Re: apt-get wants to uninstatll grub

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Brown
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Tom Brown wrote: I did an 'apt-get update/upgrade' from sarge to etch. Everything went fine. Did you 'apt-get upgrade'? Or did you 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? That is a very important distinction. If you only did an 'upgrade' then you

apt-get wants to uninstatll grub

2008-05-05 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I did an 'apt-get update/upgrade' from sarge to etch. Everything went fine. Then I wanted to upgrade my kernel. This command: apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 caused apt-get to want to uninstall grub and then install lilo. Why is that happening? I'd like to keep grub. So, how do I

sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on mysql upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've played with the force option before with bad results. Why are the libs that mysql depends on not upgraded first? Would it be a better idea to

Re: sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 09 April 2007 14:51, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:25 -0700, Tom Brown wrote: I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on mysql upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've played with the force option before

korganizer reminders stopped working

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, We've been running debian sarge for over a year now. My manager's reminders in Korganizer have recently stopped working. They still work for me just fine. The proper daemon is running on his machine: korgac --miniicon korganizer Alarms are enabled and 'Start alarm client at login' is

Re: Data Redundancy

2007-01-22 Thread Tom Brown
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 15:43 +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: Hi All, I have a server that i need to mirror elsewhere for data redundancy purposes. What is the best way to have this done? The sites on my box are MySQL and PostgreSQL driven so those need to be on both machines as well.

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Brown
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 06:49, Craig Schneider wrote: Hi Guys Is it a good idea to install debian sarge onto soaftware raid 5? Any thoughts welcome. Well, I tried on a Dell PowerEdge 4400 with a RAID 5. The install went ok. However, the darn thing wouldn't load grub. I think if it could

Re: debian on an NAS server

2006-12-14 Thread Tom Brown
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:26, Tom Brown wrote: During boot I hit F2 to get to a menu which allows me to select the BIOS setup. It was there I setup the first boot device to be the network. However, what I missed in the menu was the option for re-installation. I need to select

Re: debian on an NAS server

2006-12-14 Thread Tom Brown
On Thursday 14 December 2006 10:56, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 08:23 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:26, Tom Brown wrote: During boot I hit F2 to get to a menu which allows me to select the BIOS setup. It was there I setup the first boot device

debian on an NAS server

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, We aquired a powervault 715N NAS server. It is running some form of windows (most likely w2k). I don't have the manuals or an install disk. It doesn't have a floppy or a cdrom. I'd like to install debian on it and make it a samba server for the company. All it has is a serial port, two

Re: Can't su to root after using the RC1 installer

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 10:39, Max Hyre wrote: I'm given no chance to specify a root password, and when the installation is complete, I can't get into root. `su' and `sudo' both ask for a password, but I have no idea what it is, and CR doesn't do it. I believe the password for sudo

Re: debian on an NAS server

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:46, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:29 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: Hi, We aquired a powervault 715N NAS server. It is running some form of windows (most likely w2k). I don't have the manuals or an install disk. It doesn't have a floppy

Re: debian on an NAS server

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 19:18, Tom Brown wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:46, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:29 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: Hi, We aquired a powervault 715N NAS server. It is running some form of windows (most likely w2k). I don't have

Re: debian on an NAS server

2006-12-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 00:32 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: I am gonna be honest here and tell you I have never tried to netboot a powervault 715N. I am sure you can find some info about the powervault using Google. I came up with someone doing a similar thing but with CentOS.

kde's kwin killed - now problem with desktop 1

2006-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, My manager's computer hung up this morning. He's running sarge with two monitors. We ssh'd in from another computer and ran top. We saw an instance of kwin running that was hogging the cpu. We killed it. Now one of his desktops is acting poorly. When he opens a terminal there is no title

Re: kde's kwin killed - now problem with desktop 1

2006-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 04 December 2006 14:18, Liam O'Toole wrote: Have you tried simply starting kwin again? I haven't used KDE for a while, but IIRC, you do K-menu - Run command - enter kwin. You could also launch kwin from a terminal, of course, just to see what happens, but it will probably be killed

cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove the package? Thanks, Tom $ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove the package? Hmmm... I

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 13 November 2006 17:53, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote: On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three

apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
Hello, I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was installed. They both have the same sources.list. Any ideas why this would happen? How would I fix this? Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 10 November 2006 14:32, Tom Brown wrote: I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was installed. They both have the same sources.list. Any ideas why this would happen? How would I fix

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 10 November 2006 14:50, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: Hello, I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was installed. They both have

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 10 November 2006 15:46, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Tom, if you used apt-get with the above sources, you couldnt install version 5. So it must have been a download from maybe backports.org or someother location. Thats my guess. You can certainly try to remove any mysql software and then

apt-get install stopped working

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Brown
When enter the command 'apt-get install ntp' I get the error: 404 Not Found [IP: 64.50.236.52 80]. Yet, when I use a browser to check that ip address, it works just fine. Furthermore, apt-get works fine on another machine behind the same firewall. The apt-get command just stopped working for

Re: setting up Debian Linux from scratch

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:04, Cold Fusion wrote: Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I don't like that - I'm going to uninstall it. But then how do I install linux? I've got the CD, and

Re: apt-get install stopped working

2006-01-06 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:50, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: did you run apt-get update as it recommends? You get these errors when apt is looking for a file that doesn't exist because its been updated IIRC. No, it did not occur to me to do as I was told. Running apt-get update fixed the

Re: Network fails in 2.6.12

2005-08-18 Thread Tom Brown
On Thursday 18 August 2005 08:37, Jose E. Suarez wrote: Hi! I'm compiling a 2.6.12 kernel in a hp tc2110 server ( http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/tc2110/ ) with 2 ethernet cards, one is a 3com 3c905 Tornado (3c59x) Intel and another 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM (e100). When i start with

Re: SSH Slams

2005-07-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Sunday 10 July 2005 10:24, Matt Peter wrote: I'm receiving a few hundred failed ssh login attempts per day. I'm not worried about it, since they appear automated and ssh is locked down appropriately. I'd like to be able to IP ban these connections after a set number of failed login

nfs failure after woody r6 update

2005-06-03 Thread Tom Brown
I update our woody servers to r6 and our nfs suddenly stopped working. At least the timing was about right. However, I didn't see anything in the update that would effect nfs. I restarted the nfs servers: zan:~# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop Stopping NFS kernel daemon: mountd nfsd.

home/end keys in ssh session

2004-07-16 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, When I ssh into my Debian (Woody) server from RH 9, why can't I use my HOME and END keys? If I use ssh on the server the HOME/END keys work fine. Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/proc/bus/usb directory is empty

2004-07-15 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I have two machines that are identical in hardware. One is running RH 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18) and the other is running Debian Woody (kernel 2.4.26). The machine running RH 8.0 shows all the USB ports in /proc/bus/usb. However, on the machine running Debian, the /proc/bus/usb directory is

Re: /proc/bus/usb directory is empty

2004-07-15 Thread Tom Brown
-- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Tom Brown wrote: Hi, I have two machines that are identical in hardware. One is running RH 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18

hp tape drive not recognized

2004-07-12 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I am migrating our company servers from RH to Debian and one of the last hurdles is the tape drive. We have an HP SureStore Dat40x6 tape drive that is not being recognized under Debian. We are running Debian 3.0r2 and kernel 2.4.26. I have compiled in scsi support and scsi tape support.

2nd network card

2004-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
How do I setup a second network card and have it activated upon boot? And how do I change which card is at eth0 and which card is at eth1? Thanks, Tom

Re: Network addressing

1999-07-27 Thread Tom Brown
or as resource consuming, and neither require more than proxie mapping on the clients (no client side software to install). Proxy+ is the better of the two and the smaller (resource wise) from my standpoint. Tom Brown - Original Message - From: [ Kaa ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems installing with Promise Uttra33 (hde hdg)

1999-07-26 Thread Tom Brown
enlightening) waiting for some news to pop up about that patch. Tom Brown - Original Message - From: Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 6:15 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing with Promise Uttra33 (hde