Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?

2012-11-04 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/2/2012 12:05 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: SSD like samsung 840 (TLC) only has 1k write times. Swap directly on it would not be horrible? Your question I presume: Is SSD suitable for a swap partition? Answer: Yes, all SSDs are much faster than

Re: How to forward local mail to external address?

2013-02-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Am 05.02.2013 05:46, schrieb David Guntner: Magicloud Magiclouds grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Hi, By default, many tools like cron will send mails to local, like magicloud@localhost. Now I

Dual monitor problem.

2012-01-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have this Lenovo E46G laptop, which works well with windows 7. Now I installed Debian Sid (xorg + gnome 3 desktop). Everything seemed fine except external monitor. When I plugged in the vga connector, after 1 or 2 secs, the system recognized the monitor and extended my desktop to it.

Re: Dual monitor problem.

2012-01-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: Magicloud Magiclouds, 19.01.2012: Hi,   I have this Lenovo E46G laptop, which works well with windows 7.   Now I installed Debian Sid (xorg + gnome 3 desktop). Everything seemed fine except external monitor

How to control network speed?

2011-08-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, For some reason, I have a linux machine that has to have a network bandwidth limitation for the whole system. So I looked into command tc. And used this script from the internet. Well, the script returned successful, but in fact it did not effect anything. Could someone help me? Thanks.

Re: How to control network speed?

2011-09-01 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. I do not know why my mailbox did not show this thread. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Artur Frydel wrote at 2011-08-26 14:03 -0500: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Anyone using Lenovo E47 laptop's bluetooth?

2011-09-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi there, I own a E47 now and want to connect my cell with by bluetooth. I checked dmesg, I got: 789:[8.895748] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 791:[8.895772] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized 792:[8.895775] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized 793:[8.895777]

Re: Anyone using Lenovo E47 laptop's bluetooth?

2011-09-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   But there is no bluetooth or hci devices in lspci. `hcitool dev` returned no device, either.   What should I do? Enable in BIOS, or through rfkill

Re: Anyone using Lenovo E47 laptop's bluetooth?

2011-09-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:14:40 -0300, Henrique wrote in message 20110918131440.ga7...@khazad-dum.debian.net: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   But there is no bluetooth or hci devices in lspci. `hcitool dev

How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0 0 10270 1 20 0 58428 620 ? R?3821:44 /usr/lib/apt/methods/rred Now I cannot kill it, kill -9 did work, either. And it uses 100% of a cpu core. What

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0     0 10270     1  20   0 58428   620 ?      R

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version

Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have a machine with lvm as root that has not been rebooted for long. I just rebooted it. And it cannot boot up. The error was cannot find root $UUID specified in root bootflag. I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in busybox, I `ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid`, I

Re: Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-21 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:23:25AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   The error was cannot find root $UUID specified in root bootflag.   I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in busybox, I `ls -l

Re: Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Raf Czlonka r...@linuxstuff.pl wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:37:23AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi there,   Sorry for the delayed reply. I am using grub on x86_64. And regenerate initramfs (default configuration) did not help.   Only way to work I

Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso from cdimage.debian.org. Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso /dev/udisk`. It booted, things seemed fine until the step of finding the install cd (sorry I cannot remember the exact menu item name now). It

Is there a system sync tool?

2012-04-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have a PC at work, and a PC at home. And I am really tired to build the same environment at home every time I changed something at work. So just wonder if you guys have some idea to help. For example, when I updates something (configuration, packages, etc), the tool would somehow record

Any recommendation for an auto-proxy tool?

2012-04-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, The subject is confusing. By auto-proxy, I meant something like the auto-discovery of IE. With this option on, if there was a proxy broadcast in the network, then used it. If not, then just direct connection. How to archive this purpose? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 And for G+, please use

Re: Any recommendation for an auto-proxy tool?

2012-04-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry for the confusing, I am not providing a proxy. What I meant was, WPAD with IE works great when laptop user moves between proxied company environment and home. With auto discovery option on, IE does not have to change anything, if there is a proxy, use it. If not, directly access. So I am

network-manager-gnome cannot create vpn connection successfully.

2011-05-21 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, When adding a new connection, everything seemed fine. But when connection to it, a immediate error occurred as no valid secrets . From the internet, they said this is a bug of network-manager-gnome that it did not save the password to keyring, but asked for it when connecting. How to

Problem about ldap

2011-06-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, This may not be a proper place to ask this. I am using ldap-utils in debian sid. When I do search, kind like: $ ldapsearch -x -h ldap-server -d CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com -b CN=Magicloud,CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com -w A^b3 It failed with error on binding. If I changed Magicloud's password to A2b3,

How to configure static route?

2011-06-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I used to use configuration like up ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 via a.b.c.d dev eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces to do this. But today, in debian doc (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html 5.5.14), I found that there is a /etc/network/routes to do this. Well, I cannot find

mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I just compiled 2.6.37 with all default options. After I installed it and made initrd.img, it cannot boot up. I found that initrd.img-2.6.37 is way too small compared to 2.6.36.3. I then remade these files, the situation was still there. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.8M Jan 21 09:02

Re: mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Turns out, the kernel directory in /lib/modules is almost empty. I do not know why On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  I just compiled 2.6.37 with all default options. After I installed it and made initrd.img, it cannot boot up

Re: mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
No wonder 2.6.37 compiled so fast on my crap machine. make-kpkg did not make most of the files at all. make works now. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Turns out, the kernel directory in /lib/modules is almost empty. I do not know why

How to make a nfsboot kernel?

2007-05-05 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I want to use diskless debian. And accroding to many articles I read, I need to do some special config to make a kernel. But while I look around in aptitude (etch), I found many packages that said something like what I need. So I wonder if there is some exist tools that can do these

How to set using dhcp hostname?

2007-06-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I have a dhcp server on my net, which also provide hostnames based on ip. Like if a machine get a ip of 192.168.1.147, then its hostname would be ks147. Now I have a debian box running on the net, and I have configured using dhcp to get ip. But I do not know how to

What is this mkinitramfs error message about?

2007-06-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, After I compile and install 2.6.21 kernel, I run mkinitramfs like this: /boot# mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.21 2.6.21 While I got the error: Error: missing mapper/rootvg-root root /dev/mapper/rootvg-root /sys entry This is my mount: /boot# mount

Why my gtk problems can not act on key press sometime?

2007-06-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using Debian unstable (kernel 2.6.21) with gnome. And sometime, my app's windows just have no react when I key in something, but they does hung, they can react on mouse actions. I need to unfocus and focus the window for many times, then it may work.

Why my gtk problems can not act on key press sometime?

2007-06-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using Debian unstable (kernel 2.6.21) with gnome. And sometime, my app's windows just have no react when I key in something, but they does hung, they can react on mouse actions. I need to unfocus and focus the window for many times, then it may work.

aptitude 0.4.4-4+b1 is very slow....

2007-07-03 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using unstable brench. A few days ago, apt updated, so aptitude can not be installed. Yesterday, I found that aptitude was updated and can be installed, so I did it. Now I find out that, the new aptitude works very slow Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Why this crontab does not work?

2007-07-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I have a crontab like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command * 0,12* * * root/root/update.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # more /root/update.sh #!/bin/bash apt-get update apt-get upgrade -d apt-get autoclean apt-get autoremove touch

pidgin problem

2007-07-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using unstable brench. Today I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot, then my pidgin can not response to keyboard at all. I can not key in anything, but my mouse works well (click, and paste text by right-click menu). And all other programs (firefox, and so on) have

How to upgrade a 686 system to x86_64?

2007-07-31 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using a x86_64 hardware, but I installed a 686 sid on it. Now I want to use x86_64 sid. I installed x86_64 linux image, and booted, but all my softwares are still 686, so new x86_64 software can not be installed. How to upgrade all my softwares? Thanks. -- To

Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, It has been a long time Also, I think sid's packages update little these days. Does this mean a new stable? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What is the debian way to configure raw device?

2007-11-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, In Redhat or SuSE, there is 'rawdevices' under /etc. While what is the debian way? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Would we have a replacement for Xorg?

2008-02-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I do not know why, firefox is very slow in my box. While I checked out this with my friends, and some information on internet. The answer is because Xorg, a very-slow-rendering graphics system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Problem with Debian and LSI 320-1.

2008-03-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I am using a LSI 320-1 as system hdd. When installed RHEL, everything is OK. But when installed Etch, the system can not boot. It seems that the lvm and mount root script in initrd.img run before the device was recognized. So it reports no root. When I used a nfs-rooted

Re: Problem with Debian and LSI 320-1.

2008-03-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I have modified /usr/share/initramfs-tools/modules, to add megaraid. Still, cannot work. Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hello, I am using a LSI 320-1 as system hdd. When installed RHEL, everything is OK. But when installed Etch, the system can not boot. It seems that the lvm

subversion that just updated in sid does not support ssl?

2008-04-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I update my sid everyday. A few hours ago, subversion was upgraded to 1.4.6, then it can not recognize https any more. Anything I should know? Like I need some more packages installed or this is a bug. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: subversion that just updated in sid does not support ssl?

2008-04-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008 06:20:15 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hello, I update my sid everyday. A few hours ago, subversion was upgraded to 1.4.6, then it can not recognize https any more. Anything I should know? Like I need some more packages

xorg 7.3 does not work

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I installed a new box yesterday with debian sid, which is fine. Then I `apt-get install xorg`, after I configure xserver-xorg as usual, `startx` failed, with message 'xinit: Server error.' and nothing more. I installed another box this morning, still the same. While another

Re: xorg 7.3 does not work

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, And mplayer under the working 7.3 crashed a lot. Thanks. Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Dear all, I installed a new box yesterday with debian sid, which is fine. Then I `apt-get install xorg`, after I configure xserver-xorg as usual, `startx` failed, with message 'xinit: Server

Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, I have the same problem on two new installed box. I do not know what to do. And on an old box which upgraded to 7.3, it crashed a lot, and switching to tty just gives a beautiful colored screen Thanks. Peter Smerdon wrote: Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop

Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, I do not think so. While I used `apt-get install xorg`, same problem. Thanks. Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Peter Smerdon wrote: Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64 installed. I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that

[not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

2008-07-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

2008-07-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Any suggestions about which one? DWM? I do not know. Thanks. Shachar Or wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008 09:04, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start. Look at the dependencies of the x-window-manager virtual package. Look at the sources

Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using Debian Sid, with 2.6.18 kernel. A few days ago (two weeks? maybe), when I apt-get upgrade, I noticed that some parts of xorg were upgraded. Then the nightmare began. When I started firefox, the CPU usage was full, things were very slow. I had to kill firefox, to make everything

Re: Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-07 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
For some reason, I cannot upgrade my kernel Reconfiguring does not work. And, since it has been a long time, the log is gone Now, even I only start a term and run top, Xorg takes about 60% of a CPU. Is there any information like New xorg does not work with 2.6.18 kernel! On Fri, Aug 7,

Re: Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-07 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Really? I am sorry, I did searched about xorg 7.4 2.6.18, nothing useful came out Could you give me the google link? Thanks. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Arnt Karlsena...@c2i.net wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:41:06 +0800, Magicloud wrote in message

Re: Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-09 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, by cannot, I did not mean I had any problem, it is just company policy On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-Westand...@farwestbilliards.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:00:58PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Really? I am sorry, I did searched about xorg 7.4

Is there any limitation or requirement using bond mode 6?

2009-08-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have used mode 6 bonding for a long time, for 2 or 4 ethernet cards. Today, I just heard someone said that, there are some requirements for the ethernet card when using bond 6. So I just wondering, what is it? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem on dpkg --unpack.

2010-01-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, thank you guys. So may I know what should I do now? This problem really affects me a lot. It seems like tar also fails on other situation. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Guillaume Ayoub guillaume.ay...@kozea.fr wrote: Please file a bug against libc6. Done:

iostat -x 2 only prints out 0!

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, Recently, I am monitoring a storage for high concurrency IO, to tune it. While I am using iostat to see the speed per second, and await value. I found out that sometime, when the machine is working, iostat just gives out all 0 values for a few times, then return normal, or never

Last block device in striped LV or soft RAID0 would have longer await?

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, As I am trying some configurations for storage solution. I found out that, the last block device (normally, by alphabet) in striped LV or soft RAID 0 will have longer await. Especially in high concurrency IO. The same time, its avgrq-sz is more than others, but rrqm/s, wrqm/s, r/s and

xorg hangs.

2009-05-03 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using debian sid. Recently I installed a new box, after installed xorg, I started it. It displayed a black desktop with my wm. Keyboard/Mouse/Screen are all freezing. Even ctrl alt backspace does not work. I have to remote login and kill the session. And there is (EE) in Xorg's

What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, In my opinion, it should be something like this. 1. Taking note in a very simple way. 2. The notes could take some tags. 3. I could browse all my notes, by date, by tag, etc. Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-27 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I do not think tomboy supports tag, or property list view. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/27 Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com: Hi,  In my opinion, it should be something like this.  1. Taking note in a very simple way.  2

Where is /etc/environment involved?

2009-10-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I looked over the init scripts. I cannot find the exact place that reads /etc/environment. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞

Problem on dpkg --unpack.

2010-01-03 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, today, while I was trying to `aptitude upgrade`, I got this for all upgrading packages: tar: ./postrm: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./postinst: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./md5sums: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./shlibs: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar:

Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 kernel. Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source directory took 6GB space, made the volume full. Tried a few times, the problem is still there, and

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-27 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. I have not follow Stephen's guide, but I figured the reason out. It seems like an ext3's fault. The space (i-node wise) was used 5.x GB, but the actual space (data wise) was used only 1 GB. So a lot of space was just empty and wasted. I attached another disk to get the job done.

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
that has data to write. And I think this is not just about ext3, but ext3 64bit. Because with the same environment, 32bit works fine for this process. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:54 PM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/06/10 10:51 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Thank you guys. I have

How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. I installed debian sid on ext3 root, compiled 2.6.34 kernel. Booted to 2.6.34, it mounted a btrfs data partition right. Then I booted into debian live, converted the root to btrfs, rebooted. I got this: FATAL: Error inserting

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 06/28/2010 09:14 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi,   I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. Why?  It's still tagged EXPERIMENTAL. I am just trying. 8-)  I installed debian sid on ext3 root

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, my mistake, nothing about 64 bit. I compiled the 32bit kernel in xfs. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: I am using debian unstable 64 bit with lvm and ext3. All options are default. How did I find out? This OS is a VM

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I did use Google, and followed some documents. Well, he succeeded, not me. And I think bootloader do not have to understand root partition, right? On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 06/29/2010 01:51 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
You are good! And Sven Joachim is right. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Monday 28 June 2010 21:14:32 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi,   I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. Make sure it is Sid.  There were some

May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-10 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I mean from a non-Debian linux environment and an empty disk, and internet. I'd like to try out reiser4 for root. I have compiled 2.6.35.4 with reiser4 into .deb, and a disk with reiser4 filesystem. Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-11 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I am not quite sure. Is this the document for debian-installer? How if I do not want to use a special install disk? Or you mean I have to make an install disk myself? On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magic

Unfamiliar with DebianInstaller.

2010-09-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to custom d-i a little. With this document: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel, I cannot understand step 2. kernel-wedge failed: make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 And in fact, I

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:14:07 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: There are a number of different installation methods available

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:50:38 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to do? I

I cannot remove readlines dep when building reiser4progs with dh.

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to build a .udeb for reiser4progs. I got it source from `apt-get source reiser4progs`. And modified the debian/control and debian/rules files as below. But still, dh build configured with readlines option. What should I do? Thanks. ~/reiser4progs-1.0.7$ more debian/control

Re: OT What's going on with virtualbox.org?

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: What's going on with www.virtualbox.org?  It seems to be down and has been for a few days.  Has Oracle finally given it the axe? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: OT What's going on with virtualbox.org?

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: What's going on with www.virtualbox.org?  It seems to be down and has been for a few days.  Has Oracle finally given it the axe

Problem using debian-cd.

2010-10-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am learning about relative tools, from trying to make a netinst CD. Well, I got the tools, and made the deb mirror. Edited the CONF.sh, then $ . CONF.sh $ make distclean $ make status Updating task files... - copying task files from 'tasks/sid/' - copying firwmare task file from

Problem with btrfs supporting in debian-installer daily build.

2010-11-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I got a daily build version of debian netinst CD yesterday and used it to deploy a machine. I choose btrfs for root device. And it cannot boot up since the btrfs module cannot be loaded. A blur memory from my experience with btrfs rooting, I think this is the fault of initrd scripts. Two

Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-22 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, without wrapping like `ls`. I looked into the source of output, confused by the code. May I have some clue here? How does `ps` know the width of the terminal, or I was mislead, `ps` prints over the behavior of printf ()? --

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, I meant to know how it could be not wrapping. The source somehow confused me. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, without

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:12:50 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:   The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:03:12 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: Sorry, I meant to know how it could be not wrapping. The source somehow confused me. Then ps aux | less -S

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Camaleón: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible: s...@stt008

How to use libpam-otpw?

2010-12-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I installed libpam-otpw a few days ago and configured it as: --- /etc/ssh/sshd_config --- UsePrivilegeSeparation no ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes --- /etc/pam.d/sshd --- #...@include common-auth auth required pam_otpw.so session optional pam_otpw.so Now when I login, it prompt me

A question about DNS.

2011-03-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry for the meaningless title. I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But lucky I have a ipv6 tunnel working. So I have an idea here: redirect all queries to *.dropbox.com to *.dropbox.com.sixxs.org to make dropbox tools

Re: A question about DNS.

2011-03-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org wrote: On 3/16/11 11:42 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi,   I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry for the meaningless title.   I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But lucky I have

Re: A question about DNS.

2011-03-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Hi, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi,  I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry for the meaningless title.  I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But lucky I have a ipv6

dpkg died.

2011-05-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Today I installed a third party .dpkg file, which failed due to unmet dependencies. Then I tried to remove it, or install the dependencies by aptitude. Well, dpkg database seemed to be interrupted. For example, when I tried to remove, I got: dpkg: error processing navalplan (--remove):

Re: dpkg died.

2011-05-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: grrr, for the list :) -- Forwarded message -- From: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:52 AM Subject: Re: dpkg died. To: Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com

Why my xorg started into framebuffer mode?

2011-05-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I'd like to try out gnome3. So I had a laptop for a installation of debian testing. Then I installed xorg from testing branch. With '# startx', I had the xterm window. But when I exited, the console turned into framebuffer mode. /proc/fb shows interdrmfb. What happened? Did the stage

Xorg keyboard/mouse no reaction under testing.

2011-05-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, As I recalled, I had learnt about this problem. Well, I forgot how to resolve it With Debian Testing branch, newly installed xorg, when startx, the keyboard/mouse lost their function at all. By this I mean, click/move/any key press does not work at all. Any idea? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞

How to forward serial devices' input to X?

2013-04-30 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, We have a barcode scanner used here, which for some reason has to be a serial device. So all its scanning output is sent to /dev/ttyACM0. If I `cat /dev/ttyACM0`, I could get the strings. Problem now is, how to let these input be sent to X, acting like a normal keyboard. Any ideas? --

[Bash script] How can I read a tty device?

2013-05-16 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Say I have device /dev/ttyACM0. If I `stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 raw`, then `cat /dev/ttyACM0` in one term, and `echo -e QUERYCOMMAND /dev/ttyACM0` in another term. I would get the data in first term. But if echo first, then cat. The data seemed lost. Cat would not get anything. So I think

Re: [Bash script] How can I read a tty device?

2013-05-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Ah, I get it. 'read -n1' is the way. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Say I have device /dev/ttyACM0. If I `stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 raw`, then `cat /dev/ttyACM0` in one term, and `echo -e QUERYCOMMAND /dev/ttyACM0` in another

How to get the processes that open (connect to) certain display?

2014-06-09 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, There are two situations. Local program, remote program via X forward. All I can think of is to iterate local procs and read DISPLAY env. I have no idea how to do with remote programs. Any ideas? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 And for G+, please use magiclouds#gmail.com.

Re: How to get the processes that open (connect to) certain display?

2014-06-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Splendid!, Thank you. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:35:45 +0800 Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There are two situations. Local program, remote program via X forward. All I can think

Question about mv operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the filesystems. Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is it safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src?