On Sep 6, 2015, at 7:48 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hey folks!
>
> Yesterday I rebooted my Cubox-i4Pro running Debian Sid, and ever afterwards
> my /var/log/syslog file is filling up with endless repetitions of
>
>> Sep 6 06:25:30 cube kernel: [26889.599129] wakeup int a
On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:24 PM, ray wrote:
> I would like to configure LVMs for everything including boot.
Is it “just for fun” or do you have a real-world reason for wanting everything,
including boot, to be on LVM?
I’ll describe my own typical setup (special purpose systems may have different
Hi Ray,
I’ll try to answer your questions…
On Sep 7, 2015, at 4:36 PM, ray wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Thank you for responding and providing all the info.
>
> On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:20:07 AM UTC-5, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:24 PM, ray wrote:
&g
On Oct 8, 2015, at 6:54 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> If you want to see the boot messages, you can use journalctl to inspect
>> them after you booted.
If you want to see journal messages from shutdown, you need to make sure they
are recorded in permanent storage. By default, the journal is rec
I notice that Sid is not including aptitude by default in the stock
installation. I have to do “apt get install aptitude” manually after
installation.
Does anybody know why this is?
Thanks!
Rick
On Oct 31, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:49:59 +
> Brian wrote:
>
>> On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 10:01:36 -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
>>
>>> Will Debian 9 no longer install Aptitude by default?.
>>
>> Que Sera, Sera. . Let's stay in the present (in line w
As shown below, aptitude has been progressively downgraded from “important” in
oldstable (Wheezy) to “standard” in stable (Jessie), “standard” in testing
(Stretch) and finally to “optional” in unstable (Sid)
rbthomas@cube:~$ aptitude -vv show aptitude | egrep
'^(Priority|Version|Archive): ' | s
On Nov 2, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Joe wrote:
>> To be honest, I see no reason at all why two package managers needed
>> to be included in standard install. If you aren't happy with apt-get,
>> just apt-get install aptitude. It seems beyond question to me that
>> having bare minimum to start with and
Hi JP
On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Jape Person wrote:
> On 12/03/2015 05:22 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
>> The complete message is really important. Perhaps, I
>> would investigate.
>
> Hello!
>
> I did give the complete messages. Both start with
>
> A stop job is running for...
>
> The endin
On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 15 seconds extra, a couple times a year isn't all THAT bad.
>
> FWIW, I think I found out why ext4 fsck's faster than ext3 (or the other
> exts). Seems ext4 only checks the part of the filesystem that's been
> used/writtento/etc. instead of
When /etc/fstab has an ext4 filesystem on a logical volume which is itself
on a software raid, the system times out waiting for (I think!) fsck on that
filesystem.
This causes the boot to drop into the emergency shell.
If I just type “^D" and allow the boot to continue, the filesystem is mounted
Bug report Bug#782793 has all the details…
Any help will be appreciated…
On Apr 17, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> When /etc/fstab has an ext4 filesystem on a logical volume which is itself
> on a software raid, the system times out waiting for (I think!) fsc
On May 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez
wrote:
> I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug.
>
> I solved it temporarily by doing the following:
>
> - In u-boot:
>
> setenv machid 0692
> saveenv
>
> - Then install normally. The 'make the system bo
In order to fix some device naming problems, I’ve made a local rule in
/etc/udev/rules.d.
The new rule needs to be included in the initramfs, but I can’t figure out the
magic to make that happen.
For kernel modules, there’s /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, but I can’t find
anything similar for u
On May 18, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2015-05-18 03:59 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>> In order to fix some device naming problems, I’ve made a local rule in
>> /etc/udev/rules.d.
>>
>> The new rule needs to be included in the initramfs, but I ca
On May 27, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> How do I boot into a text only session, without the GUI being loaded,
> if that is possible, so that I can be able to perform this awkward
> installation?
Two ways that I can think of…
First way:
# as root do the following:
mv /etc/X11/de
I’ve got an old Marvell OpenRD Base computer that I’d like to install Debian
Jessie on.
I believe that I’ll need to up-grade the u-boot on it to handle new features in
the Jessie kernel.
I need the following information…
1) Where to get a suitable u-boot image? (Will the one at
https://p
On Jun 1, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Jose Martinez wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I'm about to be blessed with several old PC computers. By old I mean that
> some of them will not even have CDROM drives on them. I will probably tear
> them all down, mix-and-match parts and make the best system(s) I can from
>
On Jun 2, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Rick Thomas [2015-05-31 19:11]:
>> I’ve got an old Marvell OpenRD Base computer that I’d like to install Debian
>> Jessie on.
>>
>> I believe that I’ll need to up-grade the u-boot on it to handle new featur
On 06/02/15 13:41, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Can you tell me what the most recent U-Boot version is that actually
>does support the OpenRD Base? If there is such a thing, do you have
>a suggested procedure for doing the upgrade?
Get u-boot from unstable, add the target (see the patch I quoted in
On 06/02/15 13:37, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
I'm able to get both openrd_base and openrd_ultimate to build (no idea
if it boots) by disabling MMC support with u-boot 2015.04. But then, it
sounds like you're actively looking for MMC support...
Another option might be to move where the stored u-b
On Jun 7, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
>> * Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez [2015-05-18 13:42]:
>>> The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this:
>> ...
>>> May 17 1
On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Rick Thomas [2015-06-07 19:39]:
>> I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200”
>> if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit
>> hard to interpret…
>
> From the l
With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is satisfied
by the s-nail package.
As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files. For
example:
> rbthomas@half:~$ mail
> Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/rbthomas" .
> Unable to (dot) lock mailbox,
On Dec 28, 2015, at 2:31 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is
> satisfied by the s-nail package.
> As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files.
> For example:
>
>> rbthomas@hal
Hi Steffan,
So what, exactly, are the correct permissions for s-nail-privsep?
Should it be:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep
or:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep
or:
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:
On Dec 29, 2015, at 12:51 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> The system is a bit sluggish; maybe ext4 on lvm wasn't the best choice for it.
> Ross
Make sure the USB stick you’re using is rated for USB3, even if the computer’s
port is just USB2.
The older USB2 sticks tend to be much slower at doing sust
On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation
>>> ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot
>>> drive from the first ISO image, ca
On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> |Hi Steffan,
>
> (My name is Steffen)
Ooops! Sorry!
> Well, just as already shown in this thread, on my local box it is
>
> ?0[sdaoden@wales nail.git]$ ll /usr/local/libexec
On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/30/15 12:36:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
>> |-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep
>
> Wouldn't these be en
It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs at once:
Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of them and
DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and have the
installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in drives.
Then (th
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote:
>> On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could.
>>
>> "Install with speech systhesis" is the last item in the ins
On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> This is what
> makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people
> just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone else.
Yeah, it’s a problem; but fortunately there are mailing lists like this one,
and wikis
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Steve Matzura wrote:
>> didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it.
>
> Do not use any repacker tool with the debian-cd ISOs.
> Rather copy them plainly onto the base device of the USB drive.
> E.g. on
https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html
> His family has asked for privacy during this difficult time and we very much
> wish to respect that.
He will be missed…
Rick
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
> I started from the very beginning and got it done. I only made one
> mistake, which I will correct--I mistyped the domain name. I still
> don't know what I did wrong the first time I tried installing, but
> it's of no consequence now, as th
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
> I still don't
> understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not,
> say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now,
I can’t say why any particular mirror does what it does, but the general rule
is: mi
Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-dlbd/ it
seems that the full set of software available from Debian for amd64 fits on two
dual-layer Bluray disks. According to Wikipedia a dlbd disk holds 50GB, so you
may need a couple of 64GB Flash drives before you’re do
Does anyone know what the error messages
Does anybody know what is causing the subject error messages?
It almost looks like the DTB is claiming a couple of devices that don't exist
on this hardware... But I don't understand enough of that process to be sure.
Anybody got some clues?
I've attac
On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:42 PM, David Wright wrote:
> I hope you eventually get to study the journal even if you don't have
> /var/log/journal. You might post the output from:
The systemd journal is, by default, kept in the directory, /run/log/journal.
Because it is in the "/run" filesystem, it
On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote:
> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac with
> Fusion drive?
>
> The basic configuration is
>
> • 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
> • Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200
> • 8GB 1867MHz LPDDR
On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Jerome BENOIT
wrote:
> There is a Debian website dedicated to MacBookPro machines.
> Ubuntu also provides information.
Thanks! This may be helpful. Can you provide some links?
Enjoy!
Rick
On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac with
>> Fusion drive?
>>
>> The basic configuration is
>>
>> • 2.8GHz quad-co
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:55:38 +0800
lina wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Rick Thomas
> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ha
Given a machine that provides serial consoles for several other machines via
usb-serial connections:
If the console server is rebooted the usb ports come up in a random order and
it's impossible to tell which /dev/ttyUSB* device points to which client
machine.
Is there some systemd/udev/whate
Thanks Chris!
On Feb 26, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Christopher Swingley
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Is there some systemd/udev/whatever way to force repeatable naming for the
>> /dev/ttyUSB* devices? I'd be happy if I could get something
On Mar 4, 2016, at 5:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2016 03:39:03 jdd wrote:
>
>> Le 04/03/2016 08:38, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
>>> If memory serves, long, long time ago, "mount" (the system call)
>>> refused to comply unless the directory was empty (kernel 2.6.mumble;
>>> so
On Apr 17, 2016, at 5:30 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:48:16 +
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
>> It seems the emotions, even now, are running too high to be simply about
>> "if it ain't broke don't fix it". What am I missing?
>
> You are missing that the change to sy
Hi,
When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I get
conflicts.
These do not seem to be transient — they have been there for several days.
Anybody know what’s going on?
Thanks!
Rick
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libnettle4{a}
> The following p
On May 14, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2016-05-13 18:43 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
>> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I
>> get conflicts.
>>
>> These do not seem to be transient — they have been there
On May 14, 2016, at 3:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:43:11PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try to do aptitude full-upgrade on my Stretch Apple G4 PowerMac, I
>> get conflicts.
>>
>> These do not seem to
Felix and David, our thoughts and prayers are with you this week. Please stay
safe!
Rick
I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up their
ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type “allow-hotplug”.
When I change that to “auto” the interface comes up at boot with no problem…
The remaining eight machines have no problem with allow-hotplug. (w
On Sep 24, 2017, at 6:24 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up
>> their ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type
>> “allow-hotplug”. When I
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>
> On 09/23/2017 08:56 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I have two machines (out of a group of ten) that will not bring up their
>> ethernet interface at boot time if the interfaces is of type
>> �allow-hotplug�. When
On Sep 26, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:38:37AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> # The primary network interface
>> auto enP1p3s15f0
>> iface enP1p3s15f0 net dhcp
>
> As Pascal noted, the word before “dhcp" should be "i
On Oct 16, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Glen B wrote:
> You’re going to get an e-mail from me in ~10 hours or so saying I fixed it;
How did you fix it?
Thanks,
Rick
How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a couple of
openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that are still doing
useful work. Are they v4t?
Thanks,
Rick
> On Nov 5, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> for the armel port in buster the question
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Christian Seiler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 2017-11-07 11:49, schrieb Rick Thomas:
>> How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a
>> couple of openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that
>> are still
Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications?
If you are using it, I’d like to hear from you about your experiences — good or
bad.
My proposed application is for a small community radio station music library.
We currently have about 5TB of data in a RAID10 using four 3TB drives, wit
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Tom Dial wrote:
>
>
> On 12/27/2017 04:57 AM, Matthew Crews wrote:
> > I wouldn't trust BTRFS in an enterprise environment, but I have good
> > experience in a personal environment. Make sure you are using modern
> > kernels though (I wouldn't use anything earl
On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Andrew Wood wrote:
Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the
'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it
actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation?
Andrew
Yes,
It serves as local mail deli
On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
it seems to me to be weird having those "epoches"
If all software developers were "well behaved" and they all co-
operated in their versioning, it would be weird to have "epochs". All
versions, from all sources, would be monotonically increasin
Can anybody tell me why I have wpasupplicant installed, even though I
don't have a wifi interface on this machine?
The machine has a single 10/100 twisted pair ethernet interface which
is configured "static" in the /etc/network/interfaces file. It does
not have any wifi hardware, and (co
On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
If you use a static /etc/network/interfaces, you're likelly to be much
better off without that desktop fluff. IMHO, you should just get
rid of
it, at most you will lose the dekstop applets that show ethernet
state.
Thanks!
On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
The way I like to set up the system is to set up /boot in its own
partition on /dev/sda1. Then set up the rest of the disk in /dev/sda5
as a logical partition for an encrypted partition. Then use that
encrypted partition for one large LVM volume.
On Nov 28, 2011, at 8:48 AM, J. Bakshi wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:15:59 + (UTC)
Virgo Pärna wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:59:34 -0500, Rick Thomas
wrote:
Unless you are concerned about growing swap at some later date, you
should leave swap out of the LVM and encrypt it separately
On Dec 26, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 26 dec 11, 21:39:27, Victor Nitu wrote:
On 12/26/2011 08:00 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
This is one reason I welcome the switch to IPv6.
Just out of curiosity: can you be more specific on this issue?
(please
excuse me for being a b
Thanks!
Can you provide some specific model numbers? I'll need a box that can
do IPv6 tunneling over IPv4, since none of the ISP's I have access to
have native IPv6 or any plans for it in the foreseeable future. Of
course, it will also need to be able to do basic stateful fire-wall
stuf
On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote:
It "sounds" like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you
have four options (none of which involve preseeding).
If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *easily* fixed - please
tell me the make and model of the primary (router/firewal
A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network
can still limp along.
Anyway, that's the theory.
Rick
On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
I'm not the OP, but I do have this problem. When I try to do an
install (wheezy) on a network with two DHCP servers,
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the
network
can still limp along.
Anyway, that's the theory.
Rick
On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On 01/05/12 16:30, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:55 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the
network
can still
On 01/05/12 20:02, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 05/01/12 20:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote:
It "sounds" like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you
have four options (none of which involve preseeding).
If you have multiple DHCP servers the
On Jan 11, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good time of the day, Patrick.
You worte:
I see this message when running an update:
Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ...
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp'
overwrites defaults (empty).
S
In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less
silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various
screen parts.
The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users and
their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a pictu
On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote:
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and
less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the
various screen parts.
The gdm3 login screen by default pro
How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local
network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login?
On my "squeeze" machines running gdm, at the login screen there is a
drop-down called "Actions" that has one option called "Remote login via
xdmcp". When I choose that o
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw
shm d
Which makes sense.
What release are you running?
Rick
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On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote:
On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw
shm d
Which makes sense.
Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes.
What release are you running?
This is on Wheezy
On 03/02/12 15:04, Rémi Letot wrote:
I force reinstalled the whole cups stack (cups and co, foomatic,...)
just to be sure that no etch file was lying around, but it didn't help.
Thanks,
Try doing:
aptitude search '~c'
to get a list of packages that have been removed but left configurati
On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote:
To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what
information. In openSUSE, the main log was "/var/log/messages" and you
had to look there to see the most relevant information, but here (Debian)
seems to be "/var/log/syslog". Then there are additi
On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:59:56 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote:
To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what
information. In openSUSE, the main log was "/var/log/messages" and
you
ha
On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote:
Well, it's far more simpler than that: I was only "whining" for not
having the same log files, located in the same place and holding the
same
information between the different distributions :-)
Ahhh... The joy of Linux! /-;
Linux is all about
Whooo boy!
When I decided to raid my home directories, I never expected this!
Anybody have any suggestions for getting udev and mdadm to coexist?
Rick
squeeze:~# aptitude -Pv install mdadm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state inf
On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Mark wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
For the money and compatibility you're probably better off going
with an
actual SATA controller instead of that Frankenstein adatper. They're
the same price.
--
Good point Stan; I
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily
"Businesscard" CD.
All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
gnome-desktop-environment t
There is no linux-image-2.6.31-1 package in the Sid repo.
This means that when I try to install Sid from a current daily
Businesscard CD, it fails while installing the kernel.
linux-image-2.6-powerpc: Depends: linux-image-2.6.31-1-powerpc which
is a virtual package.
This may be a "known p
Configure them both to use their local clock as reference.
On the "server" fudge the local clock to stratum 10.
On the "client" fudge the local clock to stratum 13.
Have each reference the other as a "peer" rather than "server".
If this is unclear, let me know and I'll try to be more explicit.
Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble...
1) The daily d-i CDImage for PowerPC hasn't been updated since Dec 12th.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install
Debian Sid on Po
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
Again, there is *nothing* wrong with the installer here. We welcome
reports
of issues with installations of testing, but issues with sid are
seldom
caused by problems in the installer.
If you say so, I have to agree that there is *nothing* wr
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of
which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing
wrong with the installer).
The problems in Sid are not
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
(And please do not over-inflate the severity of bug reports: a desktop
environment not being installable does not make the installation
system
unusable.)
It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great l
I understand "normal churn" in testing and unstable, but these
problems have persisted for over a week.
Attached is the log of an attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my
Debian Squeeze PowerPC test machine.
Here's the part that first indicates there might be trouble...
The following p
I understand "normal churn" in testing and unstable, but these
problems have persisted for over a week.
Attached is the log of an attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my
Debian Sid amd64 test machine.
Here's the part that first indicates there might be trouble...
The following packag
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been
changed.
I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off.
Is that because the battery is low on power?
I don't suppose there is a way to change the
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great length that it's not an installer problem at
all)
but that doesn't make it any th
On Dec 19, 2009, at 6:59 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
Rick Thomas skrev:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-video-apm: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>=
2:1.6.99.900) but 2:1.6.5-1 is installed.
and a bunch of other xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same
prob
On Dec 20, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Cecil Knutson put forth on 12/20/2009 1:47 PM:
Hello, Osamu,
The system is connected to a home DSL network.
Just do a pure net install and be done with it already.
Hi Cecil,
Stan's suggestion is correct, in spite of the way he chos
Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and
openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid.
I understand "normal Sid churn" but these have been broken for a
couple of weeks.
Are they not really "broken", just (e.g.) being replaced by something
else with a different name?
Anyb
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