External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-19 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
I have an external usb 2.0 LG hard disk. It is part of an md array which is in turn part of an lvm array. The strange thing is that while the drive is in use, it will suddenly change device nodes, for example from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb. This will cause the md driver to mark it as faulty. This is

Re: "No devices found" in X

2010-12-19 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: > > > Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from > > kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. > > You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your kernel config

Re: [SOLVED] Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

2010-12-19 Thread Mark
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:12:48PM -0800, Mark wrote: > > I've seen some emails about using > > "Lenny" instead of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sources.list to force > aptitude > > to keep a Lenny system. Is this the official/accepted meth

Re: Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

2010-12-19 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:12:48PM -0800, Mark wrote: > I've seen some emails about using > "Lenny" instead of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sources.list to force aptitude > to keep a Lenny system. Is this the official/accepted method? Yes, that's absolutely normal to use either 'lenny' (with lowercas

Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

2010-12-19 Thread Mark
Hi, I am giving my parents a laptop for Christmas this year that I put Lenny on and as I'm on the other side of the country, want to make sure they stay on Lenny until I am home in the future to upgrade to Squeeze after it officially becomes the Stable release. I've seen some emails about using "

Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:50:09 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: > >> I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince > >> when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). T

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/19/2010 06:02 PM, Lisi wrote: > So - Oh my friends be warned by me! init 1 is fine. init s is not. Paul > has > given a very clear exposition of the facts either above of below, depending > on how you thread your emails. I guess ( after reading Bob's reply) I forgot to mention, NORMALL

Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I'm beginning to test HA clusters with GNU/Linux and for that I decided to try Pacemaker + Corosync in Debian Lenny following this [1] howto. Both packages were installed from the Backports repositories. But I am observing that if after configuration I reboot a node, it fails to join to t

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > probably about to tell me that it would. ;-) > > Yes. I am going to say, "It should work." :-) > > My curtiosity being even more 'satiable than the elephant's child, I tried. > > The short answer is it doesn't work. Note that I didn't say that it /did/ w

Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 19:50:09 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: > >> I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince > >> when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The fi

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 19:09:46 Bob Proulx wrote: >  I don't think that "init s" would work - but you are > > > probably about to tell me that it would. ;-) > > Yes.  I am going to say, "It should work."  :-) My curtiosity being even more 'satiable than the elephant's child, I tried. The sho

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Klistvud [Sat, Dec 18 2010, 10:32:10PM]: > First of all, let me thank all of you who responded. As promised, I > am giving feedback to the list so that future purchasers of Western > Digital WD EARS/EADS models and similar "Advanced Format" hard > drives may benefit. Err, what? EADS d

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Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-19 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:32:10 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Attention: long post ahead! > I don't use line wrapping because it breaks long URLs. If that makes > you or your e-mail client cringe, you may as well read this at > http://bufferoverflow.tiddlywiki.com instead (same text, nicer > formatt

Re: "No devices found" in X

2010-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: > Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from > kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your kernel configuration. See the recent bug reports on the xserver-xorg-video-intel

"No devices found" in X

2010-12-19 Thread Celejar
Hi, Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. This has been working fine for years (except, of course, for the occasional, temporary X breakage), but starting recently (presumably after some X upgrade), X bails on st

Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: >> I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince >> when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets >> opened but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/19/2010 02:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> tty) I use "init 1". I don't think that "init s" would work - but you are >> > probably about to tell me that it would. ;-) > Yes. I am going to say, "It should work." :-) > > Personally I wouldn't move from multiuser to single user directly. I > w

Re: GRUB2 boot issue

2010-12-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster wrote: > > Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 & > 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my > system ( which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, & > Ubuntu 9,

Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince when > opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets opened > but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1, page 2, page 3...), at some > point Evince

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi wrote: > If I want to boot into single user from a cold start, I do it via GRUB. But > if I am in a GUI and I want to actually change (rather than just bring up a > tty) I use "init 1". I don't think that "init s" would work - but you are > probably about to tell me that it would. ;-) Ye

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 18:46:18 Bob Proulx wrote: > Runlevel 1 is almost universially used to implement single user mode. > When you ask why not use 1 instead of "single" the answer is that > there isn't any reason.  I just think it more clear to ask for single > user mode directly and not jump

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! > > > > /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? > > If you have not label defined for any volume, the node won't be > automatically created. Ah... I see. I learned someth

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Powell wrote: > /dev is a pseudo file system created by udev. Under ordinary conditions, > no data in it persists across reboots. I suspect that udev does not create > a /dev/by-label directory unless it detects a disk partition with a label > during boot. > > Perhaps none of Bob's parti

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The traditional solution would be to boot single user mode with S or > > 'single' and make corrections from there. Alternatively you can > > disable gdm/kdm/xdm temporarily and then reboot to the full system > > which will then be a text console. > > Once we ar

Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:30:41 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 12/19/2010 11:37 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince >> when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets >> opened but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1

Re: erratum

2010-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:04:31 + Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2010 13:50:52 green wrote: Lisi wrote at 2010-12-18 05:21 -0600: Can anyone explain this* (which is the reason why I have not yet installed Chromium). * l...@tux:~$ aptitude show chromium $ apt-ca

Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 12/19/2010 11:37 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets opened but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1, page 2, page 3...), at some point Evince closes by itself. Wh

GRUB2 boot issue

2010-12-19 Thread John Foster
Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 & 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my system ( which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, & Ubuntu 9,) had been rebooted form Windows7 to the GRUB2 rescue mode &

Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting. Which raises a question that has been on my mind for a while... The Debian Installer insists on r

Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets opened but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1, page 2, page 3...), at some point Evince closes by itself. When running Evince from command line, as

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-19 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 16 December 2010 18:31:46 Bob Proulx wrote: > Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > > I just need to be able to change to a console tty and restore the > > > previous xorg.conf. But as X starts automatically I can't manage to do > > > that before X crashes and I lose the keyboard again... do y

Re: Does somebody know how to install mintbackup for Debian

2010-12-19 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 12:39:58 Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:06:51 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 18 December 2010 18:43:06 Camaleón wrote: > >> Linuxmint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian... so, in the end > >> what you have is a ".deb" file but I would not mix packag

Re: xserver-testing issues.

2010-12-19 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Yes, KDE3/4 (both) have nice tools ("system settings/display" or > "krandtray"), even better (more complete) than the GNOME counterpart > for setting up the screen resolution :-) Yes, it did solve my problem. Thanks again, Camaleón. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:51:28 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20101218221908.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Bob Proulx wrote: ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid >>> >>> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! >> >> /dev/disk/by-label ??

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:19:08 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid >> >> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! > > /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? > > $ ls -log /dev/disk/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 12

Re: LG monitor connected via HDMI wrong output color

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:34:55 +0100, Paul Sohier wrote: > I just compiled a new kernel last night, and it does indeed work. Should > I report this as bug to the kernel in Debian? Yes, I would first make a search in Debian BTS for any similar issue and if not listed, I'd report it against the kern

Re: Does somebody know how to install mintbackup for Debian

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:06:51 +, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 18 December 2010 18:43:06 Camaleón wrote: >> Linuxmint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian... so, in the end >> what you have is a ".deb" file but I would not mix packages from >> different distributions: it could work or it cou

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Klistvud put forth on 12/19/2010 3:10 AM: > Dne, 19. 12. 2010 05:31:37 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): >> >> What is the result of? >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/some/filesystem/test count=10 bs=8192 >> >> That will write an 810MB file of all zeros, and will give you a much >> better idea of the raw s

Re: Re: LG monitor connected via HDMI wrong output color

2010-12-19 Thread Paul Sohier
Hi, I just compiled a new kernel last night, and it does indeed work. Should I report this as bug to the kernel in Debian? Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: Mysql database and OO_base.org: problem with INNER JOINTS on tables

2010-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d0d34cb.3020...@teaser.fr>, Bernard wrote: >I am trying to manage a local MySQL database which is connected to >OpenOffice.org_base using JDBC. The main table has about 90 fields and >25,000 elements. This table comprises a dozen of fields about 'places' >(birthplace, weddingplace, deathplace,

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 12. 2010 05:31:37 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): What is the result of? dd if=/dev/zero of=/some/filesystem/test count=10 bs=8192 That will write an 810MB file of all zeros, and will give you a much better idea of the raw streaming write performance vs copying files from the old 1

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20101218221908.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com>, Bob Proulx wrote: >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid >> >> and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! > >/dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? $ ls /dev/disk by-id by-label by-path by-uuid $