Re: Bug#621137: Random exec failures on ARM; breaks boot -- /init: exec: line 306: run-init: Unknown error 2372692

2011-04-07 Thread Barry Tennison
Many thanks, Loïc! I was beginning to feel REALLY puzzled by some of the inconsistent behaviour I was seeing (on HP MediaVault 2120/5020 as well as NSLU2). It's good to hear someone else getting that too, and some progress towards a solution (and a workaround I can try). Barry On 6 Apr 2011,

Re: nslu2 unstable upgrade broke boot

2011-03-31 Thread Barry Tennison
I too am having no success at getting sid to boot on nslu2 with (debian stock) kernels 2.6.37 and beyond. I know/believe that a number of things happened between 2.6.32 and 2.6.37 including: - some kind of change around sda devices, making UUID= or LABEL= parameters even more advisable in fstab

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-19 Thread Barry Tennison
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Speed of aptitude on NSLU2

2008-04-19 Thread Barry Tennison
Kurt Pruenner wrote: > Sorry to barge into this conversation, but I was wondering if you > maybe could share a few tips about how to configure aptitude on an > NSLU2 so it's not unbearably slow. > > As it is, it takes several minutes for me to start (i.e. until I can > actually work with it) and

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-18 Thread Barry Tennison
Tobias Frost wrote: Can you mount a DVD created on i386 on the NSLU? Maybe there is some endian-related issue? Good thinking! Many thanks. Not I think the final solution, but an extra insight onto things. (Please see end of post for a request!) I isolated (before your mail) the problem down t

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-18 Thread Barry Tennison
l or gets quite broken. And it's a mainstay workhorse in everyday situations like wanting to install a new package or two, or see what will happen if you update things. On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 14:12 +0100, Barry Tennison wrote: Xming is quiet superb (once you install xorg on the debian

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-17 Thread Barry Tennison
I'm not the best person on n2100 specific issues, but I can make some more general comments. It's a pretty classic "error" to use apt-get -f and then find you need to do a large scale mend. See it more as a learning opportunity! It does make me cautious about advising you on the basis of wha

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-15 Thread Barry Tennison
Bill Gatliff wrote: Barry Tennison wrote: I wonder whether anyone can help a very puzzled moderately skilled debian and NSLU2 hacker? Apologies for the length of explanation needed. Are you running out of memory on the NSLU2? free just before trying the new burn: total

Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-15 Thread Barry Tennison
I wonder whether anyone can help a very puzzled moderately skilled debian and NSLU2 hacker? Apologies for the length of explanation needed. I have several i386 machines running etch, lenny and sid, and an NSLU2 running etch which for some time has acted as my main fileserver. On one of the i