Re: update-initramfs

On 4/10/2023 11:00 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 10 Apr 2023 at 20:17:11 (-0400), Marc Auslander wrote: I'm on Buster. In /boot I keep a copy of the current working linux named by appending -knowngood to the four files. My idea is that if an update fails, I have a recent working linux

Re: update-initramfs

On 4/11/2023 9:30 AM, zithro wrote: On 11 Apr 2023 02:17, Marc Auslander wrote: I'm on Buster. In /boot I keep a copy of the current working linux named by appending -knowngood to the four files.  My idea is that if an update fails, I have a recent working linux.  This is different from

update-initramfs

I'm on Buster. In /boot I keep a copy of the current working linux named by appending -knowngood to the four files. My idea is that if an update fails, I have a recent working linux. This is different from vmlinuz.old which is the previous kernel version. The updates in question are not to

Re: exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

On 11/27/2022 12:20 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I send email from several email addresses. I pay for an email service for both sending and receiving email, but I pull it down locally (via POP with fetchmail) and send messages from my Debian server with mutt. All of those email addresses wind up

linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64

linux-image-amd64 wants linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64 but only linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64-unsigned show up in a search.

Re: Ethernet Performance Problem Solved

On 9/6/2022 5:00 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller There is also a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8161

Re: A correct version follows. Ethernet Performance Problem

Please ignore this - a correct description follows. On 9/6/2022 4:30 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) lsmod says the driver is Realtek. firmware-realtek is installed The cable leading

Ethernet Performance Problem

I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller There is also a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8161 (rev 15)     Subsystem: Realtek

Ethernet Performance Problem

I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) lsmod says the driver is Realtek. firmware-realtek is installed The cable leading to it, when connected to a different computer, runs at almost 1000 Mb according to iperf3. When

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

On 4/29/2022 10:20 AM, duh wrote: On 4/27/22 11:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Having skimmed over a number of the replies, and really not being qualified, may I just toss out a probably useless ideas to use the "sync" command. Looking at the 'man sync' shows at the bottom several

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On 4/5/2022 3:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You gotta be careful: kicking out an IP for just one login failure might shut *you* out because you forgot to ssh-add your key (or because you mistyped your password once). OTOH, if "they" keep changing their IP address for each retry, you

Google smtp and pop

Google has now said they are pulling the plug on userid/password authentication for apps. I use fetchmail and exim4 to get and send mail. Neither, AFAIK, supports OAUTH2. I'm also still on stretch but will update if I have to. So what suggestions does anyone have for dealing with OAUTH2

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp...@caiway.net wrote: Hello, My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: sort01ei1t sort01Eq7u sort01sLAs ... sortzZZtvv the files are approx. 13 Gb each. In 24 hours > 6000 are written. My big partition is filled by it until the system freezes. The

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

On 7/5/2021 4:30 AM, Reiner Buehl wrote: Hi all, I have a corrupt EXT4 filesystem where fsck.ext4 fails with the error message: Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0, num=406081): Memory allocation failed /dev/vg_data/lv_mpg: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I check the temperature regularly with sensors and it's usually between 42 and 52 C. Problem is I can't check the temperature while it's freezing. You might run a background job that

Re: Thunderbird: how can I set permanent custom headers?

Ottavio Caruso writes: >Hi, > >For the lack of a dedicated Thunderbird mailing list, I am forced to >ask here. > ... try alt.comp.software.thunderbird

Re: Creating my first LAN

Anssi Saari writes: >Brian writes: > ... >> >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on a router are setup as a switch. The >router may have a DHCP server running though which you may want to >disable. In my experiance, you should put the

Re: SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

On 3/3/2021 6:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Based on this, I'm guessing that the original problem was that the installer forgot to include mdadm support in its grub options, even though it was configured with an mdadm boot device. And then I missed a couple steps after adding mdadm support, so

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

Paul Scott writes: > >ssh and Bitvise still fail t o connect > >Paul /var/log/auth.log may show what's happening if the request gets that far.

Re: Raid 1

Andy Smith writes: >... >So personally I would just do the install of Debian with both disks >inside the machine, manual partitioning, create a single partition >big enough for your OS on the first disk and then another one the >same on the second disk. Mark them as RAID members, set them to

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

Jerry Mellon writes: >Hello, >New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I >have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory >and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. > >My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please) >way to

Re: mdadm usage

Reco writes: > >And what purpose would it serve? IMO it's not a backup unless it's >stored in a way that's inaccessible to the system its taken from (until >it's actually needed of course). > >Reco IMHO, there are two levels of backup. The more common use is to undo user error - deleting the

Re: mdadm usage

Andrei POPESCU writes: > >Automatic mirroring / synchronizing is unsuitable for backups, because >it will also sync accidental changes to files (including deletions) or >filesystem corruptions in case of power outage or system crash (that may >lead to corrupted files or entire directories

Re: Boot process hangs at, it seems, network initialisation

On 3/22/2020 10:50 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: Hello, For the first time, I'm having problems installing Debian testing on new hardware; Asus TUF X570 Plus mobo with onboard Realtek network L8200A i/f As things stand, it /seems/ that the boot process is waiting for the network interface to come

Re: Sudden “operation not permitted”

David Christensen writes: >On 4/16/19 11:25 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> (Apologies if this mail comes through poorly formatted for the list; my >> main machine is unavailable due to this problem and I’m writing on an >> iPad...) >> >> Running Stretch on a circa-2009 self-built machine which has

Re: ssh trouble

Glenn English wrote: 4 boxes on the same network; an RPi3 running Raspian Stretch, a laptop and a desktop running Buster, and a Cisco router running IOS 12.4 (note upper case 'I' :-). I have an expect script to get into the router. It's the same on all the hosts. The problem is that the RPi

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

Zenaan Harkness writes: >So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use >for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it >to sleep with: > >sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda > >Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up again: > >Aug 27 19:44:40 eye kernel:

Re: Add kernel parameter to specific kernel using grub?

Boyan Penkov writes: >Hello folks, > >Let's say I have two kernels -- the default that's maintained by the >distro, and one that I'm playing with that I compile from source to >get dpkgs. Call the distro one linux4.4 and "mine" -- linux4.16 (for >reference, all this is

Re: How to use a particular kernel for only one boot

Roberto C. Sánchez writes: >On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:35:37PM +, John wrote: >> I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box. >> >> Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN, >> runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

rt outages and prevent power bouncing which I know from experience can cause damage. When the battery goes flat I get a hard powerfail shutdown which modern linux tollerates quite well - yeah for journaled file systems. Marc Auslander

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

I don't think you can talk to a 192.168.1.xxx ip address from a machine that thinks it's on a 192.168.2/24 network - you machine will just try to route the traffic through your router. I might try to change the netmask on the router to 255.255.0.0 which would put the 192.168.1.xxx into your

Re: Were is gapcmon?

"Juan R. de Silva" writes: >I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. >I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >what reason? What can I use in its stead? > >Thanks. I've always use apcupsd which still

Re: exim4 wont configure resolved

quot;) received from confmodule. Issue may be use of continuation but I'm not sure about that. Marc Auslander <marca...@gmail.com> writes: >after the recent security update to exim4 im seeing: > >dpkg: error processing package exim4-config (--configure): > subprocess installed post-i

Re: exim4 wont configure

When I trace I see + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postinst configure 4.89-2+deb9u2 but the installed version of exim4.config is: Version: 4.89-2+deb9u3 I'll assume that's the problem - so what should I do if it is?

exim4 wont configure

after the recent security update to exim4 im seeing: dpkg: error processing package exim4-config (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 20 what now?

Re: New Kernel fails to boot when laptop is plugged in

Have you tried adding pti=off to the kernel boot line? This is supposed to turn off the spectre/meltdown "fix". Henning Follmann writes: >Hello, >I have a strange issue with the newest kernel >4.9.0-5-amd64 on this 2011 Macbook Pro. >As far as I can see it has to do

Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub

Dave Sherohman writes: >What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to >refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution? > I don't know about "recommended" but could you put your own menu entry into /etc/grub.d and make it the default?

Re: Kernel problem?

The new kernel implements the "fix" for meltdown. You could try booting with the fix turned off - I believe the kernel parameter is pti=off Rob Hurle writes: >Hi All, > >I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: > >sudo apt-get update >sudo apt-get upgrade > >It

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

Nicholas Geovanis writes: >On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:55 AM, wrote: >> (mainframes of that time had at least VM, possibly >> speculative prefetch). > >Is it correct to call branch prediction the same as speculative execution? >If so, then "yes" they had

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

The safest way to fix an ip address in a dhcp served network is to tell the dhcp server to associate that address with the mac of the unit. The address should be outside the dhcp range you set up. I normall pin down all my connected devices that way, leaving the dhcp assignment for guests etc.

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

In stretch mplayer may be linked to mpv - the current prefered multi-media player in debian. The mplayer2 package does this. Look at /usr/bin/mplayer and see if its a symlink. There is an mplayer package as well - I don't know if its the old mplayer.

Install stretch in existing Raid 1 partition

I have a debian system with three raid 1 partitions, root and 2 data partitions. It's x86 and I've decided to clean install amd64 and face the music of re configuring everything. My plan/hope is to install a new amd64 stretch in my root partition and then clean up the mess. The installer

Re: dh-python:amd64

Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-11-25 21:39 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 Do you intend to crossgrade your whole system to amd64, or why do you want to do that? but I get a dependency

dh-python:amd64

I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 but I get a dependency on dh-python:amd64 which is not satisfied. dh-python is marked as all architectures and is installed. So it appears that dh-python all architectures is not being

dh-python:amd64

I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 but I get a dependency on dh-python:amd64 which is not satisfied. dh-python is marked as all architectures and is installed. So it appears that dh-python all architectures is not being

Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

Richard Owlett writes: > The man page for find confuses me. > Looking for explanatory material I found and tried to follow examples > in http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind#A-prune . > > I tried > find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -o -atime -42 -print > and

Re: How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd

Jiangsu Kumquat writes: >How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd? >I have gotten very used to the old way of how to start/stop services >when booting using runlevels but I cannot figure out how to do any of >this using systemd. >So,

Re: upgraded config files in /lib/systemd/system

Dominique Dumont writes: > On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 14:01:18 CET Harald Dunkel wrote: >> short question about /lib/systemd/system: AFAICS the config >> files here are supposed to be overridden by local config files >> in /etc/systemd/system, using the same path, as described

Re: /etc/dhcp3 in jessie.

pe...@easthope.ca writes: > During an update or upgrade this message surfaced. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d' not empty so not removed. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3' not empty so not removed.

Re: /etc/dhcp3 in jessie.

pe...@easthope.ca writes: > During an update or upgrade this message surfaced. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d' not empty so not removed. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3' not empty so not removed.

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

Marc Shapiro writes: > BTW, what is your third partition, and why would you not separate it > now if starting from scratch? My third partition is for backups which I make to protect against software or operator error. At one point it was on a separate disk since disks were

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

Marc Shapiro writes: > the past couple of weeks. AIUI you can use LVM over raid. Is there > any actual advantage to this? I was trying to determine the > advantages of using straight raid, straight LVM, or LVM over raid. If > I decide, later, to use raid, how dificult is

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from all the raid partitions, pop in a new disk,

Re: determining subnet mask using ip but not using ifconfig in debian 9.0 (stretch)

Dan Hitt writes: > What is the preferred way to determine the subnet mask of your box > using /bin/ip on debian 9.0 (stretch)? > > In the old days, this sort of information would come out of ifconfig, > but it looks like debian really wants to get away from ifconfig, and i >

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

A few observations. Are your filesystems journaled. They say ext3, which IIRC does support journaling? the flashplayer should not be able to trash the file system. /var/log/syslog is a place to look for io errors. If you are having them you likely have a failing disk and need to replace it

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

I see what you mean. I must assume that the other packages have survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my package database. Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't know how aptitude works :-)

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

I'm running Jessie with the standard repositories and emacs from 21 on are available. Have you looked?

google-chome aborted

I am running Jessie with the default architecture x88 and amd64 as a foreign architecture. The kernel is amd64. I install the amd64 google-chrome-stable. When I try to start it I get "Aborted" Me set up does not have a desktop manager or windows manager on the linux machine. I run x-clients

Re: Moving from a 686-pae kernel to amd64?

I did exactly that several years ago with no problem. I installed an amd64 kernel at which point grub knew about both. Changed default boot to the new kernel and ran for a while. Once all was well I uninstalled the pae kernel. I did it mostly because I expect that amd64 is the dominant kernel

Re: tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1 breaks other packages

When I ran the update is replaced tzdata-java with 2015a-0wheezy1 and nothing broke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Saturday 17 January 2015 19:32:16 Marc Auslander did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: Greetings; Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? ... I am running

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: Greetings; Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? ... I am running firefox 35 under wheezy with no problem. And I do not have the names library. I just untar that tarball into /usr/lib and go. --

Re: upgrade kernel

Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org writes: Hi folks! a security updates of kernel is available (from apt-get upgrade), so: must I reboot my pc (after upgrade) to avoid security problems? Is there another way? thanks for help! Pol I always reboot after a kernel related upgrade on the

Re: Please stop systemd-fsck on _every_ boot!

Just a reminder. fsck is responsible for applying the journal to journaled filesystems. So you really do want it to run everytime. This discussion should be about controlling the full fsck that happens if requested or if the mount count or time exceeds it's limit. These are all controlled

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

Long ago, I decided that inconvenient fsck's were not what I needed. And that cancelling them was not an option - I run quasi headless so there's no way. So - I use tune2fs to set a ridiculous reboot count for automatic fsck. Then a run a cron job the does a reboot with the -F option once a

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Sb, 02 aug 14, 12:11:43, Kenneth Jacker wrote: [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. I just manually copy

Re: capitalone banking website compatibility with iceweasel

For what its worth, the site is fine with the latest build of firefox on debian (the 34a nightly). What firefox version is iceweasel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: capitalone banking website compatibility with iceweasel

Ok - to firefox 101. Try in safe mode and see if the problem persists. If it doesn't, you have an add-in that's causing the problem. As for your bookmarks etc - you can always find your profile with about:support if you don't know where is is. You can save the whole profile directory using

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

exec filename redefines standard out as filename -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87a9bcgbng@aptiva.optonline.net

PAM Logging

pam is logging every cron event into auth.log, filling it up. Can I control pam logging? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Great Debian experience, part 2

I'm running squeeze on a 2003 IBM T40 - also 2Gig. It runs fine and runs Lotus Notes fine as well. I'm backlevel because Notes is broken on the latest Gnome. It's just a machine I use to boot, look, shutdown and it's wonderfully fast for that. Replaced Windows XP which was a pig and going out

Re: (toughed out) Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

At one point you reported that reboot did nothing. Was that reboot -f or just reboot - which calls shutdown if you're running at 0 or 6 according to the man page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Lotus Notes on Wheezy

In the slim chance that any of you run Lotus Notes on Debian - Notes is broken on Wheezy - it's apparently incompatible with the level of Gnome included. It works on squeeze/gnome. Has any one built a successful workaround? There are lots of partial suggestions from Google but nothing that

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: I ran mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 and got a segmentation fault. april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] 2391295864 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] md0 : active raid1 sda4[0]

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

Zbigniew Komarnicki cblas...@gmail.com writes: I wanted to prohibit user to assign negative value to a variable. This variable is later passed to a recurrence function as argument and of course I got segmentation fault, because the function is called 4294967291 times. You MUST check the

Re: How do you read logs?

Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com writes: jug...@lavabit.com wrote: Hello. There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in my logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (with last or more). How do you read yours? Do you use any log analyzers? Which ones? I just read them with

Re: Copy 2 partitions to .img file

If you just copy the first 4GB, which includes the partition table, and put it on a 4GB drive, you will have a bogus partitions table (I think). Maybe it will just work as long as you don't try to make new partitons. Alternately, I don't know what it would take to repair it although I'm sure it

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info writes: I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog I find authenication has failed. I

Re: exim4 smtp server userid

Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:13:34PM -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: I want to configure exim4 to use the same (google) smtp server with two different userid's depending on the from address. I can put the appropriate tests into my c_smarthost string, but I

exim4 smtp server userid

I want to configure exim4 to use the same (google) smtp server with two different userid's depending on the from address. I can put the appropriate tests into my c_smarthost string, but I don't know how to specify the userid - passwd.client seems to tie a single userid to each smtp host. Any

Re: Best way to migrate disks

Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: On 3/25/2012 2:48 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: As far as the root partition itself, just make a new file system in the partition you want to be the new boot and use tar to copy the old root over. Make sure you don't copy anything mounted on root

Re: Best way to migrate disks

You are probably asking a more subtle question that I'm going to answer but ... As far as the root partition itself, just make a new file system in the partition you want to be the new boot and use tar to copy the old root over. Make sure you don't copy anything mounted on root - just root

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: ... (b) If I were to progress to grub2, where I gather I can't take control of the boot process by editing menu.lst, is there some other way of making sure things go right? I fear that one of these years, upgrading to grub2 will become

Re: quick and dirty backup

Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl writes: Hi, My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases etc. So what I do

Re: boot failure

Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Remains the question how /etc/modprobe.d/options was corrupted May-be after a power failure, but I thought that this couldn't happen with a ext4 file system. The default/normal

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: Pretty sure at that stage it has loaded modules that let it interpret a selection of filesystem types, in order to fetch grub.cfg (and further How does it decide which partition (on which disk) and what pathname to use to find grub.cfg. I assume one it

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

This discussion opens a question I've been curious about. IIUC, bios choses a boot device and runs the MBR code. Assuming that's GRUB2 MBR code, GRUB2 then loads the 1.5 code hidden before the first partition of the same device. Next step is to process grub.cfg. Now, does that code contain a

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander marca...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

Marc Auslander marca...@gmail.com writes: As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it. In the initrd shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes normally. I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and added a local-top script which assembled my

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (really Resolved)

From /etc/defaults/mdadm # INITRDSTART: # list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk # loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. Use # 'none' to prevent any array from being started from the initial ramdisk. INITRDSTART='none'

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram. But when it comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a message that the kernel can't be found. And it can't, because the raid root device hasn't been assembled. (No

boot from raid1 mdadm version 1.2 partition

Earlier posts seem to say this should/might work. I made an mdadm v 1.2 partions, and put a copy of my root file system on it. update-grub doesn't see it at all. if I try to boot by hand, I can get grub to boot the kernel but then I get mysterious error messages about not being able to mount

Re: boot from raid1 mdadm version 1.2 partition

also sprach Marc Auslander marca...@gmail.com [2012.01.12.2226 +0100]: Earlier posts seem to say this should/might work. I made an mdadm v 1.2 partions, and put a copy of my root file system on it. update-grub doesn't see it at all. Are you using grub-pc aka. grub2? In the future

grub-pc mdadm root

Is it possible to boot a raid root file system. I'm having trouble finding up to date documentation. Some searchs talk about a separate /boot partition - I don't understand why that is needed or relevant. I'm assuming I'd make a mdadm v 1.2 raid 1 partition for root. Can someone either tell me

Re: Emacs ignoring my settings in ~/.emacs after Debian SID Upgraded

Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net writes: ... The window geometry is usually not stored in the .emacs file (that would be a bad idea because the window appears before this file is read). It is configured via the X resources. As XDM and GDM do not read the same X init files, here's the

purge a package without removing config or remaining files

The Debian version of the logitechmediaserver has gotten tangled up with dpkg. The package used to be squeezeboxserver. They created a new package named logitechmediaserver. However, most of the config files were retained with their old names. Installing lms triggered a remove of sbs, then

Re: purge a package without removing config or remaining files

Julien Claassen jul...@mail.upb.de writes: Hello Marc! I believe your problem *shoud(TM)* be fixed by not purging but removing: aptitude remove squeezeboxserver or: dpkg remove squeezeboxserver Not sure if the remove option is exactly the same for dpkg, but it should be and otherwise

Which repository

I'm probably missing something obvious but ... Is there a way to find out which repository an installed package came from? The various show commands list the path inside the repository, but not the repository itself. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

isc-dhcp quibble

This is the sort of thing that drives non-experts crazy. init.d entry is called isc-dhcp-server, as it the /etc/default entry the /var/lib directry is called dhcp the /etc directory for the config files is called dhcp the files in /etc/dhcp and /var/lib/dhcp all start with dhcp -- -- To

grub2 complaint/question

Maybe I'm missing something here. update-grup creates a grub.cfg with menuentrys for every kernel it can find - except a menu entry using /vmlinuz on the current root as the kernel! But in debian, the obvious default is whatever kernel /vmlinuz points to. I made a custom entry to do just that

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