Re: OT: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 11:35 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> I've been following the systemd threads on the Arch mailing lists >> since you pointed to them. What I find interesting is that, on the >> users' lis

Re: domain name

2012-08-31 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Glenn English wrote: > > Debian squeeze gets the host's domain name from the first > non-comment or non-empty line of /etc/hosts?? If it likes > that line?? > > Not from /etc/hostname and not from the "kernel.domainname = " > line in /etc/sysctl.conf? ("kernel.doma

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? > > Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1? > > Or when /boot is on a nonRAID nonLVM partition but / is on an LVM over > RAID? Yes to all three. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? >> >> Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1? >> >> Or when /boot is on a nonRAID nonLVM pa

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Tom H
t;> Is there an eaasy way to do this, so that they'll all get updated as >> necessary when aptitude installs a new kernel? Or it this not something >> that the MBR cares about? >> >> And is th association of, say, /dev/sdb with a particular hard drive >> consisten

Re: domain name

2012-09-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Glenn English wrote: > On Sep 1, 2012, at 3:15 PM, John Hasler wrote: >> >> The kernel has no interest in domain names. It deals only in IP >> numbers. Dealing with DNS is the job of a resolver running in user >> space. > > Thanks. I didn't know that -- makes sens

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:42:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Hendrik Boom >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Can squeeze boot when

Re: Preseeding from USB

2012-09-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:56:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> If normally booted, my USB key would be sdc, should I use >>> >>> preseed/file=/sdc/path/preseed.cfg >>> >>> or /mnt/sdc or /media/its_label, or...? >> >> You would need to determine wh

Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

2012-09-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Dan B. wrote: > > Are you sure about sed? > > I tried probing how LANG= vs. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 affected whether > the regular expression "[a-z]" matched "X". Grep seems to be > affected as expected, but sed never matched. (That's on Squeeze.) What commands dud you

Re: mdadm -localhost problem

2012-09-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Summary > > mdadm on squeeze rewrites the UUID I give it with the localhost, even > if I do not specify localhost. I am trying to repair a RAID for use > on lenny with an existing UUID. Is there a way to avoid the rewrite? > > Details > > A le

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 05/09/12 09:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 09:41 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >>> On 04/09/12 21:43, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Yes, pulseaudio needs

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Example Help

2012-09-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:00 PM, wrote: > > I am trying to build a preseed file from my minimum initial install of > wheezy beta 1. > I have executed: > TARGET="/inventory" > debconf-get-selections --installer > $TARGET/list_packages_installer > debconf-get-selections > $TARGET/list_packages > >

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Disk Config

2012-09-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:20 AM, wrote: > > The Wheezy example preseed file provides direction to learn more about > disk configuration: > > "The full recipe format is documented in the file > partman-auto-recipe.txt# included in the 'debian-installer' package or > available from D-I source repos

Re: udev rules for wheezy

2012-09-10 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Siard wrote: > Op Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:26 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> i'm trying to get udev rules for my usb phone, and they are ... >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce:2138", >> SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777" >> AND >> SUBSYSTEM=="

Re: glibc version in Wheezy--any way to use 2.15?

2012-09-10 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Carl Fink wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:50:36AM +0100, Brian wrote: >>> On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >>> Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparent

Re: dpkg/apt voodoo to ask "what version of is installed, if any?"

2012-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 15:44:59, Kris Deugau wrote: >> >> Is there a single command that can do this for both virtual and real >> packages, a la "rpm -q --whatprovides"? > > I have no idea what that command does, can you provide an example? Simi

Re: dpkg/apt voodoo to ask "what version of is installed, if any?"

2012-09-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:43:26, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >>> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 15:44:59, Kris Deugau wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there a single co

Re: [OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?

2012-09-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 19:20:20, Alex Robbins wrote: >> >> I think development has stopped -- upstream. Some people (presumably >> the Debian people) have been developing patches. I imagine that some of >> these patches are for security fixes; I

Re: dpkg/apt voodoo to ask "what version of is installed, if any?"

2012-09-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 13 sep 12, 06:05:51, Tom H wrote: >> >> [root:~]# aptitude search '?virtual' | grep awk >> v awk - >> v awk:i386- >> [root:~]# apt

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: > >> From what I have read, it looks like preseeding is only good for one >> disk. So I am looking for alternatives. > > Where did you get that impression? :-? > > I think preseeding should be able t

Re: Preseed for Wheezy - Multi-disk Alternative

2012-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:11:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:52 -0700, ray wrote: >>> >>>> From what I have read, it looks like preseed

Re: Installation

2012-09-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:42:03 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón writes: > > That's absurd. You are not going to install an OS in

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, lee wrote: > Christian PERRIER writes: >> >> Frankly speaking, I would very much prefer seeing people working on >> current issues of the installer (I mean, not only during 3 months >> before the release) rather than adding more bells, whistles and shiny >> new fe

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:57 AM, T Elcor wrote: > > Am trying to create a bootable USB card running Knoppix, which I > use as a recovery tool in case if there are problems with my main > Debian system. > > I succeeded creating a bootable USB-card based on grub1 but am > having problems with grub2,

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM, T Elcor wrote: > From: Tom H >> >> Don't you think that you;e more likely to find Knoppix users on a >> Knoppix list like debian-knoppix or in a Knoppix Forum like >> http://knoppix.net/forum/ ? > > I think you're right

Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2012-09-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:46 PM, lee wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: >> On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote: >>> >>> > 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive? >>> >>> Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you? Try "Linux", and if it >>> works, you can try to change it to m

Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

2012-09-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 18 Sep 2012 at 17:28:22 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> There'll hopefully be someone here who'll know and reply but it seems >> too specific to Knoppix to expect an answer here. (I understand your >> account p

Re: Network manager & DNS

2012-09-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Marek Pawinski wrote: > > Squeeze 6.05 amd64, I had backports enabled and made the mistake of updating > to the latest back port kernel amongst other updates a few days ago. > > When I rebooted I had no internet connectivity so I removed the back port > kernel thin

Re: Network manager & DNS

2012-09-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Marek Pawinski wrote: > On 23/09/2012 13:06, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Marek Pawinski >> wrote: >>> >>> Squeeze 6.05 amd64, I had backports enabled and made the mistake of >>> updating to the lates

Re: Network manager & DNS

2012-09-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Marek Pawinski wrote: > On 23/09/2012 16:47, Tom H wrote: >> >> Short answer: Change "managed=false" to "managed=true" in >> "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" for NM to manage eth0. > > Thanks

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Valery Mamonov wrote: > > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > Some days ago I had updated grub2 packages to 2.00-7 version. > Now I have such situation: > > # update-grub > GRUB >= 2.00 has been unpacked but not yet configured. > grub-mkconfig will n

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: >> >> Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I >> thought. >> System boots and works fine. > > Ok, good. > > Would be interesting to know what the er

Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed

2012-09-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 19:50:22 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> My server upgrade from squeeze to wheezy just failed. But I'm not >> panicking, I can still dual-boot into a back-up squeeze partition, and >> squeeze still works perfectly. >> >> I jus

Re: What is the procedure for patching the Debian kernel ?

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Xelsior wrote: > > I been following http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org and > http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage > > I did successfully build an real time kernel on Wheezy using > "test-patches" but a package update resulted in t

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:44:16 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Put /boot on the RAID. >> >> MBR loads GRUB, and GRUB does the rest of the heavy lifting. >> >> Upgrading to Wheezy will go a long way toward making this easier. It's >> in feature fr

Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:53:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:05:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> Not necessarily hel

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> How big's your post-MBR gap? > > I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do I > go about finding out? Can I change it?

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> How big's you

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendri

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:48:53AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> How big's your post-MBR gap?

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-03 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: > > Thanks, Stan >> >> Read this: >> >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ipv6-apache-configuration-tutorial/ > > I modified /etc/apache2/ports.conf as follows: > Listen a.b.c.d:80 > Listen [:::]:80 > Listen a.b.c.d:443 > Listen [

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-04 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/4/2012 3:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: >>> >>> But the phenomena are same, that is, >>> When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start. >>> And when I executed the following: >>> # /etc/init.d

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/4/2012 12:06 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> On 10/4/2012 3:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: >>>

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:53:23AM +0900, Satoru Otsubo wrote: > By the way, I thought the following concerning the problem in my CGI PC (my > server PC): > > Internet-Router--Lan-my PC > > When booting PC, apache2 dec

Re: dynamic IP assignment on servers = brain damage

2012-10-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This thread reinforces what experienced server admins round the world > have known forever: > > DO NOT USE dynamic network address assignment on servers. > > The problem in this thread is but one of many that can/will result from > using dy

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: >> Does ipv6 come up cleanly if you do a soft or hard restart of apache >> in rc.local? > > I can't understand "a soft or hard restart". soft: service apache2 relaod service apache2 graceful hard: service apache2 restart >> All that you re

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > According to my reading of the manual: > > aptitude search '~smain' > and > aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free' > > should give you the answers you seek, however, I seem to get 0 for the > first and only 626 for the second, so my

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 08:01:59AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal >> wrote: >> > >> > According to my reading of the manual: >> > >> > aptitude sea

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 16 oct 12, 08:01:59, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal >> wrote: >>> >>> According to my reading of the manual: >>> >>> aptitude search '~smain&#x

Re: Plus '+' character when building kernel

2012-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Amit wrote: > > On a debian wheezy system, I am building upstream kernel using the > following command: > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 3.6.0 --append-to-version -0-amd64 --initrd > kernel_image kernel_headers > > The resulting package is: > > linux-image-3.6.0-0

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

2012-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > My Debian laptop has several ways to have network connection: Ethernet, > wifi and USB (the latter is used together with my Nokia N900, which has > a DHCP server). I have the following problem, when doing: > > 1. Connect via wifi, using D

Re: Plus '+' character when building kernel [SOLVED]

2012-10-19 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Amit wrote: > Tom H gmail.com> writes: >> >> Prepend "LOCALVERSION=''" > > Thanks this worked great! You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Kernel documentation

2012-10-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Lisi wrote: > Presumably I have to download a kernel source to get at the README, but where > can I find the Documentation/00-INDEX? [th@localhost:~/linux-3.7-rc2/Documentation]# ls 0* 00-INDEX [th@localhost:~/linux-3.7-rc2/Documentation]# where "linux-3.7-rc2"

Re: added second /dev/md1 to system by hand into /etc/fstab and system won't boot cause udev doesnt create device /dev/md1

2012-10-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > I have copied over my home directory to a new drive which is a raid 1 > software raid. > I added the corresponding correct information to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf. > > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=1 > UUID=69547109-c527-6986-fab9

Re: Compile kernel 3.6.3 for i7

2012-10-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Dan wrote: > > I am using Wheezy but I need to compile the kernel in order to use the > version 3.6.3 because the kernel 3.2 crashes with the intel HD 4000. > > I am using an Intel Core i7. Should I compile the kernel for the > processor "Generic-x86-64" or for the

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

2012-10-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-10-19 01:32:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> WAG: Isn't resolvconf meant for situations like this one? > > Thanks. This seems to do what I want, with a minor problem: when the > DHCP client is killed,

Re: Compile kernel 3.6.3 for i7

2012-10-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Dan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:16 PM, maderios wrote: >> On 10/21/2012 09:05 PM, Dan wrote: >>> >>> I am using Wheezy but I need to compile the kernel in order to use the >>> version 3.6.3 because the kernel 3.2 crashes with the intel HD 4000. >>> >>> I am

Re: Netinstall issue

2012-10-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:44 AM, kk s wrote: > > I am trying to install OS for a server with the below steps, > > Downloaded the vmlinuz, initrd.gz from hd-media folder from the mirror > Passed the preseed file at vmlinuz line like " /vmlinuz vga=normal > url=http://server.domain.com/debian-prese

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

2012-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-10-21 16:11:28 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> What do you mean by "kill"? "dhclient -r "? > > I don't know how it is killed exactly. I have in /etc/network/interfaces: > > allo

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> It appears to me that my preseed.cfg file is not being read at all. >> >> OK. I don't know the nature of the problem you are trying to fix, > > The n

Re: First attempt to use preseeding

2012-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Richard Owlett >> wrote: >>> Jon Dowland wrote: >>>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>>>> It appears

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > ext4 has been found to be dangerous right now in kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6, > due to a data loss bug. They are working on the patch as we speak, of > course, but in the meantime, minimize the number of times you mount the ext4 > filesystem.

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-29 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, lee wrote: > John Hasler writes: >> I wrote: >> Andrei writes: >>> >>> "apt-get build-dep" should establish the required environment. >>> Assuming a pure Debian environment. As it turns out the OP does have >>> foreign libraries installed. >> >> I don't. > > Then

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-30 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 29 oct 12, 18:42:46, Tom H wrote: >> Andrei called d-m.o deprecated because, AFAIK, most of the packages in >> d-m.o are now available in d.o. > > I don't remember doing that... I'm sorry. I could&#x

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:04 AM, lee wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: >> On Mi, 31 oct 12, 04:13:59, lee wrote: >>> >>> Just try it and you'll see. Or you figure out how to do it and let me >>> know. Like I said, it worked, then there was an update and it doesn't >>> work anymore, probably beca

Re: Where is CC and why do my downloads not find it?

2012-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Samuel Morgan wrote: > > I recently installed DEBIAN Linux on my 386 PC and then > tried to install an Apache web server, as I have on Mac and > Windows, binary and it asked for a C compiler. Where do I get, > if I really need, a CC binary pre-built? Install gcc

Re: swap-partition

2012-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. > Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. > > As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap > partitions. > How can

Re: Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 debian install

2012-11-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:39 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > > I dont have any option for making recovery cds. It gives option to make > recovery USB stick. There are already four primary partitions, out of which > 3 ie EFI system and 2 recovery partitions are hidden. Please bottom-post. Look for Acer eR

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > As I understand the GRUB manual, if I want to change the config file, then i > have to edit /etc/default/grub. I want to change the order of the kernels in > GRUB, but I can't see any kernels at all in /etc/default/grub. (See below.) > So how

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2012 05:02:23 Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> As I understand the GRUB manual, if I want to change the config file, >>> then i have to edit

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 01:40:37PM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> >> menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, avec Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 [...] > > GRUB_DEFAULT takes a menu, not a title. You can use a title too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Custom Grub-install on a Floppy

2012-11-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I have a system that constantly reverts back to the > wrong boot order and I need to monkey-wrench it to boot off > CDROM so as to upgrade it to wheezy. > > As a computer user who happens to be blind, this is a > major pai

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Adrian Fita wrote: > > So the thing is this: I have some daemons that I keep them installed, > but I don't start them at boot; I like to conserve my memory resources > and only start the daemons when I really need them. I have disabled them > with "update-rc.d -f re

Re: trouble getting apt-pinning to work

2012-11-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Brendan Miller wrote: > > I'm on debian stable (squeeze), but would like to be able to install a > few packages from testing (wheezy). I tried to set up apt pinning, but > it doesn't seem to work quite right. When I apt-get install something > now, it all comes from

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Adrian Fita wrote: > On 09/11/12 00:32, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Adrian Fita wrote: >>> >>> So the thing is this: I have some daemons that I keep them installed, >>> but I don't start them at boo

Re: My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:22:19 Doug wrote: >> On 11/10/2012 8:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> I apologise to all of you for my repeated attempts to send my last email >>> about compiling a kernel. It was not getting though to me, so I th

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: >>> >>> I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I >>> have been shying away for too long. >>> >>> I a

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Gean Ceretta wrote: > > Good night friends, I'll appreciate some help here: For some reason, I'm not > owner of my home folder, that implicates in some problems for programs that > have to create folders here, as Wine for example. I've tried change the > ownership

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Gean Ceretta > wrote: >> >> Good night friends, I'll appreciate some help here: For some reason, I'm not >> owner of my home folder, that implicates in some problems for programs t

Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Fredrik Jonson wrote: > William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> I am brand new to Debian [...] [I have a box that] has 2 other drives >> on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB WD. Those are both use ext3 >> filesystem, left over from the CentOS 5.7 that I

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't have time to read the current howto now, but I'll read it ASAP. > It describes the way I build Debian and Ubuntu kernels since years, but > while my scripts are a little bit outdated, Stephen updated his howto. > However, even my out

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Tom H: >> >> I've also never seen any Debian documentation pointing to building a >> kernel elsewhere than in "/usr/src/". It's been the RHEL/Fedora way >

Re: Where is GRUB2's pointer to LVM LV / filesystem containing /boot?

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:59:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Dan B. wrote: >>> >>> I think I want to move /boot to the RAID1 array I originally intended >>> for it (so that bo

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> That RHEL/Fedora dont' use "/usr/src" might, on its own, not make it >> good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation >>

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:59:41AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> The documentation says >> >> - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a >>directory where you have permissions (eg. your home di

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I guess the averaged Ubuntu user isn't aware that Ubuntu switched from > init to upstart, the averaged Arch user is aware of the switch from > initscripts to systemd. I wonder if it was possible to Upgrade from > Ubuntu old school to Ubuntu

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >>> I guess the averaged Ubuntu user isn't aware that Ubuntu switched from >>> init to upsta

Re: [APT] how to recover from /var overflow?

2012-11-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > > LMDE is a directly-debian-derived, rolling-release, APT-packaged distro. > Since I'm not getting help @ its forum, and my problem seems to involve > APT directly, I'm hoping this is a good place to ask. If there's a > better place to ask APT qu

Re: which module for NTFS?

2012-11-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Oleg Sadov wrote: > 17/11/2012 в 15:56 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >> root@master:[~]$ yum install ntfs-3g >> Loaded plugins: security >> Setting up Install Process >> No package ntfs-3g available. >> Error: No

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > First, systemd worked. > Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: > Loading, please wait... > systemd-fsck[249]: /dev/sda5: clean, ... > plus one similar fsck msg. > > After a minute or two it asks me for root pwd or to Ctrl-

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Is this the best place for systemd assistance? > > The best place to get assistance are the insane people who try to force > this into every Linux distribution, with LP leading the

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 07:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> Nothing but innacuracy and FUD, as usual. >> >> As I've pointed out in another thread/post [1], you're confusing >> consolekit and policy

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Lun 19 novembre 2012 14:38, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : >> >> Don't worry I'm tired to explain it again and again. Everybody should >> switch to systemd, it's superb to have everything startup needs in one big >> binary beta blob, much more

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > WFT?!!?! No syslog file. > > BIG apologies, I have been deceived by the systemd - I assumed it > would log _something_ to syslog. No. Everything I was seeing (and > reporting on thus far) was init. systemd "hangs" before it logs > anythi

Re: systemd hangs on fstab "directory" bindmount

2012-11-21 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 20.11.2012 13:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 11/20/12, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>> On 11/20/12, Michael Biebl wrote: You mentioned, that you use some sort of encryption. Posting more details (fstab, cryptab, etc) might he

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 11/21/12, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> Gmail doesn't even know what a thread is. It goes purely by subject. > > Is there even any place to report such bugs with their mail client? Possibly https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/to-

Re: change hostname without rebooting

2012-11-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > # Me, wonders why systemd-hostnamed does not run, google says it should: > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin:/home/justa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games > > $ dpkg -L systemd|grep hos

Re: /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed hang

2012-11-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Any idea how to make use of systemd-hostnamed? > > Eg: > $ sudo /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed > Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname > might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname! > # hang'

Re: how to systemctl status blah, showing journal/log at same time ?

2012-11-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Hi, on > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemctl-journal.html > (a short page) > says that (for Fedora 17) they hooked up systemctl status > daemon-name.blah to also give last 10 lines of journal output. > > Can I configure systemd thi

Re: /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed hang

2012-11-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/25/12, Michael Biebl wrote: >> On 24.11.2012 14:40, Tom H wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Any idea how to make use of system

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