Re: [SLUG] dpkg nfs
> dpkg: unable to lock dpkg status database: No locks available > W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock > It looks to me like some of these are warnings, and perhaps innocuous, > since packages seem to get installed, but there are errors too, with > packages not being configured. > > Any suggestions how I can make dpkg do (all of) its thing over nfs? Are you running lockd/portmap? Looks like "no", and I'd imagine that would make for some scary b0rkage. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "World domination is a community responsibility." - Michael Hall, LinuxPlanet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] University Pre-Application
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[SLUG] dpkg nfs
I'm trying to use apt-get (Dapper) inside chroot on an nfs partition mounted from an OpenBSD file server, and see the following [retyped from another screen, JIC there are typos]: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process dpkg: unable to lock dpkg status database: No locks available W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) It looks to me like some of these are warnings, and perhaps innocuous, since packages seem to get installed, but there are errors too, with packages not being configured. Any suggestions how I can make dpkg do (all of) its thing over nfs? -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Kubuntu dapper 6.06 keyboard problems
Have installed Kubuntu 6.06 from LiveCD - everything works OK so far, EXCEPT for the keyboard, which works fine directly from the LiveCD. Shift and 1, 2, 3 , parentheses and split-verical ( can't remember its name) keys give wrong symbols ie shift @ gives " and vice-versa. Having no "hatchmark" key is a real pain when editing files. No help from Google or so far from Kubuntu-org forums, nor anything on Ubuntu forums. On install, keyboard was selected as US. KDE has been updated. Still no fix. Suggestions please - which file do I need to check for keyboard type and which file could I maybe copy from LiveCD boot to hard-disk install? Always a new problem and always something else to learn. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Installing Ubuntu with no CD
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:07 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > The Ubuntu installation guides found at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation reveal all. :-) > > Please don't look at these ones, they're out of date and recommend some > really crazy stuff... The doc team are trying to push the good stuff out to > help.ubuntu.com, but there are some fixes to do (I just found out that the > dapper installation documentation is on doc.ubuntu.com). Shouldn't someone comment the wiki if this is the case? Perhaps just a link to the "good" stuff? -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux User Group Radio (LUGRadio)
Hey guys,Thought that some of you might be interested in this, the latest episode of LUGRadio is out and has a segment on the latest Ubuntu."Simon Phipps from Sun and an unwell Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical talk about Ubuntu 6.06 LTS's support of Sun's SPARC machines, an eventual free Java, and running Dapper on your digital camera (2.00)"You can download the podcast here: http://www.lugradio.org/ -- Regards, Trent Murray(a.k.a diazepam) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Webdav & fstab
On 05/06/2006, at 10:35 PM, Charles Myers wrote: Yep got it and mounting fine now ;) Thanks.. My next problem is sharing a calendar file.. I thought it would be clear cut.. but seems very complicated sharing calendar files in 'nix (compared to exchange servers :( ) I will keep researching for now (if anyone has any experiences sharing .ics files please chime in, any help would be great) .. Thanks for the help as usual.. ;) I share out a plethora of iCal files using webdav, works fine and was simple to setup. Front end is iCal, backend is Apache+WebDAV on a linux server. Just set up the DAV, point iCal at it and you're away. Much cheaper than .mac -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Webdav & fstab
Peter Hardy wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 21:36 +1000, charles wrote: Guys I'm trying to mount a webdav directory via the fstab. I've looked at the man page for fstab & googled it, but cant find a solution.. I need to mount it via fstab as i need/want to select a particular mount point, and doing it in gnome (via the connect to servers option) doesnt seem to give me that option. /etc/fstab is used by mount to describe devices it will try to mount. The manpage for mount will give you much more helpful information about what filesystems are currently supported, but it basically boils down to the kernel and mount itself needing support for a particular filesystem before mount will work for you. With that in mind, a few more minutes googling turned up davfs2 ( http://dav.sourceforge.net/ ), which looks like it should do what you want, but I haven't actually tried it at all. Good luck! Yep got it and mounting fine now ;) Thanks.. My next problem is sharing a calendar file.. I thought it would be clear cut.. but seems very complicated sharing calendar files in 'nix (compared to exchange servers :( ) I will keep researching for now (if anyone has any experiences sharing .ics files please chime in, any help would be great) .. Thanks for the help as usual.. ;) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Webdav & fstab
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 21:36 +1000, charles wrote: > Guys I'm trying to mount a webdav directory via the fstab. I've looked > at the man page for fstab & googled it, but cant find a solution.. > > > I need to mount it via fstab as i need/want to select a particular mount > point, and doing it in gnome (via the connect to servers option) doesnt > seem to give me that option. /etc/fstab is used by mount to describe devices it will try to mount. The manpage for mount will give you much more helpful information about what filesystems are currently supported, but it basically boils down to the kernel and mount itself needing support for a particular filesystem before mount will work for you. With that in mind, a few more minutes googling turned up davfs2 ( http://dav.sourceforge.net/ ), which looks like it should do what you want, but I haven't actually tried it at all. Good luck! -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
