Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Cameron Hutchison [2010.08.17.0207 +0200]: > My /dev/sd[bc]1 partitions are of type 0xFD. /dev/md0 has a version > 00.90 superblock. > > If I upgrade this kernel, or upgrade to the new stable when it's > released, is this box going to stop booting? Not for now, as long as the md driv

Re: git hooks fail to run on bare repo

2010-08-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Ah nevermind, sorry for the noise list. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140453 hooks not supported over http until version 1.6.6... I'm on stable, so 1.5.6 or so. A On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:59:06PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi list, > > they may be b

git hooks fail to run on bare repo

2010-08-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list, they may be beter served on a git list, but I'm starting here anyway. I've got a bare git repo on my server and I push and pull through http. This works fine, but now I'm trying to run some hooks for various reasons. I've done chmod +x on hooks/post-update and hooks/post-receive in th

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >In <20100815190053.ga4...@gandalf.home.lxtec.de>, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >>How do I set up mdadm to create the root array witout an initramfs? >You can't. When did this change? I have a box (my NAS) that is running Debian stable (lenny) with a custom 2.6.30

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 05 August 2010 14:28:50 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a > > > shot? ;-) Here is the package list with b

Re: control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Using aptitude is preferred to using apt-get for most purposes. In this case, aptitude's curses (or even GTK!) interface might be the best way to select which real package you want to satisfy a virtual package dependency. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4c69742e.3080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >martin f krafft put forth on 8/16/2010 10:26 AM: >>> I prefer LSI and Intel raid cards. I should have said merely LSI >>> as the Intel cards are licensed LSI cards. Hardware raid isn't as >>> flexible as softraid as it works at the en

Re: control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/16/2010 05:08 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > hi!let me explain with the example of xserver-xorg. amongst others it > has dependencies of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all but > both dependencies can also be provided by th

Re: Auto enabling swap at boot up

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > I remember a distro can automatically pick up the swap partition without > me specifying it in fstab file. So it is not Debain that do it > automatically, right? Are you thinking of dphys-swapfile? apt-cache show dphys-swapfile Description: Autogenerate and use a swap file

Re: SMART configuration

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > but that setting was overwritten by new smart updates. Now I think it is > still OK, and I'll set it back. There are a few differing schools of thought about conffiles. One is to put as little as possible into them so that they never change in the package and then the user never

control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
hi!let me explain with the example of xserver-xorg. amongst others it has dependencies of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all but both dependencies can also be provided by the packages xserver-xorg-input-7 and xserver-xorg-video-6. as you all know, the difference is that th

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Louis Hinman : > I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive > me > for addressing it to all and sundry: Along with the other excellent advice others have suggested, subscribe to whitel...@lists.debian.org, with all its resulting goodness. -- Any technology d

Re: Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Merciadri Luca : > > Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow > Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks > to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a > device (not necessarily a traditional computer), send the w

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Sam Leon put forth on 8/16/2010 9:49 AM: > I haven't messed with windows since xp. But I do remember on xp you > could not have any software raid on the same partition that you booted > from. Which made it pointless... Did they change the functionality in > vista or 7 or something? I was referrin

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Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stan Hoeppner [2010.08.16.1923 +0200]: > > … until your controller dies and you find out that the manufacturer > > does not support the firmware anymore and your data are lost. > > Ever heard of spares? If not you've not been in this game long. I've had cases where the spares simply

Re: squeeze debootstrap error

2010-08-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-16 13:52 +0200, Oleg wrote: > I have squeeze with last upgrades. When I do a debootstrap I get an error: > > ~# debootstrap squeeze /mnt/ http://ftp.debian.org To which machine does ftp.debian.org actually resolve for you? Use ping to find out. > I: Retrieving Release > I: Validating

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
martin f krafft put forth on 8/16/2010 10:26 AM: >> I prefer LSI and Intel raid cards. I should have said merely LSI >> as the Intel cards are licensed LSI cards. Hardware raid isn't as >> flexible as softraid as it works at the entire disk level, but boy >> is it so much easier to work with, >

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stan Hoeppner [2010.08.16.1514 +0200]: > This has always been one of my hangups regarding using linux mdraid (or any > soft OS raid) vs hardware raid--proper and seamless handling of a raid > protected boot device, including issues beyond the topic of this thread. I > hate admitting i

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:02:22 -0400, Louis Hinman wrote: (...) > However, if I try to respond within a thread where I am the OP, my > response never makes it into the thread! Maybe due to this? Why aren't my posts appearing? http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46491 > Th

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread John Hasler
Lou writes: > I don't see an administrator to address this question to... At the bottom of every article: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > I was accustomed some time back to post que

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:02:22 -0400 (EDT), Louis Hinman wrote: > > I don't see an administrator to address this question to, There isn't one. > so please forgive me > for addressing it to all and sundry: No forgiveness needed. > I was accustomed some time back to post questions on linus.debian

Re: OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:28 AM, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> >> Thank you to all the team. >> http://thank.debian.net/ > > The best ever > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Sam Leon
On 08/16/2010 08:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 8/15/2010 5:34 PM: In<20100815190053.ga4...@gandalf.home.lxtec.de>, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: How do I set up mdadm to create the root array witout an initramfs? You can't. mdadm is a user-space binary that can'

meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread Louis Hinman
I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: I was accustomed some time back to post questions on linus.debian.user (http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/topics). Recently, I logged into this forum and tried to

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 8/15/2010 5:34 PM: > In <20100815190053.ga4...@gandalf.home.lxtec.de>, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> How do I set up mdadm to create the root array witout an initramfs? > > You can't. mdadm is a user-space binary that can't be compiled into the > kernel images.

pam-ldap breaks dhcp

2010-08-16 Thread Laurent Blume
Hi all, I'm doing some pam-ldap tests using Lenny in a VBox. I do all the pam configuration successfully, it tests fine, including login. However, on first reboot, udev complains a lot about missing groups (like in this bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516149). It

Re: OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Thank you to all the team. http://thank.debian.net/ The best ever -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i4bau2$ie...@dough.gmane.

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

2010-08-16 Thread brownh
Jimmy Johnson writes: > brownh wrote: > >> I assume that the UUID assigned to my hard disk does not match the >> kernel line in GRUB2. Is there any way to find out what the assigned >> ID numbers are? >> >> Haines Brown > > > Yes, as Boyd said, as root in the console type 'blkid'. Yes, but thar'

squeeze debootstrap error

2010-08-16 Thread Oleg
Hi, all. I have squeeze with last upgrades. When I do a debootstrap I get an error: ~# debootstrap squeeze /mnt/ http://ftp.debian.org I: Retrieving Release I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Found additional r

Re: trinity & konqueror

2010-08-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 23:00 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > well, I have the trinity session working fine, but now konqueror doesn't > > work > > for my gnome session or my wifes regular KDE session ( she never logged out > > after I installed trinity). > > > > when i r

Re: get kernel version of chroot

2010-08-16 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. On Monday 16 August 2010 03:00, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to get the kernel version of a chroot system? > > I tried > > chroot chroot_fs uname -r > > but it only reports the kernel version of my current system, not the > chroot system. Chroot changes into a different directory

Re: How to set global java option

2010-08-16 Thread Stefan Hermes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Am 16.08.2010 11:15, schrieb Panayiotis Karabassis: > I would like to set an option for all java processes running on my > system. Specifically -D/java/.net.preferIPv4Stack=true. Where can I do > this? You can edit /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6

Re: OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
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Testing

2010-08-16 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
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Re: OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Alexander Batischev
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Re: How to set global java option

2010-08-16 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:15:33 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I would like to set an option for all java processes running on my > system. Specifically -D/java/.net.preferIPv4Stack=true. Where can I do > this? Have you tested from Java Control Panel/java/view/env. parameters? Not sure thoug

Re: OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
Happy Birthday Debian Linux! Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Citizenship: Singapore Citizen/Singaporean Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Facebook link:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10750083982 Facebook photos: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10

Re: OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Klistvud
Best wishes, Debian, and may you always manage to keep such high standards! To all the people involved in creating and maintaining Debian, a HUGE thanx! You're awesome. -- Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* martin f krafft [100816 07:33 +0200]: > also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2010.08.16.0034 > +0200]: > > Last I checked, it is possible to have the kernel itself start the > > root array, via a (series of) kernel command-line arguments. > > However, this doesn't use mdadm or any of its configu

How to set global java option

2010-08-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
I would like to set an option for all java processes running on my system. Specifically -D/java/.net.preferIPv4Stack=true. Where can I do this? Many thanks in advance, Panayiotis

OT: Happy birthday Debian

2010-08-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Thank you to all the team. http://thank.debian.net/ Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008161051.57548.tchate...@free.fr

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Aug 15 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:53:41 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> With the new versions of kernel-package in Squeeze, running >> make-kpkg clean should almost never be required (if the upstream >> Makefiles are not borked, as they rarely are). T

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

2010-08-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
brownh wrote: I'm doing a fresh squeeze install from USB key, and it installs grub 0.97 and kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. A single SATA drive. Boot hangs with Waiting for root filesystem... Gave up waiting for root device. ... I edited grub kernel line to add rootdelay=5, w

Re: mounting samsung galaxy S

2010-08-16 Thread Alexander Samad
Okay worked it out, not only do you have to set usb mode, but once attached to the device (laptop), you have to allow the disks to be mounted ... another drop down on the Galaxy. Alex On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Alexander Samad wrote: > [snip] >>> > [ 1283.819253] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached