Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread gary turner
David Witbrodt wrote: Thanks, I ran purge on the four oldest. Three of them reported an error: rmdir: failed to remove `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486': Directory not empty dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.22-3-486, directory `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486' not empty so not removed.

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread David Witbrodt
> Thanks, I ran purge on the four oldest. Three of them reported an error: > > rmdir: failed to remove `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486': Directory not empty > dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.22-3-486, directory > `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486' not empty so not removed. > > koko:/lib/mo

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:52:05AM -0500, gary turner wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: >>> Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot > &g

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread gary turner
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot Can I safely rm those I don't want to keep? Are there other directories and files that need to be included in

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: > Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot > config-2.6.18-5-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486 > config-2.6.21-2-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486.bak &

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,15.Aug.08, 01:06:39, gary turner wrote: > Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot > config-2.6.18-5-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486 > config-2.6.21-2-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486.bak > config-2.6.22-2-

What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-14 Thread gary turner
Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot config-2.6.18-5-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486 config-2.6.21-2-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486.bak config-2.6.22-2-486 System.map-2.6.18-5-486 config-2.6.22-3-486 Syste

Re: How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-03 12:40:25, schrieb Mr Smiley: > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 250M 216M 21M 92% / Since new kernles will grow with the time (2.4.27 has already 35 MByte and the 2.4.35 now 29 MByte) the partition which seems to hold /bin, /bo

Re: How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:35:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/03/08 15:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:49:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> On 05/03/08 14:40, Mr Smiley wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I'm do

Re: How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/08 15:52, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:49:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 05/03/08 14:40, Mr Smiley wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my >>> kernal-image is reporting the fol

Re: How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:40:25PM -0700, Mr Smiley wrote: > I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my > kernal-image is reporting the following. [snip] > No space left on device > > > df -alh says > > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 250M

Re: How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:49:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/03/08 14:40, Mr Smiley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my > > kernal-image is reporting the following. > > > > > > Unpacking replace

Re: How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/08 14:40, Mr Smiley wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my > kernal-image is reporting the following. > > > Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archive

How and where do i remove old kernel images to make space for new ones :o)

2008-05-03 Thread Mr Smiley
Hi all, I'm doing my daily apt-get update and updating my kernal-image is reporting the following. Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write(fd) (9,

Kernel images in etch broke? (was: pre-installation script returned error during package installation)

2006-06-25 Thread T
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:19:48 -0400, T wrote: > I got the "pre-installation script returned error" during package > installation. Is there any solution / workaround? What else should I > check? > > thanks > > Tong > > PS. here is the full info: > > Installing linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7 under etch

cannot install kernel images anymore

2004-12-25 Thread Dan Leitner
Two recent attempts to install kernel images failed. My stock backup kernel failed to upgrade yesterday. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287085 and now trying to add another as a backup also failed, but for different reasons??? In both cases the initrd image could not be

newbie: kernel images and raid

2004-01-06 Thread Martin
? My understanding of the apt system is that by sticking to the standard kernel images I can just continue to upgrade as new versions become available without compatability/depend issues(very appealing). I've just done an apt-get install of the latest kernel image and it pulled everything in very nicely

Re: kernel-images

2003-12-09 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 9:08 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Geoff Thurman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Is it possible for the unwitting to install a kernel-image > > downloaded from official debian sources that hasn't been patched > > for the recent exploit, or can all the currently

Re: kernel-images

2003-12-09 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Geoff Thurman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is it possible for the unwitting to install a kernel-image downloaded > from official debian sources that hasn't been patched for the recent > exploit, or can all the currently downloadable images (and kernel > source packages too, for that matte

kernel-images

2003-12-09 Thread Geoff Thurman
Hello, Is it possible for the unwitting to install a kernel-image downloaded from official debian sources that hasn't been patched for the recent exploit, or can all the currently downloadable images (and kernel source packages too, for that matter) be taken to be safe from it? I've switched t

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-24 Thread David Dumortier
Hello > 586 (Pentium classic) won't work. The 486 (and all pentiums and > clones) is backwards compatible with the 386 ISA. That means that any > valid 386 program can be handled by the 486 (and pentium, etc.) > processor. Install the 386 package. Or build your own (which I > recommend if you

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:29:28AM -0800, machoamerica wrote: | | i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for | all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use | either kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have | to muck around with a ker

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:29 am, machoamerica wrote: > i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for > all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either > kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck > around with a kernel-sour

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Chris Lale
machoamerica wrote: > i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for > all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either > kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck > around with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? AFAIK you want k

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Stephen A. Witt
kernel-source-2.4.x package? > Use the i386 kernel images, they should run fine on a 486. I don't think the 586 image would work on a 486. I know I once compiled a kernel package using Pentium as the processor type and then mistakenly tried to install it on a 486 machine and it crashed a

Re: 486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread Johan Ehnberg
machoamerica wrote: i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck around with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? thanks, macho You can't

486 kernel images

2003-01-21 Thread machoamerica
i'm looking through the kernel-image packages and i see packages for all flavors of intel/amd processors except the 486. can i use either kernel-image-2.4.x-386 or kernel-image-2.4.x-586 or do i have to muck around with a kernel-source-2.4.x package? thanks, macho -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: configuration of kernel-images

2001-10-10 Thread Timothy Webster
-- Original Message -- From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:38:40 -0400 >On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:58:01PM -0400, tim wrote: >> >> How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? >> Such as kernel-im

Re: configuration of kernel-images

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:58:01PM -0400, tim wrote: > > How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? > Such as kernel-image-2.4.10-k6. Look for the corresponding /boot/config-* file. -- .--===-=-==-=---==-=-.

configuration of kernel-images

2001-10-10 Thread tim
How do I find out the compile configuration of a pre-compiled kernel-image? Such as kernel-image-2.4.10-k6. -Tim. thanks inadvance.

Re: Kernel images

2001-05-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run woody. At this time i compile the kernel by myself. Yesterday i saw in > dselect that there are many kernel images avalible. But they are all 2.2.x > kernels and only one, the 2.4.0-test1 from the 2.4.x series. > Now m

Kernel images

2001-05-20 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi gents, I run woody. At this time i compile the kernel by myself. Yesterday i saw in dselect that there are many kernel images avalible. But they are all 2.2.x kernels and only one, the 2.4.0-test1 from the 2.4.x series. Now my question is: Why aren't there all the newer images? Does D

Re: naming kernel images (potato)

2000-06-04 Thread Brad
this being discussed, with a suggestion for naming kernel > images to avoid the problem. As others have said, use epochs or put the thing on hold. This also happened with the 2.2.5 kernel images, which is probably where you vaguely remember it from. Since it didn't hit you, you must either hav

Re: naming kernel images (potato)

2000-06-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
appen. It's never happened before under > > slink, hamm, bo, or rex that I recall. > > > > Deep in the vague recesses of my memory I seem to recall an issue > > similar to this being discussed, with a suggestion for naming kernel > > images to avoid the problem. > &

Re: naming kernel images (potato)

2000-06-03 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Whenever I've built a kernel I've used the following syntax: > # make-kpkg --rev tux.1.0 kernel_image > where "tux" identifies the machine to me and "1.0" identifies which of > my revisions of the kernel I'm dealing with. > I install the resulting kernel-image-...-.deb with dpkg -i. > I recently

Re: naming kernel images (potato)

2000-06-03 Thread Ben Collins
t update ; apt-get -s upgrade > > offered to upgrade kernel-image-2.2.15 for me. :-( > > I definitely don't want that to happen. It's never happened before under > slink, hamm, bo, or rex that I recall. > > Deep in the vague recesses of my memory I seem to recall an i

naming kernel images (potato)

2000-06-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
happened before under slink, hamm, bo, or rex that I recall. Deep in the vague recesses of my memory I seem to recall an issue similar to this being discussed, with a suggestion for naming kernel images to avoid the problem. Details, anyone? Thanks. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature,

Re: various kernel-images

2000-05-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hi all, > > anyone know the difference between kernel-images? There are several to > choose from: > > kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci_... > kernel-image-2.2.15-ide_... > kernel-image-2.2.15-compact_ > etc... > > I

Re: various kernel-images

2000-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >anyone know the difference between kernel-images? There are several to >choose from: > >kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci_... >kernel-image-2.2.15-ide_... >kernel-image-2.2.15-compact_ >etc... > >I can guess what the compact kernel image is

various kernel-images

2000-05-25 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hi all, anyone know the difference between kernel-images? There are several to choose from: kernel-image-2.2.15-idepci_... kernel-image-2.2.15-ide_... kernel-image-2.2.15-compact_ etc... I can guess what the compact kernel image is but what are the other two? Thanks Parrish

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
manoj wrote: > Safe or not, it is UNIX ;-). Deleting a file is not actually > modifying the file, you are really modifying the directory the files > reside in. So, if you have write permissions to a directory, you may > delete any other file that is in there, as you observed. This can't >

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"G" == G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> So obviously although I hadn;t realised that before if a group you G> belong to owns a directory which is writable by the group you can G> delete stuff from it without owning the files and without G> belonging to the group which owns the

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: > I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have > taken care of this bug. > > G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > > > drwxrwsr-x

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot > the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was > deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0)

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in : /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that : after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments : concerning security. So I tried

Re: user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:02:47PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Hi, > > Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in > /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. um 644...thats um... owner: rwx group: r other: r ? I don't know my octal modes..forgive me :) anyw

Re: user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread Steve Mayer
George, I noticed this on my one remaining bo machine. Hamm seems to have taken care of this bug. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following to my previous email I have to say some things. > > the /boot directory in my machine is > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk

user can delete kernel images (cont)

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group i

user can delete kernel images

1998-06-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments concerning security. So I tried as a user with no root privileges and no ro