Re: Where's my xenbr0 and vif0.0

2009-11-28 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:22 +0100, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:19 AM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Everything I've read so far on xen networking leads me to believe that I should have a bridge named xenbr0 and a virtual interface vif0.0

Where's my xenbr0 and vif0.0

2009-11-21 Thread whollygoat
Everything I've read so far on xen networking leads me to believe that I should have a bridge named xenbr0 and a virtual interface vif0.0 for dom0. The bridge appears to be named eth0 here: --- # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:62:29:04 inet

filed a bug report, re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-13 Thread whollygoat
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:43 -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB linked external enclosure using mkdosfs -c

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-10 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46 +, John Allen john.al...@dublinux.net wrote: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB

mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-07 Thread whollygoat
Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5 HD in a USB linked external enclosure using mkdosfs -c /dev/sd{ag}1. In both cases the process hung while checking for bad blocks.

bug report #539995 filed, re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-04 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:11 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: Hello, On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: It also seems that things are not so rosy on the server itself. I ran aptitude build-dep approx to try and solve the other part

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-03 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:11 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: Hello, On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: It also seems that things are not so rosy on the server itself. I ran aptitude build-dep approx to try and solve the other

disregard re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-03 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:10 -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:11 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: Hello, On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: It also seems that things are not so rosy on the

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-02 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:20 +0200, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: You can try using curl http://.../Packages...; from the machine hosting approx, even if it sounds weird it can give you hints on what is happening (I say curl because

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-01 Thread whollygoat
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:53 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: On 29-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-28 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:03 -0400, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:55:06 -0700 whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. ... Secondly, sites such as the following lead me to believe that it is possible to

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-28 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get caught in an infinite loop updating the

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-28 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +, Sylvain Le Gall gil...@debian.org wrote: On 28-07-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get caught in an infinite loop updating the

approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-27 Thread whollygoat
I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get caught in an infinite loop updating the Packages files? I've tried from localhost and a remote machine. On both machines, running aptitude update causes the Packages file to start downloading (you can

Solved, re: xdm login infinite loop

2009-07-20 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:35 +0200, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I can't login in graphically.  My password is accepted, the screen goes blank and flickers like when it is starting up a session, then just

xdm login infinite loop

2009-07-10 Thread whollygoat
I can't login in graphically. My password is accepted, the screen goes blank and flickers like when it is starting up a session, then just returns me to the login display. I'm using xfce and xdm on a thinkpad i series laptop. I know my password is being accepted because the screen behaviour is

console black after x

2009-07-10 Thread whollygoat
After starting an X server, either with startx or with xdm, all the vt's go black. I can login and type commands, but I cannot see what I am doing. Switching back to the graphical console works fine (Alt+F7). Googling leads me to believe that this is a driver problem, but haven't helped me

Graphical display problems on thinkpad iseries

2009-06-29 Thread whollygoat
Hi all, I'm having trouble with the graphical interface on an IBM Thinkpad i1161. I was hoping for some help in debugging them. First off, I had to tinker with xorg.conf to get anything usable. I'm using siliconmotion as the driver at 1024x768. Now that I've got that working, other problems

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, thveillon.debian thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select a driver and click on Add

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select a driver and click on Add Printer.

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-11 Thread whollygoat
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:23 +0200, martin f krafft madd...@debian.org wrote: also sprach whollyg...@letterboxes.org whollyg...@letterboxes.org [2009.06.10.2308 +0200]: So, if I understand correctly, in the Lenny version of mdadm (I never experienced this building arrays with mdadm on Etch)

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-10 Thread whollygoat
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:25 +0200, martin f krafft madd...@debian.org wrote: also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net [2009.06.10.0030 +0200]: It was in auto-read-only (not quite the same). Auto-read-only is set automatically by mdadm for array that is started without all of

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-09 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:26 +1000, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:45:22PM -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:07 +0100, kj koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net wrote: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Number Major

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-09 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:30 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 1244582859.18981.1319594...@webmail.messagingengine.com, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:26 +1000, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:45:22PM -0700,

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:07 +0100, kj koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net wrote: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3310 active sync /dev/hde1 1 3411 active sync

Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-08 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:38 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 1244343455.32414.1319142...@webmail.messagingengine.com, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Can anyone tell me why the following command creates 2 spares instead of just one? # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1

mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-06 Thread whollygoat
Can anyone tell me why the following command creates 2 spares instead of just one? # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1 -l5 -b internal \ -n3 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdi1 \ -x1 /dev/hdk1 --name FileServ -a yes # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 01.00 Creation Time : Sat Jun 6

where are asterisk modules ?

2009-05-31 Thread whollygoat
I've installed asterisk on lenny, along with zaptel and libpri. I'm working throught the O'Reilly Asterisk book. Things are going well untill I try a command that needs /dev/zap/ctl. The device isn't there. Apparently I need some modules, but they don't seem to be there. Specifically, I'm

Re: where are asterisk modules ?

2009-05-31 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 31 May 2009 03:07 -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I've installed asterisk on lenny, along with zaptel and libpri. I'm working throught the O'Reilly Asterisk book. Things are going well untill I try a command that needs /dev/zap/ctl. The device isn't there. Apparently I need

Re: squeeze pkg on lenny: bug?

2009-05-25 Thread whollygoat
On Sat, 23 May 2009 16:38 -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Just installed lenny (5.0.0) from CD. For some reason, aptitude did not get installed. Tried to install it, but it had unmet dependencies. -- # apt-get install aptitude [snip] The following packages have

squeeze pkg on lenny: bug?

2009-05-23 Thread whollygoat
Just installed lenny (5.0.0) from CD. For some reason, aptitude did not get installed. Tried to install it, but it had unmet dependencies. -- # apt-get install aptitude [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6

help with seg fault in aptitude and booting xen

2009-04-17 Thread whollygoat
This is a recently installed firewalling router/gateway running Lenny. For two or three days it has been running for long periods with no interruptions in connectivity or with booting. p3 500Mhz slot 1 seanix columbia sx mobo i440bx chipset Today it suddenly died in the middle of my web

Re: Question about proxy servers for debian packages

2009-03-30 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:17 -0600, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I see in the aptitude package list three packages that are proxy servers specifically designed to proxy the package files from a Debian repository/mirror. There may be more than three. I didn't work very hard at

Anyone? Re: usb flash drive locks up pc, squeeze, lenny, not ubuntu

2009-03-16 Thread whollygoat
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:57:24PM -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Ubuntu 7.10 doesn't have this problem, but I tried lenny and it does it, too. Looked at loaded modules on Ubuntu and Squeeze. usb_storage was missing on squeeze, but after loading, problem persisted. Googling hasn't

using usb flash drive locks up pc on squeeze

2009-03-13 Thread whollygoat
Hi, Recently installed testing for the first time. Whenever I try to use a usb flash drive the machine freezes: no keyboard, no mouse, no ssh from the outside, not even an answer to a ping. Most often this happens right after plugging in the drive. Once I was able to work maybe 4 or 5 minutes

Re: IPMI problem compiling linux 2.6.28.5 in Debian Way

2009-02-17 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:02:37 +0100, Adrian Chapela achapela.rexist...@gmail.com said: Thomas Preud'homme escribió: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 12:31:45 Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am compiling Linux Kernel 2.6.28.5. Where did you get the sources ? I first thought it

Re: new hard drive, reinstalling grub

2009-01-27 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:20:55 +0200, gp...@ccf.auth.gr said: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: *created all the lvm volumes groups and partitions, *created ext3 filesystems on the partitions, *created the necessary mount points on /, mounted all the partitions, then cpio'd everything

new hard drive, reinstalling grub

2009-01-26 Thread whollygoat
I'm trying to prepare a bigger hard drive for a system, but I can't get it to boot. Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong below, or what I forgot to do? Booting a grml cd, I repartitioned the larger drive, first using the o command to fdisk to create a new blank partition table (this is a

Re: Postfix config

2009-01-25 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:15:10 -0500, Tenant ten...@tenant.net said: I'm trying to set up a number of email accounts for the various domains we host. We used to run RedHat and Sendmail, so we're familiar with that (virtusertable, genericstable and aliases), but not with Postfix which seems

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-18 Thread whollygoat
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:44:11 +1100, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au said: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:45:24PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I wonder if that would have helped with the larger drives. Too late:) The smaller drives shouldn't have been bad. All I did to them was

(resolved) Re: blkid gets it info from where?

2009-01-18 Thread whollygoat
For the sake of anyone who may have been looking for an answer to this besides myself, I'd like to report two things 1) removing and recreating /etc/blkid.tab and /etc/blkid.tab.old seems to have fixed things. The boot process is not interrupted by fsck errors; 2) while researching

blkid gets it info from where?

2009-01-14 Thread whollygoat
I've a file server that is dropping to a maintenance prompt at boot because fsck.ext3 is unable to check a device. But, it shouldn't be looking at that device anyway. --- begin log excerpt --- Checking file systems fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) fsck.ext3: Device or resource

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-14 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:07:37 +1100, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au said: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:46:08PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +, John Robinson john.robin...@anonymous.org.uk said: On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org

Re: Alex Samad Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-12 Thread whollygoat
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +, John Robinson john.robin...@anonymous.org.uk said: On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: But anyway, I don't think that is going to matter. The issue I am trying to solve is how to de-activate the bitmap. It was suggested on the

Re: Alex Samad Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-08 Thread whollygoat
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:12:18 +1100, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au said: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:19:05PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:17:46 +1100, Neil Brown ne...@suse.de said: [snip] How should I have done the grow operation if not as above? The

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-07 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:17:46 +1100, Neil Brown ne...@suse.de said: On Monday January 5, jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: cc linux-raid On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: [snip] The RAID reassembled fine at each boot as the drives were replaced one by one.

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-06 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:17:46 +1100, Neil Brown ne...@suse.de said: On Monday January 5, jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: cc linux-raid On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I think growing my RAID array after replacing all the drives with bigger ones has somehow

RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-05 Thread whollygoat
I think growing my RAID array after replacing all the drives with bigger ones has somehow hosed the array. The system is Etch with a stock 2.6.18 kernel and mdadm v. 2.5.6, running on an Athlon 1700 box. The array is 6 disk (5 active, one spare) RAID 5 that has been humming along quite nicely

HP Deskjet 648C using USB won`t work

2006-11-18 Thread whollygoat
Hi, I've an HP Deskjet 648C printer. There are both parallel and USB interfaces on the printer. I've been using it on the parallel interface using CUPS. I now want that parallel interface for a parallel only printer. The Deskjet I want to move to USB. The printer works fine in Ubuntu