirMngr
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:21, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D No more dirmngr errors No. Expect more bugs from unstable. -za, -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migrate: Windows AD -- Linux
On Thursday 21 August 2008 13:08, janskey wrote: Hi All, I need advice on how I can migrate my AD to linux? I've seen some article using samba and openldap. Any advice? My advice would depend on your level of skill with a shell, Linux networking and Debian. While Debian makes it and most everything exceptionally easy, one does need to know his way around the system a little. Samba has good documentation. Currently we're using Windows 2003 evaluation and its going to expire. Thanks! cheers, janskey -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The minimum running X
On Thursday 21 August 2008 13:28, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I want to install just a minimum on my machine ( small Disk 512M ), but running X, for example JVM or fluxbox. When I tried apt-install xserver-xorg, it install extra packages I am sure don't need and took big space. I want the minimum and required package, can I have a list please ? Look at the xorg package's dependencies and it's dependencies' dependencies and select whatever you think you need from there. I've done it with DSL and Puppy, It is fine, But I want pure debian distro thanks a lot bela -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow install
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter? I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine. Did you select the encrypted setup? What is displayed on the screen? Press Alt+F4 to see the installer log and tell us what's written there. Thanks, Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interface for tar
On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: Sharchar: Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for /home/$userid/ and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos Here is what we have for auto-mounting ISO images. Actually, I think that the .isos directory is badly named because we're not talking about ISO9660 at all. $ cat /etc/auto.master # /var/www/netinst/cds/etc/auto.netinst-cd $ cat /etc/auto.netinst-cd cd1 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image1.iso cd2 -fstype=iso9660,ro,user,loop :/path/to/image2.iso This will still be require a file system to mount. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow install
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:59, Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter? I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine. Did you select the encrypted setup? What is displayed on the screen? Press Alt+F4 to see the installer log and tell us what's written there. Did you get this message? Thanks, Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow install
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter? I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine. Perhaps you can try the etchnhalf netinstall. Thanks, Nishita -- http://nishita.50webs.com/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow install
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:50, Nishita Desai wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter? I had installed 4.0r3 on my laptop before this, the install was fine. Perhaps you can try the etchnhalf netinstall. I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS? It is a waste of bits! Use amd64 :( What does 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' say? Thanks to all who replied. Nishita -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow install
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:56, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Nishita Desai escreveu: I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS? No, 32 versus 64-bits has nothing to do with the number of processors/cores. Check your BIOS settings, to see if for some reason multi-core support is disabled. And check for BIOS upgrades, perhaps. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compatibility
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote: I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: You mean distributions, I assume. AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop et al SoundForge These are software built for Microsoft Windows and will not run on linux natively. For these programs to work on linux you'll need the software called wine. Check out http://winehq.org. Wine can be installed in Debian GNU/Linux easily. I recommend the wine package that's mentioned in the winehq website. For compatibility of specific programs check http://appdb.winehq.org . On another note there are free software alternatives for many knows Windows software. I don't know about AutoCAD. Can anyone recommend anything? Photoshop can be replaced by The GIMP in some cases. For SoundForge... There is at least one good free sound editor for Linux. Don't remember. Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision. Thanks very much. Yours sincerely, Kenn Bannerman -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compatibility
On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:23, Shachar Or wrote: On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote: I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: You mean distributions, I assume. AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop et al SoundForge These are software built for Microsoft Windows and will not run on linux natively. For these programs to work on linux you'll need the software called wine. Check out http://winehq.org. Wine can be installed in Debian GNU/Linux easily. I recommend the wine package that's mentioned in the winehq website. For compatibility of specific programs check http://appdb.winehq.org . On another note there are free software alternatives for many knows Windows software. I don't know about AutoCAD. Can anyone recommend anything? Photoshop can be replaced by The GIMP in some cases. For SoundForge... There is at least one good free sound editor for Linux. Don't remember. Audacity, perhaps. Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision. Thanks very much. Yours sincerely, Kenn Bannerman -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interface for tar
After solving the problem in the immediate consider telling the developer of that simulation software to use a database! On Wednesday 20 August 2008 03:40, Mag Gam wrote: At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take up inode space, I would like to tar them per day into one tar file. I would then like an interface similar to zsh/ksh to cd tar.file and use it as a typeical shell. Do tools like that exist? That would be very benefical for us and our system admin does not have to yell at us. Any thoughts or ideas? TIA -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interface for tar
I'm not sure what you're saying here. It seems more appropriate to use a database instead of files in this case. On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:05, Ron Johnson wrote: Databases aren't filesystems, and they shouldn't be treated as such. Especially if the text BLOBs need to be analyzed, summarized, etc. On 08/20/08 06:34, Shachar Or wrote: After solving the problem in the immediate consider telling the developer of that simulation software to use a database! On Wednesday 20 August 2008 03:40, Mag Gam wrote: At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take up inode space, I would like to tar them per day into one tar file. I would then like an interface similar to zsh/ksh to cd tar.file and use it as a typeical shell. Do tools like that exist? That would be very benefical for us and our system admin does not have to yell at us. Any thoughts or ideas? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude purge
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 00:33, Tammo Schuelke wrote: Hi, I recently removed the etch version of amanda and installed a newer one because of a blocksize problem which was resolved there. In Debian you'd want to use the package manager for installation and not make installs outside of it, like using 'make install'. Perhaps you can make a simple backport of amanda yourself and install it. Perhaps you can ask for a backports-users list. I didn't purge though, which means that I have this now: dom0:~# aptitude search ~c c amanda-client c amanda-common c amanda-server Is there a way to remove these entries from the apt database without actually purging the packages, which would probably remove the newer version including its configuration? I cannot put the packages on hold since they are not installed and I sometimes like to use aptitude purge ~c after uninstalling a lot of packages... Thanks, Tammo -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday, Debian!
I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only upgraded from one of the earliest versions... It would be interesting to see what ruins can be found amongst the files. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proftpd issue
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 21:24, Bogdan wrote: Hey, I installed proftpd and I accidentally selected it to run as a Inetd service. I figured out that I want it to be a standalone server so i apt-get remove --purge it, removed the corresponding entry in /etc/inetd.conf file and reinstalled proftpd. Problem is, it defaults to inetd, and I can't seem the way to get it ask me wheter I want inetd or stanalone. dpkg-reconfigure proftpd is not working as well Any ideas? 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow proftpd' perhaps. I just do 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' and select the low priority in new installs. Thanks. Bogdan -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no network connection
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:33, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that each time I boot the system I have to manually enable my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. Then everything is fine. How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI. I don't know about the GNOME desktop. For systems with static network configuration (one that doens't change, unlike laptops) it would be advisable to use the ifupdown package. Check out the documentation in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown . Thanks Ed -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no network connection
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that each time I boot the system I have to manually enable my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. Then everything is fine. How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI. Thanks Ed Hi: You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces which should have something like: auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 There's no point in having both allow-hotplug and auto. * try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you are using dhcp. man interfaces will give you more information. Sebastian Canagaratna -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: type 1 fonts (without X11)? [actually not SOLVED at all
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:14, Adam Hardy wrote: Chris Bannister on 20/08/08 11:56, wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:43:27AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: How can I get the type 1 fonts (without installing X11 which is the only way I found by searching the net)? I am using ntop which is throwing an error: Error: fontconfig: Didn't find expected font family. Perhaps URW Type 1 fonts need installing? : Helvetica ntop: Suggests: graphviz, gsfonts It was in fact xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi that got some helvetica fonts onto my system. But I still have the error above. When I installed xfonts-75dpi, it gave me the warning: Setting up xfonts-75dpi (1.0.0-3) ... warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory Is it trying to say I need the whole xorg or it's not going to work? This is a knows bug. in fontconfig, IIRC. I think that this can be workedaround by 'touch /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi'. Thanks Adam -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday, Debian!
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:21, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:58:46PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only upgraded from one of the earliest versions... yes but not on the disk where debian 1.1 was installed from floppy disks, and not on the same cpu/motherboard. However the floppy drive should be the same, I seem to recall. Clearly I do not count as reinstall the copy of an existing installation. Cool It would be interesting to see what ruins can be found amongst the files. None, if you purge obsolete or local packages (with care since some of these old packages were essential at their times) I bet someone forgot something somewhere, policy or not! What you want to be present, if you selectively decide what to purge. Even libc4 (for a.out binaries), if you keep all. Try it yourself using archive.debian.net : 1.3.1 is quite similar to the first release 1.1. Install that and upgrade to 2.0 then to 2.1 then ... Will certainly do! But how do I install that 1.1 version at all? -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no network connection
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:29, Ed Sutter wrote: Thanks for the responses! My /etc/network/interfaces file already has the following: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 I commented out the auto eth0 line and rebooted. Don't reboot for network configuration... No change. What is the change you're looking for? Then I put auto eth0 back in and commented out allow-hotplug eth0. Same thing. Any other thoughts? Did you read the whole documentation and understand how the ifupdown thing works? Also, 'man ifconfig' to see how to check the status of your interfaces. Ed Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that each time I boot the system I have to manually enable my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. Then everything is fine. How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI. Thanks Ed Hi: You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces which should have something like: auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 There's no point in having both allow-hotplug and auto. * try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you are using dhcp. man interfaces will give you more information. Sebastian Canagaratna -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no network connection
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:53, Ed Sutter wrote: My goal is to have the debian-based system start up with Ethernet enabled immediately (I would have thought that would be the standard way it would boot up). I don't want to have to log into my console and click something to start up Ethernet. My typical usage of this system is to ssh into it from another machine, that won't necessarily be local to my debian machine's console. This all works fine, except that I have to log into the console the first time after bootup to enable ethernet through that icon I mentioned earlier. I assumed that the ifup/ifdown stuff discussed in the man interfaces was referring to some call to ifup that was being done during system startup somewhere; hence, the reason for my reboot. See what I mean? So, as I said, you'd want networking configured with ifupdown. The documentation is good for that, so you should not have a problem if you know a little how networking works. If you know less than little, you might have to do some reading. Perhaps TLDP will have some reading material. Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:29, Ed Sutter wrote: Thanks for the responses! My /etc/network/interfaces file already has the following: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 I commented out the auto eth0 line and rebooted. Don't reboot for network configuration... No change. What is the change you're looking for? Then I put auto eth0 back in and commented out allow-hotplug eth0. Same thing. Any other thoughts? Did you read the whole documentation and understand how the ifupdown thing works? Also, 'man ifconfig' to see how to check the status of your interfaces. Ed Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that each time I boot the system I have to manually enable my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. Then everything is fine. How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI. Thanks Ed Hi: You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces which should have something like: auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 There's no point in having both allow-hotplug and auto. * try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you are using dhcp. man interfaces will give you more information. Sebastian Canagaratna -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday, Debian!
On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:28, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:33:05PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:21, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: Try it yourself using archive.debian.net : 1.3.1 is quite similar to the first release 1.1. Install that and upgrade to 2.0 then to 2.1 then ... Will certainly do! But how do I install that 1.1 version at all? Sorry for my bad english. I wanted to suggest the istallation of 1.3.1 http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/ins tall.txt (use your nearest mirror of debian-archive instead of debian.org.ua) I can't find the installation media. If you _really_ want 1.1 (with kernel 2.0.0), first install 1.3.1 then downgrade by compiling from source http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/Debian-1.1/source/ -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interface for tar
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 13:50, Mag Gam wrote: David: Do you have some sort of script to manage this? I am a little hesitate to give professors mkfs and mount sudo access. Is there a way around this? You can specify the 'user' option in fstab so that usres can mount the relevant filesystem. If you precreate the files with the filesystems in them, it may cover it. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WOW! Very nice ideas. I like the dd idea. What command would I use for that? Also, the files are coming from NFS; how can I help this? Any ideas for this? On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:24 PM, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my university we run fluid dynamic simulations. These simulations create many small files (30,000) per hour. Their size is very small (20k to 200k). Instead of having this on the filesystem since it take My approach: make a sufficiently-sized file using dd if=/dev/zero of=/bigfile bs=1m count=1000 size so that you have enough room, and room for growth, of course Make a filesystem inside of that file (reiserfs might be a good choice since it is well-designed to handle lots of smallish files, although small by that definition may be much smaller than 200k) Mount that file in loopback mode prior to running your simulations, and (after moving the files over to the new filesystem) direct all filesystem traffic to use that 'filesystem' which may entail only something simple as cd'ing into the 'filesystem' and starting work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?
On Sunday 17 August 2008 20:35, abel wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:32:04 +0300 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to use labels, because they are readable (compared to UUID) ;) $ grep '^# kopt' /boot/grub/menu.lst # kopt=root=LABEL=sid ro vga=0x368 You have to run 'update-grub' after changing this $ grep sid /etc/fstab LABEL=sid / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime,commit=600 0 1 For ext2/3 you set the labels with e2label. question 1 -- current menu.list lines are: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=792 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64 given : hoss64:~/misc/dev-vs-label# e2label /dev/hda1 lenny hoss64:~/misc/dev-vs-label# new menu.list lines should be: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=LABEL=lenny ro vga=792 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64 Are the new menu.lst lines correct? I'm sure there's documentation available about this. question 2 -- update-grub should be run after the update to /etc/fstab. correct? Thanks. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy birthday, Debian!
What a nice thing, this is... an [1]interesting number by all means. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_(number) -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel
reading this response (or possibly a Debian mentor) could help me with this objective. Anyway, thanks -- Ted [1]This popped to mind. Other interesting videos in that location. 1. http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/debconf8/low/686_Virtualisation_in_Debian_-_Present_and_future.ogg -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen shot.. showing error.....
On Saturday 16 August 2008 08:45, HARIDAS N wrote: Here I'm attach the screen shot of error shown when installing new packages, using package manager. I install the ntfs-3g package externally, not from the etch.It have two file one of them is a library file start with lib...deb second one is ntfs-3g.deb .First install the library file then install the ntfs-3g.deb(By just double click on the corresponding file). I will be inform you after checking , what is error showing when installing new packages using aptitude. thanks for helping You'd be better off installing ntfs-3g from http://backports.org . Using aptitude. An advice: Don't use graphical GUI's for package management. Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help me to solve this problem ......
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:00, HARIDAS N wrote: Iam haridas from kerala... Iam using Debian 4.0 etch as my OS. My problem is, installing new packages from the package manager was repeatedly caught by an error dpkg: syntax error :unknown group 'fuse' in stateoverride file RESULT=2 Please attach the output of 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude install sl' and maybe someone will be able to help. This problem was found after installing the ntfs-3g package for mounting ntfs partitions. How did you install this? ntfs-3g is not in etch. If using Synaptic package manger to install new package, until inserting corrosponding bynary DVD into the drive no problem,after that popup a error window with dpkg: error ... You'd be much better off using aptitude instead of synaptic. I want to fix this bug with out reinstalling the Debian 4.0 etch . So i request you to hlep me to solve this problem. Be the first one to try the new Messenger 9 Beta! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/win/ OT: Get a better E-mail client. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: I've got a working Debian system that I am about to break. I am replacing the master drive with a new one that is 32 times the size of the old one and want to transfer the system intact from the old one to the new one so dd is not an option but I want to be sure to preserve all the special files and the boot sector for the new disk. This is really easy :) The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the new one and fdisk reported the same information except for size. I must admit my ignorance in this matter. I plan to use dar to put the old system on to the new drive. Will that preserve all the special files? If not for those, ordinary tar would work for everything else? The end result should be the same system as before but with a _LOT_ more space. Thanks for any constructive ideas. I'd do this: 1. plug the new one in and reboot and configure the bios 2. boot up debian into single user mode 3. create partition(s) in the new disk drive with cfdisk 4. create filesystems in the new disk drive with mkfs.ext3 5. create the swap space in the new disk drive using mkswap Here's mine (pasted from cfdisk): Name FlagsPart TypeFS Type[Label] Size (MB) - sda1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 57.58 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 2000.0* sda6 NCLogical Linux LVM 72290.7* In this case I use LVM, which is a good idea in a lot of cases. 6. mount the new filesystem(s) in /mnt/newfs, for example 7. run 'rsync -axPh / /mnt/newfs' 8. edit /mnt/newfs/etc/fstab to reflect the changes; I'd use UUID's for the filesystems; you can determine the UUID's of your filesystems with 'blkid' Here's mine: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 UUID=f94f5a03-67ca-4932-a9d5-2328776c6285 /boot ext3 defaults UUID=8a4fb183-7092-4041-af8f-41158e356df1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=4833592d-6afa-46c2-8c7c-35b85c7ac4ea none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,utf8 0 0 # backup HDD UUID=9bcab58b-1c0d-4bd9-888c-dc205117eb2a /mnt/backup_hdd ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0 9. 'shutdown -h now' 10. plug out the old disk drive 11. boot up debian from the new disk drive using the grub boot floppy you're prepared earlier (see the grub-disk package) 12. edit /boot/grub/menu.lst; specifically the #kopt option if it is necessary 13. run grub-install (man grub-install) 14. run update-grub 15. 'shutdown -r now' to see if it all works... I wonder if I missed anything... Have fun! Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I allow Lenny to install a lot of KDE 4?
On Friday 15 August 2008 21:33, H.S. wrote: Mike Bird wrote: Today a dist-upgrade within Lenny wants to bring in ktorrent 3 I did sudo aptitude safe-upgrade in the morning and it report it would not upgrade krottent. So this is the reason it did so. I am now trying to see what sudo aptitude full-upgrade gives me. Sorry, I know this does not answer your question. But to know more about what is going on, you can try sudo aptitude -s full-upgrade (-s tells aptitude to simulate only and not to actually do anything). IMHO, this command gives a clearer picture of the upgrading process. What about opening up aptitude's interface, choosing 'Mark Upgradable' from the menu and having a good look around to see what's what, exactly? Regards, -HS -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Joining .rar files
On Friday 15 August 2008 22:11, andy wrote: Hello Anybody recommend a straight-forward and easy way of joining *.rar files? Are these files like foo.part001.rar, foo.part002.rar, etc? If so, only the non-free unrar package can unrar them. [1]This is a good article. Thanks Andy -- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
On Friday 15 August 2008 22:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,15.Aug.08, 06:41:06, Martin McCormick wrote: [...] The a command in fdisk says to toggle a boot flag. When I make a Linux partition and then mkfs -text3, what state is that flag in? I looked at the known good disk and the new one and fdisk reported the same information except for size. AFAIK grub doesn't care about the boot flag (DOS and Windows 9x used to care about it; you could use it to fake a dual-boot system) I plan to use dar to put the old system on to the new drive. Will that preserve all the special files? I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev. There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically for this purpose but it works. Regards, Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
On Friday 15 August 2008 23:15, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote: I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g. udev. There's the -x option for this. It isn't specifically for this purpose but it works. AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want to clone is *not* running. But wait - doesn't it copy the directories themselves, aka the mount points? Regards, Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:05, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:42:58, Shachar Or wrote: AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want to clone is *not* running. But wait - doesn't it copy the directories themselves, aka the mount points? Don't you need those as well? Yes, those are needed. I didn't mean that they're not needed. I meant that I'm not sure that they get excluded; I think they may get copied with rsync -x. # mount /dev/sda2 /no-such-dir mount: mount point /no-such-dir does not exist Regards, Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Hard Drives
On Saturday 16 August 2008 00:45, Tod Detre wrote: AFAIU -x will prevent rsync from touching /proc, /sys and /dev, but you will need the directories themselves to be present on the new root partition, so I think it is better to omit -x *if* the system you want to clone is *not* running. But wait - doesn't it copy the directories themselves, aka the mount points? When copying systems with rsync I tend to use --exclude to prevent /proc, /sys, etc. that way the mount points don't even need to be the same on the target location. For example system a could have everything in one / partition where system b has separate /boot, /usr, etc. if you do the --exclude syntax right it'll even create the base dir and just exclude everything under it. Going in that direction, one could use the -F option and put an /.rsync-filter instead of the -x option. Regards, Tod Detre -- Pantek, Inc. - http://www.pantek.com/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-877-LINUX-FIX - Expert Open Source Technical Support -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hibernate s2ram so that I could sleep well
Hi! I've moved my desktop to my room, where I sleep at night and it is very close to the floor and to my head (I sleep on the floor (not directly, of course)) so the little noise made by the large silent fans is too much. I am thinking of suspending it at night because I don't like the time it takes to boot up. I'd like it straight up when I press the button. I've installed the hibernate package and the uswsusp package and vbetool and made dash my /bin/sh. By default, the hibernate script tries to s2disk before s2ram. This works as expected; I only had to configure the /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf a bit. When I try to make hibernate use s2ram, it seems to really suspend to ram (very quickly, I can only see the suspending progress bar for a split second) and the computer seems to either get suspended or turned off (how can I tell?) When I press the power button the fans go on and the monitors turn on but they stay black and nothing seems to do anything. Not Alt+Ctrl+Delete, not typing in 'shutdown -r now', etc. so there's a bug in the process. This is as far as I know how to go on my own. Help? Some ouputs are attached. Good night! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: BIOS-e820: 7fff - 7fff3000 (ACPI NVS) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: BIOS-e820: 7fff3000 - 8000 (ACPI data) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec0] gsi_base[0]) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 14 global_irq 14 high edge) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 15 global_irq 15 high edge) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: Core revision 20060707 Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: bus type pci registered Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (:00) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs *5 7 9 10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK8] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LP2P] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 *15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMC1] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 *15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs *5 7 9 10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSID] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFID] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSA2] (IRQs *5 7 9 10 11 14 15) Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs 16) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs 17) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs 18) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs 19) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs 16) *0, disabled. Aug 15 17:36:24 box0 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC6] (IRQs 16) *0, disabled. Aug
Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops
On Saturday 16 August 2008 04:12, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to set up five (5) laptops for classroom use with limited menu options and specific programs that I use in my special ed classroom. I have numerous packages that I would like to automate the downloads (instead of picking and clicking), to the tune of about 850M worth. Any way to do this quicker/easier than pointing and clicking for every computer? Check out my script that fetches the system's package list; it is documented inside. Note: I am using Ubuntu for the laptops, but I run Etch on my home machine doing the configuring. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops
On Saturday 16 August 2008 04:12, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to set up five (5) laptops for classroom use with limited menu options and specific programs that I use in my special ed classroom. I have numerous packages that I would like to automate the downloads (instead of picking and clicking), to the tune of about 850M worth. Of course, I'll need to attach it. Any way to do this quicker/easier than pointing and clicking for every computer? Note: I am using Ubuntu for the laptops, but I run Etch on my home machine doing the configuring. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ mkpkglist.sh Description: application/shellscript
Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops
On Saturday 16 August 2008 06:23, ZephyrQ wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/15/08 20:12, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm trying to set up five (5) laptops for classroom use with limited menu options and specific programs that I use in my special ed classroom. I have numerous packages that I would like to automate the downloads (instead of picking and clicking), to the tune of about 850M worth. Any way to do this quicker/easier than pointing and clicking for every computer? Note: I am using Ubuntu for the laptops, but I run Etch on my home machine doing the configuring. What if you run the laptops as diskless thick workstations, where stuff like /usr, /home, /etc, ... are mounted NFS, but all CPU processing (and and necessary TMP files swapping) are done on the laptop. This is a good idea. That way you only configure things once. Unfortunately, I have to run each laptop as a stand alone without net access once they are in the classroom...school starts Monday and I'm trying to get these all configured... -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disks...
On Thursday 14 August 2008 21:58, michael wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, 'smart' sent me:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hdb, not capable of SMART self-check
and in /var/log/messages for that time I see (exc iptables info):
Jul 30 05:13:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:15:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:17:17 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x1e timed out
Jul 30 05:17:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
{a few more lost interrupt / timed out messages...}
Jul 30 05:45:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:45:43 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:46:43 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:46:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:48:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:48:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
I also note that on 23 on 25 Jul (ie a week earlier) the machine had
frozen over night so I had to do a hard reboot (pull the kettle lead
out)
I didn't reboot on 30 Jul but did earlier tonight and the machine failed
to boot - /dev/hdb not being 'found' by the BIOS (I think). I rebooted
went into BIOS all disks were present so continued to reboot but just
now got another SMART warning (same as above Device: /dev/hdb, not
capable of SMART self-check) and if I try and cd/ls a partition on the
device it just hangs.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdb
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: [No Information Found]
Serial Number:[No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is:Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 1
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:Thu Aug 14 19:49:28 2008 BST
SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
We will try to proceed in spite of this.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show
if SMART supported.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
'-T permissive' options.
and I'm not sure what that means.
I'll welcome advice on whether it's the HDD about to die or whether the
interrupt/timed out messages indicate something else?
I'd attach this disk to another machine and test it there. Perhaps I'd try a
live CD first.
This is on box with
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux ratty.x.ac.uk 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 21:31:27 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux
Mega thanks, M
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Re: Aptitude hangs machine
On Friday 15 August 2008 02:55, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as it should have. Soon after installation I wanted to upgrade the installed packages. First I updated /etc/apt/sources.list, including adding to it debian-volatile so that I could install the clamav set of anti-virus packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. Do you really need volatile when you run Lenny? I thought it was only necessary to keep certain fast-moving packages up to date for Etch users. Are volatile packages even supposed to work on Lenny already? (Of course, things will be different after Lenny goes stable and new volatile updates become available.) packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. Then I ran (as root) aptitude update, followed by aptitude upgrade. It downloaded some 33 package upgrades, including a new kernel (2.6.25-2-686 to replace 2.6.24) and tzdata. The package setup only got as far as tzdata, when the machine hung. To get the machine going again I had to turn it off using the on/off button and do a cold boot without a proper shutdown. Side note: Check out Alt-SysRq to shut down the system more cleanly in such situations: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.5.2 After rebooting I ran aptitude again. It returned the message that aptitude had been interrupted, and to get it running again I had to run dpkg --reconfigure -a. I tried to do so several times; each time it tried to set up tzdata, only getting as far as to say what the current time zone is before hanging up the machine. We need to see the complete output of the dpkg --reconfigure -a command. You can try to redirect it to a file (both STDOUT and STDERR), which hopefully will be usable if you sync the drives with Alt-SysRq-s before rebooting the frozen machine. If this does not work then you have to write the messages down and type them yourself, or you could photograph them and make the picture available somewhere. Don't you two mean dpkg --configure -a ? -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems mounting Windows NTFS partition...
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 18:28, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: Greetings, I have an Intel PC with a 320GB Hard Disk (ATA WDC WD3200AAKS-0) configured as /dev/sda, which I have partitioned as follows: /dev/sda1 Windows NTFS148.44 GiB /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) 147.11 GiB /dev/sda5 noneswapsw 2.54 GiB The first partition contains Windows Vista (yknow lots of Blue Screens of DEATH (yuk) enough said!), the second is Etch kernel 2.6.18-6-686, I am using GRUB 1.5 bootloader to select which OS I want to Boot. I would like to mount the Windows partition under LINUX (so I can run World of Warcraft under WINE, etc. etc.), but when I try to mount it, using GNOME Nautilus 2.14.3 and clicking on the icon in the Computer window, I get the error Message Unable to mount the selected volume. I don't kno' if that'll 'ork for you, running it under 'ine because it is not installed in 'ine... When click on Show more details, I get: ibhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set. process 3819: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application. error: device /dev/sda1 is not removable error: could not execute pmount Where do I go from here??? 1. Do Nothing (Resistance is Futile!!!) 2. Wait until Lenny goes Stable next month... 3. (this line intentionally left Blank, please supply input) I use ntfs-3g from backports to mount ntfs. Never gave me problems. TIA, fcG. -- Frank Charles Gallacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware
On Thursday 14 August 2008 00:04, Agustín Cabrera wrote: Hello, my name is Leo. I have a Epson Stylus CX 5600 and I don't know if exist any driver tath works in Linux. In Devian or other distribution, because Epson don't give me information! Some day I'll crash my Epson to the wall. Thanks. http://linuxprinting.org i think. ___ _ ¡Buscá desde tu celular! Yahoo! oneSEARCH ahora está en Claro http://ar.mobile.yahoo.com/onesearch -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP on Apache
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 09:26, Zach Uram wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's libapache-mod-php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. Shalom Shachar, Are you sure all I need to do to support PHP on my webserver is to install libapache-mod-php5? I've little experience with apache. Sorry. Apache has exceent documentation and I bet the package docs aren't bad also. Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting the system time?
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 12:43, Zach Uram wrote: My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after server reboot it shall still be correct. I use one of two packages for this; ntpdate or ntp. Also, type 'info date'. Thanks, Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting the system time?
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 21:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Zach Uram wrote: My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after server reboot it shall still be correct. I used the debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from July 30th and although I said *not* to set my clock to UTC, it did anyway. Ron Johnson (again!) asked the right question: why do you have EST and not EDT? Anyway, I ended up with the hwclock set to UTC. If I did: hwclock --set --date=mm/dd/ hh:mm:ss hwclock -s hwclock --localtime the next boot ended up alright. My timezone was already set correctly. Using debian-40r4-i386-netinst.iso after that did *not* make the same mistake and kept the clock set to localtime. I set the clock to local time because with VMware I boot M$ XP, which isn't too smart about those kind of things. But perhaps VMware is? Hugo -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do i make debian livecd
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 02:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Luca Bruno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:25:46 -0700 (PDT) darren naidoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to copy my whole hard drive. I don't think it is a matter of just a command. I installed Debian's live-helper and that gets you scripts. Is there a reason you cannot use Knoppix? In my experience that boots a fine system faultlessly. /me likes knoppix and grml. Hugo -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: transferring directories with scp/rsync?
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 01:54, Zach Uram wrote: Hello, I have a directory /tmp/foo on my local host alpha.org and I wish to transfer it to user Bob (/home/bob) in dirctory $HOME/www/bar on remote host beta.org. How precisely can I do this 1) using scp 2) using rsync? I would like to see the commands for doing this with both methods. Ssh is running on both hosts. please read the scp and rsync documentation, Also what happens if the directory already existed on the remote host and has some of the same file names. Is it possible to use md5sums so that if a file is exact (same hash) it will prompt me and ask if I want to over-write it before it does? and experiment! Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious
On Monday 11 August 2008 07:53, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit this is why package A is recommended data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. The problem is that this information isn't stored anywhere in a standard, machine-parsable format. If it was, I'd immediately start using it. I know there was some discussion in the last year or so about documenting Suggests, but I don't recall what happened to it... Hi. I've started a [1]discussion in debian-devel and debian-dpkg. Haven't any replies yet. Daniel 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/08/msg00255.html -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me
On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the correct value of course). Well, that got the router to recognize the hostname, but not the domainname. I'll look into the dhcp documentation and see if I can sort out the rest. But can you access the Windows machine by name? Before writing my previous post I experimented with my own router. No matter what I tried, I couldn't access the other machine by name. It seems that my router does not have DNS capabilities, so I can either use one of my machines as DNS or just populate /etc/hosts, which for two machines is more than manageable :) While your router doesn't have a DNS name server it doesn't mean you won't be able to use names in your network. You can set up a name server in one the the hosts in the network, for example, in the Debian box. I use dnsmasq for this because it is easy to configure and it can also be a dhcp server. Regards, Andrei -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System copy
On Monday 11 August 2008 16:22, darren naidoo wrote: Hi i want to do a system copy of my main partition to dvd and must be bootable. Using deb 4.0r3. Have 3 primary parts and 2 logicals. Whats commands can i use? What is the purpose of this, backup? I am asking because I don't understand what you mean by it must being bootable. _ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: State of 64bit desktop
On Monday 11 August 2008 17:47, kj wrote: Hi guys, At work I'm starting to push the limits of my RAM with MySQL/InnoDB on my workstation (I do dev/testing on my workstation). I have 64bit hardware, capable of taking 8gb memory. What I'm worried about is the tools I use. In particular, I need a browser with all the usual suspects working properly: flash and java (unfortunately some of the tools I need to use at work are written in these abominable languages). Does anyone do heavy java and flash usage under 64bit Debian (I'm running Lenny)? One tool in particular I'm forced to use is the Raritan KVM interface. It's horrible. Is this move viable or should I rather invest in a second box (won't come for free). I don't want to mess around with 32bit chroots - did that before and I didn't like it one bit. No problem with flashplugin-nonfree here in amd64 etch except flash except nspluginwrapper takes a whole lot more cpu than I would like it to. Thanks --kj -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having Problems with apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
On Monday 11 August 2008 23:42, Mark Phillips wrote: I just completed an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on my Debian lenny machine. I noticed that evolution, which is installed on this machine, is still at version 2.10 and the latest in testing is version 2.22. If I do an apt-get install evolution, apt wants to delete a huge number of packages and update another long list: Aptitude is the preffered package manager. You can use it's interface to get all the information to answer many if not all of your questions. Thanks! Mark -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?
On Monday 11 August 2008 23:25, Brian Wells wrote: I'm looking at an alternative utility, svn-backup-dumps, in the same package. I could do ~800 full backups, or many more incremental backups with a full backup here and there, before running out of space. That would only write most blocks once or twice, and once it filled up I could erase old backups with only one write and reuse it, right? (If I do this, should I reformat to FAT so the controllers won't be confused?) If you're worried about not confusing the controllers, you could create a vfat fs normally in the device and then make a file in it, like dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/usbdisk/ext3.fs bs=1M count=4000 and then make an ext3 filesystem in that file, like mkfs.ext3 -L my_backup_fs /media/usbdisk/ext3.fs You will be able to mount this file with the -o loop option and make your backups there :) But anyways... I'm not sure that those controllers even deal with data in fs-level. Thanks, Brian -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox
On Monday 11 August 2008 21:04, Wackojacko wrote: Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:06:20 -0600 Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't been able to get USB working on the guest, neither shared folders... I've searched with google, and found several suggestions (often about the permissions of the usbfs devices), and I tried almost everything unsuccessfully (most suggestions for ubuntu btw), + I also read the user Manual. Is there a debian guide to get USB and share directory working... Thanks, Have you installed Virtualbox Guest Additions in the guest OS (win xp)? -- Nyizsa. Yes I did. I can see in the devices tab of virtualbox the usb devices, but they're always grayed... I also included filters (automatically picked BTW by virtualbox), but that doesn't help a thing. And for the shared folders, I see in the shared folders tab as well the directory, but when I go in the guest to the network places, and go into VirtualBox shared folders, there's nothing... I'm not sure if there's something that needs explicetely to be done, but if there is, I just can't find it, :(... Thanks, I had a similar problem and google led me to the same conclusions re usbfs without much luck. Debian seems to mount usbfs as standard (check with #mount). The solution for me was the Guest Additions was not installed in the Guest OS. So just to make sure have you checked to see if the icon is displayed in the taskbar in the guest OS. Can you seamlessly use your mouse in the guest display or do you have to click r-ctrl? Sorry to repeat the same advice as previous poster but this really was the solution for me! HTH Wackojacko This reminds me that I had a problem with shared folders that I solved by reinstalling the guest additions over and over again until it worked. ... ... :/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 02:04, Aniruddha wrote: Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. To prevent this from happening I 've added 'disk/by id' to fstab (because the disks uuid were also changing) and 'boot from uuid' to my menu.lst I wonder: The UUID's belong to the filesystems, not the disks. I've never heard of them changing between reboots. Use the blkid command to see them. Here's my fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 UUID=f94f5a03-67ca-4932-a9d5-2328776c6285 /boot ext3 defaults UUID=8a4fb183-7092-4041-af8f-41158e356df1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=4833592d-6afa-46c2-8c7c-35b85c7ac4ea none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,utf8 0 0 # backup HDD UUID=a38d9a47-e26d-4e0f-8c73-24f30decd052 /mnt/backup_hdd ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0 -What is the best way to prevent the device names change from happening? -If it happens what is the best way to quickly fix this problem? Regards, Aniruddha -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP on Apache
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 07:03, Zach Uram wrote: I want to install PHP (I am running Apache) but when I went to install package php5 it had all these dependencies for apache2 packages! I can't run apache2 beause it dies with memory errors. So next I tried php4 and even that has the same dependencies on apache2 packages. How can I get PHP working with Apache 1.3.34-4.1+etch1? There's libapache-mod-php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. Zach -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Aptitude oddity
On Sunday 10 August 2008 11:56, Bob Cox wrote: Gabriel - thank you very much for your extremely useful reply. It all worked perfectly and having now successfully applied the patch, I can confirm that I cannot reproduce the bug. Ahuh! Great. This is what we are made of. Very good job everyone! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0
On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the spca5xx is being replaced upstream... All this talk about spca... Isn't there a quickcam specific driver? I know there is... qc-usb-source is the package. I used for some logitech quickcam some time ago. That's what I thought, when I was reading the list of packages found by Synaptic, when I searched for webcam. However, ... we are all of differing levels of Debian system administration competency, and I rely on packages being ready to go - either using Synaptic to download and install a package, and then expecting for it to be ready to use, or, using apt-get install, or, downloading a package and using dpkg -i . But, not having to compile and build a package. I found The qc-usb-source package is a skeleton for creating a kernel module to drive Logitech's QuickCam Express webcam and other webcams with similar chipsets. and qc-usb-utils Utility programs for the qc-usb kernel module Utilities to tweak paramters of your QuickCam Express or similar webcam. These programs are completely useless without a qc-usb-modules package. That sounds like that needs a kernel build to use - much too advanced for me. no no not at all. you can use module assistant, I'd bet.I just checked, it is one of the packages you can build with module-assistant. at a minimum, you can do: aptitude install module-assistant m-a update m-a prepare m-a a-i qc-usb if all goes well, you'll be done. module-assistant also has a curses interface you can play with. Be sure to check out /usr/share/doc/module-assistant/HOWTO it's very easy. Very. A -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
our bittorrent tracker's gone senile?
rtorrent shows me this: debian-40r4a-amd64-DVD-1.iso 1.0 / 4473.5 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] debian-40r4a-amd64-netinst.iso 1.5 / 147.0 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 1%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] debian-40r4a-i386-DVD-2.iso 0.0 / 4479.6 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] debian-40r4a-i386-DVD-3.iso 0.1 / 4320.1 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] debian-40r4a-amd64-DVD-2.iso 0.0 / 4460.9 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] debian-40r4a-amd64-DVD-3.iso 0.3 / 4171.3 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] debian-40r4a-i386-DVD-1.iso 0.1 / 4480.1 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.] Now what is this? -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious
Hi. why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests another? I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess it and even if I can guess it, how do I know? I find that many times README.Debian doesn't mention those things. Any thoughts about this? Good week! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious
On Sunday 10 August 2008 00:58, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 15:40, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests another? I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess it and even if I can guess it, how do I know? I find that many times README.Debian doesn't mention those things. Any thoughts about this? At times like this, I just flip to another open xterm and do apt-cache show. What information does that print that I don't already know from aptitude? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Scientists are people, too. IOW, they also crave power, money, respect, and influence, and they also fear for their jobs. Each can be a healthy motivator, but each has the ability to turn a good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn a good scientist into a charlatan. http://thefutureofthings.com/book/3/the-bomb-that-never-was.html -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious
On Sunday 10 August 2008 03:35, Ron Johnson wrote: TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit this is why package A is recommended data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. It would be great to have this as part of packaging policy and the packaging tools to be able to fetch this information. Where does this feature request belong? debian-devel list? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Scientists are people, too. IOW, they also crave power, money, respect, and influence, and they also fear for their jobs. Each can be a healthy motivator, but each has the ability to turn a good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn a good scientist into a charlatan. http://thefutureofthings.com/book/3/the-bomb-that-never-was.html -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bittorrent tracker doesn,t like me and vnc neither, apparently
Hi! While trying to get the DVD's via bittorrent, rtorrent tells me that Re/uested do'nload is not authorized for use 'ith this tracker for each of the do'nloads! And 'hat is this trouble that I,m having no' 'ith vnc and the keyboard mapping? Good 'eekend -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0
On Saturday 09 August 2008 00:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:32:40PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: hmmm... I believe its possible, with some cameras, to cat /dev/video0 myvidfile and then play it with mplayer. worth a shot. $ cat /dev/video0paulsvid cat: /dev/video0*** glibc detected *** cat: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0995c860 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7ed58f5] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7ed9360] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e922e2] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e9062f] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7e8ffee] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(dcgettext+0x43)[0xb7e8ef13] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__strerror_r+0x109)[0xb7edc0a9] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7f3fd82] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(error+0x58)[0xb7f40018] cat[0x8049a24] /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7e80450] cat[0x8048c91] === Memory map: 08048000-0804f000 r-xp 08:06 2069686/bin/cat 0804f000-0805 rw-p 6000 08:06 2069686/bin/cat 0995a000-0997b000 rw-p 0995a000 00:00 0 [heap] b7b0-b7b21000 rw-p b7b0 00:00 0 b7b21000-b7c0 ---p b7b21000 00:00 0 b7ce7000-b7cf3000 r-xp 08:06 1839064/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7cf3000-b7cf4000 rw-p b000 08:06 1839064/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7cf4000-b7e69000 r--p 08:06 1773853/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive b7e69000-b7e6a000 rw-p b7e69000 00:00 0 b7e6a000-b7fb2000 r-xp 08:06 2068498 /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so b7fb2000-b7fb3000 r--p 00148000 08:06 2068498 /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so b7fb3000-b7fb5000 rw-p 00149000 08:06 2068498/lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so b7fb5000-b7fb8000 rw-p b7fb5000 00:00 0 b7fd6000-b7fd8000 rw-p b7fd6000 00:00 0 b7fd8000-b7fd9000 r-xp b7fd8000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7fd9000-b7ff3000 r-xp 08:06 1872512/lib/ld-2.7.so b7ff3000-b7ff5000 rw-p 00019000 08:06 1872512/lib/ld-2.7.so bfedf000-bfef4000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack] Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/videos$ lst total 20 drwxr-xr-x 155 pbc pbc 12288 2008-08-08 17:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 0 2008-08-08 17:31 paulsvid drwxr-xr-x 2 pbc pbc 4096 2008-08-08 17:31 . wow. that looks kind of like there might be a problem in the driver. If you can't cat from the video device, then there's something seriously wrong. I highly recommend you check out the gspca drivers instead of the spca5xx-source packages. I have used the gspca drivers without difficulty, though there was no sound implemented for my particular camera. ymmv. there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the spca5xx is being replaced upstream... All this talk about spca... Isn't there a quickcam specific driver? I know there is... qc-usb-source is the package. I used for some logitech quickcam some time ago. A -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kontact calender export
On Thursday 07 August 2008 09:09, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running etch. I was trying to export the calender and import it in outlook both xp and 2003 in windows xp.. I was getting errors like incorrect format or fiole may be corrupt. Any solutions What calendar, exactly? -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ath5k-based card not working
On Thursday 07 August 2008 15:57, Chris Howie wrote: I have a card that seems to be driven by the ath5k module. The lspci -n line corresponding to it is: 03:00.0 0200: 168c:001c (rev 01) The driver creates two interfaces, wmaster0 and wlan0. If I execute ifconfig wlan0 up and then try to scan there is no output, and I know there are multiple APs in range. If I set my AP info on it, it does not associate. The weird thing is that my laptop has an indicator for the antenna status, and it is orange -- which means it is off, even though the physical switch is in the on position. It seems like there's something else I need to do to power it up, but I have no clue what. Hints? I am running 2.6.26-1-amd64. According to the HCL this card should work since 2.6.25. Try the atheros/ath5k mailing list. Thanks, -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting ssh after blacklist?
On Thursday 07 August 2008 08:18, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi, Google isn't helping me right now with this, and the update notice doesn't show a procedure, AFAICT, for redoing ssh between my gateway and primary desktop at home. The firewall/gateway allows connections only from the desktop machine, and that is ssh. I regenerated rsa keys for myself, transported the public one to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the gateway, and removed the known-hosts file. I cannot connect. The keys have password phrases attached as well. Would someone please help this old fella with the missing step? I touch that machine about once in a blue moon wrt this sort of thing, so it's not second-nature to me. Thanks! Try with ssh -v and paste it here, please. Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 03:55, Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/04/2008 05:52 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I know nothing about what's on the MaxBlast CD, but I'm betting it's Windows-only. Stick with rsync is my advice. Rick I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a? 1. the -x option. 2. the ability to stop the transfer and resume. 3. the -P option. 4. the verbosity. 5. while using rsync, you are learning a valuable tool. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suspend / hibernate
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 17:58, Dale wrote: Hi all, I have had this problem for a little while now, when I come out of suspend / hibernation on on my Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi laptop I have very high system load. I am wondering if any one else has or noticed this problem. I have been informed it is a kernel problem and I am at a lost how to debug it. If am one can help with this problem it be very appreciated Hi! Perhaps you'd try a newer kernel and see? What command/gui do you use for suspending? Regards Dale -- [WWW] http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/ [IRC] #southern-vales.lug on irc.freenode.net The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them Albert Einstein -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple router
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 21:59, Alexander wrote: I want create my debian home router: |dslmodem wan ppp0|--|eth0--(eth1,eth2 - shaping router)|---|lan | comp1,comp2| I've created some configurations: 1. /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 # dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 #allow-hotplug eth1 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static up /sbin/wondershaper eth1 320 320 down /sbin/wondershaper remove eth1 address 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 # network 192.168.1.0 # broadcast 192.168.1.255 #allow-hotplug eth2 auto eth2 iface eth2 inet static up /sbin/wondershaper eth2 320 320 down /sbin/wondershaper remove eth2 address 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 # network 192.168.1.0 # broadcast 192.168.1.255 2. /etc/init.d/iptables.sh # !/bin/sh iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE 3. /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1 But it's not working yet, maybe somebody know why and can help me. Hi. not working is a vague statement. I don't know about networking so I can't help specifically. Just give us more info on what's not working. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] RE: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 20:33, Stackpole, Chris wrote: Yes, I will agree that rsync is easy to do if you already know the command and what it is capable of. It is indeed a very powerful tool. However, for someone who doesn't already know the command it can be a bit overwhelming. At least that has been my experience in watching/helping others with it. My experience with partimage is that as long as you have an idea of what you want to do, the gui will hold your hand and get done what you need to get done. This is exactly what some people want when they first get started; a nice simple layout to get them started. The advanced stuff can wait till they are ready. Partimage has a lot of really cool advanced stuff, but simply running partimage at the command line (given it is installed of course) will simply bring up the nice gui. I am of the opinion that you shouldn't blindly run commands on your system that you have found out on the net. I am a big fan of researching the command as well as the options. This usually requires reading through the man pages and some Google searching. Rsync has 3463 lines of documentation in the man pages alone. For someone like me who likes good documentation to learn from, that is great! For someone who just wants it to work, that is a PITA. Shachar Or and yourself are the only ones to suggest flags to use for rsync. Even then, the full command wasn't even given which can only confuse the inexperienced. Running 'rsync -ax' only kicks back the help message. Doesn't really solve the problem that the user may think they were attempting to solve. I have nothing against rsync. To be quite honest, the majority of uses for these two tools are completely different. I just think in this case it is a bigger jump to dive into rsync for a new user then it is for partimage. I would much prefer to give someone a tool that will help guide them (hence, in my mind, easier) then a really powerful tool that is way more then they need and above their head. Anyway, maybe I am way off on this but before I blabber on and on I will give the list a chance to see if everyone agrees or disagrees with me. ;-D Have fun! ~S~ I'll give this partimage thing a try. It sounds nice. I've gotten thus far with my skills, which is not very far, by reading through the long pages. There are things to get a nice UI for, and there are things that should be performed with full consciousness; filesystems tasks is of the latter, if you ask me. I estimate that Scarletdown, using multiple disks with multiple partitions, ultimately wants to learn how to use things like UUID's, LVM2, rsync, cfdisk, mkfs.*, fstab, etc.. I imagine he'll be thrilled to know how to use all these things! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making an image of my HDD
On Monday 04 August 2008 11:09, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-01 22:09, Shachar Or wrote: On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: rsync -ax / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/dir/ Does the -x option mean that it will not read mounts like /dev, /proc and such? Please, read man rsync: Of course I read it... [snip] -x, --one-file-system This tells rsync to avoid crossing a filesystem boundary when recursing. This does not limit the user’s ability to specify items to copy from multiple filesystems, just rsync’s recursion through the hierarchy of each directory that the user specified, and also the analogous recursion on the receiving side during deletion. Also keep in mind that rsync treats a “bind” mount to the same device as being on the same filesystem. If this option is repeated, rsync omits all mount-point directories from the copy. Otherwise, it includes an empty directory at each mount-point it encounters (using the attributes of the mounted directory because those of the underlying mount-point directory are inaccessible). If rsync has been told to collapse symlinks (via --copy-links or --copy-unsafe-links), a symlink to a directory on another device is treated like a mount-point. Symlinks to non-directories are unaffected by this option. Johannes -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need sarge
On Monday 04 August 2008 21:06, Mark Allums wrote: Vwaju wrote: Thanks, Robert! I downloaded Contents-i386.gz from http://ftp.debian.org/dists/sarge/. As I understand it, this is not an archive, but a single compressed file. I gunzipped it, which yields an 111MB file. I am not sure what I have now. If this is sarge, how do I install it? Dan -- Linux System Administration (O'reilly) is a cookbook how-to for teaching Linux networking by builiding an internet server. It was written when sarge was the current version of Debian. Unfortunately, because of many changes between sarge and etch, the book seems to be just about useless unless your running sarge. ( Unless, of course, you already know how to build a Linux network server, but then why would you do the project at all?) Do I need to say it? Get a better book! :) Seriously, anything very out-of-date will teach you some bad habits. Security stuff, in particular. Amazon lists used books, try them. Or, if you boycott Amazon for good and sufficient reasons, try http://www.nerdbooks.com/ . I repeat the above. Don't use old software in this regard. Mark Allums -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient booting
On Monday 04 August 2008 22:25, Antonio Diaz wrote: Ok, I should have written a bit more. Maybe these points are helpful: * I've also installed Windows XP on my laptop and it works fine so I'm sure that the problem has to do with my linux configuration. * I've tested different kernel versions (three of them). * dmesg seems to say that the interface eth0 is fine. The module that the network card needs to work is being loaded successfully (sky2) * However, the wireless interface (wlan0) works fine. It gets an IP from the same DHCP server without any problem. * The messages file writes the following message whenever I attempt to get an IP: no IPv6 routers present. I've been reading about it but people are not agree with this point. Some of them think that it is not important at all and others think that it's necessary to disable IPv6. For example: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-222010.html There shouldn't be a problem with the absence of ipv6 routers. The most strange point is that sometimes the network card gets an IP without problem... but very few times. I'd say there's a problem with the driver. That sky2 module may have a bug. Can you replace this NIC with a different one or plug an additional one in to work around this? Thank you for your reply. I'd appreciate any help. Regards, Shachar Or escribió: On Monday 04 August 2008 00:56, Antonio Diaz wrote: Hi I'm using Debian Sid (kernel 2.6.26). I need to configure the eth0 so it uses the dhcp. In my case the dhclient never gets response at boot time. Later, I have to restart the service /etc/init.d/networking to get a IP. Sometimes I've also problems at this point. I don't not why but sometimes I've to restart this service several times in order to get a IP. May be it's because of the network module but it's also true that it works fine whenever I configure it to use static ip address. Could be a problem with the dchp server. Have you tested the dhcp server with a different client; a different machine? Could be a problem with the network adapter or the module. Try a different adapter in the box? Try a different kernel? Try a different dhcp client? Have you any iptables rules set that could interfere? Did you check dmesg? Perhaps try to change the interface's mac address? To configure the eth0 interface I write the following lines in the interfaces file: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp This seems fine. Is there anything else in the file that could interfere? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. Regards, __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y m�viles desde 1 c�ntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?
On Monday 04 August 2008 21:52, Scarletdown wrote: I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it: /dev/hda1 - / /dev/hda5 - /tmp /dev/hda6 - /root /dev/hda7 - /opt /dev/hda8 - /var /dev/hda9 - /usr /dev/hda10 - /workspace So, what would be the easiest way to transfer everything from the old drive to the new one? I remember from previous experience that just doing a straight up copy from one to the other didn't work. I need to copy and 1: keep all permissions intact 2: Copy my boot loader from the old drive to the new one (unfortunately, I can't remember if GRUB went on the mbr or on the boot record of the first partition) I like to use cfdisk to play with partitions. It's in the gpart package. Consider using LVM2 for this. It makes life better. Read the LVM HOWTO in http://tldp.org . Leave the /boot outside of LVM. Do you really need all those different filesystems? For copying files, instead of cp, use rsync -axhP . -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhclient booting
On Monday 04 August 2008 23:57, Antegallya wrote: Hi, Could be a problem with the network adapter or the module. Try a different adapter in the box? for me using an alternative module solved the problem. Mind saying what module, exactly and where you got it from? -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nautilus + smb connection to win2k problem
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:34, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I have problems opening windows 2000 share in nautilus. It opens, but after a few directory changes nautilus hangs and I have to force it quit. Then I cannot reconnect to smb share anymore (until I logout/login). The interesting part is that KDE smb connection works (at least I can start Krusader, connect to the share and copy files over) so it seems to be a nautilus problem. Has anyone else experienced that problem recently? Debian sid, x86_64 Did you look at the bug reports? -- Kind regards, Michal R. Hoffmann -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:39, Scarletdown wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:33 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: If you can leave the old disk in the box for a while, start by installing the new drive as hdb, partition it and mkfs the filesystems -- all while booted to the old drive. Set up a bunch of mount-points for the new partitions, e.g.: /dev/hdb1 /new /dev/hdb5 /new/tmp /dev/hdb6 /new/root /dev/hdb7 /new/opt ...you get the idea... Then boot single user to the old drive, mount the new drive partitions and use rsync to copy the contents of the various partitions to the new drive. Then install grub however you like on hdb. Since eventually you will want to get rid of the old disk and install the new one as hda, you may have to fiddle with things like / etc/fstab and the grub menu.lst file, but that should be pretty obvious. Thanks for the tips. Should be useful for this upcoming project. There has been a slight change of plans though. The drive I bought is SATA II instead of EIDE. The sales rep at Circuit City convinced me to consider SATA for the speed, so I went next door to Office Depot and shelled out a little under $100 for a 500GB Maxtor SATA drive. :) So that being the case, I am guessing that the SATA drive will show up in /dev as something other than hdd (hda is the current primary IDE, hdb is the secondary (which will then become the primary after this is all over), and hdc is the DVD-RW. So, before I power down and install the new drive, can anyone give me an idea of what type of device this will show as? /dev/sda , probably. You also the symbolic links under /dev/disk , which you can use. Also, the MaxBlast CD that came with the drive says that there is a disk cloning utility as well. Hopefully, this will work with ext3 partitions and will copy the GRUB stuff over as well. (crossing fingers...) Don't use that proprietary garbage when you've got debian. Boot single user mode and do your transfers on the file level and not the partition level. Now that I am thinking about this more, perhaps I should go ahead and clone hdb (where /home, /shared, and /workspace are at) then make the old hdb, which is 200GB, the new boot drive. With LVM2 you can make all your devices into one volume group and make as many logical volumes as you like out of that. You can, for example, have: /dev/hda1 as /boot /dev/mapper/your_vg-lv_root as / /dev/mapper/your_vg-lv_home as /home This is while /dev/hda2 and /dev/sda1 together make up the volume group your_vg . You can play with this as much as you like and you'll be keeping it all flexible for future changes. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nautilus + smb connection to win2k problem
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:54, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: On 04/08/08 23:38, Shachar Or wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008 01:34, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I have problems opening windows 2000 share in nautilus. It opens, but after a few directory changes nautilus hangs and I have to force it quit. Then I cannot reconnect to smb share anymore (until I logout/login). The interesting part is that KDE smb connection works (at least I can start Krusader, connect to the share and copy files over) so it seems to be a nautilus problem. Has anyone else experienced that problem recently? Debian sid, x86_64 Did you look at the bug reports? Yes, but didn't find anything. Report a bug, please. -- Kind regards, Michal R. Hoffmann -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
