Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Appreciate all the replies. However I have never used an initrd in the past (been building kernels since the 2.0.x series) and don't want to this time. sata and ext3 drivers are built into the kernel (not modules) so I don't think I should need one. Any thoughts as to why I apparently do, or ho

logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

2009-09-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
After updating to the latest versions of packages of debian testing about 2-3 days ago, I noticed that the log out function has stopped working. It plays the log out sound, and then a black console screen, and absolutely no response to any combination of keys (ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-f{1-5}). But it

Re: linux debian lenny 64bit installing ORACLE 64 errors

2009-09-26 Thread Daniel Suleyman
кому: мне, debian-user Показать подробные сведения 18:50 (16 ч. назад) Umarzuki Mochlis: No it dosent' the problem was in X's. i am not having any graphical environment on system../runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs -responsefile /home/oracle/sampleOracle.rsp helped to install software: Ihave chroo

Grub: error 15

2009-09-26 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I assume this has probably been mentioned before, with all the grub legacy discussion going on, but here's my situation anyways: I have Debian Testing installed on my hp paviliion dv6000 notebook and executed the command upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After that, when I rebooted my system, I re

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread mess-mate
Andrew Perrin wrote: Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done with it. In this case I keep getting: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to moun

Does anyone have older amd64 versions of fglrx-* packages?

2009-09-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hi, I upgraded my proprietary ATI driver to version 9-9, but it does not work, all I get is a black screen and a frozen computer. My card is a Radon HD 3650. The free radeon/radeonhd drivers work, but they apparently don't even support Xvideo. I cannot run the geeqie image viewer either,

Re: linux debian lenny 64bit installing ORACLE 64 errors

2009-09-26 Thread Daniel Suleyman
solved all minir errors. and finaly major ones (( failed scripts: # Copyright (c) 1999, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. /home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/jdk/jre//bin/java -Duser.dir=/home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/network/jlib -classpath /home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/

Grub/Grub2 fails with non-first root partition

2009-09-26 Thread Raven
Hi all. I am currently attempting to install Debian on a laptop that currently has only windows xp on it. Using the testing netinstall iso, i ran the setup process several times but I keep getting the same problem over and over. The partition tables is as follows: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 800263618

Re: linux debian lenny 64bit installing ORACLE 64 errors

2009-09-26 Thread Daniel Suleyman
As for a step by step installation guide I should have it somewhere in my backups - I'll try to find it and post it later on. *it will be greate* LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/lib32:/home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/lib /home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/lib/l

Re: linux debian lenny 64bit installing ORACLE 64 errors

2009-09-26 Thread Michał Bożek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:54:14 +0500 Daniel Suleyman wrote: > No requiremnets, can you describe what needed to install 11G? Apart from the package available here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle11g/112010_linx8664soft.html hardware requirements g

logrotate: olddir on different device?

2009-09-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! I'd like logrotate to move old (compressed) logfiles to a directory on a different device (from SD card to hard disk in this case). Unfortunately the "olddir" config option only works if both directories are on the same device (probably for easier handling of the first rotate step). Lastac

Re: Grub: error 15

2009-09-26 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Jason Filippou wrote: > I have Debian Testing installed on my hp paviliion dv6000 notebook and > executed the command upgrade-from-grub-legacy. After that, when I > rebooted my system, I receive the message > > GRUB Loading stage1.5 > > GRUB loading, please wait... > Error 15 > > Is there anythi

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Andrew Perrin wrote: > kernel panic: no init found. Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0). > Have you tried actually building an initrd? I always get a problem mounting root until I build my initrd. (man mkinitramfs, or just `mkinitramfs -o initrd.2.6.30-amd64 2.6.30-amd64`, ass

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] > Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am > posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to > http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an initrd image which isn't mentioned in grub.cfg. Elima

Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done with it. In this case I keep getting: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to mount root fs on unknown-bl

Re: linux debian lenny 64bit installing ORACLE 64 errors

2009-09-26 Thread Michał Bożek
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:19:59 +0500 Daniel Suleyman wrote: > UnsatisfiedLinkError exception loading native library: njni10 Now this might have various reasons... Please check the following: - is libnjni10.so present in your system? It should be in: $ORACLE_HOME/lib/ and $ORACLE_HOME/lib32

Re: Grub/Grub2 fails with non-first root partition

2009-09-26 Thread Raven
On Sat, September 26, 2009 2:14 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:59:02AM +0200, Raven wrote: >> Hi all. >> I am currently attempting to install Debian on a laptop that currently >> has >> only windows xp on it. >> Using the testing netinstall iso, i ran the setup process s

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an initrd im

Re: grub2, update-grub, /etc/grub.d

2009-09-26 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:36:00AM -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: > grub2 (provided by package grub-pc) > > Suppose you want to add something like "vga=791" to the linux line of > one of the stanzas auto-configured by update-grub. > > What is the debian way to do this? Edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variab

Re: Grub/Grub2 fails with non-first root partition

2009-09-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:59:02AM +0200, Raven wrote: > Hi all. > I am currently attempting to install Debian on a laptop that currently has > only windows xp on it. > Using the testing netinstall iso, i ran the setup process several times > but I keep getting the same problem over and over.

Re: virtualbox:networking

2009-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:31:56AM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I'm running Lenny-amd64. I set up virtualbox-amd64 from their deb. Works > fine, butI have a network printer (HP Officejet Pro 8500) at 192.168.1.32 > which is within my local network. The install of virtualbox sets up a > n

Re: linux debian lenny 64bit installing ORACLE 64 errors

2009-09-26 Thread Daniel Suleyman
*This errors come up now after playing wth ldconfig* oracle@:/home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/bin$ ./relink all > test cp: cannot stat `/DISCARD/': No such file or directory ar: creating /home/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.1/db1/lib/libclntst10.a cp: cannot stat `/DISCARD/': No such file or d

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread thveillon.debian
Arthur Marsh wrote: > Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: >> * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] >> [...] >>> Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am >>> posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to >>> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cf

Re: How do you install flash player?

2009-09-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:30:18PM -0700, Charlie Dorff wrote: > Hi... > I was wondering if someone could explain how to install flash player > on debian? Thank you. There are so many ways to install flash on Debian. http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer For amd64, there were ways to install 32b

Re: Printing

2009-09-26 Thread pch0317
Giancarlo Pegoraro wrote: > Il giorno mer, 16/09/2009 alle 18.38 +0200, pch0317 ha scritto: > >> Hello >> I have problem with HP PSC 1310 series printer. >> I use debian testing, and hpijs packet. >> >> > me too :-) > > >> The problem is that when I print black text I receive coloured te

grub2, update-grub, /etc/grub.d

2009-09-26 Thread Hugh Lawson
grub2 (provided by package grub-pc) Suppose you want to add something like "vga=791" to the linux line of one of the stanzas auto-configured by update-grub. What is the debian way to do this? I know how to edit the grub.cfg file to do this, but won't this file be replaced by the next 'update-

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Sep 26 2009, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] > [...] >> Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am >> posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to >> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and > > I guess you need

Re: Grub: error 15

2009-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:47:42AM +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > I assume this has probably been mentioned before, with all the grub > legacy discussion going on, but here's my situation anyways: > > I have Debian Testing installed on my hp paviliion dv6000 notebook and > executed the

Can't keep archive up to date (bizarre sources.list problem?)

2009-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
I keep running into a problem in which apt (via aptitude) will not fetch the new package list for testing or unstable. It doesn't report any errors while doing the associated update. I've tried various fiddles, including especially deleting files from /var/lib/apt/lists and /var/cache/apt. The ma

Re: Grub/Grub2 fails with non-first root partition

2009-09-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:14:20PM +0200, Raven wrote: > Did a new setup with netinstall testing but I am still getting stuck at > the usual place. > I let the installer partition the space as it wished: > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders >

Lenny is acting screwing after alsa sourcecode install

2009-09-26 Thread Laurin d'Volts
I'm using Lenny stable. Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:34:05 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The boot process is hanging on cupsd. After logging into a user after GDM I get something like this: FAILED TO INITIALIZE HAL! and then it won't give me my networkmanager icon. I had to r

XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-26 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hi All; I have a strange issue. When I run Gnome I have a nice desktop with my trash icon etc., on the desktop. Gnome is too heavy for my resource limited laptop so I much prefer to use a lighter window manager. But when I start up or switch to XFce4, I'm left without a "desktop", just the applic

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-09-26 Thread Dieder Vervoort
Hi Adrian, Indeed this is working. ( Test it with 2 identical USB-keys) But I think this is not a solution because the target usb is not the same size and make. Thats why I copied the files and the MBR separately.( forgot to mention this ) What I am trying to do: I would like to make a copy o

lenny, alsa source code, cupsd hang, failed to initialize hal

2009-09-26 Thread Laurin d'Volts
I recently installed the alsa source code into my lenny desktop. Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:34:05 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Now the boot process hangs at cupsd. Also, when I am able to get into GDM and login after using single-user mode, I get a "failed to initialize H

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

2009-09-26 Thread Matthew Moore
On Saturday September 26 2009 9:39:43 am Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Does this happen to anybody else? Should I report it as a bug? > I googled it and found several references of the problem, although old > (around April 2009). Are you using an intel graphics chip? This was happening on my laptop abou

Re: XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 9/26/09, S. Fishpaste wrote: > But when I start up or switch to XFce4, I'm left without a "desktop", just > the application dock on a coloured background, which I can't seem to change. > First, which version of Xfce are you using? If it's recent (4.6), look for "Desktop settings" and f

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/27 Dieder Vervoort : > What I am trying to do: I would like to make a copy of my USB-key to one or > more  files, > send the files to a friend and he has to dd / copy this file to his USB-Key, > and I was hoping this should work. Then what you have done previously will work on the proviso

Re: Re (2): configuring xserver [Solved]

2009-09-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-09-25_10:07:22, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Paul, > > > Thanks. gtf gave me a plausible modeline. I editted it into xorg.conf > > as suggested and it worked. > > If you can spare a few minutes, please post a detail or two. > It might solve a remotely similar problem here. > > [In-reply

BFD ( Brute Force Detection) rules for Debian Lenny.

2009-09-26 Thread Israel Garcia
I've downloaded BFD (Brute Force Detection) from http://www.rfxn.com/?page_id=51 and installed on a debian lenny server and every seems to be working fine, BFD is working with APF and there are a lot of scanning IPs blocked in /etc/apf/deny_hosts.rules file. BUT, there're a lot failed authenticat

Re: Mini 10v

2009-09-26 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > - because it's on a stick it has no swap > - this machine is good enough for the typical MPEG-4 movies (on my >  hi-res TV), but I don't want to risk skips in the middle of the movie >  just because postfix is running it's queue or whateve

Re: XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-26 Thread S.D.A.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:40:45PM +0100, Liviu Andronic uttered: > Hello > > On 9/26/09, S. Fishpaste wrote: > > But when I start up or switch to XFce4, I'm left without a "desktop", just > > the application dock on a coloured background, which I can't seem to > > change. > > > First, which v

Debian PPPoE problem

2009-09-26 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi There, I had a linux box to do pppoe auth from my billion ADSL modem eth0 connected to modem (Billion BiPAC 7402NX) eth1 to my linksys router connected to LAN Both billion and linksys having gigabit LAN port I am using webmin to configure pppoe.conf and to start the ADSL connection A while ag

John the Ripper

2009-09-26 Thread Mike McClain
I've had John running since Jan '08 and it's yet to break my password. Admittedly the password is non-trivial being 13 characters, mixed upper and lower case, numbers and punctuation but I keep expecting John to send me a note saying it's been cracked since John runs six hours each night and my com