apt-get upgrade many systems
Hi, I've got enough Debian systems where doing an apt-get upgrade when security holes are a pain. While it would not be to hard to set up a script to do what in needed remotely, I was wondering if there was a more standard Debian way to do these things. If there has been talk of this before, of if there is a package that does this I am just not using the correct keywords in my search. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install over network with PCMCIA
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:16:08AM -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: > I have a laptop with a floppy drive and PCMCIA ethernet, but no CD > drive. While you might have a different setup, several months ago I did a, I think floppy, network install over a PCMCIA network card. It took several trys. When configuring the PCMCIA card I had to set. PCIC="i82365" PCIC_OPTS="irq_mode=0" Later in the install, when configuring the network I think, it asked me if I was using a PCMCIA card, answering YES caused the install to fail. I did the install again and answering no worked well. After the install, and after updating the kernel the PCMCIA card stopped working again with missing symbols in the kernel. I edited the /etc/default/pcmcia to nat have any PCIC_OPTS and set PCIC="yenta_socket" and it works well to this day. This was months ago, so the memory is a bit fuzzy with a few points. It took many tries to get the install to finally work. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which kernel-image for Dual-XEON?
> > I'm using kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686-smp for such a machine > (incl. an init RD for raid1 and reiserfs). But how can I > enable HT there? [Note: I need a Debian "stock" kernel, not > a home-grown, for this machine.] > I would check the BIOS to see if there is a setting to turn on hyper-threading. I am currently using a stock debian kernel on a HT system with 2 CPUs and /proc/cpuinfo reports four. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??
If lilo don't work for you and grub will, do the Debian install, make a boot floppy boot of the boot floppy and then install grub from the debs. grub is a great boot loader, but lilo has always worked for me. I think I have always put it on the mbr though even though / or /boot has been in all sorts of places. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mixed to stable
I have stable system where I followed the APT-HOWTO on installing stuff from unstable. That is all well and done now and I want to make my system all stable again. I don't remember all the packages I installed from other versions and I don't care. I want back to all stable. Hopefully this answer cat be added to the APT-HOWTO, of it it is there more clearly labeled. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution and VNC
VNC is working great but some programs, Evolution being the main one, gets a little messed up with fonts. In some text areas there is a box between every character, making it nearly impossible to read. I kinda like it in emacs, as I can actually see my nobreak spaces, but reading mail headers and the "Summary" page is unreadable. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian eth0 full duplex
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 23:01, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Joe T. posts: > > >> How do I find and/or set my eth0 interface to 100 Mb/s full duplex? > > I use this command to set the speed of my eepro card to 10 MBps full > duplex. `mii-tool --force=10baseT-FD --log eth0', maybe you need to > substitute 100baseT-FD in lieu of 10baseT-FD. You should start this > command via the run-level init scripts, preferably a level of 25 in > the rcS.d symlink dir. > I have fillowing in the /etc/modutils/3c59x file: post-install 3c59x /sbin/mii-tool --force=100baseTx-FD I bet something similar would work for eepros. Just watchi it if you have more then one ethernet card that need to difference modes. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
creating /dev/hd[m-t]
With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make up to /dev/hdl: ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "hdm" but I need up to /dev/hdt, I think I know what the major and minor numbers to use as I have another distro (Mandrake) running on a similar system that figured out all the drive letters but I wish to bet a better way to figure this out then "install another Linux and look" in the docs. Where do I look, even in the code if necessary, to find this out? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating /dev/hd[m-t]
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:09, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Sven Heinicke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021104 11:54]: > > With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel > > in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make > > up to /dev/hdl: > > > > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl > > ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm > > ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "hdm" > > > > but I need up to /dev/hdt, I think I know what the major and minor > > numbers to use as I have another distro (Mandrake) running on a similar > > system that figured out all the drive letters but I wish to bet a better > > way to figure this out then "install another Linux and look" in the > > docs. > > > > Where do I look, even in the code if necessary, to find this out? > > The best place to start is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (or > equivalent, wherever you may keep your kernel source). > > Also, in case it helps: > brw-rw1 root disk 88, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdm > brw-rw1 root disk 88, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdn > brw-rw1 root disk 89, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdo > brw-rw1 root disk 89, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdp > brw-rw1 root disk 90, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdq > brw-rw1 root disk 90, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdr > brw-rw1 root disk 91, 0 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hds > brw-rw1 root disk 91, 64 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hdt > Great, I got it looking in the devices.txt. Devfs sounds like a good idea too, but not for this system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/stripes/large
I was doing a:
mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/stripes/large
On my newly created LVM with /dev/hd[b-t] in it, and got the following
error:
Nov 5 10:43:12 ds2 kernel: hdr: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
Nov 5 10:43:12 ds2 kernel: hdr: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound },
LBAsect=6306866, sector=6306848
because I used the -c option does mean the disk is happy and the sectors
are marked bad and I just loose some disk space. Or is the drive dead
and I should replace it before I start loosing more sectors?
Sven
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Gnome freezen up with NFS /home
About two weeks ago I installed stable, with unstable OpenOffice, on a user system with security updates. The user, alples, has an NFS /home directery mounted from a Sun I don't have root access to. In the began the nfs /home directory mounted: soft,bg,rw but when she logged in Gnome would freeze up and the log would get: Nov 14 14:41:56 trade gconfd (alples-637): Failed to get lock for daemon, exiting: Failed to lock '/ac/res/cs9/alples/.gconfd/lock/ior': probably another process has th e lock, or your operating system has NFS file locking misconfigured, or a hard NFS client crash caused a stale lock (No locks available) Nov 14 14:41:56 trade gconfd (alples-639): starting (version 1.0.9), pid 639 user 'alples' Nov 14 14:41:56 trade kernel: lockd: cannot monitor 138.15.x.y Nov 14 14:41:56 trade kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 138.15.x.y as she never logs into other systems I added the nolock option and all want well from a week. The /proc/mounts has the following options on /home partitions: rw,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,udp,nolock,addr=xy.nj.nec.com Today gnome freezes up again with the following running: $ ps -fu alples UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD alples 506 456 0 10:35 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000 alples 532 506 0 10:35 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=15000 alples 536 1 0 10:35 ?00:00:00 gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-TZAlon/ --sm-client-id 118a0fa88e0001037373889000470 alples 548 1 0 10:35 ?00:00:00 sawfish --sm-client-id 118a0fa88e0001037373893000473 --sm-prefix a7vro0b87l no system errors this time. I got it to work again by deleting .gnome* files and friends but I don't think that is a long term solution. She used to use Mandrake 8.x on her desktop with /home from nfs and I never had this problem. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone installed sarge?
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:18, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:31:30 +0200 (MEST), Jens Wannenmacher > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > anyone out there who installed sarge from the unofficial isos dated > > 2003/07/27? > > If so: Are there any problems? > > Are those the images of the new debian-installer, or the former > boot-floppies set? > > If it's the new debian-installer, than yes, some people have had > problems because it's currently in early stages and not rock-solid. > However, your milage may vary. > I download the _Official net install images for the "testing" release_ about once a month for a few months now, todays (August 13th) was the closest I have gotten to getting an install working: * Keyboard Detection Failed, just skipped it * One of the two systems I have doesn't have a floppy, though it keeps trying to detect it. * One of the systems systems has an eepro100, it doesn't detect that the e100 driver works with it. * Disk partitioning returns errors, doing Alt-F2 and using fdisk works great. * It the partition selector I can't see where I mounted what partition because the devfs device names push it off to the right. * In the partition selector, it don't let me manually enter where to mount a partition more then once * And finally, at the end where I it tries to download the /debian/dists/sarge/Release file from my local apt-proxy, it just sits there at 0% forever. Even though I can download the file from Alt-F2 with wget no problem. But the improvements over the last couple of months have been great! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greek Fonts in ghostscript
With stable, from mozilla I'm printing out a Greek language web page (i.e. http://www.debian.org/index.el.html) to a ps file and the try to view it with gv, and most of the Greek letters are missing. Is there a way to get this working? I think I have all the Greek fonts installed, and still no luck. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone installed sarge?
> When I tested debian-installer recently, I was told that the net > install images are *really* crufty and what you're testing is a > several-month-old floppy-on-a-CD that doesn't work well. Of obvious > note: In the root of the CD: $ tail -1 README.mirrors.txt Last modified: Wed Aug 6 18:52:45 2003 Number of sites listed: 334 so it's younger then 10 days. > > > * One of the systems systems has an eepro100, it doesn't detect that the > > e100 driver works with it. > > This *is* detected by the full debian-installer CD. And I tried two different cards controlled by the e100/eepro100 driver and it detected neither. The handy one it didn't detect is: Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 65). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd020 [0xd0200fff]. I/O at 0x3000 [0x303f]. > I still don't recommend debian-installer for those who aren't brave > and have noticable Debian experience, though. I agree. Though I am not brave, I have enough extra systems laying around my office than it don't really matter. > When I tested it, APT > on the chroot got stuck installing base packages, and I couldn't > install anything (say, a kernel or a boot loader). I was able to > recover to a working system because I had another disk I could boot > off of with GRUB on it and was comfortable using the chroot, but if > that sentence scares you d-i is probably a little bleeding-edge for > you. :-) it does scare me, but I've done similar things to save systems, but the paycheck gives me courage when needed. But It didn't even start to download files so chroot'n would not help. Thanks for the idea though! Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4.20 kernel for woody
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 17:39, Steinar Bang wrote: > > Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Does anyone know of a 2.4.20 kernel packaged for woody? > > Here it is: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2003/debian-security-200305/msg00288.html > > Thanx to Herbert Xu for pointing me to it! (and of course also for > maintaining the package) > > I've had devfs and lvm issues with the proposed-updates 2.4.20 kernel. Installing woody, dist-upgrading to proposed-updates, installing lvm and debians 2.4.20 kernel, reboot to new kernel, start creating logical partitions, don't work. I bet mounting devfs on /dev would work, but I just rebuilt the 2.4.20 kernel without devfs. Just a friendly warning if you use lvm. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pdf2ps Segmentation fault
On some pdf files pdf2ps Segmentation faults on stable Debian. While on Red Hat 8.0 the don't. I see that the testing version has a closer version to that of Red Hat. Anybody have luck with running testing gs-common and/or gs debs on stable? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf2ps Segmentation fault
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 19:04, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:37 pm, Sven Heinicke wrote: > > On some pdf files pdf2ps Segmentation faults on stable Debian. While on > > Red Hat 8.0 the don't. I see that the testing version has a closer > > version to that of Red Hat. Anybody have luck with running testing > > gs-common and/or gs debs on stable? > > > > Sven > > this does not directly answer your question, but provides an alternate > solution. I ended up doing an apt-get source of the testing ghostscript source and built that by hand and installed it in the /usr/local directory. Using, or making, the testing deb required to many changes on stable. No more seg faults so long one runs the stuff in /usr/local/bir instead of /usr/bin . Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian for enterprise
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > When you do 'apt-get upgrade' you will only update stable->stable and > > (maybe) testing->testing updates. If it doesn't do testing->testing, > > then you have to do each one of them manually. > > > > This allows you to use stable as the default installation and then pull > > in spamassassin (for example) from the testing branch to get something > > more up to date without forcing everything into a -testing environment. > > I saw this recommended, and I tried it ... and never got anything. Even > when testing had a higher priority, it never saw the updated packages. > ..using apt-get by hand, as dselect confused me, er itself really :-( > > Are you using a specific package manager that gave you more control? > I didn't see Joe Rhett entire post, so sorry if you already did this. But try doing an 'apt-get update' before you do the apt-get upgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
package confusion (Was: Debian for enterprise)
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:44:17PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:12:43PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > > When you do 'apt-get upgrade' you will only update stable->stable and > > > > (maybe) testing->testing updates. If it doesn't do testing->testing, > > > > then you have to do each one of them manually. > > > > > > > > This allows you to use stable as the default installation and then pull > > > > in spamassassin (for example) from the testing branch to get something > > > > more up to date without forcing everything into a -testing environment. > > > > > > I saw this recommended, and I tried it ... and never got anything. Even > > > when testing had a higher priority, it never saw the updated packages. > > > ..using apt-get by hand, as dselect confused me, er itself really :-( > > > > > > Are you using a specific package manager that gave you more control? > > > > > > > I didn't see Joe Rhett entire post, so sorry if you already did this. > > But try doing an 'apt-get update' before you do the apt-get upgrade. > > I did that. I thought I said that in my post, but maybe not. I understand > the update thing, really ;-) > I checked the archives and this seemed to be a different thread then the original subject indicated, so I changed the subject. Though I am a little confused about what exactly is your problem as the thread issues kinda blur, I think you are doing: apt-get update apt-get upgrade -u and never get any updates? Post your /etc/apt/sources.list file. If I'm wrong and totally off the wall, I would suggest starting a new thread with an accurate subject. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug #220623: LVM and devfs
To get te the point, how ho I change an i686 3.0r1 system with proposed-updates and the 2.4.22-2-686-smp kernel to be devfs? I would be most happy with pointers to Linux general documentation on how to this. The story: I was setting up an i686 system with woody that needed a driver I was not able to find with kernels shipped with 3.0r1 (the tg3 driver), so I added proposed-updates to my sources and installed 2.4.22-2-686-smp, the rest of the story is described in bug #220623. While, as said in the bug description, I did get it working, Patrick Caulfield submitted to my bug report that "If you're using devfs and LVM then devfs *must* be mounted.". I tried booting a system with the kernel option to mount devfs, but it wasn't happy (I'll post a better description of the error tomorrow if wished). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel-image-2.4.18-686 vs. kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686
$ apt-cache search kernel-image 2.4.18 686 kernel-image-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP. What's the difference between 2.4.18 and 2.4.18-1, and why is there no security upgrades for kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Is it not vulnerable? Sven p.s. I have the itchy feeling this is a stupid question, but I've been wondering for a while. Now with the new security upgrades I thought to double check. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on sarge xine crashes X
About a week ago a new XFree86 came out for sarge. Since the xine (and gxine) crashes X, and I get no useful error messages. ii xine-ui0.99.1-1 the xine video player, user interface ii xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 the XFree86 X server Linux acorn 2.6.6-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed May 12 16:41:10 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux enclosed is the XFree86.0.log.old file. XFree86.0.log.old Description: application/trash
libxine1 or xserver-xfree86 bug? (Was: on sarge xine crashes X)
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:37:22AM +1000, Darryl Luff wrote: > >Sven Heinicke wrote: > > > >>About a week ago a new XFree86 came out for sarge. Since the xine > >>(and gxine) crashes X, and I get no useful error messages. > >> > >> > > I'm also having this problem. I've tried deleting .xine but it didn't > help. I've also tried removing the win32 codecs and got the same > problem. When I use xine (or other players based on it) X exits. > > But, if I run 'Xnest :1', then run 'DISPLAY=:1 xine'. It runs fine (if a > bit slow) inside the nested window. I'm not sure what this means? My > machine is a Compaq armada with an ATI rage/mobility driver. Another > machine with an nVidia card seems fine. > I'm having Darryl's problem, and have gained more insight. I went through the `Section "Module"' of my XF86Config-4 file and commented out one module at a time until it worked. Not loading the extmod module prevented X from crashing. But SHAPE, XVideo and probably other extension are also lost. While shape is just vanity, the XVideo extension seems useful for xine, but it at least plays. When running gxine I now get: Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0". I'm willing to file a Debian bug report if one isn't already filed, but what package? I guess xserver-xfree86 or libxine1? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 breaks wheel mouse
kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 version 2.6.7-2 breaks my wheel mouse. Well, all works on the mouse but the wheel confuses X by putting the mouse off the screen. kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 version 2.6.6-2 works great though. I have a logitech M-S48 mouse running xserver-xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6, in which the mouse is configured: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection I've tried a few other protocols, no luck. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
f2c 20031025
Sarge and Sid have f2c 20020621, while http://www.netlib.org/f2c/src/version.c seems to have version 20031025. Are there plans to upgrade to the latest version? Is http://www.netlib.org/f2c the best place to get f2c? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
