Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

and the apropriate module for your scsi card. Thank you very much. This all looks useful, and I'll be giving it a try a little later. I hope that my next message here will be a summary of what I did to get this all working correctly. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: columbia -- what really happened

it is. I can tell that we're getting very close to the point where Hitler is going to be mentioned, so that we can then put Godwin's law into effect. Oh! ... I already mentioned him. OOPS ... -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] Is there something special I have to do to tell my kernel that there are SCSI disks at the time I make the boot floppy? That all depends:) It's a long time since I made boot floppies (prefer

Re: Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

Quoting Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ ... ] Gack! How old is the drive? Any chance the issue is termination or a misconfigured jumper? You're using an Adaptec 2940? I'll check the jumper later, when I open up my box. Yes, I believe it's a 2940 [ ... ] Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL

Re: Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

Quoting Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ ... ] Well, I'm using LILO. I want to create a proper rescue disk, and I used the mkboot utility to do so. It told me that it created a proper disk, but when I tried to boot off of it, I got a kernel panic with a message that stated

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

Quoting Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] I have some more info about my problem that might be useful. Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 ... Would this indicate a hardware problem

Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

start taking my machine apart. Thanks in advance for any help you folks can give me on this. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

Thank you VERY much for this help. I have a question though ... see below: Lloyd Zusman said: #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda2/ ext3 0 1 ^^ in the options field try putting

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:08:56 -0500 (EST) Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] in the options field try putting 'defaults' you can also jump to runlevel 1 'init 1', and when you login type: mount / -o remount,rw I did this, but I

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

to mount root fs on 08:02 The system froze at this point. Would this indicate a hardware problem? Or is there still hope that this can be fixed with software? Thanks again to all of you, for all your help. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: dates in calendar are closer than they appear. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

Quoting Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] So ... now that things are sort of back to normal, my question is this: what caused the filesystem to become read-only to begin with? Could it be hardware errors

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

be the solution? I guess we would have to know what testing packages have fixes in unstable, and then use the -t unstable option to apt-get ... correct? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:18:18PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] I learned this in this list but reading manual page of apt-get (8) ... --default-release This option controls the default input to the policy engine, it creates a default

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:57, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] That is what I do, but as I said earlier a dist-upgrade could remove some packages you want to keep so the -s option will tell you what it will do before you regret doing it. A dist-upgrade

Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

-reconfigure localepurge -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

that randompackage is installed? ... apt-get -t unstable install randompackage Or do these two methods have equally undesirable effects? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

this. I've had years of Unix experience, and so I know all about 'script' and all sorts of other tools. Sincerely, - Lloyd typescript.gz Description: typescript grep.gz Description: grep -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reconfigure of localepurge has no effect

OOPS. I'm sorry I sent my previous message in this thread to the mailing list. I intended to send it to Paul Selig, and forgot to change the address before typing ^C^C in gnus. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything about this in the documentation. Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: ... [ ... ] apt-get update apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade ^^ Why -t is set here -t set priority of that testing to 990

Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

in unstable, in which case it installs from unstable Do I have it right? Thanks. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything about this in the documentation. The hash (#) always works

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] # apt-get update ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by: E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header If I remove the hashes before lines in the ruby* section, I

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] Do I have it right? [ ... ] This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the distributions. Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

andrej hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: That still doesn't work for me ... # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: mplayer* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 # Package: ruby* # Pin: release a=unstable

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

a has to one of the blank lines, to accomplish the same trick. no? Yes, that works, as well. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:57:53AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] Is it also true that setting /etc/apt/apt.conf to contain `APT::Default-Release testing;' also sets testing to 990? Yes, that is my understanding. man apt_preferences 100

Do all mirrors in mirrors_full contain all distributions?

the internet) for determining which sites in `mirrors_full' contain any given distribution? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

a short explanation here? Since we are talking about downgrading to `stable', I don't understand why the presence of `APT::Default-Release stable;' would prevent that. Thanks. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:22, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Simon Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: [ ... ] here's my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority

Re: Ignoring ps's pid in ps

Mike Dresser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to use the standard 'ps' to get a process listing without showing the pid of that instance of 'ps' itself, WITHOUT any piping being performed or auxiliary processes being done

Doing a mass downgrade

this mailing list. Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions you can offer. Current /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 5 -- Lloyd

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

shows me that I can perform a downgrade (everything looks the same as it did before I changed the `testing' priority to 1001). Thanks again, in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' command(s) should I

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] I did this, but nothing happened. The command session is shown below. I know that a number of unstable packages had been previously installed. Any ideas? Thanks. # apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

in the salt mines. Well, enough of my ranting. But just wait until you read the replies of someone who is _really_ biased! :) :o) Scott (sidewalking) -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: WTF is popping up that frigging window?

remove this completely, or else you can right-click on it and select Preferences to configure its behavior. HTH -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

aptitude's analog to apt-get ... -t?

/preferences before starting aptitude? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Preferred procedure for getting extra php4 functionality?

the php4 source packages and rebuild them myself? Send a message to the package maintainer(s)? Or ... ??? Thanks. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preferred procedure for getting extra php4 functionality?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:43:42AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: I noticed that the standard debian php4 package doesn't seem to be built with the --enable-mime-magic option, and therefore, it doesn't provide the capability to use the mime_content_type

Re: Getting a Higher Version w/out upgrading

abides by this APT::Default-Release property in /etc/apt/apt.conf? Thanks. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sometimes getting sound fine under woody, but not with xine

91480 2 (autoclean) [usb-storage microtek sd_mod aic7xxx] unix 15784 108 (autoclean) -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sometimes getting sound fine under woody, but not with xine

nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lloyd Zusman said: audio_oss_out: Opening audio device... audio_oss_out: using device /dev/dsp1 audio_oss_out: opening audio device /dev/dsp1 failed: No such device load_plugins: audio output plugin /usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_ao_out_oss.so

[SOLVED] Re: Sometimes getting sound fine under woody, but not withxine

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Are openquicktime and quicktime4linux mutually exclusive?

, opinions, or recommendations about each of these? If not, then could someone point me to some documentation as to which packages of each that I need to install, in which order, in order to avoid installation conflicts? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection+=

Lin Hua [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection [ ... ] I know that there are already debian packages for the shells csh, tcsh, bash, zsh, etc. But this is a new shell, and I think that we should package this one up as well, possibly as sssh. -- Lloyd Zusman

Re: spamassassin out of memory

of the phrase use it or lose it? :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Default fonts for applications?

Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 11:25:33PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] [ ... ] For example, mozilla (version 1.0.0) comes up with that default font on its menu bar. I've looked in app-defaults and in the various X startup files, but I can't figure out

Finally figured it out (was: Default fonts for applications?)

Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Files: $HOME/.gtkrc-kde /usr/share/gnome/gtkrc /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc /etc/gtk/gtkrc.en

Re: Finally figured it out

. This is really a pain to figure out without suitable docs. Thanks again. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Default fonts for applications?

font is set would be greatly appreciated. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie trying to install mod_ssl

in. It provides a separate apache-ssl executable which allows this ssl-enabled Apache server to run in parallel with the standard one. I'm running the servers from both the apache and apache-ssl packages on my system, and everything works fine. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

[REPOST] Only minmal modules loaded with usermin?

and reappear every time I go to that configuration section. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

when I log in: sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so silent Apparently, this line is getting ignored, and something else is causing that Last login: ... message to get printed. But what ... ??? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.12.12.1719 +0100]: I mentioned in my original message about pam_lastlog.so. Sorry, didn't see that... No problem. Apparently, this line is getting ignored, and something else is causing that Last

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

. Problem solved. I'm happy. :) -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:34:48AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] [cjwatson@arborlon /etc/init.d]$ grep motd * bootmisc.sh:# Update /etc/motd. bootmisc.sh:uname -a /etc/motd.tmp bootmisc.sh:sed 1d /etc/motd /etc/motd.tmp

Only minimal modules loaded with usermin?

section. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mappings between CPAN packages and lib.*-perl packages

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:46:11AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Is it correct to assume that any given debian package whose name is of the form lib.*-perl corresponds to one and only one CPAN module, Not quite, but more or less. and that the algorithm

Re: Mappings between CPAN packages and lib.*-perl packages

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:46:11AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Is it correct to assume that any given debian package whose name is of the form lib.*-perl corresponds to one and only one CPAN module, Not quite, but more or less. and that the algorithm

Starting a non-root daemon a minute or so after boot-up?

to debug the code above and eventually to get it to work. But I'm hoping I can find a utility that might allow me to do this in a more elegant way. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Doing an apt-get --purge remove after an earlier remove?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:50:44PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] OK. So then I won't worry about --purge not working here. I guess I'll just dig into the installation scripts and try to figure out what they created, so I can get rid of it all

Re: Doing an apt-get --purge remove after an earlier remove?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:34:40AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That does indeed suggest that it's those packages you need to purge. Aha! Yes, that did the trick. I incorrectly assumed that dpsyco-lib and dpsyco

Mappings between CPAN packages and lib.*-perl packages

= lib${cpanModuleName}-perl) =~ s/::/-/g; system(apt-cache search --names-only '^${debianPackageName}\$'); } This little program seems to work, but are my assumptions correct? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shell game

; do break; done After this, the '$result' variable will be empty unless there are one or more files which match the pattern. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Doing an apt-get --purge remove after an earlier remove?

to perform this task for me. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing an apt-get --purge remove after an earlier remove?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: In other words, I intended to type this: apt-get --purge remove the-package ... but I inadvertantly typed this: apt-get remove the-package In these cases, is there any way that I

Re: Doing an apt-get --purge remove after an earlier remove?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:14:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove the-package which isn't installed. ... and none of the remaining pieces of the-package are removed. Then there's nothing more