Testing the functionality of a parallel port...
How does one go about testing the functionality of the parallel port on their computer? I am trying to get my Samsung ML-1450 working with my Debian Woody workstation and I am having no luck. I have downloaded the drivers from Samsung for this printer and went through the setup. I am using lpr to do my printing. I have built a custom kernel for this computer as well. lsmod shows: Module Size Used byTainted: PF parport_pc 12932 0 (unused) parport13856 0 [parport_pc] vmnet 20704 4 vmmon 19508 0 If I print a test page using the Linux Printer Configuration that comes with the Samsung Printer, I get the message that the printer is "waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)". If I type lpq, I get the following... waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 13 (standard input) 58602 bytes I have greped for things that I thought would be relevant in /var/log and could not find anything out of the ordinary. Any ideas? Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael T. Kahle Tel: +1.262.673.6770x161105 Steel Craft Dr Cel: +1.414.651.8645Hartford, WI 53027 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Testing the functionality of a parallel port...
> > I have greped for things that I thought would be relevant > in /var/log > > and could not find anything out of the ordinary. Any ideas? > > by default linux doesn't put the parallel port in interrupt > mode, most parallel ports default to using IRQ 7. On my > systems I force enable the parallel port so it uses the IRQ > instead of "polling" mode, this has dramatically improved performance. > > it may be that the kernel can't find a way to talk to the > port if it's in polling mode(I had this happen before). > > in 2.2.x kernel > > echo "7" >/proc/parport/0/irq > > in 2.4.x kernel > > modprobe parport_pc irq=7 io=0x378 > > those are the typical settings for a PC parallel port, you > may be able to get by without specifying the IO address. > after running you should see something like this in the kernel log: > parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] > > be sure to remove the module before trying to re-load it. Ok, I removed both the modules and re-loaded parport_pc like you described. Still not working, same message from lpq: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stroot 14 (standard input) 58602 bytes Here is the relevant output of my kernel log: Geocentric# Grep "parport0" /var/log/kern.log Feb 28 11:37:51 geocentric kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)] Feb 28 11:37:51 geocentric kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected Feb 28 11:58:33 geocentric kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)] Feb 28 11:58:33 geocentric kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected Feb 28 14:39:38 geocentric kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)] Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems upgrading libstdc++2.10-dev on unstable
I just upgraded a whole pile of packages on my unstable workstation. I have been using: dselect update dselect install to initiate the upgrade process. I used to use: apt-get update apt-get upgrade but because of a problem with libxrender1 I switched to the dselect method. See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg02782.html for more information. When I tried to upgrade this "whole pile of packages" today I received the following error for the libstdc++2.10-dev package: Setting up libstdc++2.10-dev (2.95.4-18) ... sh: line 1: /usr/share/info/iostream-2.95.info.gz: No such file or directory install-info(/usr/share/info/iostream-2.95.info.gz): read gzip -cd to continue. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Does anyone have any ideas here? I used dselect to completely remove the libstdc++2.10-dev package as well as the g++-2.95 package. I then reinstalled both of these packages and received the same error. Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problems upgrading libstdc++2.10-dev on unstable *fixed*
>-Original Message- >From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:55 PM >On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:24:58AM -0500, Michael Kahle said >> Does anyone have any ideas here? I used dselect to completely remove >> the >> libstdc++2.10-dev package as well as the g++-2.95 package. I then >> reinstalled both of these packages and received the same error. > >Known bug, #215881. Just sit tight until the maintainer uploads the fixed version. > Rob, Thank you for the reply. I sat tight and today it updated just fine. Thanks again. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs import version numbers
I just installed CVS on my Debian box. I want to import a source tree of a project I have been working on into it. I was able to do this, but it was imported with the version number of 1.1.1.1. I would like to start over now and somehow re-import in with the version number of 0.1. Could someone explain to me how I am supposed to do this? I found documentation in /usr/share/doc/cvs/html-info/cvs.html and read the section on adding and removing files and directories. But what I want to do is pretend it never happened and get rid of everything and start over imported with the version number of my choice. Any help? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
file creation permissions
Hello, How would I force a newly created file by userA to have the permissions set automatically to userB, groupB 775? What I am trying to do is when a user uploads a file to our ftp server (proftpd) it does not create the file using their username as the group and owner of the newly created file. I would like instead if they uploaded to dirA it to have a predefined owner and group for the file created. If they upload to dirB a different owner and group etc. Any thoughts? Please point me to documentation, examples, etc. I do not know where to start with this. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: RAID & EXT2-fs error
> I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID > 1 following the instructions given at > http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ I am working on setting up a system with this configuration. I decided to work step by step with this howto to get my system running. Thanks for the link. > Everything > works fine until I add the initial install disk into the RAID > array (http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/node26.html). I'm sorry I can't help you with your specific problem, I was hoping that I could by working through this howto. But I'm afraid that I am stuck as well. When I ran vgcreate it seamed to work fine. However it lists the MAX LV Size as being 255.99GB. This does not make sense with my configuration. I have 5 SCSI disk partitions in a RAID5 array. Each partition is 36446.22mb. My math shows I should have a MAX LV size of being 145784.88mb. By running vgdisplay I show that my VG size is 169.71GB. What am I missing? How can your MAX LV Size be 255.99gb?!? As soon as I get this ironed out I will report back with my findings. I can't wait to get this thing running. Neat stuff. Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael T. Kahle Tel: +1.262.673.6770x161105 Steel Craft Dr Cel: +1.414.651.8645Hartford, WI 53027 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: RAID & EXT2-fs error
> When I ran vgcreate it seamed to work fine. However it lists > the MAX LV Size as being 255.99GB. This does not make sense > with my configuration. I have 5 SCSI disk partitions in a > RAID5 array. Each partition is 36446.22mb. My math shows I > should have a MAX LV size of being 145784.88mb. By running > vgdisplay I show that my VG size is 169.71GB. What am I > missing? How can your MAX LV Size be 255.99gb?!? Ok, this must be a default if you don't specify the MAX LV size. I just created another vg and the same 255.99GB number came up... Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Compile Issue
I am afraid that I will be kicked off of this list because of this silly question. But, I'm stumped, this could be because it's 12:31am and I'm tired. Here goes: I am creating a custom kernel for Debian Woody. For some reason I cannot get my ethernet card to load as a module. I have done the following: make menuconfig make-kpkg -rev lvm+raid.1 kernel_image dpkg --install /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.18.2_lvm+raid.2_i386.deb init 6 The new kernel boots fine, but eth0 no longer can get an IP. lsmod says that I have no modules loaded. I double checked to ensure that I didn't build this into the kernel and I did! So I did the same process a second time, same deal only this time I made sure that I specified my NIC to load as a module. No dice, it is still built right into the kernel. Now I guess I don't really care if it is, the problem is that I can't get an IP from DHCP. I tried: ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 dhclient eth0 None of these things give me an IP. What am I missing. You can be sure that I have tested everything out, i.e. good cable, laptop can get an ip from same port on switch, computer is plugged in etc. Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Kernel Compile Issue
> > The new kernel boots fine, but eth0 no longer can get an IP. lsmod > > says that I have no modules loaded. I double checked to > ensure that I > > didn't build this into the kernel and I did! So I did the same > > process a second time, same deal only this time I made sure that I > > specified my NIC to load as a module. No dice, it is still built > > right into the kernel. Now I guess I don't really care if > it is, the > > problem is that I can't get an IP from DHCP. I tried: > > Wait, so you built the module and it's not loaded, or you > build the driver directly into the kernel? Did you quit > menuconfig or xconfig with "Save settings and exit?" Sorry I wasn't very clear here. I wanted to load the ethernet card as a module. I thought that is what I had done when I built the first kernel. But because I could not see any modules with lsmod and mod probe, I went back to menuconfig to check if I bult the ethernet card into the kernel. As it turnes out, I did. So I rebult the kernel, this time ensuring that I selected my NIC as a module. After compiling and installing I rebooted, same problem. That is, the NIC was still part of the kernel and NOT a module. Worse yet, it didn't grab an IP. > > I strongly reccommend modules for everything other than the > filesystem and disk controller you boot off of, as it can > make life easier resetting tempermental devices and tends to > give you a smaller, faster kernel, among other ease of use > issues. It's not the most intuitive thing in the world at > first, but once you get the hang of it it becomes quite simple. I wholeheartedly agree. I haven't had a problem like this in the past. Just this time. > > > ifdown eth0 > > ifup eth0 > > dhclient eth0 > > Restart networking with /etc/init.d/networking restart > instead, if you got an IP address before and you haven't > changed /etc/network/interfaces, it'll shut down all > interfaces and bring them back up and try to do DHCP again. I tried this, to no avail. Still can't get an IP. > > > None of these things give me an IP. What am I missing. You can be > > sure that I have tested everything out, i.e. good cable, laptop can > > get an ip from same port on switch, computer is plugged in etc. > > In your kernel config, do you have CONFIG_FILTER=y ? The only line that has CONFIG_FILTER in it is commented out. I see: # CONFIG_FILTER is not set > You can check by looking in /boot/config-(version), for > example on my system, /boot/config-2.4.20 (Hint: You can > pick up the settings you left off in menuconfig or xconfig by > using the Load Configuration from file option) Thanks so much for your help. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Kernel Compile Issue SOLVED
See below for information. This is now solved. The problem was that I didn't have CONFIG_FILTER compiled into my kernel. I don't get why this is nessessary. Thanks. Michael > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Kernel Compile Issue > > > > > The new kernel boots fine, but eth0 no longer can get an > IP. lsmod > > > says that I have no modules loaded. I double checked to > > ensure that I > > > didn't build this into the kernel and I did! So I did the same > > > process a second time, same deal only this time I made > sure that I > > > specified my NIC to load as a module. No dice, it is still built > > > right into the kernel. Now I guess I don't really care if > > it is, the > > > problem is that I can't get an IP from DHCP. I tried: > > > > Wait, so you built the module and it's not loaded, or you > > build the driver directly into the kernel? Did you quit > > menuconfig or xconfig with "Save settings and exit?" > > Sorry I wasn't very clear here. I wanted to load the > ethernet card as a module. I thought that is what I had done > when I built the first kernel. But because I could not see > any modules with lsmod and mod probe, I went back to > menuconfig to check if I bult the ethernet card into the > kernel. As it turnes out, I did. So I rebult the kernel, > this time ensuring that I selected my NIC as a module. After > compiling and installing I rebooted, same problem. That is, > the NIC was still part of the kernel and NOT a module. Worse > yet, it didn't grab an IP. > > > > > I strongly reccommend modules for everything other than the > > filesystem and disk controller you boot off of, as it can > > make life easier resetting tempermental devices and tends to > > give you a smaller, faster kernel, among other ease of use > > issues. It's not the most intuitive thing in the world at > > first, but once you get the hang of it it becomes quite simple. > > I wholeheartedly agree. I haven't had a problem like this in > the past. Just this time. > > > > > > ifdown eth0 > > > ifup eth0 > > > dhclient eth0 > > > > Restart networking with /etc/init.d/networking restart > > instead, if you got an IP address before and you haven't > > changed /etc/network/interfaces, it'll shut down all > > interfaces and bring them back up and try to do DHCP again. > > I tried this, to no avail. Still can't get an IP. > > > > > > None of these things give me an IP. What am I missing. > You can be > > > sure that I have tested everything out, i.e. good cable, > laptop can > > > get an ip from same port on switch, computer is plugged in etc. > > > > In your kernel config, do you have CONFIG_FILTER=y ? > > The only line that has CONFIG_FILTER in it is commented out. > I see: # CONFIG_FILTER is not set > > > You can check by looking in /boot/config-(version), for > > example on my system, /boot/config-2.4.20 (Hint: You can > > pick up the settings you left off in menuconfig or xconfig by > > using the Load Configuration from file option) > > Thanks so much for your help. > > Michael > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howto redirect output from a terminal
I am not sure how to ask for what I want here. But, here goes. I was using dump to make a backup of a directory on my computer. This was started from a terminal in X. As it was running I could see in the terminal window all the status output from the program. Good. This backup job took a long time to complete and so I went home while the backup was still running. When at home I ssh'd into the box to see if the dump process was still running, it was. Then I got to thinking, how can I see the output of this program in my current ssh session? Is there a program that exists to allow me to redirect the output of a program running in a terminal to another terminal? I hope I am explaining this clearly. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Howto redirect output from a terminal
> From: sean finney wrote: > heya, > > i'd suggest either nohup or screen. the former is dirt > simple but not very featureful, and the second is the opposite. OK, I just installed screen, very cool program, but not what I am looking for. I need to be able to run a program in a window. Then when later logging into this machine remotely be able to view the output of a program that is running in the X terminal window that I started earlier when I was at the console. Does that make more sense? I read the man page for nohup, this is not going to do what I am asking. Thanks! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Howto redirect output from a terminal
> Screen acts as its own virtual terminal. You start screen from any > terminal and it leaves you at a terminal prompt. Now you can > do whatever > you want (i.e. start your backup). From another terminal (ssh'd in or > otherwise) you can cause that screen virtual terminal to be > displayed on > your new terminal and not the original one. The screen > manpage describes > all the keystrokes and options required for this. Oh! I see how this works now! Slick. Sorry to Sean Finney, I see now what he was trying to explain. Man this is great. Thanks so much!!! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1
Hello, I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so.1 by libxrender1.1' dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxrender1_0.8.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Any clues as to what I can do to force (or fix) this install of this so that I can move on? apt just exists after this. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1
>Michael Kahle wrote: >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >> >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >> 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so.1 by libxrender1.1' >> dpkg: error processing >> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxrender1_0.8.2-1_i386.deb >> (--unpack): >> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 >> >> Any clues as to what I can do to force (or fix) this install of this >> so that I can move on? apt just exists after this. Nick Hastings wrote: >I've not seen this type of problem before, however it seems that the >pre-install script (/var/lib/dpjg/info/libxrender1.preinst) is failing >because it is trying to divert >(man 8 dpkg-divert) a file to a >location that is already used. > >You seem to have two versions of libxrender installed >(version 1 and 1.1). Perhaps you should remove one of them. > Thanks Nick. I tried what you suggested, but it seems that my problems are deeper than this. I could not uninstall libxrender1 or 1.1, it said that a few other programs I had installed depended on it. So, I removed those programs (nautilus, gnome-core, gnome-terminal, nautilus-cd-burn, etc.). So now when I run "apt-get update" it tells me that it will install powermgmt-base and upgrade powermgmt-base, no mention of trying to force an install of libxrender1. It also says the following: 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded. 147 not fully installed or removed. [...other familiar stuff...] Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Preconfiguring packages... Selecting previously deselected package powermgmt-base. (Reading database ... 53420 files and directories currently installed.) Prepairing to replace powermgmt-base 1.6 (using .../powermgmt-base_1.16_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement powermgmt-base ... Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults cat: /etc/modprobe.d/arch/generic: Nosuch file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... cat: /etc/modprobe.d/arch/generic: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/powermgmt-base_1.16_i386.deb (--u npack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 cat: /etc/modprobe.d/arch/generic: No such file or directory dpkg: errorwhile cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status1 Errors wer encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/powermgmt-base_1.16_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # So I tried to remove "powermgmt-base" and the following happened when running "apt-get remove powermgmt-base" Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: powermgmt-base 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 34 not upgraded. 147 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 127kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Dpkg: error processing powermgmt-base (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: powermgmt-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # A little background here. This is a LVM/RAID machine with a custom kernel. I did not compile into the kernel APM support. Would this be causing this problem? That is the problem with the "Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found" message that I am receiving? I am a little lost here. Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1
>>Michael Kahle wrote: >>> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >>> >>> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >>> 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >>> /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so.1 by libxrender1.1' >>> dpkg: error processing >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxrender1_0.8.2-1_i386.deb >>> (--unpack): >>> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 >>> >>> Any clues as to what I can do to force (or fix) this install of this >>> so that I can move on? apt just exists after this. > >Nick Hastings wrote: >>I've not seen this type of problem before, however it seems that the >>pre-install script (/var/lib/dpjg/info/libxrender1.preinst) is failing >>because it is trying to divert >(man 8 dpkg-divert) a file to a >>location that is already used. >> >>You seem to have two versions of libxrender installed >>(version 1 and 1.1). Perhaps you should remove one of them. >> Michael Kahle wrote: >Thanks Nick. I tried what you suggested, but it seems that my problems >are deeper than this. I could not uninstall libxrender1 or 1.1, it >said that a few other programs I had installed depended on it. So, I >removed those programs (nautilus, gnome-core, gnome-terminal, >nautilus-cd-burn, etc.). So now when I run "apt-get update" it tells >me that it will install powermgmt-base and upgrade powermgmt-base, no >mention of trying to force an install of libxrender1. It also says >the following: > >1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded. >147 not fully installed or removed. >[...other familiar stuff...] >Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y >Preconfiguring packages... >Selecting previously deselected package powermgmt-base. >(Reading database ... 53420 files and directories currently installed.) >Prepairing to replace powermgmt-base 1.6 (using .../powermgmt-base_1.16_i386.deb) > ... >Unpacking replacement powermgmt-base ... >Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults >cat: /etc/modprobe.d/arch/generic: Nosuch file or directory >dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 >dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... >cat: /etc/modprobe.d/arch/generic: No such file or directory >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/powermgmt-base_1.16_i386.deb (--u >npack): > subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 >cat: /etc/modprobe.d/arch/generic: No such file or directory >dpkg: errorwhile cleaning up: > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status1 >Errors wer encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/powermgmt-base_1.16_i386.deb >E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ># > >So I tried to remove "powermgmt-base" and the following happened when running >"apt-get remove powermgmt-base" > >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >The following packages will be REMOVED: > powermgmt-base >0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 34 not upgraded. >147 not fully installed or removed. >Need to get 0B of archives. >After unpacking 127kB disk space will be freed. >Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y > >Dpkg: error processing powermgmt-base (--remove): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. >Errors were encountered while processing: > powermgmt-base >E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ># > >A little background here. This is a LVM/RAID machine with a custom kernel. I >did not compile into the kernel APM support. Would this be causing this >problem? That is the problem with the "Architecture-specific modutils configuration >not found" message that I am receiving? I am a little lost here. Ok, I took a look at the Debian reference manual: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html#s5.3.1 It gave me the following advice: 5.3.1 Best upgrade practice using dselect If a system has many packages which include -dev packages, etc., the following method using dselect is recommended for fine-grained package control. # dselect update # always do this before upgrade # dselect select # select additional packages All your current packages will be selected when dselect starts. dselect may prompt you with additional packages based on depends, suggests, and recommends. If you do not want to add any packages, just type Q to exit dselect again.
RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1
James Strandboge wrote: >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:20, Michael Kahle wrote: >> >Michael Kahle wrote: >> >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >> >> >> >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >> >> 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> >> /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so.1 by libxrender1.1' >> >> dpkg: error processing >> >> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxrender1_0.8.2-1_i386.deb >> >> (--unpack): >> >> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 >> >> >> >> Any clues as to what I can do to force (or fix) this install of >> >> this >> >> so that I can move on? apt just exists after this. > >Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed? Yes I did. I was runny woody. I then installed the backport at a later date. I the decided to switch to testing. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1
James Strandboge wrote: >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:28, Michael Kahle wrote: >>>Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed? >> >> Yes I did. I was runny woody. I then installed the backport at a >> later date. I the decided to switch to testing. >> >Glad dselect helped. It is not recommended to go from the backport >to testing, but instead the backport to sid. The reason being is >that much of the backport is much farther ahead of testing. > >I did correct a dependency issue with libxrender1.1 (which is from >the backport) and libxrender1. You won't be able to install >libxrender1 now without removing libxrender1.1. This should help >people attempting what you did. I apologize. I went from stable to unstable (sid). I hope that my slip did not prompt the propagation of a change that was unnecessary or worse wrong! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Galeon - Mozilla - Epiphany = strange lockups
I was using Woody for about a year on the machine I am writing to you from now (well, actually I am writing to you inside VMWare on a machine running debian...). Anyway, when running Mozilla from woody, every so often Mozilla would stop responding. The same would also happen to Galeon. I then installed a Mozilla 1.4 backport and the same problems were existing. So two days ago, or so, I switched my system to sid and I am experiencing this same problem. Again, I will be in mozilla, strangely it seems as if this happens most regularly when viewing debian.org, and mozilla will just stop responding. I will have to use xkill to stop it and restart. This same thing happens when using Epiphany. What's strange is that I can get it to crash _every time_ when I visit debian.org and then use the wheel on my mouse to scroll down the page. If I don't use the wheel and just click on the scrollbar on the right and drag it down it locks up in the same place, about 1 cm from the scrollbar reaching the bottom arrow. I am well aware that this is not enough information to even begin to give suggestions as to what my problem could be, but perhaps others have experiences this or something similar and could point me in the right direction to begin debugging this strange problem. This problem makes browsing the web on my Debian box useless, as it can stop responding on me at any moment. Then I have to kill it and reload. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
route entries will not stick
Where do I configure entries into my routing table so that when I reboot they exist the next session? I am reading the Linux Networking HOWTO and this is 1) conspicuously absent 2) I am missing it or 3) when adding routes using the "route" command the table that is updated automatically saves your information. In which case, why is this not sticking for me. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: route entries will not stick
Thanks, but I figured it out... I found this posting: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg01961.html michael -Original Message- From: Michael Kahle Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: route entries will not stick Where do I configure entries into my routing table so that when I reboot they exist the next session? I am reading the Linux Networking HOWTO and this is 1) conspicuously absent 2) I am missing it or 3) when adding routes using the "route" command the table that is updated automatically saves your information. In which case, why is this not sticking for me. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Took 2 days for my message to post!?!
Is the list running slow because of the MS Virus? My message: "Subject: route entries will not stick" was sent on Wed 9/24/2003 @ 12:52pm CST it posted to the list on Friday 9/26/2003 @ ~11:00 CST. Then my reply, "Subject: RE: route entries will not stick" which I sent on Friday 9/24/2003 @ 5:12pm CST did not post to the list until Friday 9/26/2003 @ 11:57am CST. So what is the deal? It normally takes about a half hour for me to see a message that I posted on the list. What can be done about this, if anything? Just to be clear, I am not outraged at this or anything. I very much appreciate the resource as well as the members who contribute. My thanks will never be enough to compensate everyone for their hard work. Just curious as to what I should expect. Thanks. -michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: xpdf hogging processor
> Hello, > I've just tried to view the PDF at > http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) > with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. > top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the > rest. I left it running for a couple of minutes before killing it. > > gv shows the page fine (though it doesn't get page 1 right). I would have > thought that my system (133MHz, 72MB) would be good enough to read a pdf, > but ICBW. Does anyone with a higher-spec machine, and a few minutes to > spare, want to take a look at the file and see if they have the same > problem? > > Glyn > I downloaded the file locally, opened it with xpdf. On page 12 it did take longer to show up than other pages, however it only took about 2.6sec to display. The other pages about .3sec. I used a stopwatch, so results are not exact. My system is a Xeon 933, 758MB. Cheers. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: odd behaviour with harddisk
I had a similar problem with an old gateway P150 with a Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB drive. I had to flash the bios and then everything worked right. Still running Debian Woody as my file server. Good luck. Michael -Original Message- From: Burkhard Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: odd behaviour with harddisk Hallo. I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130. It is not recognised by the bios in a rigt way, so I have not registered it there as it seems to work without. It does, the only problem is that it claims it is full, although this is definitely not the fact. du and df say it has about 17G data. Has anybody an idea what might be wrong here or how to solve this? Thanks in advance. Burkhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where do I find the kernel headers?
I hope this isn't a silly question. >From the Debian FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html): //snip The kernel headers distributed with the kernel source are located in /usr/include/linux/include/. //snip I used dselect to install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package and a ls of the /usr/include/linux/include/ shows: bash: cd: /usr/include/linux/include/: No such file or directory I did find a file under /usr/scr/ called kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 Is this what the kernel-source package installs? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: xvncviewer respawn
nate said: >Hugh Saunders said: > >> but this just causes >> INIT: id "8" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes >> to be repeated on the console. so that is obviously not the way to do it, >> any better ideas? > >probably because it cannot connect to the X server.. > >you could try a shell script > >something like > >#!/bin/bash > >while true; >do >/path/to/xvncviewer >done > > >whenever xvncviwer exits it will be reloaded > >not sure how you have authentication setup, I haven't used VNC >that much, you may have to re input your password each time to get around the authentication issue, you could just run: #/path/to/vncpasswd Password: Verify: #/path/to/vncviewer -passwd /path/to/passwd(that was created with vncpasswd) 0.0.0.0(your servers name or IP) & This way you do not have to input the password each time. You can just have a password file generated. Good times. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: Politics of Java
-Original Message- From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:21 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: OT: Politics of Java Craig Dickson wrote: /* snip > >No, you haven't been smoking too much RMS. Java is not an open standard; >it is controlled entirely by Sun, for Sun's benefit. > snip */ Is the standard, "controlled entirely by Sun"? I'm not sure how mature this is, but if your interested in Java programming without the politics. http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ Good times. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: Politics of Java
Craig Dickson wrote: >I know there are other compilers/tools for Java than Sun's, but that >doesn't change the fact that the Java name is a Sun trademark and that >Sun has never submitted the language to an independent standards body. >Sun, all by themselves, defines what Java is and isn't. > >Craig Interesting. I am going to have to do some reading on this. Does the fact that they control the "standard" prohibit others from implementing the language with other standards if they see fit? Forking the project so to speak? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Testing Crashes Overnight
This post is going to be a bit vague, sorry. I built the system using Woody, then 'upgraded' to testing on my workstation. I use this as my primary computer here at work. At the end of the day, when I go home, I lock X and take off. The next morning, the system is frozen. I can't do anything but shut the machine down by holding the power switch. I tried to ssh into the box but it timed out. So there was no way to shut it down gracefully. I have XFree86 installed, Gnome installed and am using the mga drivers from Matrox to support my dual screens. Where do I begin to troubleshoot this? Any suggestions are welcome. I will provide any information requested, save the password for root! :) Good times. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian Testing Crashes Overnight
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 11:26, Michael Kahle wrote: >> I built the system using Woody, then 'upgraded' to testing on my >> workstation. I use this as my primary computer here at work. At the end of >> the day, when I go home, I lock X and take off. The next morning, the >> system is frozen. I can't do anything but shut the machine down by holding >> the power switch. I tried to ssh into the box but it timed out. So there >> was no way to shut it down gracefully. >> >> I have XFree86 installed, Gnome installed and am using the mga drivers from >> Matrox to support my dual screens. Where do I begin to troubleshoot this? > >You're not running it in a PC emulator on Windows, are you? ;) nope! :) System: IBM ZPro, PXeon 933, 768MB, Debian > >I've heard of problems with locked screensavers in the past, and I >wouldn't be surprised if that *could* be a problem, but what is more >important is whether or not the system hangs at the same time each day >(potential cron job problem - check the tail of the back logs.) >Alternately, it could be a hardware problem from poor handling of acpi. I remember reading something about the screensaver problem to. FYI I am using the xmatrix xscreensaver. I'm not sure if the system hangs at the same time each day. If I look in the syslog I see this gap in time occor: /* Syslog Snip Nov 21 00:01:31 geocentric dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.100.254 port 67 Nov 21 00:01:31 geocentric dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.100.254 Nov 21 00:01:32 geocentric dhclient: bound to 192.168.100.7 -- renewal in 10800 seconds. Nov 21 00:08:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2891]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 00:21:33 geocentric -- MARK -- Nov 21 00:23:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2909]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 00:38:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2920]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 00:53:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2928]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 09:42:46 geocentric syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. Nov 21 09:42:46 geocentric kernel: klogd 1.4.1#10, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 21 09:42:46 geocentric kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18-bf2.4 Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Loaded 19371 symbols from /boot/System.map- 2.4.18-bf2.4. Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Loaded 337 symbols from 12 modules. Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) end snip */ You see? Nov 21 00:53:01 - cron problem? Then: Nov 21 09:42:46 - must have been when I got it running again. Because I had do forcibly shut it down I had errors on my disk. When it crashed I was doing a dump restore... :( Yea, it's been a shitty morning. So I had to run e2fsck to check / repair a bunch of inodes. So by the time the system had actually come back up this morning it may have been that time. ACPI - Humm... I am loading that module, although I don't have to! BTW Kernel version 2.4.18-bf2.4, I have not yet compiled a kernel for this machine. > >Could you provide when the last entries in your syslogs have been, and >anything of interest about your kernel (version, whether you roll your >own, etc.?) See above. Thanks for you time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian Testing Crashes Overnight
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >I've heard of problems with locked screensavers in the past, and I >wouldn't be surprised if that *could* be a problem, but what is more >important is whether or not the system hangs at the same time each day >(potential cron job problem - check the tail of the back logs.) >Alternately, it could be a hardware problem from poor handling of acpi. > >Could you provide when the last entries in your syslogs have been, and >anything of interest about your kernel (version, whether you roll your >own, etc.?) Ok, I just went out for lunch... when I got back... screen was locked. So perhaps it's not cron. Maybe it's the screen saver. I am going to unload the module for APM and see if that makes a difference. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian Testing Crashes Overnight *solved*
Osamu Aoki wrote: >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:23:04PM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: >> Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >> > >> >I've heard of problems with locked screensavers in the past, and I >> >wouldn't be surprised if that *could* be a problem, but what is more >> >important is whether or not the system hangs at the same time each day >> >(potential cron job problem - check the tail of the back logs.) >> >Alternately, it could be a hardware problem from poor handling of acpi. >> > >> >Could you provide when the last entries in your syslogs have been, and >> >anything of interest about your kernel (version, whether you roll your >> >own, etc.?) >> >> Ok, I just went out for lunch... when I got back... screen was locked. So >> perhaps it's not cron. Maybe it's the screen saver. I am going to unload >> the module for APM and see if that makes a difference. >I had similar problem in Woody. By moving to X4.2, I havo no problem. >Go Sarge! >-- >~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + >Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 > .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers > : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu > `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract Thanks to all who wrote giving me suggestions. I was pleasantly surprised when I came into work this morning and the xmatrix screensaver was greeting me running, and not having crashed my system! It turned out that the problem was with acpi as Mark L. Kahnt suggested. I unloaded the module yesterday, and stability to my system seems to have been restored. Thanks again for all of your help. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: where do I find the kernel headers? *solved*
Seneca wrote: >On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:28:17PM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: >> I hope this isn't a silly question. > >Most of the time, the only silly question is the one left unasked >(trite, I know). > >> >From the Debian FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html): >> //snip >> The kernel headers distributed with the kernel source are located in >> /usr/include/linux/include/. >> //snip > >Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.18/README.headers.gz > >> I used dselect to install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package and a ls of the >> /usr/include/linux/include/ shows: >> bash: cd: /usr/include/linux/include/: No such file or directory > >Try that after installing libc6-dev. > >> I did find a file under /usr/scr/ called kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 >> >> Is this what the kernel-source package installs? > >The kernel-source packages deposit a tarball of the kernel source in >/usr/src. > >seneca@dodecagon:~$ dpkg -L kernel-source-2.4.19 >/. >/usr >/usr/src >/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 >/usr/share >/usr/share/doc >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19 >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/copyright >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/changelog.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.grub.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/debian.README.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.tecra.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.headers.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.modules.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Flavours.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/sample.module.rules.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Rationale.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/sample.module.control.gz >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/Buildinfo >/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.19/README.Debian.gz > >-- >Seneca >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, All I ended up needing was the kernel-headers package. That did the trick. Thanks again to all. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: installation Problem
Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >When I go to install Debian 3.0 from an iso cdrom that I >downloaded I get an error when it comes time to install >the kernal drivers: "The installation program couldn't >find any directory containing the files rescue.bin, bf2.4/ >drivers.tgz." can anyone help me? -- Did you check the md5 sum on the CD you created? Did you load the CD on another machine and check that those files are one there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to have many Win98 users & 1 Linux
//snip Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Putty looks to the uneducated user like a DOS-box. If you need > graphical programs, I can't help you other than to say it's > possible. Have a look at the HOWTOs wrt to X Window System and > remote applications. For this to work, you will need to spend a > reasonable amount of time and effort to configure the Windows > systems. > I have found the quickest way to get X on a windows box is to install cygwin with the appropriate support for X. Cygwin website: http://www.cygwin.com/ The Cygwin install is quite simple. Some tips: 1.) Because you are installing this to many windows machines, I would recommend that you choose on your first install to download the components from the internet. This will allow you to save these files to a network location (possibly your new Debian GNU/Linux box running samba!) and in future windows installations you can tell the installer to install from a local directory. This will save on time and bandwidth. 2.) When selecting packages, you will be interested in a very base install on the client (in this case the Windows machines). You will want to install some X components here. Like I said, you will want to keep this installation very basic. Most of your work (if I understand your question correctly) will be done by students on a windows machine connected to the Debian box. Try to install a minimal set of tools on the client side so that they do their work on the linux box and not on the Cygwin client. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VMWare
[snip] > I wouldn't bother with anything before workstation 4. [end snip] I used Workstation 3 for about a year before, just recently, upgrading to 4. No problems with 3 at all... Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP Winprinters
Does anyone know where I can find the ppa (HP "windows" printer drivers for linux) website? Here is the link that was on LDP's site, but I get a 404: http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/ The LDP documentation that I was looking at is here (for refrence) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Printi ng-HOWTO.html#WINPRINTERS Has this project moved. I know this isn't exactly Debian specific, but if you have any ideas...? Thanks Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HP Winprinters
Michael Kahle wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find the ppa (HP "windows" > printer drivers for > linux) website? Never mind, I found it... http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/ Its now called pnm2ppa instead of pbm2ppa (unless of course that was a typo on the Printing-HOWTO maintainers part). Thanks and sorry for the noise. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wu-ftpd woes
I am trying to setup a ftp server on my company lan for a repository of g4u created machine images. I have chosen to install wu-ftpd. I cannot seam to get this to authenticate me. I have NOT setup anonymous user access, I am only configuring this based on the guest access wu-ftpd HOWTO: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO A few questions. I am using the wu-ftpd package from SID. Is the debian package compiled to use /etc/ftpaccess by default? I am assuming it is. Does wu-ftpd want you to create user entries in: ../[the directory you want the user to chroot to]/etc? I am confused as to why this is not working. Any (help)(comments)(you are dumb, you should to this) etc welcome. Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: wu-ftpd woes
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: wu-ftpd woes > > > I am trying to setup a ftp server on my company lan for a > repository of g4u > created machine images. I have chosen to install wu-ftpd. > > I cannot seam to get this to authenticate me. I have NOT > setup anonymous > user access, I am only configuring this based on the guest > access wu-ftpd > HOWTO: > http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO > > A few questions. I am using the wu-ftpd package from SID. > > Is the debian package compiled to use /etc/ftpaccess by default? I am > assuming it is. > Does wu-ftpd want you to create user entries in: > ../[the directory you want the user to chroot to]/etc? > > I am confused as to why this is not working. > > Any (help)(comments)(you are dumb, you should to this) etc welcome. > > Thanks for your time. > > Michael I have given up on wu-ftpd. I installed proftpd and I find it MUCH easier to install and configure. I only hope I can secure it well. Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Via Eden Mini-ITX
Has anyone had any experience running Woody on one of these VIA Eden motherboards? I have a little project that I'm working on that I think this form factor would be perfect for. I have seen some good reviews on these, even some mentioning linux on them. Does anyone in the Debian crowd have anything to say about this? I would like to install a minimum base kernel with some packages. Of these I would like to include SANE (does anyone know if you can use SANE without X?), scanner drivers, print spooler and drivers, etc. Any comments welcome. Boy, does this look like a fun toy. I can think of so many uses for this around the house and for around $120 bucks, you can't go wrong. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer
Greetings, I hope you all can help me resolve my problem. I am currently running Debian Sid on my computer. I have 3 SCSI drives in it and I would like to add a fourth IDE drive to it. I have a 80 GB drive that would be a great chunk-o-diskTM for me to store all kinds of goodies on. I originally built the system with one SCSI drive and later added the two others. This worked great for me! But here's my problem. I have heard that by adding a IDE drive into the system I will no longer be able to boot off of my SCSI drive. Is that true? I guess there is some BIOS issue with that. To add to the complexity of this, the drive has about 50 GB of data that I want to keep... Oh, and it is formatted NTFS (Windows 2000). Can I add this IDE drive 'as is' without re-formatting it? I seem to remember seeing that I could mount a NTFS file system somewhere. If you need more information, no problem. Thanks so much, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer
Dear all, Thank you for the advise on adding the ide drive to my computer. I could not get the ide drive to even recognize. After some monkey-ing around, I decided to pull all the drives out of my computer and add 5 brand new 36GB 10,000 RPM 80pin SCSI drives to my computer. I printed out the Software RAID How-to, ordered a pizza, bought 4 cans of Mountain Dew from the soda machine, and went to work... That was 2.5 hours ago. Now here I am writing to you. You see I could go home and tell my wife all that had happened but she would be half asleep and just stare blankly. Even awake she could not begin to sympathize with me, or even understand in the least what I am talking about. This is where you all come in. Tonight, you will unwillingly lend me a sympathetic ear. Now where was I? Oh yes, my new hard disks. About a month ago my boss decided to order 10-15 (I lost count) of these hard drives. He did not read the fine print and accidentally ordered 80pin hot swap drives. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade right? I happened to have 5 80 pin to 68/50 pin SCSI converters lying around in the back and used those to connect these hard disks to my back-plane-less computer. Geocentric (my beloved Debian box) is a IBM Z-Pro with a Xeon 1Ghz (I could add a second processor), 1.5GB of RAM, a dual head video card, etc; all housed in a 50,000lb case. Way too much for what I use it for, but nice none-the-less. I haven't turned this computer off in months. Stable as can be, even though I was running SID. Btw, thanks to all Debian project people out there, I am constantly amazed at how functional even the 'unstable' tree is! I think I'll get "Debian 4 Life" tattooed on me somewhere... Ok, I'm loosing focus. Geocentric has 6 or 7 slots that you can add drives to on these little rails that come with the case. It took about an hour to figure out how to insert all of those drives in such a way that they would all fit. But, I did it! I then had to somehow cable these together, with the one cable I had to daisy chain them all together. It was impossible. In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the pressed on connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully pressed them back on with the help of a vice and a micrometer. With my newly customized cable I went back to work. After some twisting to get the connectors oriented correctly with the SCA -> 68pin adapter, they all snapped in perfectly. I would like to take a moment to add out of the 5 converters I had, I had three different brands, mismatched throughout the chain. Finally getting the computer assembled I plugged it in... A smile on my face... A 1 INCH SPARK ARCED FROM ONE OF THE CONVERTERS... Then... My main board started to smoke. I unplugged my computer... Put it on a cart and wheeled it to the back room. I'm going to sleep now... tomorrows another day... Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter
> > > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the > pressed on > > > > connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully > > > > pressed them back on with the help of a vice and a micrometer. > > >=20 > > > Just for the record, may we know what brand of soda > inspired this? > > >:) > > > > He said Mountain Dew, but it sounds like beer to me (^: > > I'm thinking Martini, regular Bombay, not Sapphire, and > poured, not shaken . . . > > at least that was the culprit that nabbed me last time . . . Only Mountain Dew... I WISH it had been any one (or all) of the fine drinks suggested... :) Hell, I could have been doing a plethora of other more illicit substances and wound up with the same results. For sure, I will prevail. My boss found it amusing, I have another Z-Pro... :) Now if I blow this one up... be sure I will NOT be sharing with anyone... a future employer will look me up and Google and decide he cannot afford my less than adequate performance. Thanks for the laughs... I really need them today! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter
> A few years ago, the big high-load PSU I'd just bought > literally caught fire inside the server it was installed in, > so I swapped the old, low-load, non-burning PSU back in and > asked a friend to help me fix it. He was a better solderer > than me, so he replaced a couple of power transistors and > declared it ready for testing. > > He was bent over the PSU, staring intently into its innards, > as he reached over to touch the power switch... > > Just as I popped a paper bag right behind his head. > > Once we peeled him from the ceiling and installed a few beers > in his gullet, he agreed that it was sort of funny. I am still laughing! Ha! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Follow-up: Worst night ever...
I just got the cable and adapters I need to bring life back into Geocentric.(1) 6x '80 to 68pin' SCSI adapters and a arms length SCSI 68pin round cable to tie them all together. I must say, I pray too little. I mount the 6 drives into the IBM Z-Pro chassis. Route the cables, attach the adapters, power; now give it a shot! BAAM!! Kidding, everything works well. My new IBM Z-Pro is now equip with the following: Proc: 1Ghz PIII Xeon RAM: 1GB SCSI: Adaptec AIC-7899 Disk: 6x 36MB Ultra SCSI disks CDRW: LiteOn 48x24x48 TAPE: Dell PowerVault 110T Now I am installing Debian Woody. A fresh install. I cannot find how during the installation to setup software RAID. Anyone know? I also need some advise how to partition the drives. I figure most of it will be one large partition (~80-100GB RAID 5), and a few other partitions for things like swap, root, boot, homes, etc. I am of the school that has had only a few partitions in the past. One for boot, one for root and one for swap. I understand that this is not the best way to configure ones system. Any advise? Please be detailed. Thanks so much to all for making playing with linux such a great experience! Yours, Michael (1) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg01353.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael T. Kahle Tel: +1.262.673.6770x161105 Steel Craft Dr Cel: +1.414.651.8645Hartford, WI 53027 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...
Thanks to the both of you for your comments. My boss gave me the go ahead to purchase a Hardware RAID controller. I figured this would be a more robust solution that the Software RAID. Any suggestions on a brand? I am going to install Debian Woody on this computer so ideally I would want the controller to be very well supported under Debian. I would love it if it would be natively supported during setup, or as a preloaded module. I can fit a 64 bit pci card into this thing, and if it will yield faster access, I would be willing to go for it. It is just going to be these six drives hooked up to it, so I don't need one that has 4 external array ports on the back or anything fancy like that. Six drives only, perhaps one external port for later use... But unlikely. Famous last words... :) Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...
>I didn't even bother installing the 3ware software that came with the card, there is enough >support built into the kernel to make it work just fine. Just remember it's not /dev/hd? >anymore, it's /dev/sd?. The 3ware card is ATA RAID. I have SCSI disks in my system. I need a hardware RAID card that supports my 68pin UltraSCSI drives. As a side note, I did read the specs on the 7800. What a cool product. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]
Tom wrote: > I think we as a plant need to play a fun game. For one > week, everybody has to in a serious way act the opposite > way of what they believe. > > Michael Moore and Al Franken need to be on TV fishing > and talking bout shotguns. George Bush needs to lead > an abortion rights march. [I can't think of a bunch of > jokes, you get the idea]. > > Nothing would be learned by this experience. Just for > the sheer, anarchic, nonsensical bizarness of it. Try > it. It's fun. ROTFL. Tom, you are a man after my own heart. :-) Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian for Dual Opterons...
Has anyone tried installed Debian on a dual Opteron system? I am thinking of building a new server based on this technology, any thoughts? Would I use the IA64 branch? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Backup server with Windows Clients
I use Rsync to do this very thing. The only requirement you have, that I am missing, is that the user of the workstation to be backed up has no say in what gets backed up. Check out the following documents: http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/nt.html - Shows how to setup Rsync as a service on the NT machine, but I prefer to use the cygwin utilities to do this. Michael -Original Message- From: Marion Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup server with Windows Clients I'm wanting to set my Debian machine to backup the data from our other Windows PC's in the office. I was thinking this would best be done with a client on the windows pcs that selects the files to backup and then on a schedule it archives and uploads the files to the linux. Has anyone successfully set up something that is similar. What's out there that can do this? Thanks, Marion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers
Greetings fellow Debianites, Sorry, this may be a little long winded. For the past couple of days I have been trying off and on to get the ALSA drivers setup on my Woody box. The computer is a IBM Intellistation Z-Pro (6866-60U). Because I never had sound installed on this machine, I never had the SOUNDCORE module loaded as part of my kernel. When I started this venture I was using a custom kernel that I made to support my 5 disk SCSI RAID5 LVM disk setup. So I built a new kernel that had SOUNDCORE support in addition to my other needs. I have the 2.4.18 debian package source for woody. Ran: make mrproper make xconfig make-kpkg kernel-image When I built the kernel "the Debian way", for some reason my network card (eepro100) could never get an IP address. So, I built the kernel "the manual way". Ran: make mrproper make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install This worked wonderfully and I didn't have to figure out what was going on with make-kpkg. So now I have a custom 2.4.18 kernel with SCSI+RAID5+LVM and now soundcore support as a module. When I installed the Debian packages for ALSA using dselect, I could not get it to configure properly with my sound card. I then went to alsa's site (http://www.alsa-project.org) and followed their directions to install the latest stable release 0.94 of the Driver, Library, Utilities, and Tools. I now can see that these modules are loaded... lsmod shows: Module Size Used byTainted: PF snd-seq-oss23104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 2984 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq36236 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss36516 0 snd-mixer-oss 11232 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-intel8x0 15168 0 snd-pcm54624 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 13920 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-page-alloc 4496 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 32816 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 2848 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi12384 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3764 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd27136 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3492 5 [snd] I launch alsamixer and it shows my sound card information at the top. So, it seems that everything is installed correctly and working. I then installed XMMS using dselect from the stable tree. This prompted me to install all sorts of stuff. Libasound1, libesd-alsa0, xmms, esound, some documentiation. Now when I launch XMMS as a user, trying to play a mp3 brings up the message: Please check that: 1. You have the correct output plug-in selected 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard 3. Your soundcard is configured properly Now when I run XMMS as root, it works just fine, plays my music just fine. Is this a permissions issue with the sound card device(s)? If so, what is the best (read most secure) way to enable access for my user account? Any ideas why make-kpkg kernel-image does not work correctly with my Ethernet card? (I realize this is a different post entirely, just thought I would bring it up.) Any help is always appreciated. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Try: > chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi > add yourself to the "audio" group under /etc/group -- mine looks like > this: audio:x:29:emmajane,root > instructions from: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=ALi&card= M1535%2CM1535D%2CM1535%2B%2CM1535D%2B&chip=M5451&module=ali5451 This worked perfectly. Thanks. I did already have myself added to that group, I did not know that you have to log in and then log out in order to notify the OS that you are now part of a group. >Michael Kahle wrote: >> Any ideas why make-kpkg kernel-image does not work correctly with my >> Ethernet card? (I realize this is a different post entirely, just >> thought I would bring it up.) Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I use wireless, so it may be a slightly different problem; however, for some > reason make-kpkg found an old version of the pcmcia source and used out-dated > modules. It took me SEVERAL tries to get everything in the right order. I was > also configuring for my graphics card (nvidia) for a total of: nvidia, pcmcia > and alsa as seperate modules. Plus all the things that are in my kernel as > modules (i.e. soundcore). > > Instead of just relying on --append-to-version I actually (re)moved the > /lib/modules/ directory and then did modules_install again. (Let me > know if you want that in a non-short hand version.) I am not sure what you mean by the "--append-to-version" comment, I am going to assume that this is something that make-kpkg does automatically? When I built my kernel I did have to rename the /lib/modules/ directory before I ran modules_install, but remember this is a kernel built the "classic" way and --_not_ the "Debian" way. So if make-kpkg should do this automatically, is it broke on something? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Compile the Debian Way... was RE: ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers
>Michael Kahle wrote: >> I am not sure what you mean by the "--append-to-version" comment, I am >> going to assume that this is something that make-kpkg does >> automatically? When I built my kernel I did have to rename the >> /lib/modules/ directory before I ran modules_install, but >> remember this is a kernel built the "classic" way and --_not_ the >> "Debian" way. So if make-kpkg should do this automatically, is it >> broke on something? Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Ah, I didn't realize you weren't doing things The Debian Way. > In this case it's extra important that you remember to *delete* > or otherwise move the /lib/modules directory that's created when > you compile your kernel. If you don't you *may* end up not having > the new modules put into the directory. This happened to me several > times when I was trying to get my wireless card working--without > deleting the directory the old drivers weren't overwritten when I > compiled a new kernel. I did end up figuring out that I needed to rename the /lib/modules directory in order to get the kernel and modules to build correctly. I am currently writing you on the computer running this new kernel. (Well, using Outlook running on VMWare, running on the new kernel! ;-) However, I did not want to do things this way. I wanted to do it the Debian way. I ran into problems with things working using make-kpkg. I just looked at the man page on make-kpkg. I understand what you were saying now with the "--append-to-version" argument. It seems to me that this is used to differentiate between one or more kernels that the sysadmin has customized. Apparently this command inserts a value (rather appends) the value of the EXTRAVERSION variable in the Linux Makefile. Good to know. So my final question then is this, what should be the steps one goes through to compile the kernel the "Debian Way"? I used "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" to guide me through this process. The guide outlines two methods for building a custom kernel. The "typical" way and the "Debian Way". The procedure for the typical way is as follows: make mrproper make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install The procedure for the "Debian Way" is: make xconfig make-kpkg kernel-image Should I be doing other steps when doing it the Debian way? For instance instead of first running make xconfig should I run make mrproper? After I run make-kpkg kernel-image should I run make modules and make modules_install? Or does make-kpkg kernel-image take care of all of this for me? Thanks for your time! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Advice on Linux Web Hosting
I am wondering if anyone has any advice on a good linux web hosting provider. I am looking to go with a reputable company at reasonable rates. I would need anywhere from 6gb - 10gb / month bandwidth. Access to CGI bin preferable, other nice features would be MySQL, perl, php, etc. Preferably located in the US. I may be out of line here asking this question, if so, please let me know. I did a search on Google for "web hosting" & "linux web hosting" and I am bombarded with a TON of sites that are hard to tell through their marketing lit if they are reputable or not. Another common search result were pages that claimed to be "ratings" and "review" sites, but were simply fronts for their businesses. Any advice on this topic would be great. I do not want to have to play games with businesses and hope to get up and running quickly. Remember price is not _so much_ an option here. This is for the company I work for and they are quite comfortable footing the bill for better service (read knowledgeable/good). Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list
Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: > I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do > it; there are lots of ways it can break. I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this a problem? Please excuse my inexperience here. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list
On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:42 AM Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: >> Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: >>> I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do >>> it; there are lots of ways it can break. >> >> I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this >> a problem? Please excuse my inexperience here. > > Upgrades require interaction from time to time, such as conffile > merges. Even with packages that use debconf, the defaults you get > with the noninteractive frontend aren't always what you want. Ah. This makes perfect sense. Good enough for me. Thanks. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
raidhotadd not working after reboot?!?
Recently when starting my computer I was notified by the Adaptec SCSI BIOS that my disk ID #4 was not starting up. This disk was failed. This disk is part of the software raid array that I have setup on the machine. When the kernel booted it notified me that it could not see the disk and as a result my raid 5 array was in a failed state. I shutdown the computer, replaced the drive with an identical one and proceeded to restart the computer. The Adaptec SCSI BIOS noticed the drive and linux booted. At this point the RAID 5 array was still in a failed state. In the console I typed the following: lsraid -R -p And got the following output: # md device [dev 9, 0] /dev/md0 queried online raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 5 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 32 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdd1 raid-disk 2 device /dev/sde1 raid-disk 3 device /dev/null failed-disk 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# I then proceeded to run "raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdf1" after setting up the partition of /dev/sdf. The program launched the process md0_resync. After this completed I ran: lsraid -R -p And got the following output: # md device [dev 9, 0] /dev/md0 queried online raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 5 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 32 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdc1 raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdd1 raid-disk 2 device /dev/sde1 raid-disk 3 device /dev/sdf1 raid-disk 4 So, it looks to me like everything worked OK. That is until I reboot... then I get the same failed-disk report as shown on top! Weird. Below is my syslog. Sorry that I my post is so long, I thought it best to have more information than not enough. // Syslog Jun 3 06:25:11 geocentric syslogd 1.4.1#14: restart. Jun 3 06:36:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 06:56:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 07:16:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 07:17:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[4146]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Jun 3 07:36:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 07:56:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 08:16:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 08:17:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[4169]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Jun 3 08:36:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 08:56:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 09:16:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 09:17:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[4184]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Jun 3 09:36:37 geocentric -- MARK -- Jun 3 09:52:40 geocentric shutdown[4205]: shutting down for system reboot Jun 3 09:52:40 geocentric init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Jun 3 09:52:42 geocentric kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: unloaded Jun 3 09:52:42 geocentric kernel: bridge-eth0: down Jun 3 09:52:42 geocentric kernel: bridge-eth0: detached Jun 3 09:52:48 geocentric openvpn[386]: SIGTERM received, exiting Jun 3 09:52:48 geocentric openvpn[386]: Closing TCP/UDP socket Jun 3 09:52:48 geocentric openvpn[386]: Closing TUN/TAP device Jun 3 09:52:48 geocentric xfs[457]: terminating Jun 3 09:52:49 geocentric Xprt_64: Xprint server pid=531 done, exitcode=0. Jun 3 09:52:51 geocentric proftpd[592]: geocentric.scc-wi.com - ProFTPD killed (signal 15) Jun 3 09:52:51 geocentric proftpd[592]: geocentric.scc-wi.com - ProFTPD 1.2.9 standalone mode SHUTDOWN Jun 3 09:52:51 geocentric rpc.statd[585]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Jun 3 09:52:51 geocentric kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Jun 3 09:52:51 geocentric kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Jun 3 09:52:51 geocentric exiting on signal 15 Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric syslogd 1.4.1#14: restart. Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: klogd 1.4.1#14, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.3 Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: Loaded 22705 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.3. Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.3. Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: Linux version 2.6.3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian)) #7 SMP Wed Mar 3 11:33:56 CST 2004 Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) Jun 3 09:55:02 geocentric kernel: BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a (reserved) Jun
RE: raidhotadd not working after reboot?!? *SOLVED*
On Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:59 PM, Michael Kahle wrote: > Recently when starting my computer I was notified by the Adaptec > SCSI BIOS that my disk ID #4 was not starting up. This disk was > failed. This disk is part of the software raid array that I have > setup on the machine. > > When the kernel booted it notified me that it could not see the disk > and as a result my raid 5 array was in a failed state. I shutdown > the computer, replaced the drive with an identical one and proceeded > to restart the computer. The Adaptec SCSI BIOS noticed the drive and > linux booted. At this point the RAID 5 array was still in a failed > state. > > In the console I typed the following: > lsraid -R -p > > And got the following output: > # md device [dev 9, 0] /dev/md0 queried online raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 5 > nr-raid-disks 5 > nr-spare-disks 0 > persistent-superblock 1 > chunk-size 32 > > device /dev/sdb1 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/sdc1 > raid-disk 1 > device /dev/sdd1 > raid-disk 2 > device /dev/sde1 > raid-disk 3 > device /dev/null > failed-disk 4 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > I then proceeded to run "raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdf1" after setting > up the partition of /dev/sdf. The program launched the process > md0_resync. After this completed I ran: > lsraid -R -p > > And got the following output: > # md device [dev 9, 0] /dev/md0 queried online raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level 5 > nr-raid-disks 5 > nr-spare-disks 0 > persistent-superblock 1 > chunk-size 32 > > device /dev/sdb1 > raid-disk 0 > device /dev/sdc1 > raid-disk 1 > device /dev/sdd1 > raid-disk 2 > device /dev/sde1 > raid-disk 3 > device /dev/sdf1 > raid-disk 4 > > So, it looks to me like everything worked OK. That is until I > reboot... then I get the same failed-disk report as shown on top! > Weird. Below is my syslog. Sorry that I my post is so long, I > thought it best to have more information than not enough. > > // Syslog I thought I would follow up with this. I have solved the problem. It turns out that the partition /dev/sdf1 was setup as an ext2 partition and not a "RAID auto detect" partition. I rebooted the computer. Changed the partition type. Re-synced the RAID array. Rebooted. Now everything is working as advertised. Thanks for looking! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Dual Monitor Video Card Recommendations...
I am replacing my Debian workstation with a new machine. On my old workstation I have been using a Matrox G400 video card that I have been fairly happy with. One strange problem however. When booting into GDM and then login into Gnome, the right hand monitor displays the desktop with wavy lines, like it is out of sync. I simply log out of Gnome and re-log into Gnome and the problem has gone away. This is a fairly little problem as I rarely log out or reboot, so I can deal with the card in its current state. But I was thinking, It's in the budget to get a new video card, why not! So I ask you; what video card would you recommend for my new desktop? I would like to go with a manufacturer that is friendly to OS developers. I know that Matrox is and I would not hesitate to get another of their cards in a second! But what could I get with another manufacturer? Better 3D support perhaps? Higher resolution/refresh rates? This is my work computer, so rarely do I get to play a game, so 3D support is NOT necessary, but it would be a cool plus. Mainly I want to run both screens at 1280x1024 and a high refresh rate so as to save my eyes. This is used as a development workstation so basically I just use it to run NetBeans on two screens, browse the web, watch a mpeg or two, xvncviewer, etc... Oh, and under $500 please. Thoughts? Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Counsole problem with kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp
I just built a system using the new debian-installer. Everything (almost) worked fine, but the d-i installed the default kernel, kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386. No problem. I just used aptitude to upgrade to kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp. I then updated my menu.1st file and grub and rebooted. Everything seamed to load fine, but when I was presented with a logon prompt pressing keys would give me the following errors: debian login: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (raw set 2, code 0x113 on isa0060/ser io0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes 13 ' to make it known. Every key I press their after presents me with the same message, the only difference being the value displayed for "code " in the error message. Any ideas? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ghost-like programs for Linux platform
> ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition > exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? You could also try g4u (Ghost for Unix) http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ One nice feature is it allows a copy from partition to a ftp server then back again. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: tun device on 2.6?
Hello Bradley, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally > compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use > of the tun device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel > documentation, but when I try to bring the device up by hand, I get > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] net]# ifconfig tun0 up > tun0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Did you compile the "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" into the kernel when you built your kernel? I would first check this. You can find it under "Networking Support > Network Device Support" in menuconfig, or whatever you use for configuring the kernel. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?
Hello. I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel for my debian/unstable machine. I am using the unstable kernel-source package. When booting my computer now I get a strange error: cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?
Oops... sends message in sucky outlook... sorry. See below for the rest of my message... -Original Message- From: Michael Kahle Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:27 AM To: Debian User List Subject: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.? Hello. I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel for my debian/unstable machine. I am using the unstable kernel-source package. When booting my computer now I get a strange error: cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. Now I did some googling for the error and I found a myriad of solutions related to this. Among them, and things I've tried are: Recompile the kernel to not include "Kernel automounter support" Use the noauto option in fstab: # /dev/cdrw/cdrwautoro, user, noauto00 /dev/dvdrw/dvdrwautoro, user, noauto00 There was also a suggestion that this could be an indication that the drive is bad? Could someone explain (or confirm) this? Please let me know if you need more information. Thank you. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot
Hi Roland, On Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:59 AM Roland Dunn wrote: > Having typed: "update-alternatives --config > x-session-manager" and choosen GNOME, GNOME now > starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > I can type "startx" when I want it to go into > GNOME. How can I force it not to launch GNOME on > reboot? How about using the following: update-rc.d -f gdm remove update-rc.d -f kdm remove update-rc.d -f xdm remove This series of commands will remove xdm, kdm and in your case gdm from rc.d. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot
On Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:12 PM, Richard Hoskins wrote: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Incoming from Roland Dunn: >>> >>> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and >>> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that >>> I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it >>> not to launch GNOME on reboot? >> >> That's gdm, and you can disable it by [as root]: >> >> 1. /etc/init.d/gdm stop >> >> 2. edit /etc/init.d/gdm. Stick an "exit 0" near the top of it. >> >> Note you should do it in that order. The second step disables the >> first. And from now on, X desktop changes go in ~/.xsession > > Wouldn't it be better to change the symlink in /etc/rc2.d? (Assuming > the OP is booting into runlevel 2.) > > I think this is better for several reasons. It preserves init.d/gdm > in case he wants to start|stop|restart gdm from the command line, it > allows for running gdm in a different runlevel, and it doesn't depend > on init.d/gdm running at all when booting in to runlevel 2. In > addition, it is consistent with the way System V init is commonly > used, and documented. > > 'mv /etc/rc2.d/Snngdm /etc/rc2.d/Knngdm', as root. > > I guess it doesn't really matter if all he wants to do is nuke gdm, > but if he wants to make a lot of changes to his init, mucking around > in the scripts would quickly become a mess. I'd hate to have to take > over maintenance of a machine from somebody who did that. > > http://www.freeos.com/articles/3243/ is a good overview of System V > init. Exactly. If the intention is to simply stop gdm from running automatically, it is best to update rc.d, this way it preserves the gdm init script so that it runs properly when run manually from the command line. By running: update-rc.d -f gdm remove We take gdm out of rc.d and prevent it from running at all run levels and the user, if he/she wishes, can still run gdm from /etc/init.d/gdm start/stop/etc and it will still work properly. Scripts can still be run, just not at startup. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: VMware installation problem
On Monday, March 22, 2004 8:52 AM, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote:
>Dne po 22. března 2004 12:42 Cameron Hutchison napsal(a):
>> Once upon a time Miroslav Maiksnar said...
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> when installing vmware eval on my debian sarge I encounter problem
>>> compiling modules. Install scripts refuses to compile modules
>>> because `uname -r` ('2.6.3-alfons32-2') differs from UTS_RELEASE
>>> ('2.6.3'). Kernel is of course compiled using `make-kpkg
>>> --append-to-version=...` and I need to run different kernels with
>>> equal version, so leaving off --append-to-version is not option for
>>> me.
>>
>> I have also had problems building the vmware modules. What ended up
>> working for me is to run vmware-config.pl, let it fail. At this point
>> $KSRC/include/linux/version.h has been regenerated without the
>> --append-to-version string. So I manually edit this file to put back
>> on the --append-to-version string and then run vmware-config.pl again.
>> This time, the build seems to work.
>
>Thanks for hint, I have tried this and it seems vmware doesn't support 2.6
>kernels. Unfortunatelly I need 2.6 on both of my computers, so I have to
wait
>for some future version... ;o(
>
I am using VMWare on my 2.6 kernel. In order to get this to work, I had to
install the modules with a script that another guy wrote...
You can find the script here: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/
You want to grab the file, vmware-any-any-update54.tar.gz
Check out the included README, you will want to run this script as root.
Worked great for me!
Michael
RE: Re[2]: VMware installation problem
Very cool. Thanks! Michael -Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: VMware installation problem Hi there Michael, Monday, March 22, 2004, 8:51:54 AM, you wrote: >>Dne po 22. března 2004 12:42 Cameron Hutchison napsal(a): >>Thanks for hint, I have tried this and it seems vmware doesn't support >>2.6 kernels. Unfortunatelly I need 2.6 on both of my computers, so I >>have to wait for some future version... ;o( M> I am using VMWare on my 2.6 kernel. In order to get this to work, I M> had to install the modules with a script that another guy wrote... M> You can find the script here: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ You want to M> grab the file, vmware-any-any-update54.tar.gz There is a new version of the VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568 which supports the 2.6 kernel. It came out a few days ago. -- Regards, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim - spamassassin? - msexchange
I would like to setup a intermediary mail server that will filter email coming in for spam and then reroute the "good" mail to my msexchange server. Any suggestions on what I should use to do this? I am currently thinking that I need to use exim as my mta and spamassassin as my filtering program. Does this sound like a good approach? What problems should I expect up front so that I can perhaps account for these before I change over? Is there a system that would allow users to send an email to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it could automatically process this mail as spam and prevent future delivery? Thanks for your time and opinions. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: exim - spamassassin? - msexchange
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:32AM, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:46:24AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: >| I would like to setup a intermediary mail server that will filter >| email coming in for spam and then reroute the "good" mail to my >| msexchange server. Any suggestions on what I should use to do this? >| >| I am currently thinking that I need to use exim as my mta and >| spamassassin as my filtering program. Does this sound like a good >| approach? > >Sure. Another good option is postfix+spamassassin. > >| What >| problems should I expect up front so that I can perhaps account for >| these before I change over? > >http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ > > Be sure that the exim system has access to the complete list of valid local > users and that you reject invalid local users at the front door rather than > trying to pass them on to the internal server. Very cool. Thanks! >| Is there a system that would allow users to send an >| email to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it could automatically process >| this mail as spam and prevent future delivery? > > A better approach is to set up a shared IMAP folder users can save the mesage > to. The problem with email forwarding is that mail clients change the message > - they put their own headers in the new message and put some sort of delimiter > in/around the original and don't include all of the original headers. Good point. I wonder how I would do that through exchange so that everyone can see the folder without me having to setup one on each computer individually. Perhaps it won't be all that necessary to go there though. If this works reasonably well, users will see very little spam and then I can tweak spamassassin on an individual basis. > PS. See also http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/antispam-postfix/ I'll check it out. Thanks so much... just the kind of things I was looking for! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342
> I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, Had the same problem tracking this down myself. > does anybody have a working link to a driver disk (or can instruct me > how to compile the module so it will load)? This page got me started on the hunt: http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/index.old.html But the disk image is not there anymore, and I don't believe it was when I tried to find it. Try this link and you will find what your are looking for: http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ You want the: 2_4_18-bf2_4_scsi_and_bcm5700_preload_flopy-1440_bin_gz.zip image. Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: trouble installing Woody w/ raid card
On Friday, February 06, 2004 2:58 PM Isaac wrote: >hello everyone, hello > I trying to install Debian 3 on a IBM Netfinity 5600 (8664-4RY) > server. This server has a IBM serveraid card (i think it is a 4L but > might be a 4P) with 4 scsi disks in raid5+spare configuration. This > server is dual P3 machine (only one processor installed) with a S3 > video card, ide cd-rom, and currently has windows 2000 installed. OK > I normally install Debian with a bf2.4 boot cd, however when booting > the cd the machine froze early in the install process. I booted the > cd normally, and saw the normal kernel output, with nothing unusual. > Then the screen went white and hung there before asking me any > questions. I found that could switch between virtual terminals > initially, however after approximately 5 seconds the machine froze > completely. I checked the log messages but saw nothing wrong, the > last log message was something like dbootstrap initializing. I would try a couple of things here. First, update the BIOS on the server itself. Next, upgrade the firmware for the IBM ServeRaid card. > After that I downloaded the floppy images for the compact > installation set. I was able to boot off of these without a freeze. > My problem is that I do not have a driver for the Serveraid card so I > cannot see my disk array. I thought I would use the "preload > essential modules" option to load the driver for the raid, but I > could not find a driver that was suitable. This is strange. I wonder why this didn't give you any of the problems that the full Debian CD gave you? Anyway. Please update the BIOS and the firmware for the card. The driver that you want is here: http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ You should download the file: 2_4_18-bf2_4_scsi_and_bcm5700_preload_flopy-1440_bin_gz.zip This is a disk image that you can create using dd or something like winimage (www.winimage.com) on windows. This disk will be used in the installation to specify additional drivers to load. The actual driver module you are wanting to load is the ips.o module. I use this on several IBM ServeRaid cards perfectly. > I thought I would use the technique mentioned at this web page The link you gave is bad. > to compile my own driver for the raid card, but then I remembered > that the compact installation set uses a 2.2.x kernel, and I am > unsure if the 2.2.x series has an driver. Not sure myself. But like I said. I have 4 Netfinity 5500's, 1 5000, 1 4500r, and 1 4000r. All with ServeRaid cards and all working just fine. I installed each with Woody CD's using the bootdisk at the link provided above. > So, (after my lengthy ramblings,) I was wondering if anyone could > shed some light on why my bootcd froze. Also I was wondering if my > plan to compile the raid module is sound, or if it is wrong and or > unnecessary? If it was a problem with my cdrom drive, I could use > the bf2.4 set to install woody, but if I need to use a set that > has a 2.2.x kernel are there even drivers for my raid card? > Thanks in advance for any help. Your welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is sarge in a pre-release phase?
I have a server that is dedicated to doing backups via Amanda. I have recently purchased a Intel Pro 1000 Server adapter for this machine. To get this adapter working, I rolled my own 2.6.2 kernel, but this introduced more problems onto my Woody machine. The modutils package is deprecated for use with the 2.6 series kernels, as far as I can tell. It requires for modules the module-init-tools package that is not included in the standard woody set of packages. I downloaded the module-init-tools deb from packages.debian.org, only to find out that it requires a higher version of gcc than woody ships with. I tried forcing the package, but it wasn't kidding when it said that it depends on a higher rev of gcc. It didn't work. My question is this. Is it "safe" to install sarge on a production server. I do not have "must run flawlessly without intervention" requirements on this server. It does take care of my backups, but I have a few spare DLT's lying around that I could use to get dumps of other servers if I was in an emergency situation. I have been interested in playing with the new sarge installer and I thought this would be a good opportunity if need be. Any suggestions? Does sarge run "fairly" stable? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Woody and e1000 NICs - Checked by Vexira -
On Tuesday, April 06, 2004 Scott Bounds wrote: > Hello all. I am new to this list and am glad to be here. I am also a > real newbie with Debian. I just got a basic install done yesterday > (after four tries). I guess I'm pretty dumb. Anyway, I have three > SuperMicro SuperServers, Intel P4, Intel Gigabit enet cards (on board) > which use the e1000 drivers. When installing Woody, it never > recognized the cards (version bf-2.4). I loaded RH9 on one of the > other machines and after installing the driver from Intel I finally got > it to recognize the cards and now they work. I would like to get these > cards working on the Debian machines as well. So, if anyone can offer > any advice or what I need to do to get it loaded, please help. Thanks > in advance for any help or assistance. I don't believe the bf-2.4 version contains those drivers. That would explain why it didn't recognize the cards. Download the kernel source for the latest stable 2.4 kernel here: http://www.kernel.org/ I would then check out this document: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wXbacUnGwAUJ:www.debianuniverse.com/rea donline/chapter/21+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 NOTE: This was originally on linuxmagau's sight, but it looks like they have decided to close shop after being cracked... :( Too bad. I really like Jon Oxer's writing style. Jon, if you read this, put the documents you had written for linuxmagau up on your sight! They are well written and would be missed. :) Roll your own kernel to add these new drivers. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No tar for my tape drive!?!? SAS tape library help...
Any help here would be wonderful. tar will not work on my tape drive! Weirdness... Here is some background. I recently purchased a new IBM TS2900 Autoloader: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts2900/index.html I have hooked up this via an Adaptec SAS 58300: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sas/sas/SAS-58300/ After some rough patches getting the Adaptec card to even work. I built a custom kernel (2.6.27.4) with support for this card. I also upgraded my backup system to lenny because I needed some new functionality out of initramfs to load the firmware for this card. > cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: ULT3580-HH4 Rev: 85V8 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01 Vendor: IBM Model: 3572-TL Rev: 0003 Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > lsscsi [2:0:0:0]tapeIBM ULT3580-HH4 85V8 /dev/st0 [2:0:0:1]mediumx IBM 3572-TL 0003 /dev/sch0 So far so good. > mtx -f /dev/sg3 status shows: Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 9 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Empty Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=389ADOL4 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=385ADOL4 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=386ADOL4 Storage Element 4:Empty Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=387ADOL4 Storage Element 6:Empty Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=388ADOL4 Storage Element 8:Empty Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU94L1 Very nice. Let's move a tape into the drive. > mtx -f /dev/sg3 load 2 Loading media from Storage Element 2 into drive 0...done Ok. Now lets rewind the tape. > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind No errors. Good. Do we have a tape in the drive? Let's make sure. > mt -f /dev/nst0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x46 (LTO-4). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (4101): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN Looks good. Time for a sample backup. > cd /backup/scripts > ls -l total 44 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 623 2006-11-14 03:14 backup2tape.sh -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1862 2007-02-06 15:43 backupMichael.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6763 2007-10-18 23:58 backupNetwork.sh -rwx-- 1 root root 3824 2008-08-26 20:36 backupNetworkTemp.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1035 2008-01-01 20:03 backupVantageYE.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 752 2006-10-24 19:18 exclude lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-12-14 18:57 logs -> /var/log/backup -rwx-- 1 root root 7137 2008-10-04 19:41 newNetworkBackup.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2413 2007-01-04 00:04 testBackupCapitol.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 874 2005-12-09 21:10 z_backupall > tar cvf /dev/nst0 . ./ ./exclude ./logs ./z_backupall ./backup2tape.sh ./backupNetwork.sh tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot write: Invalid argument tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now HUH? What happened? > dmesg | tail st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout st0: Can't set default compression. > tail /var/log/syslog Oct 31 13:01:51 backup kernel: st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] Oct 31 13:01:51 backup kernel: st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout Oct 31 13:01:51 backup kernel: st0: Can't set default compression. Any thoughts on this? Is there some kind of SAS module I need to have installed? I should be able to use this SAS device just as I use any other SCSI device, correct? Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?
Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? I know about GAIM, but I would like one program that replaces them all. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?
Once again, I answered my own question. GAIM seems to now be able to do them all! :) Lucky me. But how about a similar program GPLed written in Java? "Michael Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a > gateway > to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? > > I know about GAIM, but I would like one program that replaces them > all. > > Michael > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bleah... why? Why Java or why something other than Gaim? If your question is the former, because I enjoy programing in Java. If it's the latter, I can't answer that as I have never used it. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:35:35 -0500 > "Michael Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as > a > > gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Jabber is what you're looking for (or at least the closest thing I > know > of). Thanks! I looked at jabber.org and that led me to jabbercentral.org that has a listing of a bunch of Jabber clients. I found a GPLed Java client. Just what I was looking for. It doesn't look like much, but I can start from there. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xconsole won't allow input!?!
I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when I launch XConsole it won't let me put any input into the xconsole window. When I'm root I get a blank window and when selected I try and type and just get beeps every time a key is pressed. When I am logged in as my user account, I still get the beeps but the window says, "Couldn't Open Console". Any ideas? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!
Baloo, Shaelh, and David, Thank you all for your answers. I asked this question to the list late last night after I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get a terminal. Shortly after I posted I installed xterm and I was all set. As you all pointed out, this is not the program I was looking for. If I would have checked the man pages I could have avoided this noise to the list! Thanks again. I am self imposing a 30 minute delay to the send button on all my posts! As I seem to figure things out after I send the question. :) Michael "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18-Apr-2002 Michael Kahle wrote: > > I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed > > on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. > > > > I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a > lightweight > > window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when > I > > launch XConsole it won't let me put any input into the xconsole window. > > When I'm root I get a blank window and when selected I try and type > > and just get beeps every time a key is pressed. When I am logged > in > > as my user account, I still get the beeps but the window says, "Couldn't > > Open Console". Any ideas? > > > > xconsole is not an input program it is meant for output. It reads > logs or > other input files and displays them. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba Messaging
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:25:57PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:47PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: > > I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. > > I > > can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am > > connected to a LAN. My username is "jmak" and i will use a friends win2k > > machine to show some examples who's username is "mindlessdemon" > > I believe you want the 'linpopup' package. I've never actually used it, > but have read the description and it sounds like it implements the > windows messaging protocol for Samba. > > noah I think the command you are looking for is: smbclient -M COMPUTERNAME you will now be prompted to input your message and you can send it with a ^D. This will send a message to a windows client like the windows command "net send" Michael > > -- > ___ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange duplicate files... bug?
I am seeing some strange behavior on my linux box. Any ideas.
I have a Samba share called 'share'. This is a mounted hard drive with
a ton of space that I place mp3's, pictures, files, etc... I use as a central
repository for all of my junk. If I type 'ls -al' I get the following
_partial_ listing:
Announcement.jpg
Announcement.jpg:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
Announcement.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
Boy.jpg
Boy.jpg:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
Boy.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
Content_Tyler.jpg
Content_Tyler.jpg:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
Content_Tyler.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
Daddy_Tyler.jpg
Daddy_Tyler.jpg:?Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
Daddy_Tyler.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
Notice how all of the files have 3 instances with different file name
suffixes. I don't know what is causing this.
I did a search on Google for '4c8cc' and my search yelded the following 2
URL's of interest:
http://www.lems.brown.edu/~mcchang/image/
http://gis.mit.edu/classes/11.521/lectures/Lecture12/
Following these urls you will notice the same pattern on the files in the
directory listing as on my computer.
Any ideas? It appears that this is isolated to jpg and gif files.
Michael
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My ultimate linux box
Hello, I am currently building a new computer to replace my P150 overclocked to P166! :) It's about time! The system will run Debian GNU/Linux, so I want to ensure that the hardware I go with will be compatable. You input is greatly appreciated. Here are the specs: Case: Enlight Full Tower (EN-89020SX34) Power Supply: Enermax 550W Mainboard: Tyan Tiger MPX Processor: 2x Athlon MP1800's Ram: Crucial 1.5GB DDR PC2100 Registered Monitor: Viewsonic P255f Soundcard: Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum Videocard: ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV 128 DDR CDROM: Plextor UltraPlex Wide or Some SCSI DVD player??? CD-RW: Plextor Plexwriter 12/10/32s Backup: I want a DDS-3 or DDS-4 tape solution... sugestions? RAID: Compaq 5304 128 Raid controller SCSI: Adaptec 2940W Controller Disks: 5 Compaq 10k Ultra 3 SCSI Drive Cage: Enlight EN-8720 Ultra 160 SCA Backplane Floppy: Teac Cooling: Any ideas? I would like to add 2 more Ultra SCSI-3 Disks for a RAID 0 config for the OS Any sugestions for where the system should be on the disks? I.e. I am going to have the 5 Compaq disks setup in a RAID 5 array and then the OS mirrored. Should I have a seperate disk for swap? Also with the ATI Video, what features on this card are currently supported under linux? Should I go with the DV card or am I just paying extra for a firewire port that will not be supported. I hear the ATI is the best of the bunch for supporting open source drivers. Will the 5304 controller be a pain to setup? I know it workes under red hat so I could just use the module they have available. Any other thoughts, ideas? I know this isn't exactly the correct place to post this sort of message, but I have been hard pressed to get any good feedback on anadtech and 2cpu.com for good linux related advice. Thank you all for your thoughts! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My ultimate linux box
> What are you going to be using this machine for? This sounds like > overoveroveroverkill for a desktop machine (and inappropriate for a > server...). Save yourself a lot of money and just get IDE drives and use > software RAID, if you really want it. Then again, I don't know anything > about your price constraints and requirements for the machine. My first > instinct is that you could scale all of it back a bit, still be very > happy with your machine's performance, and feed a small country with the > money you'd save =) Thanks for your input. I am going to be using this machine for whatever... Fast compiles, serving up my website, perhaps a game or two, video capture, etc. I have 6 of these SCSI 10k drives and the 5304 Compaq RAID card already given to me by a friend. So, free free free, so my choices are use em or let them lay around... I think it would be MUCH cooler to use them! :) I also have not had a new computer in YEARS and am in the profession, and I want my dream machine dammit! :) I am agreeing that I could scale it all back, but why? The ton of RAM and dual procs is also because for the Windoz apps I still need, I am going to be running VMWare, if you've every ran it, it is a HOG! But like I said, I am well aware how much overkill this is, but I have the money and never had a computer that would be my dream machine this is kind of like the geeks midlife crisis, only I'm 27. :) I am more interested in comments like, "This video card sux ass under linux, go with a Widged-Inc card, etc" Thanks! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My ultimate linux box
Tom, > This is my impresseion also. In particular I wonder what use you > could have for RAID 5, SCSI, tape backup, a Sound Blaster Audigy > Platinum and an ATI All-in-Wonder on the same box. The first three > are definite server-ware, while the last two (and maybe the DVD > player) sound like you are building a home entertainment system. I > once felt as though building a system of this order would make me the > happiest man on earth. I never got around to it, but still feel > fairly happy with my lot. I know it's overkill. But it will make a fine server, and a fine entertainment box as well. :) And it's fun. > If you want a server, ditch the sound, video and DVD. And maybe the > flashy monitor - games don't go on a server. > > If you want a flashy games box, ditch the SCSI, the RAID, the water > cooling, the backup, one of the processors, two thirds of the RAM and > about half the rated power of your power supply. I dont want a server, I don't want a game box. I want a workstation that I can run X at insane resolutions wile playing mp3s. I want fast compiles. I want my "Ultimate Linux Box". What I am concerned about here is not how much money can I save, but will the components I have selected be well supported under linux. > Either way you should be able to get a life and take some nice girl > out to dinner on what's left over. I don't recommend *telling* her > it's the left-overs from your PC, though... S, don't tell me wife that! > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then > beat you with experience. This is the most hilarious sig I have ever seen! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
