Bug#596700: The X server does not deallocate its vt upon shutdown. Restarting the X server results in the use of a higher-numbered vt.

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
. console-kit-daemon is apparently not used in his environment. It is apparently not specific to the nv driver either. I have seen these symptoms in the GNOME environment using the intel driver as well. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#445148: closed by Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org (Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #445148)

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
that you used, I will give it a go here and see if I can reproduce your problem. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#596760: Could not write VTOC labels

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
stops at 10017 cylinders. You're going past 31000 cylinders. Can you use the CMS FORMAT command on these minidisks successfully? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#445148: closed by Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org (Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #445148)

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
that you used, I will give it a go here and see if I can reproduce your problem. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#596760: Could not write VTOC labels

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
stops at 10017 cylinders. You're going past 31000 cylinders. Can you use the CMS FORMAT command on these minidisks successfully? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#596700: The X server does not deallocate its vt upon shutdown. Restarting the X server results in the use of a higher-numbered vt.

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
. console-kit-daemon is apparently not used in his environment. It is apparently not specific to the nv driver either. I have seen these symptoms in the GNOME environment using the intel driver as well. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [SOLVED] detect ethernet card?

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:28:44 -0400 (EDT), Atu wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 11:54:57 pm Stephen Powell wrote: As a general rule, kernel modules which function as a device driver for a piece of hardware do not need to be listed (and should not be listed) in /etc/modules

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
cleanly unmounted by Ubuntu during shutdown. You are doing a clean shutdown, aren't you? What happens if you manually umount the file system prior to shutting down Ubuntu? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: ext3 file system

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
returns no output, try wipefs (from package util-linux) to see if there are any residual file system signatures that may be confusing udev/blkid. But the first thing to try is manually umounting the file system in Ubuntu before shutdown. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:33:42 -0400 (EDT), Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Never mind, we've managed to test this in an emulator already. Sorry for the slow response. No problem, I know how it is. I didn't mean to sound bitter, just wanted to prevent

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http

[SOLVED] where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
residual file system signatures before, and wouldn't have known what to do about it even if I had suspected them. As my grandfather used to say, You learn something new every day, if you stay awake. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Access to s390 porter machine

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
interests to do so; but I am not in a position to offer a porter box to Debian. It doesn't belong to me. I run Debian for s390 in a virtual machine under z/VM; so if there's anything VM-specific that needs tested, I might be able to help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#519254: Debian Lenny/s390 - unable to boot with a dedicated /boot partition

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
of the / device. For example, if (3012,1) was / and (3026,1) was /boot, it would have worked. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#519254: Debian Lenny/s390 - unable to boot with a dedicated /boot partition

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
of the / device. For example, if (3012,1) was / and (3026,1) was /boot, it would have worked. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magic clouds wrote: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
but they still refuse to mount. Not by their old names, no. The devices have different names under the new kernel. How can I access those partitions? You already are accessing them, but with different names now. You haven't lost any data. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
users of Debian. You're on the wrong forum! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
:~$ If you get the latter, the partition is not being mounted because the mount point does not exist, and Linux is giving you a misleading error message. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:53:29 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:22:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Hmm. I'm wondering about the mount point, /hd0. Maybe the mount point doesn't exist. Issue the following command: ls -Ald /hd0 What is the result? Do you

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: What happens if, after the system has booted, you issue a manual mount command as root, using the new device name? mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /hd0 That works

[SOLVED] detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
to define the alias. This is the preferred method for loading a kernel module which is a device driver. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Dumping terminal contents to a file

2010-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
output. It works best when running commands which produce pure line-mode output. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Dumping terminal contents to a file

2010-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:35:30 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:52:05 -0400 (EDT), Alois Mahdal wrote: I wonder if there's a simple and universal way to dump output of terminal to a file, particularly for demonstration purposes. Well, for recording a shell session

Re: header files for kernel 2.6.26.5

2010-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
is the output of uname -r? I've never seen a 2.6.26.5 kernel. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: header files for kernel 2.6.26.5

2010-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
or is a custom built kernel. And who knows what kernel source code package was used to build the custom kernel. None of the Debian linux-header-* packages will be an exact match. Find out from your kernel builder *exactly* where to get the header files. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Confusion with Package Name

2010-09-08 Thread Stephen Powell
that ABCB is named abc.deb ? BTW i am using Debian 5.0.5, with 2.6.26-2-686. This is a user list. You might be better off on a list such as debian-mentors if your trying to *create* a Debian kernel module package. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Stephen Powell
yet. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/39818306.660812.1283880141444.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Can start X once but no more

2010-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:08:14 -0400 (EDT), Tong mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:41:34 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I also use the nv driver, and I can start the X server multiple times, but usually not without manual intervention. What usually happens is that the old

Re: Can start X once but no more

2010-09-05 Thread Stephen Powell
explain it. Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
would indicate that you might miss some module. Can you try a stock kernel? Nice work, Andrei! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Now Lost Boot Dir/2.6.34 Will Not Boot

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
won't be included. Do you have the large-memory option specified in /etc/lilo.conf? If not, you should. This will probably eliminate the warnings. Thanks for all the help. Debian folks are the best! You're welcome. I'm glad I could help. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Initramfs help

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
) and rerun your boot loader installer, if applicable. (Such as lilo.) If your boot loader installer is grub, you don't need to do this second step. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: re :debian

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
your hardware documentation for how to remove a BIOS password that you do not know. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

[SOLVED] Problems mounting cdrom

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
the problem? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2042724685.584195.1283518700100.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat(/dev/hda)

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
: ls -Ald /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ls -Ald /dev/disk/by-path/ ls -Ald /dev/disk/by-id/ -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat(/dev/hda)

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:23 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:24:08PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: After latest upgrade installation of lilo fails. I am not using raid and have the entry boot

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
, there will be no option. You will either have to use KMS or not use an X server at all. Oh joy. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
of the archive are present in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

[SOLVED] Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat(/dev/hda)

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
looking for. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/653540137.596429.1283548820027.javamail.r...@md01

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should always follow up on such messages. Do you have package firmware-linux-nonfree installed? If so

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:26:45 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: The standard 2.6.32 kernel used by Squeeze (I currently use 2.6.32-5-686, version 2.6.32-20) works fine, and includes the nouveau driver. The nouveau driver seems to work OK in my experience, as long as you

Re: Problems mounting cdrom

2010-09-02 Thread Stephen Powell
(CS) or sometimes they will remove the jumper entirely. They do this to try to prevent users from installing software or to keep them from burning CDs. That may be what is wrong with the drives you removed, too. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

New kernel-building web page with Nvidia example

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/995670882.527823.1283348786820.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: New kernel-building web page with Nvidia example

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
much for this information! You're welcome. I hope others will find it useful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502817804.543379.1283377622986.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-30 Thread Stephen Powell
are now well aware of the problem, and you can decide what you want to do about it. And I have a circumvention which I will publish on my kernel building web site for anyone else who may wish to implement my solution until an official solution is available. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-30 Thread Stephen Powell
are now well aware of the problem, and you can decide what you want to do about it. And I have a circumvention which I will publish on my kernel building web site for anyone else who may wish to implement my solution until an official solution is available. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Stephen Powell
on the old machine before I started monkeying around)? I did check the intel options under the new PATA/SATA driver? Please provide the /etc/lilo.conf file too, and please, somebody who knows LVMs give this guy some help. This is out of my area of expertise. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:20:20 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used, is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script. [...] After thinking about

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:20:20 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used, is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script. [...] After thinking about

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
/resume (4) The contents of /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy (5) The output of the following commands ls -Al /dev/disk/by-id/ ls -Al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ls -Al /dev/disk/by-path/ I may ask for more information later, but this will get us started -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
interface and allow it all to work. The web page is valid. I just tried it again a few minutes ago. Find a way to get to it if you can. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:06:30 -0400 (EDT), Merciadri Luca wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: All of this is explained on the web page to which I referred you earlier: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm It has to do with software sound mixing. If you follow the steps there, you should

Re: System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Stephen Powell
enough to give you the right idea. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1793390719.439104.1283030496830

Re: System sounds: what do I need to install?

2010-08-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:37:06 -0400 (EDT), Merciadri Luca wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If it's Lenny, try visiting http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/tp600.htm and see how I did it on my IBM ThinkPad 600. Obviously it won't be an exact match to your computer but maybe it will be close enough

Re: install lenny on Dell

2010-08-28 Thread Stephen Powell
information. I can't say for sure, but I had a situation where I burned a CD on one computer and the CD drive couldn't read its own writing. But another computer could read it! Go figure! Try burning the CD on another computer. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:48:57 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Ben, I could use your help on bug number 594127. Am I not understanding the policy? Please read the bug log and advise. Thanks. Assuming that s390 kernels normally

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:25:02 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used, is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script. [...] No, that means

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:02:13 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The alternative, obviously, is a separate hook script to maintain symlinks. That immediately raises two more questions: (1) How do we make sure that it executes *after* the initramfs hook and *before* the boot loader hook, and (2

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:48:57 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:04 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Ben, I could use your help on bug number 594127. Am I not understanding the policy? Please read the bug log and advise. Thanks. Assuming that s390 kernels normally

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:25:02 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:50:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] Personally, I think that the requirement to maintain symlinks, if used, is implicit in the purpose of the boot loader hook script. [...] No, that means

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:02:13 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The alternative, obviously, is a separate hook script to maintain symlinks. That immediately raises two more questions: (1) How do we make sure that it executes *after* the initramfs hook and *before* the boot loader hook, and (2

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
for release. The previous post shows that a *must* directive is being violated. Therefore, setting severity to serious. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
for release. The previous post shows that a *must* directive is being violated. Therefore, setting severity to serious. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
mean when running the new kernel. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/818015994.354012.1282744406282

Re: 2.6.34 Will Not Boot

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/236387790.360709.1282759652922.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
as little as possible. I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting style. But I do know people who are irritated by top posting. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:36 -0400 (EDT), Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:17:31PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: (1) the hook scripts provided, /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-zipl and /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-zipl, do not maintain the symbolic links. The zipl boot loader typically

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:36 -0400 (EDT), Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:17:31PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: (1) the hook scripts provided, /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-zipl and /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-zipl, do not maintain the symbolic links. The zipl boot loader typically

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
scripts are buggy or incomplete. (But of course I open a bug report against the package too.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
bug number 587886.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
to. But maybe this is not why you are having installation problems. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
/search?keywords=lilosearchon=namessuite=unstablesection=all and saw that the current version was still 1:22.8-8.1. Either the package hasn't been uploaded yet or the web page is not in sync with the repository. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#582281: Bug fix confirmation

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
! Thanks! I can go back to running stock kernel images again instead of custom builds with custom patches. And thanks to upstream too! Peter, Moritz, Ben, thank you all. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
scripts are buggy or incomplete. (But of course I open a bug report against the package too.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
bug number 587886.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/398211408.328559.1282663787782.javamail.r

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
to. But maybe this is not why you are having installation problems. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
/search?keywords=lilosearchon=namessuite=unstablesection=all and saw that the current version was still 1:22.8-8.1. Either the package hasn't been uploaded yet or the web page is not in sync with the repository. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#582281: Bug fix confirmation

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
! Thanks! I can go back to running stock kernel images again instead of custom builds with custom patches. And thanks to upstream too! Peter, Moritz, Ben, thank you all. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/~zlinuxman/initramfs/post-update.d/bootloader (for installation in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/~zlinuxman/initramfs/post-update.d/bootloader (for installation in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594127: Fix for bug number 590028 is incomplete

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/~zlinuxman/initramfs/post-update.d/bootloader (for installation in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
symlink which also points to ../../sda. It starts with scsi. You don't want to use that one, because it only exists when using the libata drivers. The one which starts with ata will exist with either set of drivers. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
the root=UUID=xxx... form in /etc/lilo.conf. Quotation marks are required here in /etc/lilo.conf. I think I have most of the gotchas covered. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread Stephen Powell
at some level. Perhaps you will find something useful there. Pay particular attention to step 10, the proper application of which is *essential* for anyone using the lilo boot loader under Squeeze/Sid, whether they use stock kernels or custom kernels. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
:; links, make sure you click on the debian-user@lists.debian.org link under Reply to:. Doing it this way bypasses Google entirely and will not require you to register. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:27:12 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: ... $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \   --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image ... Quick question, is there an advantage

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:11:21 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If you copy your module directly into the source tree, then you need to download a new kernel source tree and unpack it due to kernel maintenance, you lose your modifications.  By keeping the out-of-kernel

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
with a subsequent invocation for the modules_image target. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: get kernel version of chroot

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: newbie intro

2010-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
contribution to Debian, see the following web page: http://www.debian.org/donations. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
is that you don't need (or shouldn't need) kernel header packages if you have the whole kernel source code installed. Note that I didn't use module-assistant or kernel headers. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:29:11 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: -- $ cd linux-source-2.6.32 $ cp /boot/config-2.6.32-5-686 .config $ make menuconfig $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \ --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image $ cd

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:25:50 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Still, I should have noticed that the /usr/src directory was owned by user root and by group src. For some reason, I never made that connection. That's a great tip, thanks. I will have to play around

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:55:40 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I do know about groups, but I don't necessarily know the intended purpose of all of the pre-defined groups in a Linux system. Where can I find documentation for that? For Debian, there is some information

Re: How to boot machine with newly installed kernel using presseed.cfg

2010-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
. If you need a 2.6.33 kernel, I suggest you install Squeeze rather than Lenny. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: How to boot machine with newly installed kernel using presseed.cfg

2010-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:37:04 -0400 (EDT), Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 08/13/2010 09:47 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I seem to recall seeing something on the lists about an incompatibility between the 2.6.32 kernel used by Squeeze and the version of udev which runs on Lenny. I assume

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:11:33 -0400 (EDT), Celejar wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:34:34 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: ... I suppose the most secure method would be to create an id just for kernel building which is a member of group src and its login group, and that's it. How about

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