Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu gcc version problem
Ian Wienand wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:38:15PM +1100, david wrote: When I run vmware-config.pl I get the following warning message: Your kernel was built with gcc version 4.2.3, while you are trying to use /usr/bin/gcc version 4.2.4. What version am I running? Should I care? vmware-config.pl gives dire warnings about impending crashes, although I've found two posts on the net suggesting that I can bypass the warning. It's warning you because different versions of gcc *might* do things like layout structures differently, meaning the newly built modules *might* get a wrong offset and end-up poking around where they're not supposed to (i.e. ABI compatability). The results could be from nothing at all to all hell breaking loose. However, for a minor version bump like this it is very unlikely anything like that changed in gcc, so you should be fine. You turned out to be right. So far nothing has gone wrong. If things go down hill I'll post again :-) I'm naive enough to think that computing should be an exact science. If you want to be really sure, re-compile your kernel with the gcc on your system now. -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] System crash resulting in fsck at startup - assistance requested.
Hi all I use Dapper at the present. On the weekend I was copying images from my DSLR (common event) to my machine using Digikam. I was running a few other things and suddenly the whole system froze. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work. Nor did Alt-Shift-sysrq-S-U-B. So I held in the power button and turned off the machine. A restart was fine indicated some checking going on (I can't recall unfortunately what the message was but kept a copy of the 'messages' file). Then just a short while ago, I was deleting a file and I got a message along the lines of not being able to access /home/patrick/.kde/config/name of file. Then I couldn't download an e-mail, with a message along the lines of having a full HDD (I've got 10s of Gigs left as can be seen at bottom). I could not work out what to do, so I tried to restart X - this only shut me out of using either Desktop (Gnome or the usual KDE). So I selected to shut down the machine. Then waited a for a minute and restarted. I then got a message saying: /dev/hda2 clean /dev/hda3 contains a file system with errors, check forced. I allowed this to run to it's conclusion. Along the way I got a message saying: Deleted inode 3342344 has zerod dtime. Fixed. Then everything seemed to go well with the rest of the drive being checked. I'm pretty much at a loss (google wasn't too much help - could be me) Could someone please provide me with some information about what this may mean? The drive is only about 14 months old and the motherboard about a year older. Many thanks in advance for any assistance provided. Regards, Patrick *** df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 20G 8.2G 11G 45% / varrun689M 152K 689M 1% /var/run varlock 689M 4.0K 689M 1% /var/lock udev 689M 128K 689M 1% /dev devshm689M 0 689M 0% /dev/shm lrm 689M 19M 671M 3% /lib/modules/2.6.15-52-386/volatile /dev/hda3 438G 304G 113G 74% /home /dev/hdb1 147G 88G 52G 64% /video -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] System crash resulting in fsck at startup - assistance requested.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:27:45AM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all I use Dapper at the present. [snip] Could someone please provide me with some information about what this may mean? I would try using smartctl something like smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sda -T permissive smartctl -d sat /dev/sda --all -T permissive (just saw this oer in debian-user) The drive is only about 14 months old and the motherboard about a year older. Many thanks in advance for any assistance provided. Regards, Patrick *** df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 20G 8.2G 11G 45% / varrun689M 152K 689M 1% /var/run varlock 689M 4.0K 689M 1% /var/lock udev 689M 128K 689M 1% /dev devshm689M 0 689M 0% /dev/shm lrm 689M 19M 671M 3% /lib/modules/2.6.15-52-386/volatile /dev/hda3 438G 304G 113G 74% /home /dev/hdb1 147G 88G 52G 64% /video -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham, The Circle signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] System crash resulting in fsck at startup - assistance requested.
Hi, I would suspect something at application-level data file corruption. Try moving .kde aside. Also what does the X server log and .xsession-errors files say when you try to login? About hardaware level errors - do you see anything suspicious in dmesg's output? If it's hardware or OS error triggered during a login attempt then you should see something in dmesg. Cheers, --Amos (apologies for top-posting, it's a mail client limitation) On 10/29/08, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I use Dapper at the present. On the weekend I was copying images from my DSLR (common event) to my machine using Digikam. I was running a few other things and suddenly the whole system froze. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work. Nor did Alt-Shift-sysrq-S-U-B. So I held in the power button and turned off the machine. A restart was fine indicated some checking going on (I can't recall unfortunately what the message was but kept a copy of the 'messages' file). Then just a short while ago, I was deleting a file and I got a message along the lines of not being able to access /home/patrick/.kde/config/name of file. Then I couldn't download an e-mail, with a message along the lines of having a full HDD (I've got 10s of Gigs left as can be seen at bottom). I could not work out what to do, so I tried to restart X - this only shut me out of using either Desktop (Gnome or the usual KDE). So I selected to shut down the machine. Then waited a for a minute and restarted. I then got a message saying: /dev/hda2 clean /dev/hda3 contains a file system with errors, check forced. I allowed this to run to it's conclusion. Along the way I got a message saying: Deleted inode 3342344 has zerod dtime. Fixed. Then everything seemed to go well with the rest of the drive being checked. I'm pretty much at a loss (google wasn't too much help - could be me) Could someone please provide me with some information about what this may mean? The drive is only about 14 months old and the motherboard about a year older. Many thanks in advance for any assistance provided. Regards, Patrick *** df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 20G 8.2G 11G 45% / varrun689M 152K 689M 1% /var/run varlock 689M 4.0K 689M 1% /var/lock udev 689M 128K 689M 1% /dev devshm689M 0 689M 0% /dev/shm lrm 689M 19M 671M 3% /lib/modules/2.6.15-52-386/volatile /dev/hda3 438G 304G 113G 74% /home /dev/hdb1 147G 88G 52G 64% /video -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] System crash resulting in fsck at startup - assistance requested.
elliott-brennan == elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: elliott-brennan Hi all I use Dapper at the present. elliott-brennan On the weekend I was copying images from my DSLR elliott-brennan (common event) to my machine using Digikam. elliott-brennan I was running a few other things and suddenly the elliott-brennan whole system froze. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't elliott-brennan work. Nor did Alt-Shift-sysrq-S-U-B. Dunno what caused this. Can you remember if the disk light was on? I'll bet it was on solid; with very heavy I/O under some circumstances, Linux can appear to freeze for a while. If whatever is causing the heavy I/O is still present, the freeze can go on for minutes. elliott-brennan So I held in the power button and turned off the elliott-brennan machine. A restart was fine indicated some checking elliott-brennan going on (I can't recall unfortunately what the elliott-brennan message was but kept a copy of the 'messages' file). So there were filesystem updates in-progress, and the on-disc data got corrupted. elliott-brennan Then just a short while ago, I was deleting a file elliott-brennan and I got a message along the lines of not being able elliott-brennan to access /home/patrick/.kde/config/name of file elliott-brennan . Then I couldn't download an e-mail, with a elliott-brennan message along the lines of having a full HDD (I've elliott-brennan got 10s of Gigs left as can be seen at bottom). That's because some silly apps can't distinguish between ENOSPACE and EROFS At this point, you reboot into single user and run fsck. You'l;l prebably see a message something like, `filesystem corruption detected, remounting read-only' elliott-brennan /dev/hda2 clean /dev/hda3 contains a file system with elliott-brennan errors, check forced. That's right. elliott-brennan Deleted inode 3342344 has zerod dtime. Fixed. That's fine, it just means that a file was being deleted, and the directory entry was updated OK, but the inode entry was not. elliott-brennan Could someone please provide me with some information elliott-brennan about what this may mean? The big question is, exactly why did the system hang? And will it do it again? -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Calendar Server?
Greetings We are currently evaluating Calendar Servers for a backend to the Lightning plugin for Thunderbird. Shortlisted so far are the Sun Java Calendar Server, Apple's Calendar Server, Bedework and DAViCal. Anyone have any illumination, rumination or cogitation that might assist us? Anyone got any been there - done that - it was easy stories to relate? TIA Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server?
davical works ok, but the interface sucks to use. zimbra is what we are using now for a caldav backend for lightning. lightning barfs when you have like over 10 caldav calendars. the backend for lightning could do with some work. dave Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings We are currently evaluating Calendar Servers for a backend to the Lightning plugin for Thunderbird. Shortlisted so far are the Sun Java Calendar Server, Apple's Calendar Server, Bedework and DAViCal. Anyone have any illumination, rumination or cogitation that might assist us? Anyone got any been there - done that - it was easy stories to relate? TIA Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server?
TBH, I've never been able to get Zimbra to work correctly for me - it suffers from timezoning and caldav compatibility issues (Evolution won't work against the version I am using, at least). James On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:04 AM, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: davical works ok, but the interface sucks to use. zimbra is what we are using now for a caldav backend for lightning. lightning barfs when you have like over 10 caldav calendars. the backend for lightning could do with some work. dave Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings We are currently evaluating Calendar Servers for a backend to the Lightning plugin for Thunderbird. Shortlisted so far are the Sun Java Calendar Server, Apple's Calendar Server, Bedework and DAViCal. Anyone have any illumination, rumination or cogitation that might assist us? Anyone got any been there - done that - it was easy stories to relate? TIA Nigel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server?
James Dumay wrote: TBH, I've never been able to get Zimbra to work correctly for me - it suffers from timezoning and caldav compatibility issues (Evolution won't work against the version I am using, at least). What sort of problems? I'm having some problems responding to meeting requests - the response goes back with a different time than what the request arrived with. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
