Re: [SLUG] Hosed Ubuntu by apt-get upgrade
On 21 Jan, To: Sydney Linux Users Group wrote: Any advice would be most welcome. What I've done is copied the / filesystem onto a directory under my home directory, and then I'll re-install from CD. At least that way I can compare configuration files that I've done against the default ones. I'm currently tossing up though installing a different distro after this disastrous experience with Debian/Ubuntu's upgrade system. The whole reason for trying it was the idea that it's upgrade system was good. apt on FC5 or SuSE 10 might be a better choice, I'm thinking. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] CAcert assurance @ SLUG, Mon 22nd Jan
Hi there, There was massive interest in being CAcert assured at linux.conf.au - so why not do one at/after the SLUG meeting tomorrow? You'll need two forms of government issues ID (at least one with a photo), and the appropriate form printed out - more information at http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP If you don't know about CAcert, please read more about the project at http://www.cacert.org/ Cheers, R (If you're a CAcert assurer, I'd appreciate your help if you're going to be there (the more, the merrier) - please let me know! Also, if you have access to a printer, I'd also really appreciate spare forms printed out - I've got absolutely no access to one at the moment, unfortunately). -- 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] Hosed Ubuntu by apt-get upgrade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Jan, To: Sydney Linux Users Group wrote: Any advice would be most welcome. What I've done is copied the / filesystem onto a directory under my home directory, and then I'll re-install from CD. At least that way I can compare configuration files that I've done against the default ones. I'm currently tossing up though installing a different distro after this disastrous experience with Debian/Ubuntu's upgrade system. The whole reason for trying it was the idea that it's upgrade system was good. apt on FC5 or SuSE 10 might be a better choice, I'm thinking. With Fedora, the natural tool used to install, or update (upgrade) is 'yum'. From Fedora Core 3, I never have to re-install, or upgrade from CD; just update from the internet to Fedora C4, C5, or C6. And the process is similar for all Fedora. For example from FC3 to FC4, I do: 1. rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/RPM/fedora-release-4-X.fc4.rpm 2. yum -y install kernel 3. reboot to new kernel 4. yum -y update Before doing the above, ensure that in /etc/yum.repos.d/, only the following are enabled: 1. fedora-core.repo 2. fedora-extras.repo 3. fedora-updates.repo (I think you may also disable this) The rest should be disabled for the duration of the upgrades. For example, atrmps.repo, livna.repo, dag.repo, dries.repo, freshrpms.repo, kde-redhat.repo, etc. should all be disabled. Restore after upgrading is completed and do this: 1. yum -y update When upgrading from FC3 to FC6, do upgrade step-by-step, namely: 1. FC3 to FC4 2. then, FC4 to FC5 3. and finally, FC5 to FC6. 4. For backward compatibility, always install the 'compats' for your packages. Hope this helps. O Plameras -- 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] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool
Hey Ken, Thanks for that. I had absolutely no idea. Never heard of it! I've just installed it to check it out. Again, thanks. Regards, Patrick Ken Wilson wrote: there is also prefixsuffix and thunar bulk rename in the ubuntu repositories Ken elliott-brennan wrote: ...in Digikam. 'tools Batch processes Rename Images' ...allows you to choose the name you want and the number you wish to start renumbering from. For all the GUI girls and guys out there (unless I'm the ONLY one :))) One of the many cool and impressive features of Digikam! Regards, Patrick -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- 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] Partitioning
Hi, Don't know if you have solved this as yet, but the way to get it to recognise the / partition is to delete the old / and remake it. Sounds silly, but it was the only way I could get it to work. No need to play with the others, just / I think. HTH Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This is driving me up the wossname wall. Any suggestions? Was true for dapper and is true for edgy: I don't like and won't use the default partitioning. On most of my systems it will be (1) 10G /, (2) 1G swap, (3) rest /home To re-install a different distro etc just blot out /. Boot CD. Choose install. Manually partition. [Forward] /\ Warning No root partition. Stuck here. -- Any blind toad on a rainy day can read: / /dev/hda1 Any 'cheats' to say proceed anyway? So far my only solution has been multiple tries, sometimes making entries /home /dev/hda3 swap/dev/hda2 / /dev/hda1 or swapping the order hda1, hda2, hda3 some times deleting hda1 then re-creating it works. Typical install 30min + 45min fart-arsing around to NOT get 'no root partition'. Of course, he bemoaned glumly, you let the installer choose partitions automatically and all is well except the /home you were trying to keep is toast. James -- 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] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool
Thats often the hard bit, finding programes that do what you want. I browsed the applications--add/remove programes to find some which wasnt too bad, but browsing Synaptic, while finding some useful looking candidates for trying out does take too long with 20,000 packages. Ken elliott-brennan wrote: Hey Ken, Thanks for that. I had absolutely no idea. Never heard of it! I've just installed it to check it out. Again, thanks. Regards, Patrick Ken Wilson wrote: there is also prefixsuffix and thunar bulk rename in the ubuntu repositories Ken elliott-brennan wrote: ...in Digikam. 'tools Batch processes Rename Images' ...allows you to choose the name you want and the number you wish to start renumbering from. For all the GUI girls and guys out there (unless I'm the ONLY one :))) One of the many cool and impressive features of Digikam! Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Lost + found.
I have a flash drive that will no longer open and shows only a 'Lost + found' file response. I tried opening it as root via the GUI but it says it is empty. Have I lost all my files or is there some way around this? Any help appreciated even if it is bad news. John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] System freeze - how to diagnose?
The power light was on, but no-one home. Nothing responding, no ping. Other machines on the same UPS are running fine. I rebooted and got a 30 times mounted forced disk check - no problem there. Everything came up fine. Nothing in syslog or anywhere else I can think of. The only thing notable was that the activity light on a USB webcam I'm messing with was still on, which makes me suspicious it might have to do with that. [1] I was testing an image capture script that's cpu intensive, and I left it running over-night, for over 12 hours - over heating perhaps? Any suggestions where/how to start investigating this? Nothing obvious on Google that I can find. Ubuntu 6.10, btw. many thanks... David. [1] [17179602.072000] drivers/media/video/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Logitech QC Communicate STX [17179602.372000] usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx [17179602.372000] drivers/media/video/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.08 registered -- 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] bash problem - renaming files with their time stamp
quote who=david ls | while read file; do ls? Madness. Use find(1). :-) Why? does that overcome the bash size limitation? Sure. Whether you use find -exec (bleah) or find | while read or find | xargs, you won't have any problems with bash size limitations. - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ There's always a new bogeyman - every two months, there's a new axe to add to the axis of evil. - Michael Moore -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ATI Radeon 64 bit drivers
Hi All, Great LCA2007 eh! I have a small problem with my ATI Radeon 9250. I have downloaded the 64 bit installer but it fails with the message ati-installer.sh: 165: syntax error: bad substitution. Is this a bug in the system or is it something else? Any clue would be helpful. TIA Heracles -- 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] ATI Radeon 64 bit drivers
Ashley wrote: Hi All, Great LCA2007 eh! I have a small problem with my ATI Radeon 9250. I have downloaded the 64 bit installer but it fails with the message ati-installer.sh: 165: syntax error: bad substitution. The place to start looking is line 165 of ati-installer.sh. It may be something as simple as you missing some utility program that just needs an apt-get install. Is this a bug in the system or is it something else? Probably crappy installer script. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. - Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer on the Microsoft search engine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] REMINDER: SLUG meeting tonight
It is the Monday after LCA and we have our monthly SLUG meeting tonight on this exceptional day. I hope you all kept your calenders clear for it because we have some awesome speakers from LCA providing us with their insights. ANNOUCEMENT 22nd January: SLUG monthly meeting (yes, on Monday after LCA) Start: 2007-01-22 18:30 End: 2007-01-22 21:30 Location: Level 13, IBM Building, 601 Pacific Highway, St Leonards Agenda: * 6:30pm: Open Doors * 6.45pm: The Usual Suspects * 7:00pm: General Talk: Holger Levsen (DebConf), Experiences from Conference Video Recording and Streaming * 8:20pm: Technical Talk: Mikal Still (Google), Managing servers the slack way * 8:20pm: SLUGlets Theme: Google Summer of Code; Leslie Hawthorn (Google) * 9:20pm: Dinner: (TBD) Please also note that the Linux Chix are meeting at 5:30pm in Olio, Shop 1, The Forum, Artarmon (more info: http://sydney.linuxchix.org/). See you all tonight! Cheers, Silvia. -- 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] System freeze - how to diagnose?
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:13:24AM +1100, david wrote: The power light was on, but no-one home. Nothing responding, no ping. Other machines on the same UPS are running fine. I rebooted and got a 30 times mounted forced disk check - no problem there. Everything came up fine. Nothing in syslog or anywhere else I can think of. The only thing notable was that the activity light on a USB webcam I'm messing with was still on, which makes me suspicious it might have to do with that. [1] I was testing an image capture script that's cpu intensive, and I left it running over-night, for over 12 hours - over heating perhaps? Any suggestions where/how to start investigating this? Nothing obvious on Google that I can find. Ubuntu 6.10, btw. many thanks... if you have another machine, connect the 2 together by serial cable and send your console out the serial cable. Start up minicom on the 2nd box and what for it to crash. Also did you try alt+sysrq magic key combo ? David. [1] [17179602.072000] drivers/media/video/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: USB SPCA5XX camera found. Logitech QC Communicate STX [17179602.372000] usbcore: registered new driver spca5xx [17179602.372000] drivers/media/video/spca5xx/spca5xx-main.c: spca5xx driver 00.57.08 registered -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] System freeze - how to diagnose?
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:46 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:13:24AM +1100, david wrote: The power light was on, but no-one home. Nothing responding, no ping. Other machines on the same UPS are running fine. I rebooted and got a 30 times mounted forced disk check - no problem there. Everything came up fine. Nothing in syslog or anywhere else I can think of. The only thing notable was that the activity light on a USB webcam I'm messing with was still on, which makes me suspicious it might have to do with that. [1] I was testing an image capture script that's cpu intensive, and I left it running over-night, for over 12 hours - over heating perhaps? Any suggestions where/how to start investigating this? Nothing obvious on Google that I can find. Ubuntu 6.10, btw. many thanks... if you have another machine, connect the 2 together by serial cable and send your console out the serial cable. Start up minicom on the 2nd box and what for it to crash. sounds reasonable ;-) sounds like I need to run it overnight again and try to reproduce the problem. Also did you try alt+sysrq magic key combo ? I hadn't heard of this, but it looks like it only works from console, not from a Gnome terminal. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
