Re: Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work [solved]
André Wendt schrieb: > Hi, > > after over a year with custom-compiled kernels that solved problems I > never had before :-), I switched back to Debian's stock kernel today. > > After re-compiling all necessary modules, I thought I'd give hibernate > with swsusp a try (once again). > > Swsusp is suspending the machine (to disk) alright, but it does not > resume -- it restarts, and later complains about something with the swap > space: /var/log/syslog says > > "Unable to find swap-space signature" > > Somewhere I found that the DisableWriteCacheOn may be helpful for the > particular partition, but this just resulted in a suspend-to-disk that > took over 15 minutes! Someone's gotta be kidding here... > > Has *anyone* successfully got swsusp working with the hibernate package? > BTW, I'm using a Thinkpad T41p with testing, kernel package 2.6.17-2-686 > and initrd. If anyone's interested: I finally solved the problem -- I was still using initrd-tools instead of initramfs-tools. I consider myself lucky finding that information somewhere online. So I re-installed the linux-image package with initramfs-tools after attempting to update-initramfs which failed. Everything works now, but I still have trouble with gnome-power-manager telling me that suspend failed after a successful resume. Some things are still broken and GPM does not offer all options in their properties dialog (which is most annoying), but suspend-to-disk and resume finally works! Regards, André -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Re: Dual boot on Dell X300
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:39:18AM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: On Mon, 16 Okt 2006, Daniel Devost wrote: >I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I > have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that > holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab > have the correct entries. Grub is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda and > the menu.lst resides in /boot/grub/. > > Etch boots fine but Sarge terminates with: > > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 432:cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > /dev/hda is the regular drive of the laptop while /dev/sda is a drive > mounted in the cdrom bay. Once etch is booted, I can mount /dev/sda1 and > read/write to it. > > Not sure what is going on. Looks like /dev/ is empty or broken or UDEV is broken on your system. The question is why.. if you mount the disk manually, and look into /dev, there are device nodes? (real device nodes, not only files..) That is Sarge. So it's devfs, and not udev. However, as you can see, pivot_root failed. The initrd has failed to mount the root filesystem. Does the kernel support that disk controller? The kernel is the standard kernel-image-2.4.27-2. When I boot etch, /dev/sda is handled through usb. I am not so sure how Sarge (and 2.4) handles this. This could be the problem. I will have to look into it. Thanks for your help, Daniel Devost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why the difference between two identical laptops?
alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences between these two laptops. i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i might want. then i did the ol': dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt i then loaded a base Debian install on my second laptop, changed the sources like on my first laptop, and proceeded to run: apt-get update dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt apt-get dselect-upgrade everything loaded just fine, except i notice that there are differences in things like my Gnome icon for battery/charging/plug. it's different than my first laptop. also after an update last night on the second laptop i lost a desktop shortcut to the /share partition that was there initially. (i haven't updated the first laptop to see if the same thing will happen.) the Gnome versions should be the same (2.14.3 i think), so why the minor discrepancies? they are not "show stoppers" by any means, i am just curious. thanks, preston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?
Dne úterý 17 říjen 2006 16:39 Preston Boyington napsal(a): > alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences > between these two laptops. > > i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite > ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i > might want. > > then i did the ol': > dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt > > i then loaded a base Debian install on my second laptop, changed the > sources like on my first laptop, and proceeded to run: > apt-get update > dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > everything loaded just fine, except i notice that there are differences > in things like my Gnome icon for battery/charging/plug. it's different > than my first laptop. also after an update last night on the second > laptop i lost a desktop shortcut to the /share partition that was there > initially. (i haven't updated the first laptop to see if the same thing > will happen.) > > the Gnome versions should be the same (2.14.3 i think), so why the minor > discrepancies? they are not "show stoppers" by any means, i am just > curious. Problem is, when you use --get/set-selections combo, you loose information about exact package versions (needed for stable/testing/unstable mix) and you also loose dependency info for aptitude (all packages will behave like manually installed). In general, --get/set-selections can make identical installs only when using stable release without aptitude. And of course, if you want identical installations, you also need to transfer configurations (/etc, /home/*/.*), as it is initially set to default when you install package, but this default can be different between two versions of the same package. So on "new" computer you will have "new" default config, which will probably be somehow different from "old" computer (depends on release and package updates). I would do identical installs using bootable linux CDs (knoppix) and something like `tar c /old_root/ | ssh other_comp 'tar x -C /new_root/'` Mixi
Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?
Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Problem is, when you use --get/set-selections combo, you loose information > about exact package versions (needed for stable/testing/unstable mix) and you > also loose dependency info for aptitude (all packages will behave like > manually installed). In general, --get/set-selections can make identical > installs only when using stable release without aptitude. > > And of course, if you want identical installations, you also need to transfer > configurations (/etc, /home/*/.*), as it is initially set to default when you > install package, but this default can be different between two versions of > the same package. So on "new" computer you will have "new" default config, > which will probably be somehow different from "old" computer (depends on > release and package updates). > ah, I see what you mean. > I would do identical installs using bootable linux CDs (knoppix) and > something > like `tar c /old_root/ | ssh other_comp 'tar x -C /new_root/'` > ok, might do that for the next round. for my current purposes this will do. any ideas about the missing shortcut(s) to the share drive? wonder why it would go away from "Desktop" and "Places"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why the difference between two identical laptops?
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 08:27, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > Dne úterý 17 říjen 2006 16:39 Preston Boyington napsal(a): > > alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences > > between these two laptops. > > > > i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite > > ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i > > might want. > > > > then i did the ol': > > dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt > > > > i then loaded a base Debian install on my second laptop, changed the > > sources like on my first laptop, and proceeded to run: > > apt-get update > > dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt > > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > > > everything loaded just fine, except i notice that there are differences > > in things like my Gnome icon for battery/charging/plug. it's different > > than my first laptop. also after an update last night on the second > > laptop i lost a desktop shortcut to the /share partition that was there > > initially. (i haven't updated the first laptop to see if the same thing > > will happen.) > > > > the Gnome versions should be the same (2.14.3 i think), so why the minor > > discrepancies? they are not "show stoppers" by any means, i am just > > curious. > > Problem is, when you use --get/set-selections combo, you loose information > about exact package versions (needed for stable/testing/unstable mix) and > you also loose dependency info for aptitude (all packages will behave like > manually installed). In general, --get/set-selections can make identical > installs only when using stable release without aptitude. > > And of course, if you want identical installations, you also need to > transfer configurations (/etc, /home/*/.*), as it is initially set to > default when you install package, but this default can be different between > two versions of the same package. So on "new" computer you will have "new" > default config, which will probably be somehow different from "old" > computer (depends on release and package updates). > > I would do identical installs using bootable linux CDs (knoppix) and > something like `tar c /old_root/ | ssh other_comp 'tar x -C /new_root/'` > > Mixi If I may go a bit off topic for a moment, how would one go about backing up and restoring the packages installed AND the installed versions of those packages? Thanks in advance. -- Robert Miesen
Laptop recommendation
I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... It would be really great if it was fully supported by the Linux kernel (maybe even video acceleration as well? Is there such a thing?), without all the annoying fiddling. Next, I don't know if it is really possible with laptops, but one that is friendly where hardware replacements are concerned. Like if the hard drive or DVD drive goes bad, that it is relatively simple/cheap to replace them. In fact, I'd like to find a laptop that is a bit bigger and heavier and bulkier and whatever in order to get a little bit more friendliness with hardware and heat problems and whatnot. Last: are there any laptops with 2 hard drives? Obviously, I want to run Debian on this laptop. It'll probably be Etch, if not the next one (testing after Etch is released). Perhaps linuxcertified.com is a good place? Oh, and maybe I should mention that price is a concern, $3000 seems like a lot to pay for a laptop... Thanks lots for your help; I'm new to the laptop arena. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop recommendation
Hi, On Die, 17 Okt 2006, Owen Heisler wrote: > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... get a Thinkpad.. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop recommendation
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 02:17 +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > On Die, 17 Okt 2006, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look... > > get a Thinkpad.. > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki Okay, I wondered if I'd hear about Thinkpads, as I've seen them mentioned a lot here on debian-laptop. Thanks, and for the link too -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop recommendation
Yes thinkpad is a good option, but maybe you want to check others models and prices. My hint is to go in http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and maybe there you can find a good laptop for you. If you are scared about the compatibility of linux in a laptop there you can find all information and how to config it! And of course if you already have a idea of which laptop you want to by you can check in google if there is information how to config it and which problems it can have.best regurds Antonello On 10/18/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 02:17 +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote:> On Die, 17 Okt 2006, Owen Heisler wrote:> > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should look...>> get a Thinkpad.. >> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWikiOkay, I wondered if I'd hear about Thinkpads, as I've seen themmentioned a lot here on debian-laptop. Thanks, and for the link too--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- SIAMO NOI, SIAMO NOI, I CAMPIONI DEL MONDO SIAMO NOI
