Asus EEE PC 1001HA & NFS hangs

Am I the only one to get frequent NFS hangs on an Asus EEE PC 1001HA ? For no apparent reason, NFS mounts become catatonic and processes using them end up in state D. This is with Debian testing and kernel 2.6.32-5. -- André Majorel bugs.debian.org - spammer's d

Re: is there way to monitor dell perc 6i controller raid without dell omsa?

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:32:40 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Is there nice way to monitor dell perc 6i hardware raid without dell > omsa ? > > .. because installing omsa on 64bit debian is a bit tricky and mainly I > don't need that www gui, just hardware raid status? JFYI, I found very useful th

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

On 17/06/2010 14:08, Huang, Tao wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michal wrote: >> This is a better way then disconnecting the drive and checking which >> drive was disconnected like I did, but I would still put a very easy to >> read label on the drive to say /dev/sdX. It would be far eas

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Michal wrote: > On 17/06/2010 14:08, Huang, Tao wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michal wrote: >>> This is a better way then disconnecting the drive and checking which >>> drive was disconnected like I did, but I would still put a very easy to >>> read l

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

>> But how can this be correct when each raid partion is linked to the >> HDD/Partions >> >> >> # cat /proc/mdstat >> Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] >> md3 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] >> 716796096 blocks [2/2] [UU] >> >> md2 : active raid1 sda5[0] sdb5[1] >> 51199040 b

How do I back up a running system?

I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out before it completes the backup. Are there any suggestions? A simple script

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Tom H wrote: [snip] > mdadm assembles an array according to data in the superblock so it > shouldn't matter whether the kernel recognizes sda and sdb as sdb and > sda respectively should you plug them in differently. so they's recognized with data in the superbloc

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer >>> drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards.  These are incompatible with >>> the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvidia. >> >> Can you point me to more information on thi

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

On 2010-06-18 15:20 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards.  These are incompatible with the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvid

Re: How do I back up a running system?

Hello, have you given a try to backup2l ? hth, Jerome On 18/06/10 20:43, Robert S wrote: I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usua

Re: Nouveau driver and kernel 2.6.32-5

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:25:24 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-18 01:01 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> The nouveau X driver now apparently works even if modeset=0 is specified >> as a nouveau kernel module parameter. > > It does not, unless the module is loaded with modesetting enab

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

Eric Gerlach put forth on 6/17/2010 1:46 PM: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: >> There was also a TI something back then. > > TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users... > begrudgingly) I had a /4A but didn't bother mentioning it as I nev

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

On 06/18/2010 09:11 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Eric Gerlach put forth on 6/17/2010 1:46 PM: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: There was also a TI something back then. TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users... begrudgingly) I had a /4A

Re: How do I back up a running system?

On 06/18/2010 07:43 AM, Robert S wrote: I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out before it completes the backup. Cou

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:05:06PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > > F9. > > > > My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday

Adobe Reader(>7.0.8) make system frozen

My system is Squeeze with kernel 2.6.32-5,in fact only the version 7.0.8 works normally. I used to install the Adobe Reader V8.1x on Lenny and today I tried V9.3.2, both will make the system frozen. No special action,just open an pdf file whatever language and after browse about more than half an

make not compiling

Dear All, This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to build LFS(Linux From Scratch). I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the host system(Debian 504). It gave a lots of not present(eg. gcc, Binutils, Bison, gawk, make) I installed gcc,

Re: make not compiling

2010/6/18 prakhar gaur : > > Dear All, > > This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to > build LFS(Linux From Scratch). > I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the host > system(Debian 504). > It gave a lots of not present(eg. gcc, Binutils,

Re: make not compiling

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/18/2010 11:20 AM, prakhar gaur wrote: > > > Dear All, > > This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to > build LFS(Linux From Scratch). > I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the hos

Re: How do I back up a running system?

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Robert S wrote: I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out before it completes the backup. Hi Ro

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > >> You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix > >> the problem. > > > > Upgrade fa

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... >> > Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector >>

RE: make not compiling -- Solved

> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:41:02 +0300 > Subject: Re: make not compiling > From: eero.voloti...@iki.fi > To: prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > 2010/6/18 prakhar gaur : > > > > Dear All, > > > > This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host syst

Re: make not compiling

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:50:13PM +0530, prakhar gaur wrote: > This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to > build LFS(Linux From Scratch). > I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the host > system(Debian 504). There is no Debian 504. I

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

2010/6/18 prakhar gaur : > > >> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:41:02 +0300 >> Subject: Re: make not compiling >> From: eero.voloti...@iki.fi >> To: prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com >> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> 2010/6/18 prakhar gaur : >> > >> > Dear All, >> > >> > This is my first week with Debi

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

prakhar gaur: > > Just wanted to ask why was I not able to compile the make-3.81 source > code and how did using apt-get resolve the problem. Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your system. apt-get is one of Debian's tools to manage software and the command 'apt-get

Re: Adobe Reader(>7.0.8) make system frozen

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:20:42 +0800, xuyuanwei wrote: > My system is Squeeze with kernel 2.6.32-5,in fact only the version 7.0.8 > works normally. I used to install the Adobe Reader V8.1x on Lenny and > today I tried V9.3.2, both will make the system frozen. What becomes frozen, Lenny or Squeeze?

Re: How do I back up a running system?

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:43:56 +1000, Robert S wrote: > I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the > entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor > (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually > bails out before it completes

Re: How do I back up a running system?

Robert S wrote: I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out before it completes the backup. And what does mondoarchiv

UUID in fstab?

I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 Next I rebooted the system, mounted /bkups (no problem) and entered the command df -h. The

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> > >> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... > >> > Lo

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

On 2010-06-18 20:20 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Please run dosfslabel on your DOS partition. >> > Never knew we had such a command. Checked the man page an ran it for > /dev/hda1, the dos partition. The response was NO NAME.

Re: UUID in fstab?

On 2010-06-18 19:15 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. > an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the > rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 > > Next I rebooted the system, mou

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:08:41PM +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michal wrote: > > This is a better way then disconnecting the drive and checking which > > drive was disconnected like I did, but I would still put a very easy to > > read label on the drive to say /dev/

Re: UUID in fstab?

On Friday 18 June 2010 09:15:48 Thomas H. George wrote: > I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. > an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the > rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 > > Next I rebooted the system,

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

Il 18/06/2010 19:40, Jochen Schulz ha scritto: prakhar gaur: Just wanted to ask why was I not able to compile the make-3.81 source code and how did using apt-get resolve the problem. Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your system. apt-get is one of Debian's tool

Re: make not compiling -- Solved

Lorenzo Beretta: > Il 18/06/2010 19:40, Jochen Schulz ha scritto: >> >> Simple: you need make to compile make, but it wasn't installed on your >> system. apt-get is one of Debian's tools to manage software and the >> command 'apt-get install make' does what you would expect. > > Just for the reco

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

> On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory >> built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the >> display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It >> took hours to

partition re-sizing

Does debian have a native way to re-size a partition which can be run live? I tried G-Parted which appears to work, but the next boot generates a CRC error during the boot expansion. This is a custom boot kernel on a CF chip. I am placing the image on a much larger CF chip and then expanding the

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

On 06/18/2010 05:58 PM, ABS Doug wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrolog

Re: partition re-sizing

correct me if i'm wrong, you're referring to cyclic redundency check? This sounds like your hard disk is nearing your nearby electronic device disposal facility :) On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > Does debian have a native way to re-size a partition which > can be run live?

Re: [OT] First computer

ABS Doug writes: > I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to > TV... I'm feeling old. I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OC

cp: backup version control

Hi, >From 'man cp': ,- | The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIM- | PLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be | selected via the --backup option or through the | VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. `- However, I found that the VERSION_CONTROL environment v

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

On 6/18/2010 15:58, ABS Doug wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology pr

Re: UUID in fstab?

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. > an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the > rest of the line unchanged as /bkups  ext3  rw,user,noauto  0  2 > > Next I rebooted the syste

Re: partition re-sizing

On 06/18/2010 06:03 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: Does debian have a native way to re-size a partition which can be run live? I tried G-Parted which appears to work, but the next boot generates a CRC error during the boot expansion. You resized a live system, or did the resize on a separate machine

Re: Symlinks (was Re: Triple boot with MS XP)

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote: >> >> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>  > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under >>  > $HOME. >> >> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care >>

Re: [OT] First computer

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:18:27PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > ABS Doug writes: > > I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to > > TV... I'm feeling old. > > I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late > seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the he

[Resolved] Re: Disk problems or worse?

-- On 03 Jun 2010 19:22:48 -0400, Message-id: <4c083948.4090...@rcn.com> I wrote -- On 06/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ralph Katz: >> On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: >>> >>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp

Re: partition re-sizing

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > Does debian have a native way to re-size a partition which > can be run live? "parted" should be the choice. you can also use a gui of it, like gparted. what do you mean by live? in most cases, you can only resize a unmounted partition > I

Re: How do I back up a running system?

On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Robert S wrote: I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out before it completes the ba

Re: cp: backup version control

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:36 AM, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > >From 'man cp': > > ,- > | The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIM- > | PLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX.  The version control method may be > | selected via the --backup option or through the > | VERSION_CONTROL environment variable

Re: cp: backup version control

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:20:09 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: > here's a set of examples Thanks a lot! -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

High school, Junior & Senior year (1969-71) - DG Nova, single user configuration, had to toggle in a bootstrap loader, then read in a 2nd-stage off paper tape, final stage read in off of a hard drive (as I remember, but hard drives were pretty rare in those days, so I could be wrong). 1st yea

Re: [OT] First computer

John Hasler wrote: I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a Selectric printer with homebrew electronics. The first computer I progra

Re: [OT] First computer

On Saturday, June 19, 2010 02:08:03 pm Miles Fidelman wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late > > seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives > > from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: High school, Junior & Senior year (1969-71) - DG Nova, single user configuration, had to toggle in a bootstrap loader, then read in a 2nd-stage off paper tape, final stage read in off of a hard drive (as I remember, but hard drives were pretty rare in

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really neat thing about the machine was that hackers were allowed, even encouraged, to make HARD

Re: [OT] First computer

On 06/18/2010 11:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: John Hasler wrote: I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a Selectric printer with home

Re: How do I back up a running system?

>> I have debian running on a "headless" system. I'd like to back the >> entire system up. Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor >> (so Clonezilla etc are out). I've tried mondoarchive but it usually >> bails out before it completes the backup. > > > And what does mondoarchive.

Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)

On 06/19/2010 12:00 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really neat thing about the machine was that hack

Torrents killing my connection

I can't believe I'm still totally unable to figure out what is going on here. Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 was unable to handle downloading torrents. The connection would drop. I tried every torrent client. I tried lowering the connections. Nothing I tried worked. I ended up downgrading to Ubuntu 9

Re: Torrents killing my connection

1. Try to use the key more often. 2. I don't give a rat's ass whether you use GNU/Linux or not. 3. Maybe your hardware is faulty? Do you know what hardware you're using (nic please)? 4. My heart's not gonna skip a beat if you go back to Windows™. 5. Have you tried tunning your torrent software? Tr

Re: Torrents killing my connection

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Send me the torrent and I'll try it out. I've tried over 20 torrents, they all do the same thing. Thank for thinking of that though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Torrents killing my connection

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:02 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > I can't believe I'm still totally unable to figure out what is going > on here. [snippity snip snip snippin' lots 'o text] The reality is, you've put in a lot of work and are frustrated. Understood. But, this is not the "Rants and Raves" sec