MD5Sum mismatch

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I'm trying to install the security updates from security.debain.org on
my newly installed woody system however I'm getting the following errors

Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/glibc/libc-2.2.5-11.2_i386.deb
MD5Sum mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs3_2.2.2-13_woody.3_i386.deb
MD5Sum mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdegraphics/kfract_2.2.2-6.8_i386.deb
MD5Sum mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kdenetwork/knode_2.2.2-14.0woody1_i386.deb
MD5Sum mismatch

I've read the main page for apt-get(1) and as far as I can tell the
option --fix-missing should fix this, but when I try this the other
packages install yet I get the same error as above.

Is there anything else I can try?

Cheers

Adam


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Re: nvidia problem

2005-01-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:56:34 +0100, Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have a permanent problem with nvidia driver (propietary one).
> When I install it, I can run X server with 3d support.
> But when I rebbot or turn on my machine, the X fails.
> 
> I repeated the installation many times, and I had the same problem.

sounds like the nvidia kernel module isn't loaded in your kernel, add
"nvidia" to your /etc/modules file

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Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:38:59 -0600, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I tried to install Java SDK (j2sdk1.4), but dselect claims that there
> > is no j2se-common file available.
> >
> > How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable?

> apt-get install j2se-package 

I get the following from packages.debian.org when searching for
j2se-package, what repo is it in?

"You have searched for packages that names contain j2se-package in
distribution unstable, all sections, and all architectures."

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Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On 09/05/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 Kernel.  I recently upgraded to the
> 2.6.8-k7 kernel, but now my X Windows will not work.  I get an error saying
> that it couldn't initialize the mouse because /dev/psaux doesn't exit (i
> don't know why it doesn't)  i had heard that there were some changes to the
> way the PS/2 mice are handled and that it might have changed
> to /dev/input/mice but there is no device with that name either.  Does anyone
> now of a way to fix this without compiling my own kernel ?  And if i am going
> to need to recompile, are there any good programs out there to help me do
> so ?  I tried once before and broke my system beyond repair.

Is the "hotplug" packaged installed? Installing this fixed the problem
on a couple of machines at work that we upgraded from 2.4

Cheers

Adam



Re: cdrecord invocation under kernel-2.6.11

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Mercer
On 15/05/05, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a linux box with an IDE cd-rw on secondary master
> (/dev/hdc), some how cdrecord balks at this device:
> 
> # cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc cdimage
> 
> it does not like dev=/dev/hdc, so what is the correct
> device here?

what error message do you get? as the above command works fine for me
using 2.6.11 on sid.

Cheers

Adam



Re: aMSN

2005-05-21 Thread Adam Mercer
On 21/05/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed the package of aMSN (via downloading the .deb package and
> the installing via dpkg -i aMSN). Though it is located in both the
> debian-apps-net aMSN and internet aMSN, the latter did not have an Icon (I
> set one), they both seem to point to a slightly different place (The former
> to /usr/bin/amsn and the latter to simply amsn). They both do not work. It
> will attempt to load, then, after around half a second, the little icon on
> the panel (some one please give me the right terms for that) will go away
> with nothing happening. However, in KDE system guard, it lists aMSN as
> running. What is wrong?
>  
>  In addition, the first time I ran it (I. E. after having installed it the
> first time), it worked ish The fonts were very small and mal-formed.
> Also, it stalled (and has not worked since) since I tried to create an
> identity (or some such thing).
>  
>  So, what can I do?
>  
>  Thank you in advance.

Never used aMSN before, a friend has and it kept crashing on him, any
reason why you don't want to use Gaim?

Cheers

Adam



Re: Gaim

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On 22/05/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Installing Gaim (apt-get just does not work for me), it says this:

whats the problem with the gaim package? why does it not work?

Cheers

Adam



Re: Use of dual CPU?

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Mercer
On 23/05/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>   i have one general question regarding the use of a dual Opteron CPU
> using a smp kernel. I'm currently running a cpu intensive program that
> use for some hours 100% of the cpu time. But having a look with top at
> the processes it seems that only one CPU is doing the work at 100%: the
> other one seems idle for most of the time.
> Here i'm posting the normal behaviour:
> 
> CPU states:  cpuusernice  systemirq  softirq  iowaitidle
>total   99,0%0,0%1,4%   0,0% 0,0%0,0%   99,4%
>cpu000,0%0,0%0,4%   0,0% 0,0%0,0%   99,5%
>cpu01   99,0%0,0%0,9%   0,0% 0,0%0,0%0,0%
> 
> Is this behaviour right for a dual cpu machine, or there is something
> not going right?

If the program you're running is not SMP enabled then this is the
right behaviour, the running program needs to be specially written to
take advantage of a multiprocessor setup.

See the SMP Howto for more details: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html

Cheers

Adam



Re: Use of dual CPU?

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Mercer
On 23/05/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, normally, even if i use an SMP kernel if i'm not telling the program
> to use both CPU it will continue using only one CPU, right?

Yes, if the program isn't written to use both CPUs, it won't.

Cheers

Adam



Re: C Compiler?

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Mercer
On 25/05/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where is config.log?

In the directory of the package you're trying to build!

Cheers

Adam



Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

2005-06-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On 01/06/05, Romulo Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm trying to mount my Sony DSC-P93 in order to trasfer my pics to my
> box. I've tried some ways but it didn't work such as installing
> hotplug and usb* packages. gtkam also didn't work. I've installed
> gphoto2 but I didn't test it still. All the time I plug the usb cable
> into the cam the following error message appear on my console:
> "hub.c new USB device 00.04-2.2 assign address 2
> usb.c usb device 2 (vendor/prod 0x54c/0x10) is not claimed by any active 
> driver"
> 
> Moreover, my kernel is the following:
> 2.4.27-2-k7
> 
> I remember I could mount it in another box running Debian.
> Could please somebody help me to fix it?

Is the usb-storage module loaded?

Cheers

Adam



Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

2005-06-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/06/05, Romulo Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> any clues?

what shows up in your syslog, I get the following when I plug my camera in

Jun  2 07:51:12 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd :00:02.1: wakeup
Jun  2 07:51:12 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new full speed USB device
using ohci_hcd and address 3
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 3
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to
settle before scanning
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost usb.agent[27261]:  usb-storage: loaded
successfully
Jun  2 07:51:13 localhost usb.agent[27261]:  libgphoto2: loaded successfully
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel:   Vendor: OLYMPUS   Model:
C4100Z/C4000Z Rev: 1.00
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte
hdwr sectors (131 MB)
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte
hdwr sectors (131 MB)
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun  2 07:51:18 localhost scsi.agent[27430]:  sd_mod: loaded
sucessfully (for disk)
Jun  2 07:51:19 localhost udev[27460]: creating device node '/dev/sda'
Jun  2 07:51:19 localhost udev[27471]: creating device node '/dev/sda1'

telling me that the camera is at /dev/sda1

Chers

Adam



problem burning DVDs on LG GSA-4163B under Sarge (2.6.8-2-k7)

2005-06-08 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I am having problems burning DVDs on a freshly installed Sarge system,
using kernel 2.6.8-2-k7. CDs burn without issue, but I get the
following error when trying to burning DVDs

lnx5:/data/ram# growisofs -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-compat -R -J h2g2
Executing 'mkisofs -R -J h2g2 | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdd obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/hdd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
:-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error
/dev/hdd: flushing cache
:-[ SYNCHRONOUS FLUSH CACHE failed with SK=3h/ASC=A0h/ACQ=80h]:
Input/output error
lnx5:/data/ram#

as both a normal user, and as root.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Adam



Re: 2.6.12.1 kernel won't compile in fresh sarge install

2005-06-26 Thread Adam Mercer
On 25/06/05, Daniel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.12.1 kernel because it has native
> drivers for my pchdtv [1] card that are not in 2.6.11.  When running make it
> gets pages of errors under drivers/char/drm/ eventually giving me a failure
> message.  I've tried both with using one of the debian configure files, and
> with just changing the processor type, and turning ext3 journaling support
> on.  Is there some special combination of build tools that I need, or is
> there some other reason why this won't build?  All of the tool versions I
> saw in the kernel documentation seemed to meet the minimum besides the ones
> that didn't seem to be apt gettable.  Does anyone know of an apt-get source
> for the new kernel?  apt-get.org failed me.  

What are the error messages?

If you use udev then you'll have to update that to 058+, see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/20/180 for more info

Cheers

Adam



Re: I'm sorry

2007-09-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On 22/09/2007, Lo'oris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>
> great quote! where does it come from?

Its a rewording of one of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

Cheers

Adam


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Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Adam Mercer
> Neil Watson wrote:

>  I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed
> out.  I've yet to see one accept LaTeX.

Publishers of scientific journals accept LaTeX, most even provide a
style file so that the document is formatted according to the specific
journals requirements.  Most also do not accept Word documents due to
formatting problems across different versions.

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Network Manager problems

2008-05-21 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I'm running Etch and whenever I login to GNOME I have to use the
NetworkManager applet to connect to my wired network, how can I
configure NetworkManager to automatically connect to my wired network
on boot? I've tried looking at the NetworkManager man pages but they
are next to useless.

Cheers

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Re: Network Manager problems

2008-05-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you always want to use eth0, I'd drop NetworkManager altogether and
> just set things up in /etc/network/interfaces so that eth0 is
> auto-started. If you need to do something more automagical, I've found
> that ifplugd works pretty well, too.

Thanks, I've removed NetworkManager and edited /etc/network/interfaces
appropriately and everything is great now!

Cheers

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job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

On a squeeze box I'd like to run a script every night at 1:01am, as
such I have the following entry in my crontab:

$ crontab -l
1  1  *  *  *  /home/laltest/test/nightly/nightly-git.sh
$

However the script never runs and I don't any email from cron
indicating script failure, when I run the script by hand it succeeds.
It simply appears that cron is not running the script. I've tried
looking in various logs to get an explanation of this but I can't find
anything to explain this.

Why wouldn't the above crontab entry cause the script to be run?

Cheers

Adam


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Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón  wrote:

> Do a "grep -i cron /var/log/syslog" and check for the output.

# grep -i cron /var/log/syslog
Nov  8 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6222]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 07:49:05 bull crontab[6280]: (laltest) LIST (laltest)
Nov  8 08:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6312]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 09:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6370]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 10:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6428]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
#

and then the previous:

# grep -i cron /var/log/syslog.1
Nov  7 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32585]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 08:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32643]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 09:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32701]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 10:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[32759]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 10:37:54 bull crontab[338]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (laltest)
Nov  7 10:38:03 bull crontab[338]: (root) REPLACE (laltest)
Nov  7 10:38:03 bull crontab[338]: (root) END EDIT (laltest)
Nov  7 10:39:01 bull /usr/sbin/cron[1123]: (laltest) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
Nov  7 11:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[612]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 12:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[676]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 13:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[988]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 14:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1051]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 15:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 16:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1170]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 17:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1228]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 18:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[1295]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 19:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2468]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 20:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2526]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 21:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2584]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 22:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2642]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  7 23:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2700]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 00:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[2764]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 01:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[9327]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 02:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[27899]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 03:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[22937]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 04:00:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[28318]: (root) CMD (test -x
/usr/sbin/cron-apt && /usr/sbin/cron-apt)
Nov  8 04:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[30897]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 05:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[5973]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 06:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6031]: (root) CMD (   cd / &&
run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Nov  8 06:25:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6043]: (root) CMD (test -x
/usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ))
#

> I don't know why is failing, though the most commom error is not taking
> into account environmental variables that you have to may have to
> manually set for shell, paths, etc...
>
> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output
> logged to a file.

That's I'll see if that gives any more information.

Cheers

Adam


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Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:44, Adam Mercer  wrote:

>> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output
>> logged to a file.
>
> That's I'll see if that gives any more information.

I created another entry in the crontab with the logging enabled for a
few minutes in the future and watched the output of syslog. At the
time the job was supposed to the the following entry was in the log:

Nov  8 10:48:01 bull /usr/sbin/cron[1123]: (laltest) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)

from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting
this allowed jobs to run successfully!

Thanks for the help!

Cheers

Adam


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Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21, Bob Proulx  wrote:

>> from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting
>> this allowed jobs to run successfully!
>
> Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network?
> Are your servers "slow" such as on a remote network or otherwise
> negatively impacting performance?

They shouldn't that are on the same subnet and linked via 10GigE.

> If not then I wouldn't run nscd at all.  I have run into problems with
> its caching implementation.  Secondary account entries override
> primary ones (the opposite of desired) when running nscd for example.
> And the daemon sometimes stops running, as you just found.  If you
> don't need it then it is better not to run it and it is rare to find
> people who really need it these days.

Without NSCD running cron jobs fail to run, if you're suggesting not
running it how can I get cron working?

Cheers

Adam


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Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:33, Bob Proulx  wrote:

> The nscd is not required for cron jobs to run.  I don't want to
> suggest that you thrash your production machine but if you could test
> this on a test machine I think you will find that nscd is not required
> for cron.  Really it isn't!  I assure you that since I had a bad
> experience with it that I never install nscd, or remove it if I find
> it installed, and yet cron works perfectly fine for all users.
> Specifically I am talking about NIS/YP accounts.

Thanks, I think I'm following your point now. I'll have a look.

Cheers

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Re: Mouse problem in VirtualBox client Lenny

2010-01-10 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:13, Jari Fredriksson  wrote:

> I have VirtualBox 3.1.2r56127 running on amd64 Windows7 host, and an
> amd64 Lenny client.
>
> Everything seemed to work before I finished the vboxadd setup adding
> VirtualBox client support.
>
> Now the mouse responds to right click (opening a menu in right bottom
> corner of the window), but nothing else works mouse wise.

I had the same problem, reverting to the 3.1.0 VirtualBox Additions
enabled the mouse to work again.

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Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-09 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I am trying to connect to a squeeze VM as a standard user using ssh
keys, whenever I try to ssh into the box the connection is closed by
the VM:

ram@g5:~$ ssh -v lal-squeeze
OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to lal-squeeze [192.168.100.11] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/ram/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048
debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048
debug1: identity file /home/ram/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/ram/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/ram/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version
OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host 'lal-squeeze' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/ram/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /home/ram/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277
debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed
debug1: read PEM private key done: type 
Enter passphrase for key '/home/ram/.ssh/id_rsa':
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
Connection closed by 192.168.100.11
ram@g5:~$

I can't find anything in the logs regarding this connect.

I can log onto the box as root.

Next when I su to a user account I receive the following:

root@lal-squeeze:~# su -l laltest
su: Authentication failure
(Ignored)
laltest@lal-squeeze:~$

so something is clearly wrong and I imagine this authentication issue
may be related to the inability to log on as a user.

Also I have a cron job scheduled, via crontab, to run at 21:01
everyday. It fails to run and the only reference to this I can find in
the logs is the following:

Apr  8 21:01:01 lal-squeeze CRON[14107]: Authentication failure

So I imagine that this is a different manifestation of the same problem.

Any recommendations on how to debug this issue?

Cheers

Adam


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Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx  wrote:

> Good.  Can you log in as the non-root user?

No, all users on this box are from NIS.

> Yes.  Stop all other lines of debugging and focus on this issue.  Why
> is there an error there?  Can you log in as that user?
>
>  laltest@lal-squeeze:~$ su -l laltest

No, as this account is a special account without a password. We can
only log into this account using a shared ssh key.

> If not then why not?  Start debugging there.
>
>> Also I have a cron job scheduled, via crontab, to run at 21:01
>> everyday. It fails to run and the only reference to this I can find in
>> the logs is the following:
>> Apr  8 21:01:01 lal-squeeze CRON[14107]: Authentication failure
>> So I imagine that this is a different manifestation of the same problem.
>
> Everything points to the same problem.  Debug it first.
>
>> Any recommendations on how to debug this issue?
>
> Look in /var/log/syslog for messages.  Look in /var/log/auth.log for
> messages.

I can't see anything in the logs around the time that I try and
connect to the box.

Cheers

Adam


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Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx  wrote:

>> No, all users on this box are from NIS.
>
> How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that
> user?  Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into
> the account.  So I don't understand this comment.

It doesn't that was just extra information.

> And at the moment you can't log in at all.  Right?

As the individual user yes. We can log in as root.

> Did this work previously?  If so then you might try investigating what
> changed between then and now.  Or is this something that hasn't ever
> worked and you are trying to set it up for the first time?

This is a fresh VM.

> I still think that is the right direction to push.  Since the account
> is in NIS but isn't enabled personally I would create a temporary
> local account for testing.  Don't forget to clean it up afterward.  I
> would guess that there is some local configuration issue that is
> preventing the account from being authorized.  Need to isolate the
> problems into as simple of a case as possible and divide and conquer
> to a solution.

Sounds like a sane approach, I'll do that tomorrow.

Cheers

Adam


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cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I've set cron-apt on my wheezy box and configured it to send me an
email whenever any updates are available. The /etc/cron-apt/config
file contains:

# cat /etc/cron-apt/config
# Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible
# configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz.
APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get
MAILON="upgrade"
MAILTO"em...@address.com"
#

cron-apt runs, as the following is displayed in the log:

# cat /var/log/cron-apt/log
CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Mon May 14 04:00:02 CDT 2012
CRON-APT SLEEP: 2163, Mon May 14 04:36:05 CDT 2012
CRON-APT ACTION: 0-update
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get -o quiet=1 update -o quiet=2
CRON-APT ACTION: 3-download
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get -o quiet=1 autoclean -y
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Del x11-common 1:7.6+12 [283 kB]
Del zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 [213 kB]
CRON-APT LINE: /usr/bin/apt-get -o quiet=1 dist-upgrade -d -y -o
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libexiv2-12
The following packages will be upgraded:
  autoconf debian-archive-keyring exiv2 geoip-database iso-codes libglib2.0-0
  libglib2.0-data libgssglue1 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libpci3
  libpcre3 libpopt0 libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-svg libqt4-xml
  libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libslang2 libsqlite3-0 libssl1.0.0 libtinfo-dev
  libtinfo5 libtokyocabinet9 libxxf86vm1 ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term
  openssl pciutils qdbus ufraw-batch x11-common xauth zlib1g zlib1g-dev
38 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6307 kB/30.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 2577 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ wheezy/main zlib1g-dev
amd64 1:1.2.7.dfsg-1 [214 kB]
Get:2 http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ wheezy/main zlib1g amd64
1:1.2.7.dfsg-1 [86.9 kB]
Get:3 http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ wheezy/main libssl1.0.0
amd64 1.0.1c-1 [1211 kB]
Get:4 http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ wheezy/main geoip-database
all 20120503-1 [3821 kB]
Get:5 http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ wheezy/main openssl amd64
1.0.1c-1 [697 kB]
Get:6 http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ wheezy/main x11-common all
1:7.6+13 [278 kB]
Fetched 6307 kB in 0s (10.2 MB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
#

but no emails are being sent, I can't find any failed attempt to send
email in the logs. Other process that send email are running on the
box and I always receive email from them, just not cron-apt. I have
the same cron-apt configuration on a squeeze machine and that
sucessfully sends email.

Any ideas of where I should be looking to debug this?

Cheers

Adam


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Re: cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón  wrote:

>> # cat /etc/cron-apt/config
>> # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible
>> # configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz.
>> APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get
>> MAILON="upgrade"
>> MAILTO"em...@address.com"
>        ^

> You missed the "=" ;-)

Wow, thanks!

Cheers

Adam


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Re: compiling xserver x11r7 problems

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Mercer
On 24/12/05, John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very happy :-)

> dm.h:110:31: error: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory

Looks like it can't find the security/pam_appl.h header file, which is
in the libpam0g-dev package, do you have that package installed?

Cheers

Adam


Re: Installing Nvidia on Debian 3.1 "Sarge"

2005-07-18 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/07/05, philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi
 
> 2. During the debian install it prompted me to specifiy my graphics card so I 
> seleted 'nv'. However I have now looked at nvidia and they do their own 
> driver which has I presume is better for my needs in terms of OpenGL support 
> etc. Can I install this on Debian without messing up other files/settings. I 
> can not install it at the moment until I disable GDM as Xfree86 is always 
> running and the installer keeps saying exit X before installing the driver.

Check out the excellent Debian nVidia Howto

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/

Cheers

Adam



Re: mouse freezes after reboot (Sarge)

2005-07-27 Thread Adam Mercer
On 27/07/05, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> any suggestions?

is hotplug installed? I've had a few problems with mice when hotplug
wasn't installed.

Cheers

Adam



Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Adam Mercer
On 04/08/05, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror 
> (amd64 and i386).  I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my 
> mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should.  All the packages 
> were dumped into folders under "pool/" and folders it created such as 
> "stable", "unstable", and "woody" were essentially empty.  (Now I am trying 
> an rsync string to see what the difference will be.)
> 
> I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did 
> their mirrors.  What commands did you use and where are there some good 
> howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible?
> 
> Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how 
> difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my 
> own mirror?

I've attached the debmirror script we run everyday to update the
mirror for our beowulf cluster, it maybe of some help

Cheers

Adam


mkdebmirroruk.lnx0
Description: Binary data


Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On 05/08/05, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How much disk space is required to do this?

Our 386 Sarge mirror, just binaries, takes up about 9Gb for main,
contrib and non-free.

Cheers

Adam



probelm upgrading x-window-system-core

2005-08-12 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I'm tracking side and for the past month or so, aptitude and refused
to upgrade the "x-window-system-core" package saying that it is
broken, at first I thought that this was due to the ongoing change
from xfree86 to xorg.  However sid has been on xorg for a while now
and I am still getting the same error when trying to upgrade the
"x-window-system-core" package

skymoo:/home/ram# aptitude install x-window-system-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev
  libsmpeg-dev libvtk4-dev mayavi xlibmesa-glu xlibmesa-glu-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libglu1-xorg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev
  libsmpeg-dev libvtk4-dev mayavi xlibmesa-glu xlibmesa-glu-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  x-window-system-core
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/553kB of archives. After unpacking 13.1MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

why does my system want to remove these packages? Is this a know
problem or am I doing something stupid?

Cheers

Adam



Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-16 Thread Adam Mercer
On 16/08/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When I apt-get install arts, it want libarts1c2 which wants libqt3-mt
> which deletes 244 packages (KDE). Now, I know that the Debian
> developers are changing KDE to be c++ oriented (or some thing like
> that) and are changing the packages of Qt to ...c2. I installed KDE
> 3.4.1 from Alioth which doesn't have the c2. So, how do I rectify this
> situation?

As you expect KDE is going through the C++ ABI transition, see the
following email from the KDE maintainers

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01044.html

They essentially say that if you want a working KDE system, to hold
any KDE updates until they send an email round saying the transition
is done.

Cheers

Adam



Re: Keep the NVIDIA driver for different kernel releases

2005-08-18 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/08/05, Mauricio Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> How can I compile and install the NVIDIA driver for kernel 2.6.12.5
> without removing the old installed driver for kernel 2.6.12?

I take it you're using the nVidia installer direct from nVidia, not
the debian packages?

If so then for each new kernel you need to run the installer with the
--kernel-module-only flag, this will install the kernel module only
for the currently running kernel, it will not install the nVidia GL
libraries nor remove any kernel modules.

Cheers

Adam



Building nvidia driver against 2.6.12-1-k7-2.6.12-5 under sid

2005-08-18 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

Trying to update my nvidia driver (1.0.7174-4) for the newly released
2.6.12-5 kernel under sid results in a hugh amounts for errors, build
log attached.

Essentially the initial error seems to be

In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/kernel.h:11,
 from nv-linux.h:45,
 from nv.c:14:
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/linkage.h:5:25: error:
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/asm/linkage.h: Too many levels
of symbolic links
In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/types.h:13,
 from /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/kernel.h:13,
 from nv-linux.h:45,
 from nv.c:14:
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/posix_types.h:47:29:
error: /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/asm/posix_types.h: Too
many levels of symbolic links
In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/kernel.h:13,
 from nv-linux.h:45,
 from nv.c:14:
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/types.h:14:23: error:
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/asm/types.h: Too many levels of
symbolic links

then loads of syntax errors (what you would expect if its missing the
above headers)

Any ideas

Cheers

Adam


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Description: BZip2 compressed data


Re: How to get my computers IP address

2005-06-30 Thread Adam Mercer
On 30/06/05, Mitja Podreka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have ADSL connection which I share over a router and Apache server
> installed on my laptop running Debian Sarge. Before I started to share
> ADSL connection I sometimes used the server to share bigger files with
> my friends. I told them the URL of the file based on my current IP and
> they could download the file directly from my computer/server.
> But now the IP I get from myip.com or from syslog file is the IP of the
> router. Is it still possible to share files as I used to and how can I
> do it? Which is my computer's IP now?

you'll need to configure you're router to forward incoming connections
on port 80 to the ip address that you're router gives you, see the
output from ifconfig

Cheers

Adam



Re: Kernel 2.6.12 borked my udev rules

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/07/05, Deviant User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



> This allows me to mount a usb thumb drive as
> /dev/USB_Flash_Disk. Can somebody tell me what's wrong, if
> any, with the rules, and how I could change it to conform
> with the new "rules" for linux 2.6.12?

With 2.6.12 you need to use udev-058+ for custom rules to work,

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1368.html

Cheers

Adam



apt no verify key in sid

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I've just upgraded my sid box and now apt is complaining that the
packages are untrusted e.g.

Need to get 1793kB of archives. After unpacking 7324kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!

Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
this is what you want to do.

  apt-listbugs ruby1.8 ruby libxml-parser-ruby1.8 libintl-gettext-ruby1.8
  libruby1.8 libdpkg-ruby1.8

Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No":

but as far as I can tell the correct keys are in roots keyring

skymoo:~# gpg --list-keys
/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

pub   1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expires: 2006-01-31]
uid  Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

and apt-key seems to be aware of the key

skymoo:~# apt-key list
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg

pub   1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expires: 2006-01-31]
uid  Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

yet apt still complains about untrusted packages.

Do I need any other keys in the keyring?

Cheers

Adam



Re: apt no verify key in sid

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/07/05, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 the mental interface of
> Adam Mercer told:
> 
> [...]
> > Do I need any other keys in the keyring?
> 
> The keys by default are locatet in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.
> You can check the keys within there: $> apt-key list.

I did and it lists

skymoo:~# apt-key list
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg

pub   1024D/4F368D5D 2005-01-31 [expires: 2006-01-31]
uid  Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

yet apt still complains.

Cheers

Adam



Re: apt no verify key in sid

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/07/05, Thomas Weinbrenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There is an easy way to test this.
> In /var/lib/apt/list you will find the Release and Release.gpg files
> from your sources. Just verify them manually:

Thanks that did it, I was missing the key for the debian-marillat archive

Cheers

Adam



Re: Scanner recommendation?

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Mercer
On 31/08/05, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> System is Debian derivative with kernel-2.6.7.
> I am looking for a scanner (usb) that will
> work under this system.
> 
> Any input will be appreciated.

The sane project website has a list of supported scanners, give that a look

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

Cheers

Adam



Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

2005-09-13 Thread Adam Mercer
On 13/09/05, gothic doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
>  
>  I'm trying to burn a CD on my notebook, but with no success
>  
>  What I've done (following the
> document/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup) :
>  /etc/lilo.conf --> append="hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1"
>  modprobe ide-scsi sg



>  cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.13



>  As result, the CD is unusable and I'm frustrated. I'm using the same
> procedure I use on my desktop.

As you're using kernel 2.6, you longer need to use ide-scsi emulation,
remove the append line from your lilo config and burn a cd with

$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc image.iso

Cheers

Adam



problem writing udev rules

2005-09-16 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi

I'm having a problem writing a udev rule for my printer, I want it to
always be setup as /dev/optra and have the following rule in
/etc/udev/rules.d/010-udev.rules

BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="6033190", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="optra"

where the 6033190 is the serial number given by sysfs.  This rules
used to work, but I've noticed recently that the /dev/optra symlink is
no longer being setup. This is with udev-0.70-1 and
linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7 on sid

If I change the device of the printer in cups to /dev/lp0, the device
that udev assigns my printer then cups refuses to print with a "Media
Tray Empty!" error, there is paper in the media tray.

This is using the Vendor PPD.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Adam



Re: problems updating with apt

2005-09-16 Thread Adam Mercer
On 16/09/05, Del Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> are there any current problems updating  sarge with apt ?
> I wonder of someone could give me a copy of a basic sources.list for sarge ?

this is my sources.list from my sarge machine at work, I updated it
this morning without any problems.

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free

Cheers

Adam



Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

2005-10-31 Thread Adam Mercer
On 31/10/05, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of
> the tank, as it were, and tried it out today.
>
> LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen.
> There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then nothing and the
> CPU fan starts spinning up like it's utilizing 100%.
>
> I do have the Knoppix sourced "vga=791" for a decent console screen,
> but that's worked since kernel 2.2.x.
>
> Is anyone else having difficulties with 2.6.14? I revert to 2.6.12 and
> everything runs just fine.

Yes, I'm having the same. There seems to be a problem with 2.6.14 and
framebuffers.

Cheers

Adam



Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

2005-10-31 Thread Adam Mercer
On 31/10/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curt Howland said...
> > Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of
> > the tank, as it were, and tried it out today.
> >
> > LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen.
> > There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then nothing and the
> > CPU fan starts spinning up like it's utilizing 100%.
> >
> > I do have the Knoppix sourced "vga=791" for a decent console screen,
> > but that's worked since kernel 2.2.x.
>
> Try removing that command for a single boot to see whether it is the
> problem.
>
> If so, set the following kernel option to to y instead of m
>
> # Device drivers/Graphics support/Console display driver
> support/Framebuffer Console Support
>
> This is a common change when using vanilla kernels and vga=blah.

This is not with a vanilla kernel, but with 2.6.14-1 from sid

Cheers

Adam



Re: automated installs

2005-11-03 Thread Adam Mercer
On 03/11/05, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm hoping to bulk build half a dozen debian Squid boxes next month.
>
> Does Debian have tools to help automated installs?
>
> At present something like a pre-recorded list of answers you could feed
> debian-installer and a list of debs to install would be more than enough.

FAI, the Fully Automated installer does that, but it can be a bit
tricky to set up.

http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

Cheers

Adam



Re: dhclient assigns new IP address every time

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Mercer
On 10/11/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My computer is behind a router (linksys BEFSR41). The computer and the
> router are connected by ethernet cable (ie no wireless). Every time I
> run, 'sudo dhclient', the IP address assigned to the computer is
> different. For example, sometimes I get 192.168.1.101, 192.168.1.100,
> 192.168.1.102 etc., Is there any way to always get the same IP address
> assigned when I run dhclient? If dhclient cannot do this, are there any
> other alternatives?

I have a Netgear WGT624v2 and there is an option on the routers config
page to always hand out the same ip address to a specific host based
on the MAC address.  Have a look on your routers config page, theres
probably a similar option somewhere.

Cheers

Adam



Re: Best cluster OS

2005-11-19 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/11/05, Nick I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Also, if anyone has any advice on cluster management software, please send
> it.  I am trying to build a knowldgebase of different opinions on software.

We use sarge on our 106 node dual xeon cluster and it works great, for
job management we use condor (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/) which is
perfect for our needs. However it depends on what type of jobs you'll
be running on the cluster.

Cheers

Adam