I have an IBM-T41 laptop... it dual boots Debian / WinXP
I ran Sid, I switched to Kanotix, somethings work better in one,
somethings better in the other, long and short, I'm switching back to
Sid. But a couple of things just work much much better in Kanotix and I
want to make sure I save enough
hello,
i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
(especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
/ : 7.0 gb
swap: 1.5 gb (i
Is the new installer the same as the RC3 released on March 23rd?
Basically, if I'm going to setup a system for which I plan to switch to
testing or unstable and do a dist-upgrade on anyway, should I stick with
my RC3 testing installer, or is the new one going to do something or
another better?
Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is
causing swap usage? I have a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or
no swap, but at times it does and I need to determine what the cause
is.
Tony
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Robert Waldner wrote:
I've upgraded 5 or 6 machines to Sarge since Monday, using aptitude.
Whilst for the most part it worked fine, it held back a great many
packages, though I wasn't able to figure out the reason. So I ran an
`apt-get upgrade` afterwards, which also pulled
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, theal wrote:
Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap usage? I have
a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or no swap, but at times it
does and I need to determine what the cause is.
Tony
Log in as root or do an 'su' and at the prompt
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also
to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do
as much long-haul net traffic.
Can I start the woody-sarge upgrade by updating, first,
aptitude
But that will not tell me what is using swap only
what is using a resource. I need to determine what program or PID is actually
causing my swap to grow. I already know that it is growing, just don't know what
is causing it.
Tony
- Original Message -
From:
Robert Wolfe
theal wrote:
But that will not tell me what is using swap only what is using a
resource. I need to determine what program or PID is actually causing my
swap to grow. I already know that it is growing, just don't know what is
causing it.
Uhm, is it growing uncontrolably or just growing a
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote:
hello,
i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
(especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also
to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do
as much long-haul net traffic.
Can I start the woody-sarge upgrade by updating, first,
aptitude
Why you dont try the DVD images over Bittorrent? That would be much
better that download 14 CD images or not?
greetz
Dominik
On 6/8/05, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 01:14 pm, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I've been trying with torrent, but can't get it to work, so
* Jason G Skala [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050608 21:00]:
I am running woody still and if I do any apt-get command from update to
^
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
^^
You want to upgrade to sarge, do you?
Hit
I know nothing, but I would think that the OS uses swap, not individual
processes. Probably the memory optimizer does it's job regardless of
free memory?
What is the problem with using swap? Or are you just curious?
theal wrote:
Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing
prash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hello,
| i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
| favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
| (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
| i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
| / :
* Jim MacBaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050608 20:46]:
I have started to download the Sarge 3.1r0 i386 dvd, I already had
downloaded 3,9 GB of 4,4 GB. Then I made the failure to log out and
log in again. I restarted bittorrent and found out that the 3.1r0
torrent has been replaced by the 3.1r0_a_
It grows to almost a gig. I have a program I
suspect is the problem, butit would be nice to be able to verify without
restart this very mission critical program.
Tony
- Original Message -
From:
Steve Lamb
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 08,
I have a program that suspect is cause my swap to
grow to almost a gig, but it would be nice to verify without restarting a very
mission critical program.
Tony
- Original Message -
From:
Michael Z
Daryabeygi
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June
Hello list,
I've installed debian unstable MAC port on my IMAC.
My problem is with apt-get.
I used a sniffer and verified a http file is transmitted properly but
the problem seems to be that apt-get searches for
base-installer_1.13_powerpc.udeb which does not exist, what does exist
in all the
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:51:59PM +0200, Lukas Demetz wrote:
Hi there,
today I upgraded one of our servers to Debian 3.1, without bigger
problems. Let me list you the old vs. new versions of some interesting
packages:
apache 1.26 - 1.33
php4 4.1 - 4.3 (module)
As now, everything works
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:19:00PM +0100, John Kirkland wrote:
Maurits van Rees wrote:
snip
I don't remember ever using apt-setup. But look in the /etc/apt/ dir
for files called apt.conf and preferences. Both may have a line
mentioning Default-Release which could be the source of your
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also
to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do
as much long-haul
theal wrote:
It grows to almost a gig. I have a program I suspect is the problem,
well if you have 2 gig of mem, isn't that normal behavior?
but it would be nice to be able to verify without restart this very
mission critical program.
Tony
- Original Message -
*From:*
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:09:22 -0400
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also
to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do
as much long-haul net traffic.
Can I start the woody-sarge upgrade by updating, first,
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:49:27 -0400
theal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a program that suspect is cause my swap to grow to almost a
gig, but it would be nice to verify without restarting a very mission
critical program.
Try running ps aux | less and look for any processes using more than
No I have 100 servers running this program and most
only use about 200 - 300 MB of swap total.
Tony
- Original Message -
From:
Michael Z
Daryabeygi
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:58
PM
Subject: Re: Swap usage
theal wrote:
theal wrote:
It grows to almost a gig. I have a program I suspect is the problem,
but it would be nice to be able to verify without restart this very
mission critical program.
Tony
Do you have doodle or doodled installed on your system? I found that it
eats up all the memory and
Windows XP + Office XP = $80.
http://wcd.h6lw2yhawrzoeiz.caprylonelf.com
Thank God I have done my duty.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:40:11 +0200, Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote:
For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question.
Currently, I am running an unstable machine (I have unstable in
sources.list). I will
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also
to install apt-cacher on
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:46:55PM +0200, Jim MacBaine wrote:
Has someone downloaded the old i386 dvd torrent and is able to send it to me?
You don't need to, just take the new torrent and rename the iso to the
new name, in the case it has a new name.
As long as the file order isn't changed to
If anyone has installed debian (sarge, root filesystem) directly onto
disks controlled by an adaptec 2?10SA controller (eg. 2410SA, 2610SA,
2810SA, 21610SA), or knows that this has actually been done (ie. the
debian-installer recognized the card or you loaded a driver), would you
reply to this
An aacraid maintainer (Mark Salyzyn) has emailed a copy of the latest
source (2401) and explained that there is no reason why aacraid
1.1.5-2326 (at least) or later wouldn't function with 2?10SA cards.
I've been assuming that the debian-installer just attempts to insmod its
aacraid module
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:46:18PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Now that I'll be
no doodle installed
- Original Message -
From:
kamaraju kusumanchi
To: debian-user
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:27
PM
Subject: Re: Swap usage
theal wrote: It grows to almost a gig. I have a
program I suspect is the problem, but it would be nice to be able
On Wednesday June 8 2005 20:50, Jim Hall wrote:
Because printing in Linux and I are not on the best of terms, I sort of
expected to see something more CUPS related. I say that because in the
CUPS setup I've done so far I didn't see any lpr commands.
So there we have a(nother) potential
On 2005-06-08, prash wrote:
hello,
i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
(especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
/ : 7.0 gb
On 6/6/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:41:38PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
Hello:
I've had nano - a free replacement for pico, the editor which comes
with pine - installed with pine without any trouble. But I just tried
to upgrade to pine
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote:
hello,
i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
(especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
i have decided
I have cups ,hpijs, and foomatic installed on debian
sarge. I have an HP-OfficeJet-9100 that prints great form
one machine but only prints text from the new server. The
older machine that works has X-server so the printer was
installed with the GUI. The new server has no GUI. I have
been
On 6/6/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:28:49PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Monday June 6 2005 6:04 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
That's what you get for using packages from untrusted sources :-)
Email the UW developers and tell them to read
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 18:47, Simon wrote:
I'm hoping to install sarge on an HP box with one adaptec 2610sa raid
controller, but the latest debian-installer's aacraid module doesn't
recognize the 2610sa. The 2410sa, 2810sa and 21610sa are mentioned as
being supported on adaptec's site (and
Jim Hall wrote:
Lee Braiden wrote:
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote:
Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' 'upgrade' to
stable, or leave Sarge as the target?
No, you can do nothing, if you like.
Pointing it to stable would only do something once the next
Hello
I'm living in China and this summer I will go back home to Europe,
where, among other things, I will set up a LAMP server. I will use the
server to host a web-page, I'm currently working on and in future
probably something more. Some will probably say that it would be better
to find a
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:07:12PM -0700, prash wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Scrap the whole scheme. Just use LVM. Trust me on this. It is quite
worth it. Setting up LVM on a new drive is a piece of cake. Trying to
do it once the drive has been in use for a year and you have lots
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400
Apt-cacher serves the same purpose as apt-proxy and works just as well,
in my experience. I switched to it before apt-proxy v2 hit Sarge and
found it to be better than apt-proxy v1 and it would start
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 02:46, Manuele Bondì wrote:
Thank you Robert for your interest and excuse my long delay in replying.
No problem, I will sometimes take time replying as well. I have a lot of email
to get through.
snip
(ii) I downloaded Sid (Debian 3.1 unstable, did I get that part
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:01:58PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
I have used both apt-proxy and apt-cacher. Both work, but apt-cacher
is much simpler and easier, and when I last looked apt-proxy was not
really part of Sarge.
It made the release:
$ apt-cache policy apt-proxy
apt-proxy:
i have the same problem with gentoo
2005.0. coming up with the installation.
after comparing the settings with
my slackware i found no differences with de4x5.
i don't now the options how to
switch between TP BNC with de2104x i think this is the cause of mismatch,
i use TP.
is there anybody out
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mitja Podreka wrote:
I will have (I hope :-) no problems setting up the server, I've done that
already. What I worry about is how to administer the server from China? Will I
only lack the access to the reset button, or something more? Which software
should I use for this?
Hi,
I am using debian unstable. yesterday i did apt-get dist-upgrade and
after that when restarting the gnome session, error of nautilus is
reported and gnome did't start.
what sud i do now.. i cannot use gnome beacuse of this nautilus.
Paras.
Siju George wrote:
The Installation of this module failed so now could someone please
tell me how I ca install this NIC??
I assume you mean the sk98lin module that I suggested to use? Exactly
what failed? Did you try the one which is available in the kernel? I
suggest trying this
Matthijs wrote:
How long will Etch be in testing?
When are the next summer olympics? ;-)
But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge
because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from eleven
to four. They are aiming for a 12 to 18 month release
Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
Is the new installer the same as the RC3 released on March 23rd?
Basically, if I'm going to setup a system for which I plan to switch to
testing or unstable and do a dist-upgrade on anyway, should I stick with
my RC3 testing installer, or is the new one going to do
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:16:34AM +0900, Paras pradhan wrote:
Hi,
I am using debian unstable. yesterday i did apt-get dist-upgrade and
after that when restarting the gnome session, error of nautilus is
reported and gnome did't start.
what sud i do now.. i cannot use gnome beacuse of this
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe,
due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any
of them are
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote:
But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge
because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from eleven
to four. They are aiming for a 12 to 18 month release cycle.
Also, no new installer this
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:53:56 -0400
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400
Apt-cacher serves the same purpose as apt-proxy and works just as
well, in my experience. I switched to it before
i have just downloaded 1st CD of 3.1, only to find the
following Last Minute Notes in README.txt:
You should keep in mind that this is an unofficial CD
of the current development version of the Debian
system. This means that all sorts of bugs may be
present anywhere in the system.
i'm completely
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
Jim Hall wrote:
Lee Braiden wrote:
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote:
Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' 'upgrade' to
stable, or leave Sarge as the target?
No, you can do nothing, if you
* Rob Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Jun 07 16:51 -0500]:
Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Jan Leewe Behrendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Jun 07 00:56 -0500]:
Hi Nate,
check your dmesg output after having connected the device. It should say
something about the device name assigned to your camera.
I
hi,all
i have a DELL PE2800 server
with 10 300GB disks.i make 3 PV whichare3RAID0.then a LV cross
the whole 3 PV.
now , one of RAID0 is
unstable.
so i want to change
disk.
but i can't lose
data.
here is 'df'
information:
/dev/mapper/nicvg-niclv 2.0T
774G 1.2T 40% /ftproot
and here is
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
I strongly suspect that this is pure BS. I have never had a problem with
conflict resolution with either flavors of dist-upgrade, namely
apt-get dist-upgrade and
aptitude dist-upgrage. Both work for me.
Furthermore, the code for
On Wednesday June 8 2005 2:07 pm, theal wrote:
Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap
usage? I have a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or
no swap, but at times it does and I need to determine what the
cause is.
Are you using RAM? Has your machine been
On Wednesday June 8 2005 12:17 pm, Jim Hall wrote:
Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' 'upgrade'
to stable, or leave Sarge as the target?
It depends. Do you want to track Sarge or stable? Stable is always
the current release, Sarge is always Sarge.
--
Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 8 2005 2:06 pm, Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
Is the new installer the same as the RC3 released on March 23rd?
Possibly, though probably not given the different version number.
When in doubt, go hit the mirrors the version you're expecting.
--
Paul Johnson
Email and Instant
On Wednesday June 8 2005 1:32 pm, Jim Hall wrote:
Sounds good. Next link in the chain, will I have to use
'dist-upgrade'?
Yes, though you might find visual representation of what you're doing
helpful. You might want to do this instead:
apt-get install aptitude
Then, once that is installed,
On Wednesday June 8 2005 5:27 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was
more successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade.
Apparently aptitude is supposed to do the conflict resolution
better than dist-upgrade or apt-get.
apt is
On Wednesday June 8 2005 12:05 pm, prash wrote:
hello,
1. why should i (and how can i) define a /tmp partition when i
don't know what temporary space each app might take? a dvd burner
might decide to take 4 gb, a regular app just 10 kb. if i go higher
it's a waste 95% of the time, lower and i
* Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'd suggest putting in snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss if it isn't there
already.
Thanks for the heads up. I will do that.
patrick
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was more
successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade. Apparently
aptitude is supposed to
Hello. I just upgraded to Sarge and I have discovered
an odd behavior w/ Apache and PHP. If you go to:
http://turlyming.com/index.php - Apache/PHP appears to
work okay.
http://turlyming.com/ - Prompted for file download
(content type x-httpd-php)
DirectoryIndex is set to index.php. The module
On 6/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I just upgraded to Sarge and I have discovered
an odd behavior w/ Apache and PHP. If you go to:
http://turlyming.com/index.php - Apache/PHP appears to
work okay.
http://turlyming.com/ - Prompted for file download
(content
On 6/9/05, j smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have just downloaded 1st CD of 3.1, only to find the
following Last Minute Notes in README.txt:
You should keep in mind that this is an unofficial CD
of the current development version of the Debian
system. This means that all sorts of bugs may
On 6/9/05, cwinl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,all
i have a DELL PE2800 server with 10 300GB disks.i make 3 PV which are 3
RAID0.then a LV cross the whole 3 PV.
now , one of RAID0 is unstable.
so i want to change disk.
but i can't lose data.
You should've been aware of the
hi folks,
a mail i sent thro' gmail did not get thro'. is gmail blocked by this
mail list?
what is the latest version of xfree86 for debian testing? i am now
using 4.3 and am having difficulty with installing a writing tablet.
would like to upgrade xfree86.
i remember reading sometime back
So I've been trying to figure out why when I upgraded from Woody to
Sarge (now stable whu-hoo) my Apache system got all fubar'd. Here is
what I'm seeing.
When accessing the page: http://beta.monkeynet.ca/misc.php I have no
problems. However if I try to access http://beta.monkeynet.ca/ or
John Kirkland wrote:
Setup: sarge (from whilst it was in testing). sources.list has been
modified to point to stable now (it was pointing to unstable, of
course). aptitude update/upgrade/dist-upgrade has been run, without
problems.
Anyways, why does apt-setup continue to use testing when
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:21:10 +0100
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok that's a little odd. I found nautilus running but I didn't start it.
I suppose some other application must have started it for some reason (I
presume OpenOffice did it). Killing nautilus hasn't brought my desktop
Rob Brenart (TT) wrote:
Is the new installer the same as the RC3 released on March 23rd?
Basically, if I'm going to setup a system for which I plan to switch to
testing or unstable and do a dist-upgrade on anyway, should I stick with
my RC3 testing installer, or is the new one going to do
Hi there, people.
Is there any bittorrent file for downloading and sharing netinst images of
Debian? I would love to have it for, at least, x86 and powerpc.
I have already tried to look at cdimage.debian.org for such information but
found nothing there (there are, on the other hand, bittorrent
j smith wrote:
i have just downloaded 1st CD of 3.1, only to find the
following Last Minute Notes in README.txt:
You should keep in mind that this is an unofficial CD
of the current development version of the Debian
system. This means that all sorts of bugs may be
present anywhere in the
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0400, theal wrote:
Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap usage? I
have a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or no swap, but at
times it does and I need to determine what the cause is.
Tony
I take it 'top' doesn't
deb packagesOn 6/8/05, Robert Vangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Meni Shapiro wrote: I did that but it seems like it didn't change much it a new installationand i think it doesn't play *mp3 files?? is there a plug-in for mp3?? Thanks,
MeniDid you install from sources or from deb packages?--
The problem is win2k is on third ide disk.
hd0 is 160gig ide with debian
hd1 is DVD-RW
hd2 is 60gig ide with Win2k on hdc1 mdk 9.0 hdc6.
hd3 is CD-RW
I've put together the following Grub statments from reading Grub Docs
and tried them in menu.lst but it didn't work... Can anyone
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