How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread riches
I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: apt-get upgrade on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" wants to upgrade the kernel: # apt-get -V upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependen

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Your attitude is exactly the kind of trolling that kept me from using Debian until within the past year. Yes, you. Katipo. Not the OP. One of the things which has given me a bad taste in my mouth for all UNIX like systems from the start is that they seem to breed

Re: Re: How to disable this PPP message

2006-02-16 Thread John Q. User
Hi, Here is what I did. Please note: this is probably not appropriate for a professional/production/multi-user system. I run Debian as software development platform w/ Firestarter to manage IPTables. Firestarter causes IPTables to log messages related to various DoS attacks.attacks.attacks.attack

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread Marty
David Baron wrote: Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... why? I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Bug? This can happen if you use UTC in your R

Re: Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
Keith Bates wrote: Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is well with the world again. If you're running Debian testing, then you could try just

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: >apt-get upgrade > > on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" wants to upgrade the > kernel: Carl, # e

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread riches
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: apt-get upgrade on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" want

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 16 February 2006 18:34, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > Your attitude is exactly the kind of trolling that kept me from using > > Debian until within the past year. Yes, you. Katipo. Not the OP. > > One of the things which has given me a bad taste in my mout

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:08:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > >On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > >>2.4.26. I would like to use a script to

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:55, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 09:05 +0800, Richard wrote: >> On 16/02/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:38 +, Andy Hawkins wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > In article >> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: (cut) > I've not been using debian for very long (actually, it's only here for the > OpenMOSIX clusters). Are you saying that apt-get cannot be configured to > prevent a kernel upgrade and that

Re: instalaçao

2006-02-16 Thread Bruno Buys
kubernat wrote: eu baixei o arquivo debian-testing-alpha-netinst-iso porem grei o disco de instalaçao porem o mesmo nao da boot peo cd o que esta faltando? grato arthur Cara, manda pra lista debian em portugues, essa lista é em inglês. De onde você baixou esse iso? I'm telling him this

mini-commander error on load "Failed: Failed: Schema ......"

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Blumel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get this error on the loading of mini-commander. Failed: Failed: Schema `/schemas/apps/mini-commander-global/macro_patterns' specified for `/apps/mini-commander/macro_patterns' stores a non-schema value Failed: Failed: Schema `/schemas/apps/mini-com

Re: Re: Mouse Bindings

2006-02-16 Thread Christopher Booth
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 4 5" i have 5 button mouse 1st position = left mouse button 2nd position = mouse wheel down 3rd position = right mouse button 4th position = mouse wheel up 5th position = mouse wheel down 1 = left click 2 = mouse wheel down 3 = right click 4 = scroll up 5 = scroll dow

Re: [debian] Re: Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict SOLVED!

2006-02-16 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:58:14 + John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Bates wrote: > > Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some > > reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In > > the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is

Re: usb2 to fast

2006-02-16 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:43:10PM +0100, nicals wahlgren wrote: > Is there a way to slow an usb connection to usb1 speed? > > In debian when I am transferring files to mp3 player or sd memory card > through card reader it goes very quick but the files are mostly > unreadable. When using Win XP

Re: X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
I found the solution after a few more hours on google. If X says the nvidia module can't be loaded, when lsmod says it is, then nvidia-glx probably isn't installed. For some reason apt-get dist-upgrade removed nvidia-glx. I suppose that's what I get for running "sleep 8h; apt-get -y dist-upgrade".

Re: [SOLVED] kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Reinstall of originalawk solved the problem. The kernel-image package builds and installs fine. How do I make the modules to install? make modules make modules_install does not do anything! -ishwar On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I am trying to compile the kernel for enabling SMP

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
> Maybe you have to add the line > > exec xscreensaver & > > instead of just xscreensaver No. The exec line should be the last line in the file where you start your wm, such as exec /usr/bin/enlightenment And you don't need the & on the line, since you can't background an exec'd process. xscr

Re: [SOLVED] kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:41, Ishwar Rattan wrote: >Reinstall of originalawk solved the problem. The kernel-image >package builds and installs fine. > >How do I make the modules to install? > >make modules >make modules_install > >does not do anything! > Well, the obvious question would have

Re: [SOLVED] kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
> > How do I make the modules to install? > > make modules > make modules_install > > does not do anything! If you're using the kernel package tool, it will build a .deb kernel (including modules). When you install that, it will install the modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

bootsplash in sid

2006-02-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I tried to install bootsplash in sid. I had two problems. First is regarding sysv-rc-bootsplash. It doesn't patch rc and rcs scripts properly. Any how I tried to bypass it by removing it. second initrd.img gives kernel panic. I saw post in bootsplash discussion as below. It's because you are using

Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Fábio Dias
Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place for doing that, and I didn't find any good information about my problem, so here I go. I have an ASUS P4P800 SE mobo, with ICH5R south bridge, 2 SATA 80Gb hard drives in raid 0 config. In windows, everything is OK, but any linux installation see these di

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread Deephay
thank you all, I am going to read the manual carefully - Original Message - From: "David Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian_user" Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:57 PM Subject: Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

Re: NFS share problems

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Sinan Nalkaya wrote: >it seems the source is trying to use binaries and libraries located at >your local pc, so you need a su rights to compiled kernel on your local >pc. > > > > Here's the exports file on the FreeBSD server, my remote uid is 1000 and so is the users uid of the shared home direc

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Fábio Dias wrote: >Hi everyone, >I hope this is the right place for doing that, and I didn't find any >good information about my problem, so here I go. > >I have an ASUS P4P800 SE mobo, with ICH5R south bridge, 2 SATA 80Gb >hard drives in raid 0 config. In windows, everything is OK, but any >linux

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Fábio Dias
Wow, first, thanks for the quick answer! > You can create RAID arrays in woody installer, I've done it on the same > chipset I tried. My partitions where already made during win2k installation (I think I forgot to tell I'm trying to make a dual boot config.). The raid manager on the installer doe

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On Thursday 16 February 2006 06:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2/16/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hello, >> >> i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. >>ive >> done enough googling and havent seen anythin

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Kent West
On 2/16/06, the original poster wrote: i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. Here's what I wrote several years ago (but I don't claim that it's a "good tutorial"): http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/05/025207 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Fábio Dias wrote: >I tried. My partitions where already made during win2k installation (I >think I forgot to tell I'm trying to make a dual boot config.). The >raid manager on the installer doesn't recognize them. Should I install >linux before windows?? > > I've never done a dual boot raid conf

moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: 5700MB free space hda5 logical linux ext3 [/home] hda6 logical linux swap hda2 primary linux ext3 [/] hda1 primary other OS I wanted to use the free space, so I

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Fábio Dias
Stefan, > I've never done a dual boot raid configuration before, are you able to > split up your arrays with the BIOS Raid manager? the bios manager only let me create and destroy full size RAID arrays (i think, I don't remeber exactly if the size can be changed, but I don't think so). I made the

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Michael M.
Fábio Dias wrote: I googled this a lot before mailing the list. There is a lot of information about hardware raid, and md software RAID. But are only a few links (ubuntu) about these fake raids chipsets. By the way, here go THE dummy question: tldp?? The Linux Documentation Project: http://ww

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-16 Thread charles norwood
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:53 -0400, Glenn Taylor wrote: > M-L wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: > >> > Bruno Buys wrote: > >> > > Glenn Taylor wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running > >> RedHat > >> 8.0

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Fábio Dias wrote: > > >the bios manager only let me create and destroy full size RAID arrays >(i think, I don't remeber exactly if the size can be changed, but I >don't think so). I made the partitions during win2k installation... > > > Then you've got hardware raid, some linux devs call these t

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First step before messing with partitions: do a backup. > Second step before messing with partitions: save your MBR on a floppy. > Third step before messing with partitions: save the first sector > of each partition on a floppy. I have backups at home

Can't open encrypted partitions

2006-02-16 Thread the Vonks
I have three encrypted partitions, which I normally open like this: gpg --decrypt keyfile.gpg | cryptsetup create misc /dev/hda11 mount /dev/mapper/misc Where keyfile.gpg is created like this: head -c 2880 /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | head -n 65 | tail -n 64 | gpg --symmetric -a Howe

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
> of an extended partition you created before. Or are > you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much > if at all. Sorry, I didn't answer this before: no, I'm not using LVM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var boot dev

udev problem

2006-02-16 Thread Deephay
Hi all, I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot remember the exact format but it is more or less like this)

moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
You still there? Things don't look too bad to me, so far. Still here, making some progress... Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand i

moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ok, I've drawn a map of your disc, both presumed before and after, and I think I know what cfdisk did. Before you did anything, you had either three or four entries in your PT, it's hard to tell, as cfdisk is not actually showing your PT. But anyway, you had Primary Bootable Win95 FAT32 (hda1)

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
I've read up a bit from the Partition-Rescue mini-howto, and am not feeling so panicked any more. My understanding is that cfdisk would have *only* changed the partition table, which resides on the MBR. And since I haven't accessed the portion of the disk for which I changed the partition table,

Re: udev problem

2006-02-16 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot remember the exact format but it is more or less like this) but wh

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:01 am, Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? >> I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use >> software such as Gwenview. Thx! >> >> Deephay showimg is good for viewing, haven't

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: Ok, what is possible is that the geometry written to the beginning of the new partitions is not correct, and so the start of /home is now being miscomputed somehow. I d

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do y

3Ware controller and Drive SPindown?

2006-02-16 Thread Jan Johansson
Is it possible to spin-down drives that is connected to a 3Ware controller? I am pondering adding an old 7000-series board to one of my boxes, but it would be nice to retain power save (Or rather Noise-save).

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless of what happens :) I triple-checked that I'm trying to mount the correct partition and did it without using fstab, and that's not the problem, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo umount /mnt (to unmount the root partition) [

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