I just built a fresh etch box, workstation build. I encrypted everything but
/boot using lvm. My goal is a sid box, but I've had to go through several
iterations of the etch install. First, I found that the installer/initrd did
not like having multiple physical volumes on the root volume group.
Hi Salvatore,
The easiest way I have found to do this is to create a partition which you open
with a passphrase that contains the key files for the other partitions...Then
set the other partitions up to open on said key files. In fact, if you set it
up right, you should be able to have the
Just trying out my first etch install. Kudos to the Release team and everyone
involved in getting this out the door.
I'm trying to rebuild my system with a pair of 120 GB drives and a 160GB
drives. In the partitioner, I configured hda with
hda1 1.5GB encrypted swap
hda2 500MB /boot
hda3
I have two machines, both running unstable. On the one I dist-upgraded over the
weekend, I attempt to log in but each keystroke changes the resolution of the X
display.
In the X messages, I see the following messages:
xkb_keycodes { include xfree86+aliases(qwerty) };
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From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:22:08 PM GMT-0500 US/Eastern
Subject: Re: Sound system stopped working
Bradley Alexander wrote:
Having an issue with sound on my sid box. It used to work fine, but now, I
I am hoping there is an easy way to do this. I am looking for a way to map
drivers to hardware in a box. I have been tasked with a project at work in
which I need to display the driver associated with a piece of hardware in a
box. The problem is that we have a variety of platforms, including
Having an issue with sound on my sid box. It used to work fine, but now, I get
errors, and my sound card is not detected. I tried several approaches to get it
to work, including the page at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sound.htm
It is a SBLive! Platinum running on an Athlon XP1800. lspci shows:
I do something very similar. In fact, I just had to change out my mailserver,
and wound up changing from Kolab/Kroupware to Zimbra (community edition). I
highly recommend Zimbra if anyone is looking.
--b
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From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I've been using Kolab for my mail/collaboration software for home about
4 years. Right now, the hard drive on the machine I'm running on is
failing. I have other hardware on which to run the new mail server,
however, I am trying to decide the best suite to use. I can stick with
Kolab, as there is
I dist-upgraded my sid box the other night, and now I am seeing several
strange things. For instance, my sound card, a SBLive, is not being
detected wrong
lspci shows that I have
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
01:08.1 Input device controller:
Got a problem with a box, dual PIII/933 2GB RAM, dual 36GB SCSI drives
on a MegaRAID controller.
The box is running unstable. The original kernel,
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486, boots. However, this box is slated to run
VMware server. Since Debian is not a supported host OS, there are no
pre-compiled
Mathias Brodala wrote:
Hello Bradley.
So the problem I have is that any more recent stock kernel (I have tried
2.6.16-smp and 2.6.17) panics on boot:
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
How does the config file of your bootmanager look like?
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:39 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian
source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb
distros and let me download the results?
Specifically I want to take a few source packages and get
Another alternative may be to get the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), which
ships with a number of motherboard tooks, manufacturer hard drive tools,
filesystem tools, plus a copy of the INSERT live Linux distro.
I have successfully used this at work to get the manufacturer's failure
code from a dead
Having a problem tracking down a problem with my wife's machine. Its a
1.2GHz Athlon, 768 MB RAM, two HDs a DVD ROM and a CD-RW:
hda: IBM-DTTA-371010, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ST328040A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: HITACHI GD-2000, ATAPI
I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop
running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx
drivers.
Both upgrades failed miserably.
On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following:
WARNING: The following essential packages will be
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote:
Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I
heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but
it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /.
Is this specific to AMD? I have been
I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14.
I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg).
With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the
boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees
I am trying to configure a firewall, but nailing down the configuration
is eluding me. The box is running Debian stable. I have tried with
iproute2 (I'm including a description below), but not gotten the
intended effect. I have tried the lartc list, to no avail. A friend of
mine suggested setting
I'm trying to [re]install Debian on my wife's machine, a PIII/800 with 512MB
ram. It has an nVidia GeForce 2 card and a pair of 30GB drives. It was
formerly running Libranet (which is Debian based), with kernel 2.6.11. She
was having some hard to pin down hardware problems (which I think was
On Monday 26 September 2005 11:25 am, Dick Davies wrote:
On 26/09/05, Daniel Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is it interesting to have a different partition
for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a
home computer.
You mentioned a home computer. I have more than one system
Hi,
I built sarge on an IBM X330. System specs, IBM X330, dual 1GHz PIIIs, 1GB
RAM, dual 36GB u160 SCSI cards on a ServerRAID 4Lx, configured for mirroring.
BIOS version 1.04, ServerRAID version 7.00.
I installed sarge on the machine, but when I tried to boot the linux26 kernel,
it wouldn't
There was something similar called TaskJuggler, but I don't know whether or
not it will read/write Project files. As someone said, Project is a beast,
and I don't know if TJ is up to that level yet, since I haven't looked at it
in over a year.
On Monday 25 July 2005 22:15, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:05 am, Thomas Stivers wrote:
I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh
which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a
package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add
iptables rules to drop
I'm running sid on an Intel box. I have been running devfs for about 5 years.
My motherboard is a KT133 with a Southbridge PCI controller and a Promise
PDC20265 controller. I have the following drive config:
Southbridge controller:
hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA
On Sunday 14 November 2004 20:20, Nicolas Patik wrote:
Hi, I was wondering which are your favorites fast installation methods?
I need to have ready a fast install method,
what do you suggest?
anything apt related?
or creating my own CD?
or a NFS install?
Is it possible to install from
I have been having problems with USB on a couple of machines, and I would like
to get it fixed.
The first machine is an 1GHz Athlon running sid. I have a Palm Tungsten E, a
512MB Lexar Thumb, an Archos Recorder 20 mp3 player and a 512MB SanDisk SD
card for the Palm, with a Sandisk Cruzer
Got a quick apt question. I had a DIMM go bad in my sid system, and thanks to
having to hard reset it during troubleshooting, a couple of filesystems got
trashed.
I removed the bad DIMM, and was able to rebuild the filesystems (reiserfs).
However, a slew of files (700+) got put in lost+found.
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On Wednesday 28 July 2004 15:51, Frédéric Dreier wrote:
I use it with a netgear switch (802.11g) which support the mac-address
restrictions. I was just a little disapointed to learn that encryption
was not so difficult to break... but it seems to
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Having problems with 2.6.7, hopefully someone can help.
I have USB1.1 on the motherboard, but I bought a Belkin USB2.0 card a month
ago. USB2.0 hub plugged into the USB2 card. Upgraded to 2.6.7 a week ago.
My problem is that my Palm Tungsten E
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On Wednesday 14 July 2004 05:12, Dave Thayer wrote:
I have a similar set of toys working nicely on 2.6.2 (Hmm, I should
probably update). Did you remember to enable hotplug support
(CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y)? If so what do your logs say. When I plug in a
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I just took the plunge into the 2.6 world, and it rocks. I have a couple of
lingering issues that I wanted to ask the list about.
1. USB devices - I have a number of USB devices, from an Archos 20GB mp3
player (which works) to a Cruzer SD card
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I did a dist-upgrade on one of my sid boxes yesterday, and I can't get
xserver-xfree86 to install. Because of that, x-window-system-core and
x-window-system cannot install. When I run apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get -f
install or manually dpkg -i, I
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This list is the Debian-user list. If you are running XP and 2000, aren't you
looking in the wrong place?
On Friday 16 April 2004 12:23, abdoulaye kebe wrote:
Hello everybody, I' am trying to set up a home network . I have a pc
running 2000 pro
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:28:01 -0600
Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Bradley,
Bradley Alexander wrote:
I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally
compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use
of the tun device. I set up /dev/net/tun
I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally compiled
2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use of the tun
device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel documentation, but
when I try to bring the device up by hand, I get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] net]# ifconfig
On my home workstation, I have an intermittent problem with X running
away. The machine is a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, GeForce4MX/64 MB. It has
been occurring for the past several months. Basically, what happens
(normally, after the screen blanks) is that the XFree86 process starts
eating 97-100%
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:32:08 -0700
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:18:40PM -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote:
I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having
problems getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23
and
I did a dist-upgrade on my sid box tonight, and ran into two debs that
are being a thorn in my side. The first one is
xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.2.1-12.1_i386.deb and the second is
nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.4496-5_i386.deb. Currently I have
[defiant /home/storm]# dpkg -l xlibmesa-gl-dev nvidia-glx-dev
My sid workstation had a boot drive failure. I replaced the failed drive
(a Maxtor 30GB) with a Maxtor 120GB. I kept the same partition layout
(swap hda1; / hda2; lvm hda3). I then rebuilt the base system from the
woody bf2.4disks and did an apt-get dselect-upgrade from the package list
in
I tried to install kde 3 on my sid system and found that it is broken in
sid and woody:
[defiant /]# apt-get install kde
Reading Pacage Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are
I've been seeing problems for the past several weeks and I am finally
beginning to see a pattern. It started about the time I upgraded to a
GeForce4MX after my GeForce2 died. At first I thought it was being caused
by Gnome apps, because it was happening with greater frequency with Galeon
and
them,
and GLcore is supplied by the nvidia driver itself.
Thoughts?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:47:45 +0200
Sebastian Kapfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:40:09 +0200, Bradley Alexander wrote:
Option NoRenderAccel on
to the device section of XF86Config-4. I
Running sid on a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, MSI GeForce4MX, kernel 2.4.21
(self compiled), nvidia-glx/glx-dev version1.0.4349-1, nvidia-kernel
version 1.0.4349-3.
Previously, I had a GeForce2, and didn't have problems like this, but with
the GF4, I do. At the same time, its only occurring with
I have been having some problems on my workstation at home for a few weeks
now, and I'm not sure any more where to look. At first, I thought (and I'm
still inclined to look in that direction) that it was a Gnome problem. I
have always had abyssmal luck with Gnome, I tried the desktop back in the
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 15:10, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
My suspicion is towards Mozilla-Firebird. At least one time, I was
editing an input form. At the moment, this activity still crashes
firebird quite often, but luckily with no harm done to X.
I am really starting to suspect Gnome. I am not a
I downloaded the latest cvs from sourceforge (which is getting almost
unreasonably congested, but thats another thread) on my sid box. Thus
far, I have had zero luck getting it to compile. I have tried it with
gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.3, and it seems to be having problems with flex. I
also backrevved
If you can navigate through an editor, I've had excellent luck with
gShield, http://muse.linuxmafia.net (and with a domain like linuxmafia,
how can you go wrong? :)
In any case, rather than a gui like firestarter or fwbuilder, you edit a
config file once and run it every time you boot and
Got a networking question. I have this box thats acting as a firewall.
Basically, its a PII/350 running Woody and gShield. eth0 is the external
interface (DSL) and eth1 is the internal interface. When Verizon screwed
him, he got cablemodem as a backup connection. So I added another
interface (all
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:25, Moe Binkerman wrote:
what happens if you just do the ifconfig command and then route? When
The same thing. Usually it takes about two network commands before
things start going awry. I tried on one boot to bring eth2 up with no
default gateway, so it would be on
I will give several levels of answer, since I don't know how much Linux
and filesystem experience you have.
First of all, as everyone notes, drive partitioning is a personal
decision, and more art than science. It varies from machine to machine.
That said, depending on how you want to use your
I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard.
Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats
the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :)
In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C running Debian/sid. The motherboard is
an Asus A7V133 with 768MB of RAM. It has
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 01:43, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking to buy a 64MN-128MB class small portable MP3 player and
going to use it as a language leaning (tape) player. What is the best
portable MP3 player which can be used with a Debian system with USB?
I was checking Fry's (local
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