Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-28 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM, wrote: > Maybe you reconsider your decision, and give Squeeze a try? Well thanks NO.No more Debian. > You could even try latest xen version² :) > P.S. I Cc-ed you, just to be sure you get this, sorry O:-) No problem that brought it to my notice. -- Tapas --

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roger Leigh put forth on 5/28/2010 11:39 AM: >> For the most part, grub is a vast >> improvement over LILO, and except for the odd corner cases which >> grub doesn't cover, > > In what way is it a vast improvement over LILO? I've never had a

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-28 Thread Tapas Mishra
Yes I am reading.I had tried that tool also before posting this question here. On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM, wrote: > Hello Tapas, > > In case you are still reading this list, you might want to try this¹ tool. > It is used to bootstrap RPM-based distros in Debian+Xen. CentOS 5 is > listed as

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM: > >> I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them >> anymore. > > My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen.  I have one server that > I've in-place upgraded from Woo

Page remove please

2010-05-28 Thread elfields
Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please remove them or make them unsearchable? I was involved in this over 12 years ago when I didn't know better. I am now a business woman and it's embarrassing. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1998/08/msg00568.html http://www.mai

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 28 May 2010 21:15:54 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM: >> >> I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them >> anymore. > > My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen. I have one server that > I've in-place upgrade

Odd name resolution

2010-05-28 Thread vr
On my host I'm not sure why I'm able to ping "hostname.local" and get a reply from my local IP. For example, the hosts name in question is sager.mydomain.tld. nslookup sager.mydomain.tld works as I'd expect. nslookup sager.local returns NXDOMAIN. I have my own DNS server and I don't have a .loca

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread thib
Stan Hoeppner wrote: In what way is it a vast improvement over LILO? I've never had a problem with LILO. It's always "just worked", which is what a bootloader should do. So how exactly would grub be a better choice for me? Nobody should be arguing that it's a better choice for someone who do

Re: USB flash drive: permissions, etc.

2010-05-28 Thread john
On 28/05/10 19:04, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1023 cylinders, 64 heads, 62 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 2031616 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System /dev/sda1 ? 196102+ 483781-

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roger Leigh put forth on 5/28/2010 11:39 AM: > For the most part, grub is a vast > improvement over LILO, and except for the odd corner cases which > grub doesn't cover, In what way is it a vast improvement over LILO? I've never had a problem with LILO. It's always "just worked", which is what

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/28/2010 01:43 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> I think that the "old" Firewire stack is still in the kernel. >>> >>> Googling "linux howto use old firewire stack", I found this link which >>> might help: >>> >>> http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshoo

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 9:45 AM: > The problem can be circumvented by taking an image backup > instead of a logical backup, but that gets into special backup > requirements. Can you mix and match? Does the image backup grab the entire disk or does it work at the partition level? C

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM: > I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them > anymore. My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen. I have one server that I've in-place upgraded from Woody through Lenny, including hardware upgrades along the way (NIC,

Re: Debian alternative kernels [OT]

2010-05-28 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: No, the tendency to imitate Windows as a desktop. Yes, there are many alternative desktops and windows managers, but i have only one compaq presario laptop to use, which is working perfectly using Lenny-Kde; and 3 days ago i received a new tool, a lenovo thinkPad Edge, on whic

Encrypted /tmp fails after recent kernel upgrade

2010-05-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
After a recent kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64, I now get the following when trying to mount an encrypted /tmp with dev/mapper: $ sudo mount /tmp mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/tmp, missing codepage or helper program, or other error I

Re: Dependency based boot sequence conversion

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-05-27 20:30:09 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Sven Joachim wrote: >>> What will the boot sequence be when I convert? >>> Anybody know how to wring that out of insserv? >> >> Try the following (you don't have to be root for that): >> >> $ cp -a /etc/{init,rc?}.d /tmp/ >> $ /sbin/insserv -p /tmp/

Re: Debian alternative kernels [OT]

2010-05-28 Thread consul tores
2010/5/27 thib : > consul tores wrote: >> If, we consider that the environment has changed; we have Red Hut, >> Ubuntu and Suse; pushing to include every thing into the kernel, what >> is the best for them, then we have a huge kernel; which is not the >> best for older ordenators, but it is the bes

Re: USB flash drive: permissions, etc.

2010-05-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:37:59PM -0400, john wrote: > On 28/05/10 14:26, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:42:22AM -0400, john wrote: > >> I can no longer read or write or even unmounted a USB flash drive. > >> > >> Something happened during the last two weeks. I am

Re: USB flash drive: permissions, etc.

2010-05-28 Thread john
On 28/05/10 14:26, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:42:22AM -0400, john wrote: I can no longer read or write or even unmounted a USB flash drive. Something happened during the last two weeks. I am using squeeze and regularly upgrade on a daily basis. The only change

IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-28 Thread Per Lundberg
Hi there! Isn't there any XDMCP-capable server available in squeeze that can speak ipv4 any more? I read about the "net.ipv6.bindv6only" issue (in a bug report). However, that setting is most assuredly set to 0 when I check with sysctl -a. I also forcibly disabled IPv6 support altogether (since I

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-28 Thread Steve
On Monday 17 May 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I would not recommend playing with Activities until KDE 4.5 or even > 4.6. Until then Activities are a mess. However, for the general idea > of what they are, you might want to read this: > http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma#Activities_and_the_Zooming_User_In

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 01:43 PM, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I think that the "old" Firewire stack is still in the kernel. Googling "linux howto use old firewire stack", I found this link which might help: http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firew

RE: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, 28 May 2010 21:42:33 +0200 wrote: > > In case you are still reading this list, you might want to try this¹ tool. > It is used to bootstrap RPM-based distros in Debian+Xen. CentOS 5 is > listed as supported. > Maybe you reconsider your decision, and give Squeeze a try? > You could even

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello Tapas, In case you are still reading this list, you might want to try this¹ tool. It is used to bootstrap RPM-based distros in Debian+Xen. CentOS 5 is listed as supported. Maybe you reconsider your decision, and give Squeeze a try? You could even try latest xen version² :) ¹ http://xen-too

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > I think that the "old" Firewire stack is still in the kernel. > > Googling "linux howto use old firewire stack", I found this link which > might help: > > http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire-capture > > BTW, r

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/28/2010 12:53 PM, H.S. wrote: >> I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any >> problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some >> kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. >> >> I am now using Debian Testin

Re: USB flash drive: permissions, etc.

2010-05-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:42:22AM -0400, john wrote: > I can no longer read or write or even unmounted a USB flash drive. > > Something happened during the last two weeks. I am using squeeze and > regularly upgrade on a daily basis. The only change to the system I can > recall was debfoster ru

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 12:53 PM, H.S. wrote: I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-68

is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686. I see that firewire is now handled

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Daniel Barclay wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> ... >> When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to >> my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the >> time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred >> and not when they were origina

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
>From now on I will post on this thread only to debian-user, since it appears that the debian-devel and debian-boot lists are tired of hearing about it. On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:39:00 -0400 (EDT), Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:11:20PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> On Fri, May 2

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
H.S. wrote: ... When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred and not when they were originally created. How do I avoid these an

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:50:15 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to >> my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the >> time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred >> and

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:50:15 -0400, H.S. wrote: > When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to > my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the > time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred > and not when they were origi

Re: Sound in iceweasel?

2010-05-28 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:39:37 -0400, I Rattan wrote: > I can play the same .flv in mplayer and the sound works BUT if I paly it > in iceweasel there is no sound (video does work). > > Any pointers? It could be due to Iceweasel uses Totem with GStreamer backend which cannot reproduce some proprie

file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread H.S.
Hello. When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred and not when they were originally created. How do I avoid these and get lowe

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:38 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * John A. Sullivan III [100528 11:06 -0400] > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:52 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > * John A. Sullivan III [100528 09:19 -0400] > > > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:45 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > > > [...]

Sound in iceweasel?

2010-05-28 Thread I Rattan
I can play the same .flv in mplayer and the sound works BUT if I paly it in iceweasel there is no sound (video does work). Any pointers? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:11:20PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 10:45 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit : > > Unfortunately, logical backups of a Linux machine using the extlinux > > boot loader do not work with our backup/restore software. The master boot > > record and

Re: left arrow stopped working today (SOLVED)

2010-05-28 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > Hello, > perhaps someone can give me a hint on an issues I'm having at the moment. > I've just came back from work and started my notebook at home and to my > surprise the left arrow key was not working on my usb keyboard. the right > is ok. On the notebook non of the keys was wo

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 10:45 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit : > Unfortunately, logical backups of a Linux machine using the extlinux > boot loader do not work with our backup/restore software. The master boot > record and partition boot sector are restored correctly, but > /boot/extlinux/extlinu

left arrow stopped working today

2010-05-28 Thread deloptes
Hello, perhaps someone can give me a hint on an issues I'm having at the moment. I've just came back from work and started my notebook at home and to my surprise the left arrow key was not working on my usb keyboard. the right is ok. On the notebook non of the keys was working. I logged out and in

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* John A. Sullivan III [100528 11:06 -0400] > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:52 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * John A. Sullivan III [100528 09:19 -0400] > > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:45 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > > > Don't use sed nor awk... > > > > > > > > man ssh-key

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:52 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * John A. Sullivan III [100528 09:19 -0400] > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:45 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Don't use sed nor awk... > > > > > > man ssh-keygen say: > > > > > > -R hostname > > > Re

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:34:06PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > > I for one would really appreciate it if the lilo maintainer could write > > just a little bit about the scope of work required to fix it (to this > > list). It would be a real shame if lilo goes away. > > Is it, by the way, tr

USB flash drive: permissions, etc.

2010-05-28 Thread john
I can no longer read or write or even unmounted a USB flash drive. Something happened during the last two weeks. I am using squeeze and regularly upgrade on a daily basis. The only change to the system I can recall was debfoster run during that period where I deleted some 4 or five libraries.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 13:12:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> No software is entirely without cost ... >> volunteers work on whatever they like ... >> your specific requirements may differ from their goals ... >> volunteers are rarely concerned with "market sh

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Frank Van Damme
2010/5/23 : > Furthermore asking people to test it is not exactly a minor request. > When it doesn't work you get to break out the rescue disk and go > through some relatively painful work to recover.  I know, because I had > to do it. Make it less painful: keep your old menu.lst and use super g

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2010-05-23, William Pitcock wrote: > After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty > much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where > lilo can reliably determine the payload size. Could you explain what this boundary (line) is? Is the proble

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* John A. Sullivan III [100528 09:19 -0400] > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:45 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: [...] > > > > Don't use sed nor awk... > > > > man ssh-keygen say: > > > > -R hostname > > Removes all keys belonging to hostname from a known_hosts > > file. This option i

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8 - SOLVED

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-05-28 09:26 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 >> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6 > > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > which means that you

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 09:19 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:45 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > > Le 14757ième jour après Epoch, > > Dotan Cohen écrivait: > > > > > As I regularly format my test box, I often get stuck SSHing into it, like > > > this: > > > > > > $ ssh

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 14:45 +0200, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 14757ième jour après Epoch, > Dotan Cohen écrivait: > > > As I regularly format my test box, I often get stuck SSHing into it, like > > this: > > > > $ ssh u...@domain > > @@@ >

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:19:21PM CEST, Dotan Cohen said: > As I regularly format my test box, I often get stuck SSHing into it, like > this: > > $ ssh u...@domain > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ >

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:41:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul Chany wrote: > > I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel > 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. > > Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. > I did the following: > 1 change the lenny to squeeze in sourc

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28 May 2010 15:45, François TOURDE wrote: > Don't use sed nor awk... > > man ssh-keygen say: > >     -R hostname >             Removes all keys belonging to hostname from a known_hosts file.   > This option is useful to delete hashed >             hosts (see the -H option above). > Thanks, I w

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14757ième jour après Epoch, Dotan Cohen écrivait: > As I regularly format my test box, I often get stuck SSHing into it, like > this: > > $ ssh u...@domain > @@@ > @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ >

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28 May 2010 15:38, Tixy wrote: > The -i option edits files in place, so... > >    sed -i 44d ~/.ssh/known_hosts > Thanks, I was simply missing the -i option. My weekend starts in less than one hour, must be related. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSU

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:19 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'd like to just remove line 44 from > ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Easy to do in VIM, probably even easier to do in > sed or awk. The -i option edits files in place, so... sed -i 44d ~/.ssh/known_hosts -- Tixy () The ASCII R

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28 May 2010 15:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,28.May.10, 15:19:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> sed or awk. But I've been reading sed and awk tutorials for two hours >> and I cannot figure out how to remove line N from the file without >> creating a second file. If I'm already going through the

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,28.May.10, 15:19:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: > sed or awk. But I've been reading sed and awk tutorials for two hours > and I cannot figure out how to remove line N from the file without > creating a second file. If I'm already going through the hassle of > creating then moving a second file then

Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-05-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
As I regularly format my test box, I often get stuck SSHing into it, like this: $ ssh u...@domain @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Israel Garcia wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? >>> >>> ruby apd.rb >>> >>> It's a simple app for my network. >>

Bind9 and file permission problems

2010-05-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, I my DNS-Master run a xfer/update with the owner of the files are changed to "root:bind" with permission "644" and can not more threated by admin scripts which does NOT run as root. The files should stay "bind:adm" and the permission "664" How can this be done? Thanks, Greetings

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-05-28 10:30 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> On Squeeze how can i install linux-base package from SID? > > Get it from packages.debian.org if you don't want an entry for sid in > your sources.list. You have to install the libuuid-perl and > libapt-pkg-perl packages, s

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Chany put forth on 5/28/2010 3:30 AM: > If I change in fstab all instances of hdaX to sdaX and after reboot > can't get the running system it would be bad. In that case shall I have > the opportunity to fix the problem? AFAICT, it will only be a problem if you try to boot your old Lenny 2.6.

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-28 10:30 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > If I change in fstab all instances of hdaX to sdaX and after reboot > can't get the running system it would be bad. In that case shall I have > the opportunity to fix the problem? It is always a good idea to have a rescue disk at hand. > On Squeeze

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-28 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 05/27/2010 01:02 PM, Kyle Dassoff wrote: > It isn't Debian, but Arch is a nice distro as long as you don't mind > configuring more of the system on your own. I've been using Arch for a > while (as well as Debian). Arch has all the simplistic beauty that a core operating system should have. Pack

Not resuming from hibernation; doing normal reboot instead

2010-05-28 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi all, I have a recent install of Squeeze on my HP Pavilion dv5 laptop and hibernate is not working for me. The system does a normal hibernation but upon starting the machine, it does a normal boot seemingly ignoring the resume image. The effects of hibernation seem to limit to disk checks

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:30:03 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > >> It might be enough to replace all instances of hdaX with the >> corresponding sdaX, but UUID or labels are much safer anyway. I think >> linux-base (pointed out by Sven) will even automate (most of) the >> transit

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: >> Sven Joachim writes: >> > >> > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, >> > which means that your hard disk is called /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda. >> > You should use labels or UUIDs in /e

Re: slapindex error

2010-05-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
[CC-ing you since you are probably not subscribed] On Fri,28.May.10, 15:01:59, Junix Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > I have configuring the new installed ldap in my linux box but I have > encountered this error massage after running the command "slapindex" what is > the meaning of this error or how

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > > > > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > > which means that your hard disk is called /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda. > > You should use labels or UUIDs in /etc/fstab if you want to use both

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-05-28 09:26 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 >> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6 > > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > which means that you

IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported

2010-05-28 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I can not print on Epson matrix printer LQ100 after upgrade of some package using testing repo. # cat /var/log/cups/error_log E [] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document ipp://localhost:631/printers/Epson-LQ100) from localhost What should I do in or

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-28 09:26 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 > fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6 The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, which means that your hard disk is called /dev/sda ra

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-28 Thread Israel Garcia
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? >> >> ruby apd.rb >> >> It's a simple app for my network. >> >> I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb & at rc.local, but I

Re: installing deb files from unstable or testing

2010-05-28 Thread Israel Garcia
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi > >> I meant "using testing and unstable packages in Lenny".. > > There are two way2 to do the job: > backports (as Camaleón suggests) Ready!, I backported rrdttool 1.4 to my server...:-) thanks a lot guys. regards Israel. > apt-pinning

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Paul Chany writes: > Eike Lantzsch writes: > >> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote: >>> When I boot with the linux-image-2.6.30-2-486 or >>> linux-image-2.6.32-3-486 kernel I can't get the HOME and other >>> directories but when I boot with the old kernel 2.6.26-2-486 then I get >>> the