choice of debian kernel for etch

Hi all, I have this situation where I want to select an already recompiled debian kernel for the following hw: 16GB ram Intel E5420 xeon (2x4 cores cpu) with the requirements to support vservers, to be 32 bit and to be able to use all the memory installed. I am talking about debian etch. I

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

On Mon, Oct 13 2008, Lachlan wrote: > i am also running amd64 > > i got 2.6.27 running this morning but that's about it. > booted into gnome and didn't really know what to do after that. i used: > > kernel source# make menuconfig > (made sure iwl stuff was added etc. saved as .config) > kernel so

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/13 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 12 2008, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using >> kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like >> to try it out. >> >> The kernel compiles correctly using the usual

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

On Sun, Oct 12 2008, Adrian Levi wrote: > I have since tried compiling the kernel in a clean lenny debootstrap > chroot sucessfully. > Strangely is was called, > linux-xenu-2.6.27_2.6.27-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb > > But it boots and works, must be a version incompatibility somewhere, I > still have

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

On Sun, Oct 12 2008, Adrian Levi wrote: > I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using > kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like > to try it out. > > The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with > the sources but fails on the pa

Re: /dev/shm lost

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:55:55 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh THANKS A LOT! -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:25:23PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > My original point is that I don't file bug reports with > > > FOSS because I've had some indifferent and even hostile replies. > > > As I've said, ther

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:56:09PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or > are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users > can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. So they can

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > My original point is that I don't file bug reports with > > FOSS because I've had some indifferent and even hostile replies. > > As I've said, there are reasons that I usually file bug reports > > under a legal alias a

Re: New Kernel

I believe I need the ath9k driver. However, I now have my new 2.6.27-rc9 kernel working flawlessly and my wireless card is up and working. Thanks for all the help guys! I'm still going to look into building my own kernel; good knowledge to have. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Trouble installing Xfce4* [SOLVED]

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 18:31:56 +0100, andy wrote: Hello Is it me, or does the following output suggest a problem with the Xfce4* libraries and their installation routine? In any event, can anyone suggest a workaround for a current Lenny machine? TIA. Andy Here

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

Hal Vaughan wrote: > My original point is that I don't file bug reports with > FOSS because I've had some indifferent and even hostile replies. As > I've said, there are reasons that I usually file bug reports under a > legal alias and why I used to be on mailing lists using the same aka. > I

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Jochen Schulz: > > Generally, you only have to look at two columns, value and threshold. As > long as value is below threshold, everything is fine. The numbers in s/below/greater than/ J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine, disease or art. [Agree] [Disagree]

want to get a printout of current keyboard map

Hello, This has baffled me for many months now. I want to save the keyboard map of the current layout so that I can print it out. The purpose is to display these maps nears a couple of computers where people are learning to use Linux in their own languages. I have tried to use xkbprint to print o

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 13:56:57 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > I'll ask you to read in this context: 1) You know very little about > > how packages in Debian are maintained, 2) You know nothing about > > the internals of apt, 3) You do

Re: Shutdown hooks

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:56:00PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to find out if there are any shutdown hooks. > What i mean by this is that i must be able to have some conditions met > before actual shutdown starts. > > Eg:- Suppose there is a very important process running,

Re: New Kernel

Matthew Lane: > > I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of the > new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My laptop > has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get > the new kernel to get that card working. Which drive

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Johan Grönqvist: > > I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. > Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this > spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. You are misreading the output. The words "pre-fail" and "old_age" are just d

Re: New Kernel

On 2008-10-12 23:01 +0200, Matthew Lane wrote: > Thanks for all the friendly help. I've added the repository to my apt > sources, and when I do an apt-get upgrade it tries to upgrade to the > same kernel version (2.6.18). I don't mind installing rc9, I'd just > like to get my hands on a 2.6.27.

Re: New Kernel

Thanks for all the friendly help. I've added the repository to my apt sources, and when I do an apt-get upgrade it tries to upgrade to the same kernel version (2.6.18). I don't mind installing rc9, I'd just like to get my hands on a 2.6.27. I've read a bit about needing to edit my grub boot

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:56:57PM -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > Regardless, I don't see his mail as being at all impolite; just > > > a little terse. > > > >

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 13:56:57 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] > I'll ask you to read in this context: 1) You know very little about how > packages in Debian are maintained, 2) You know nothing about the > internals of apt, 3) You do not know Christian at all, have no idea > what he is like,

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:56:57PM -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Regardless, I don't see his mail as being at all impolite; just > > a little terse. > > I'll ask you to read in this context: 1) You know very littl

Re: New Kernel

On 12 oct, 11:50, Matthew Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu.  I heard news of the > new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support.  My laptop > has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get > the

Re: Shutdown hooks

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:21:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d should be where you should place hooks for >> running programs as you shut down or restart the machine >> respectively. The convention is to put the scripts in /etc/init.d and >> then create symlinks in /etc/r

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:23:01PM -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > His (Christian's) comments were "This has nothing to do with > > aptitude." Then he goes on to talk about update-grub and that I > > asked for it. No.

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

John Hasler wrote: > Shams Fantar writes: > >> My purpose beeing that local users can't access/read any file which isn't >> in their own home directory. >> > > Then they would not be able to run any programs. What are you trying to > achieve? You can easily arrange for them not to be able

Re: Shutdown hooks

On 10/12/08 11:56, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:56:00PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: I can write a wrapper to /sbin/shutdown for doing this, but i am just trying to find out if there is any method already available for doing this ? /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d should be where yo

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

On 10/12/08 08:56, Shams Fantar wrote: Hi all, I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. As others have said, this is pretty much

Re: New Kernel

On 2008-10-12 18:45 +0200, Matthew Lane wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of > the new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My > laptop has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like > to get the new kerne

Re: Shutdown hooks

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:56:00PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > I can write a wrapper to /sbin/shutdown for doing this, but i am just > trying to find out if there is any method already available for doing > this ? /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d should be where you should place hooks for running prog

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Shams Fantar writes: > I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / That would be a very, very, very bad idea. It would cripple your system and you would probably end up reinstalling. > My purpose beeing that local users can't access/read any file which isn't > in their own h

Re: New Kernel

Matthew Lane wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of > the new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My > laptop has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like > to get the new kernel to get that card working.

Re: Communication between VMed Debian and Windows

Neo Li wrote: > Thanks, I didn't realize I just sent the mail to you. Am I right this time? Yes. I am not sure which mail reading tool you are using, but Thunderbird (or Icedove in Debian) won't let you reply to the list with the reply-to button; it puts the sender in the To: field. Or that is wh

New Kernel

Hello all, I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of the new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My laptop has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get the new kernel to get that card working. My kernel is 2.6.18, runni

interpreting smartmontools output

Hi, I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. On a two-year old machine, that would worry me, but my instincts are now instead to mistrust sm

Shutdown hooks

Hi, I was trying to find out if there are any shutdown hooks. What i mean by this is that i must be able to have some conditions met before actual shutdown starts. Eg:- Suppose there is a very important process running, the hook must check this and if the hook returns non-zero, the sy

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:23:01PM -0400, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > His (Christian's) comments were "This has nothing to do with aptitude." > Then he goes on to talk about update-grub and that I asked for it. No. > I didn't ask for it. I remember that situation enou

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Jochen Schulz wrote: > Shams Fantar: > >> I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; >> > > This will prevent non-root users from reading *any* file on the system. > > If user 'shams' wants to list his home directory /home/shams, he has to > have permissions to list

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Shams Fantar wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or >> are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users >> can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. >> > No, th

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:56:09PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or >> are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users >> can't access/read any file which isn't in their own

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:56:09PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or > are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users > can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. Most likely

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Shams Fantar wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or > are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users > can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. No, this is definitely wrong approach - risk to get br

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Shams Fantar: > > I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; This will prevent non-root users from reading *any* file on the system. If user 'shams' wants to list his home directory /home/shams, he has to have permissions to list / and /home as well. > Or are there any b

chmod, or better solutions ?

Hi all, I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. Regards, -- http://snurf.info "Civil Engineering section" project : http://civil-e

Re: Communication between VMed Debian and Windows

Thanks, I didn't realize I just sent the mail to you. Am I right this time? On 10/10/08, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H. S. wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Neo Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > > > > I have VMware tools installed and daemon r

[OT] Does this have hardware issues

Hi all I am beginning to have some hardware troubles with my good old P4P800, so I was thinking of grabbing me a new one: Corsair 2x2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC10666 CL9.0 XMS3 DHX http://www.corsair.com/products/xms3_dhx.aspx Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R iP35, SATA2 RAID, GLAN, 8CH http://www.gigabyte.ch

Re: Can't run aptitude

Dennis Wicks: > When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get > > dgwicks:~# aptitude update > Writing extended state information... Done > Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg > Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect > (111 Co

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/12 thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adrian Levi a écrit : > >> I have since tried compiling the kernel in a clean lenny debootstrap >> chroot sucessfully. >> Strangely is was called, >> linux-xenu-2.6.27_2.6.27-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb >> > Maybe you enabled xen support in the config :

Re: understand the logs

Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/11/08 18:24, Abel McClendon wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09:23 -0400 Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oct 11 14:08:45 debian kernel: [44140.916755] Inbound IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:17:f2:eb:42:2e:08:00 SRC=10.0.1.5 DST=10.0.1.255 LEN

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

Adrian Levi a écrit : I have since tried compiling the kernel in a clean lenny debootstrap chroot sucessfully. Strangely is was called, linux-xenu-2.6.27_2.6.27-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb Maybe you enabled xen support in the config : CONFIG_XEN But it boots and works, must be a version incompati

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/12 thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've used Lenny default for the kernel I'm currently running > (11.001-something I think), and then tried 11.007 from Sid with good > results. > The .config is from my previously home-rolled 2.6.26-6, gcc is Lenny 4.3.2, > config is nothing fancy,

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:12:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > W

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

Adrian Levi a écrit : But you ended up with a .deb package at the end, Mine is failing before creating the package. My installed kernel-package version is 11.007 what was yours? What did you use for a .config file? Mine is from linux-image-2.6.26 in lenny, answered the few new questions and wen

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:12:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > Where is the actual install media? > > > > > > That's one t

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008/10/12 thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm using a 2.6.27 compiled from kernel.org sources since the day it was > released, running fine. I compiled it with Lenny default kernel-package, the > Debian way, and had no trouble. > I then compiled it with Sid newly revised kernel-pac

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > Where is the actual install media? > > > > That's one thing I'm not clear about. Not one article I've found > > on the web that

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

Adrian Levi a écrit : I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like to try it out. The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with the sources but fails on the packaging part using make-kpkg

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

On 2008-10-12 10:43 +0200, Adrian Levi wrote: > I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using > kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like > to try it out. > > The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with > the sources but fails on

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

Adrian Levi wrote: > I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using > kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like > to try it out. > > The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with > the sources but fails on the packaging part using ma

Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like to try it out. The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with the sources but fails on the packaging part using make-kpkg. The compile process g

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Saturday 11 October 2008, Steve Kemp wrote: ... > Anyway I think I've clarified my previous mail sufficiently, so > I'll happily stop now. I think we've probably both made our points > sufficiently. The next thing to do is to either consider ways to > help raise awareness of expectations