I have a home-use fileserver running Etch and distro-supplied kernels,
software etc. It contains 2 x 4 drive raid5 arrays using mdadm. What I
initially thought was a samba issue led to a few kernel panics and
some "kernel bug" log messages. At first I had the bug messages when
running 2.6.18-4 so I
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On 09/01/07 22:50, isarayunyong wrote:
>
> I have the same problem. "Configure error: C compiler cannot create
> executables"
Same problem as. who?
> First of all I did not have "gcc" at all. I downloaded and installed
> [b]gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, isarayunyong wrote:
I have the same problem. "Configure error: C compiler cannot create
executables"
First of all I did not have "gcc" at all. I downloaded and installed
[b]gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b]. Then I got your heading message. After
reading your messages I dow
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 05:50:33AM +0200, isarayunyong wrote:
> Things seem to be going into an infinite loop. What do I do from here. Any
> suggesstion, please?
The best way to solve this problem is:
1. Set your sources.list to a good mirror. That is, my
/etc/apt/sources.list has this line:
de
Hi Frank,
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> I've seen that my domU is only booting if I set "loop max_loop=64" in
> /etc/modules. The default is "max=8" right? I don't use more than 8 loop
> devices. So I want to know where they are. It's not possible to see it
> with los
Hi Frank,
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:50:39PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> How can I get rid off this messages during a domU boot?
> I'm using etch
>
> FATAL: Error inserting fan
> (/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such
> device
> FATAL: Error inserting thermal
> (/lib/mod
Paul Scott wrote:
> $ stat /dev/ptmx
> [...snip...]
ptmx looks fine to me.
> mountpoint says /dev/pts is not a mount point
You need to mount devpts filesystem at /dev/pts.
pts(4) manpage says:
;; The Linux support for the above (known as Unix98 pty naming) is
;; done using the devpts filesyst
Hi Frank,
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:43:13PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> By default the xen-pae version is installed but I don't need it because
> the maschine has only 512MB.
All x86 Debian kernels are PAE.
> Should I still use pae and how could I get rid of pae packages?
If you're using x86 (and
Hi Frank,
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:33:38PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> I'm wondering about the old xen kernel. What's about the security
> patches which are implemented in the standard kernel? Do the debian xen
> packages contains this patches or is it only the old kernel 2.6.18.5?
Debian's Xen ker
I have the same problem. "Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables"
First of all I did not have "gcc" at all. I downloaded and installed
[b]gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b]. Then I got your heading message. After reading your messages I
downloaded [b]g++-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b], tr
i am a new user and i'm trying to install your current version of debian
GNU/Linux 4.0r1 os on my GigaByte P4 desktop PC.
every time i run the base system installer, it spends a long time on
initamfs-tools or something like that, after it sits on that one file for
around 20mins, the installer fa
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote:
> This is probably a simple question but I can't find the answer
> anywhere and my friend Google won't search for ./ and 'copy' brings up
> all sorts.
>
> Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website
> (for s
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> My base minimal net install of Etch for not have the "ip" binary at all. A
> search in Debian packages shows that it belongs to "iproute".
Correct.
> iproute is (obviously) not a default package, and it's last changelog was in
> 2006.
The Stable release of Debian is "s
Takehiko Abe wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:
>> looks different from the previous pty error. Have you fixed that?
>
> I don't know enough to know why it should have changed with all
> stock updates or enough to fix it at this point.
You reported that legacy pty support is turned off in the new kernel.
Paul Scott wrote:
>> looks different from the previous pty error. Have you fixed that?
>
> I don't know enough to know why it should have changed with all
> stock updates or enough to fix it at this point.
You reported that legacy pty support is turned off in the new kernel.
That is one change f
> My previous server used 100 Watts on average.
>
> If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year,
> or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh.
>
Adam
The number of hours per year that you used
in your calculation seems a bit high
hours_per_day = 24
days_per_year = 3
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:31:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:44:21AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:48:38AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > raid 1 / raid 1 /boot raid
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:21:12AM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> According to "top", the "xorg" process uses ~25-40% of my AMD 3000+ CPU
> several times a minute for several seconds at a time. I suspect some
> other program uses xorg to execute its code for it.
>
> How do I find out what proce
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:44:21AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:48:38AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > raid 1 / raid 1 /boot raid 5 - pv
> > >
> > > I have been looking at why not to raid 5 and I would g
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:17:44PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> Since upgrading from Sarge to Etch, my CPU temperature appears to be
> running 5-10 deg.C higher; immediately after booting it is a healthy 30
> deg.C and it creeps up to 45-50 deg.C within an hour. On the idle (?)
> computer there a
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:38:00PM +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote:
> I'm not sure if this problem is hardware or software related. Do you think
> that my USB-ports might have become physically damaged? Is there any way in
> Debian to debug the USB-ports to see what is going on?
It's fairly easy to
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According to "top", the "xorg" process uses ~25-40% of my AMD 3000+ CPU
several times a minute for several seconds at a time. I suspect some
other program uses xorg to execute its code for it.
How do I find out what process uses the xorg process to do
Hi.
koffiejunkie, 02.09.2007 00:43:
> koffiejunkie wrote:
>> Then, I noticed that Amarok (1.4.4-4) displays garbled image art. [·]
>
> [·] I suspect that whatever amarok uses to
> read/understand that part of the mp3 file is at fault. Does anyone know
> what amarok uses?
From "apt-cache show
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:48:38AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > raid 1 /
> > raid 1 /boot
> > raid 5 - pv
> >
> > I have been looking at why not to raid 5 and I would go to raid 10 but I
> > can
> > only put 3 drives in my machi
koffiejunkie wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm seeing a strange issue. I was busy sorting my music collection,
fixing tags with easytag (1.99.13-0.0 from debian-multimedia), and
adding album art to the files (embedded).
Then, I noticed that Amarok (1.4.4-4) displays garbled image art. I'm
not enitrely
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote:
Hi,
No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect whilst
installing some other software and find loads of my configurations have
changed.
I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817
First, my /boot/gru
Since upgrading from Sarge to Etch, my CPU temperature appears to be
running 5-10 deg.C higher; immediately after booting it is a healthy 30
deg.C and it creeps up to 45-50 deg.C within an hour. On the idle (?)
computer there are some 120 processes running and the system load is about
40%.
Am I h
On 17.07.07 10:26, André Berger wrote:
> Back from vacation, I found messages from smartd (sarge; 2.6.21.5) in
> root's mailbox:
>
> SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
> Device: /dev/hda, 1061 Currently unreadable (p
Hi,
No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect
whilst installing some other software and find loads of my
configurations have changed.
I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817
First, my /boot/grub/menu.lst has been dicked around with:
- o
Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> I tried mounting a directory like so:
>
> mount --bind -o umask=0117 /home/files /home/glen/files
>
> What I am shooting for, is that all files created in
> /home/glen/files will have the permissions 660.
But those are the same files as files in another directory, right
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29/08/07 16:24, wrote:
On 8/28/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
3) I thought it was a waste of electricity, and money, to have a machine
running that wasn't being used.
it is but if you find a lot of other reasons to keep it alive then you
probably want
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Rolando Pereira wrote:
> > (And if he had nothing to do, how come my email went to his mailbox
> > directly?)
>
> ... because someone sent an email with his forged from-address:
Yes it was forged. No one was more suprised than myself to see that
message show up on th
Dear Debianists,
I had a look at the compiz web page and some youtube videos showing it in
action. I notice there are deb files for it in Etch.
I use AMD64 Etch 4.0 r1.
My machine is an AMD Sempron 3200 box. I don't have a graphics card yet.
I assume from reading wikipedia pages and so on
On 01 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 01 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Hi Anthony,
> >
> > The diagnostics are already in the thinkpad's bios. The manual should
> > just tell you how to access it. Remember, its the service manuals you
> > want, not the customer's troubleshooting m
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Paul Scott wrote:
Takehiko Abe wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:
Here's the end of the strace. It doesn't tell me anything we don't
already know. Maybe someone else will see more:
So what do you already know? For instance, this
[...]
write(2, "xterm Xt error: Can\'t open disp
Hi,
I have a problem with my USB ports. It seems like I can't use them at all.
Here is what happened:
I am running a laptop (Thinkpad X40) and I wanted to connect more than two
USB-devices at the same time. Since the computer only has got 2 ports I
bought a USB-hub. Everything worked fine except
On 01 Sep 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> The diagnostics are already in the thinkpad's bios. The manual should
> just tell you how to access it. Remember, its the service manuals you
> want, not the customer's troubleshooting manual. You'll know you have
> the right one if some
Takehiko Abe wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:
Here's the end of the strace. It doesn't tell me anything we don't
already know. Maybe someone else will see more:
So what do you already know? For instance, this
[...]
write(2, "xterm Xt error: Can\'t open displ"...,
[...]
looks different from the
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Yazad Khambata wrote:
Please find output of the above commands and file:
more /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.40.35.35
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.40.35.0
broa
I've seen that my domU is only booting if I set "loop max_loop=64" in
/etc/modules. The default is "max=8" right? I don't use more than 8 loop
devices. So I want to know where they are. It's not possible to see it
with losetup -a. The etch losetup doesn't has the -a option.
What does the "max_
For our broadband connection we enter a static IP Addr but we also enter a
primary and secondry dns too.
On 9/1/07, Yazad Khambata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please find output of the above commands and file:
>
>
> more /etc/network/interfaces
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces
How can I get rid off this messages during a domU boot?
I'm using etch
FATAL: Error inserting fan
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such
device
FATAL: Error inserting thermal
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): No
such device
It is p
I have just installed Debian etch from scratch. In attempting to set up
the printing the cups printer section tells me:
"/usr/lib/cups/backend/http failed"
and /var/log/cups/error_log gives:
E [01/Sep/2007:10:22:33 -0600] [Job 1] Destination printer does not
exist!
E [01/Sep/2007:10:22:33 -0600]
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > I believe I'm getting closer.
> >
> > I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install
> > any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its
> > c
Please find output of the above commands and file:
more /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The pr
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:13:16PM +0530, Yazad Khambata wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>I'm relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also have
> XP and 2000) on my system. Today morning I could finally configure things
> right
> and could connect to the internet(I'm using a broadband
On Saturday 01 September 2007 01:44, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 20:24:43 +0200, Chris wrote:
> > On Friday 31 August 2007 18:42, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Chris writes:
> > > > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends
> > > >
> > > > can anyone tell me wh
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:15:56AM -0700, Pjotr Malienki wrote:
> I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by
> its UUID. Mounting the drive as /dev/sdx# works
> flawlessly. As I am not sure how to approach the
> problem, here is some of the stuff that I have tried:
>
> blkid correctly li
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:13:16PM +0530, Yazad Khambata wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>I'm relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also
> have XP and 2000) on my system. Today morning I could finally configure
> things right and could connect to the internet(I'm using a broadband
> c
> Leave it on! Set your screen saver to blank the screen to save your
> monitor and that will save power.
Or, simply turn the monitor off when not using the PC, but leave the
PC on. That's what I do.
Screensavers nowadays are more of an art/whim than a necessity. That
didn't use to be the case, th
> I know your sentence continues along a different line, but let me just
> interject here that computers have never consumed as much energy as they do
> today. True, energy consumption
Tell that to the people who built those valve-based monstrosities back
in the 1940's, such as the Eniac :).
-
Hi Guys,
I'm relatively new to Linux... I installed Debian 4.0 on my PC (I also
have XP and 2000) on my system. Today morning I could finally configure
things right and could connect to the internet(I'm using a broadband
connection - Sify)... but then something went wrong with my network slot an
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jabka Atu wrote:
Hello ,...
im searching for debian installer that know to work with raid (5?) :
when i need to install debian on pc with raid 5 i need to use knoppix and
then work ..
im searching for a way that i will be able to install deb right from debian
Disk.
ps ..
i
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager,
> > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2)
On 9/1/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Presumably, you have something like .kde, .kderc, or Desktop in your
> > > home directory. Does grep find anything about LD_LIBRARY_PA
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:02:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a
> > > hardware problem.
> > Thinkpads have
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> raid 1 /
> raid 1 /boot
> raid 5 - pv
>
> I have been looking at why not to raid 5 and I would go to raid 10 but I can
> only put 3 drives in my machine.
>
> Currently have 3x250G and am looking at getting 3x500G, if I go to mdadm
>
David Brodbeck wrote the following on 08/28/2007 01:32 PM:
On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Raquel wrote:
I also understand that when the hard disks get power that the
platters torque just a tad, if not causing heads to come into
contact with the platter, at least causing wear on bearings.
In th
dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> The original problem was:
> "However if I run "snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.36 system" on the
> stable box, with 192.168.1.36 the IP address of the testing box, i get:
> Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.36
>
> snmpd is up and running, I can ping both w
Paul Scott wrote:
Here's the end of the strace. It doesn't tell me anything we don't
already know. Maybe someone else will see more:
So what do you already know? For instance, this
[...]
write(2, "xterm Xt error: Can\'t open displ"...,
[...]
looks different from the previous pty error. H
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:10 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I believe I'm getting closer.
>
> I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install
> any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its
> calling locales?
Did you already try to reconfigure the
Hello,
i have a ThinkPad R60 (debian lenny | kernel 2.6.22.6 | latest suspend
patch) with a full-crypted (including swap) filesystem and now, i want
to use suspend to ram/disk.
My problem is that I do not know what to do?
Is there anybody how can help me or knows a good howto?
thanks,
PJ
--
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:41:47 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 08:59 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:50:00 -0400
> > gavron wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
> > > fonts is enabled?
> > >
> > > I've been
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:17:53PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it
> possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount
http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/bytopic.html#calculating
Perhaps you
On 31 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a
> > hardware problem.
> >
> > In the last couple of days I've received this worrying message during
> > re-awakening
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070901 06:21]:
> Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it
> possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount
> \def\yearly {12000}
> and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say
> \monthly=\yearly / 12
Thanks even after having changed dir goemon in /etc/timidity/goemon.cfg to
read: dir /usr/share/local/midi/goemon there's several instruments that
don't map anywhere including about 75 drum sets with the first midi file I
tried to play. I've got others and will try them next.
--
To UNSUBSCR
I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by
its UUID. Mounting the drive as /dev/sdx# works
flawlessly. As I am not sure how to approach the
problem, here is some of the stuff that I have tried:
blkid correctly lists the disk and corresponding info.
/dev/disk/by-uuid does not list the UUI
I believe I'm getting closer.
I can't reinstall locales because with locales broken, I can't install
any packages. Is it possible to do a package installation without its
calling locales?
Mathias' suggestion that I run strace on the locale command did lead
me to stumble on a likely culprit:
$ st
Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it
possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount
\def\yearly {12000}
and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say
\monthly=\yearly / 12
hoping to get the figure '1000' printed in the document by in
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson ha scritto:
Hey all
How do I get an old kernel header package that is no longer in the
repository?
I have kernel 2.6.17 and need the headers to compile some modules but
the headers for this kernel is not to be found in the official
repository any more but I seem to recal
Hello ,...
im searching for debian installer that know to work with raid (5?) :
when i need to install debian on pc with raid 5 i need to use knoppix and
then work ..
im searching for a way that i will be able to install deb right from debian
Disk.
ps ..
i tried with Etch.
"the fear is mind-kill
Hi Marko.
Marko Randjelovic, 01.09.2007 10:49:
> Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out
>> missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert
>> the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so
>> whi
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 08:59 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:50:00 -0400
> gavron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
> > fonts is enabled?
> >
> > I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand
Hey all
How do I get an old kernel header package that is no longer in the
repository?
I have kernel 2.6.17 and need the headers to compile some modules but
the headers for this kernel is not to be found in the official
repository any more but I seem to recal that there was a site
somewhere that
Hi steef
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:19 +0200, steef wrote:
> somebody out there who can give me a helping hand to repair somehow the
> hd or point me to a method/way or program to rescue at least my
> holiday-photographs from france i put on the hd two hours before the
> crash...?
If the disk i
Hi,
I'm running a small mailserver using Postfix on a Debian Etch machine.
For various reasons I decided to switch from the default mailbox format
to maildir, and I did it by adding the relevant configuration parameters
in Postfix's main.cf and removing the following line in that same file,
which
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out
> missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert
> the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so
> which format and what tool does that conversion? If midi
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:50:00 -0400
gavron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
> fonts is enabled?
>
> I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand that
> this is the way to go with quality fonts such as Microsoft Ver
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-30 23:46:39 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>
>> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>
>>> I have no problems with this recent change on my x86 machine.
>>> Also, if I understand correctly, most programs no longer use
>>> "legacy" pty's. And ttyrec, which still uses them, f
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