Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:59:41AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > The documentation says > > - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a >directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) > > which basically means "don't use /usr/src" since a regular user > doesn't ha

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> That RHEL/Fedora dont' use "/usr/src" might, on its own, not make it >> good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation >> perhaps it does! > > The kernel documentation

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/13/12 00:36, Tom Furie wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:34:36AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: *Acck* So it's a typo ?!?!?! I was using ext2/3/4, not ext2/3/4*fs* I just tried& it mounted & when I try ext3fs, it is *nogo* Sooo ext3/4

Re: Where is GRUB2's pointer to LVM LV / filesystem containing /boot?

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:59:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Dan B. wrote: >>> >>> I think I want to move /boot to the RAID1 array I originally intended >>> for it (so that booting into GRUB2 depends only on the /boo

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 01:22:50 AM Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > > That RHEL/Fedora dont' use "/usr/src" might, on its own, not make it > > good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation > > perhaps it does! > > The kernel docum

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:34:36AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > *Acck* So it's a typo ?!?!?! I was using > ext2/3/4, not ext2/3/4*fs* I just tried & it mounted & > when I try ext3fs, it is *nogo* Sooo ext3/4 apparently > *not* supported

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 21:50, Tom Furie wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:17:19PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: Are you able to mount those filesystems as ext2? Any ext3 filesystem should be mountable as ext2. Tried it: [root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 02:12 P

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > That RHEL/Fedora dont' use "/usr/src" might, on its own, not make it > good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation > perhaps it does! The kernel documentation does not say not to /usr/src, it says not to use /usr/src/lin

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 18:24, David Guntner wrote: William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/12/12 16:27, David Guntner wrote: William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: ad[0,6]s1 are the 2 offending partitions. Also, in the interlude, I went ahead& e2fsck'ed both partitions

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-12 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:40:01 +0100 Charles Blair wrote: > The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, > presumably for windows7. What installer is that? Well, I'm assuming this is the Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 you're using. First off it sounds like you have no 'free space' on this HD. Y

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Doug
On 11/12/2012 11:45 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I run a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I repair Dells for a living. I just have to wonder what the heck Dell was thinking having Fn and Ctrl in opposite of correct order... /snip/ Must be a newer Dell. My Dell laptop has the left CTRL key at the far left e

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Tom H: >> >> I've also never seen any Debian documentation pointing to building a >> kernel elsewhere than in "/usr/src/". It's been the RHEL/Fedora way >> for years though. > > That doesn´t make it

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't have time to read the current howto now, but I'll read it ASAP. > It describes the way I build Debian and Ubuntu kernels since years, but > while my scripts are a little bit outdated, Stephen updated his howto. > However, even my out

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-12 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Rainer Dorsch writes: > Hi Claudius, > > Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Claudius Hubig: >> Hello Rainer, >> >> [ Removed useless crap from quote, cf. >> <20122039.14270...@bokomoko.de> for original ] >> >> Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> > Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Selim T. Erdogan: >

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
I run a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I repair Dells for a living. I just have to wonder what the heck Dell was thinking having Fn and Ctrl in opposite of correct order... On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Kushal Kumaran < kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lars Noodén writes: > > > On 11/12/12,

Re: Where is GRUB2's pointer to LVM LV / filesystem containing /boot?

2012-11-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 28 May 2012 06:59:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Dan B. wrote: >> >> I think I want to move /boot to the RAID1 array I originally intended >> for it (so that booting into GRUB2 depends only on the /boot RAID1 >> array, and not also on the integrity of my LVM vo

Are there capacity issues with LVM2 on RAID?

2012-11-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm about to partition twin 3TB disks. Some free space (in case I need it someday) outside the main partitions, and one main partition on each of the two drives. These partitions will be twinned as parts of a RAID1 for redundancy. On that RAID I plan to install LVM2, and use that to mnage p

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:17:19PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: > >Are you able to mount those filesystems as ext2? Any ext3 filesystem > >should be mountable as ext2. > > Tried it: > > [root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 02:12 PM] 802 # mount -t ext3

Re: [solved] Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread Dr Beco
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Neal Murphy > > Look for a BIOS setting involving USB and 'legacy' that would treat the USB > kbd/mouse as though they were legacy wired units. > > Dear berenger.morel, Yes, I can use the keyboard to enter and navigate BIOS settings! Good "debug" eye you have.

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
Does your box have a serial port? Can it be configured to display the BIOS screen on the serial port? Can Debian be installed using a serial port? That is, connect a null-modem serial cable between the box to be installed and some other computer and use minicom (Linux) or Hyperterm (Win). Or put t

Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 20:10 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Monday, November 12, 2012 06:32:22 PM Dr Beco wrote: > > Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set > > keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. > > > > Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu

Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, November 12, 2012 06:32:22 PM Dr Beco wrote: > Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set > keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. > > Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot. > ... > But, still... Is there any solution? Maybe

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/12/12 16:27, David Guntner wrote: >> William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>> ad[0,6]s1 are the 2 offending partitions. Also, in the interlude, I went >>> ahead & e2fsck'ed both partitions, both came back w/ '*

Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread berenger . morel
Le 13.11.2012 00:32, Dr Beco a écrit : Dear us*x, Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot. My other desktop has today a bluetooth keyboard, that als

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Doug
On 11/12/2012 06:18 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:43:25PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: One thing to think about is placement of the ctrl key. It gets used a lot, especially when editing. So it's placement is of great importance ergonomically. Only if you use emacs, if you

Problem configuring multiples monitors

2012-11-12 Thread Dr Beco
Dear un*xrs, I have wheezy installed in a DELL vostro that I use to teach. I'm having trouble disconnecting the projector each time. When I connect it on the VGA output, it pops up a "system settings" (KDE style) window that asks me to configure it. That is ok. The problem arises when I disconn

Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread Dr Beco
Dear us*x, Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot. My other desktop has today a bluetooth keyboard, that also do not work. My old machine has a PS/2 mini

Re: Re: Network Connection issue

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:31:32PM -0500, Karl Miller wrote: > I too have the D-Link DGE 530T C1 card in my system as eth0, but have a > slightly different issue. Running Ubuntu 12.04 patched up, and the card is [...] > Suggestions? T

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:43:25PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > One thing to think about is placement of the ctrl key. It gets used a > lot, especially when editing. So it's placement is of great > importance ergonomically. Only if you use emacs, if you use vim, for example, it hardly gets used a

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 16:27, David Guntner wrote: William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt mount:

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >>> [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 >>> /dev/ad0s1 /mnt >>> mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device >

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Claudius, Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > Hello Rainer, > > [ Removed useless crap from quote, cf. > <20122039.14270...@bokomoko.de> for original ] > > Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Selim T. Erdogan: > > > Rainer Dorsch, 11.11.2012: > >

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad6

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3 /dev

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Lars Noodén
On 11/12/12, Thomas H. George wrote: > My backup desktop died and I am thinking of replacing it with a laptop. > I am not a gamer but a bit more than a routine user, i.e. occasionally > use big programs and am interested in experimenting with Blender. I > want to stick with Debian and have no nee

Re: My repetition

2012-11-12 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:42:55 +0200 (EET) Lars Nooden wrote: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:22:19 Doug wrote: > > If you stop using gmail, you won't have that problem! > > I've noticed that problem with Gmail for a while. It hasn't been fixed > and probably won't ever get fixed. What are th

Re: Re: Network Connection issue

2012-11-12 Thread Karl Miller
I too have the D-Link DGE 530T C1 card in my system as eth0, but have a slightly different issue. Running Ubuntu 12.04 patched up, and the card is configured for IPv4 DHCP; however, it never gets an address assigned an address and eventually flags itself as disconnected in Network Manager. If I t

OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
My backup desktop died and I am thinking of replacing it with a laptop. I am not a gamer but a bit more than a routine user, i.e. occasionally use big programs and am interested in experimenting with Blender. I want to stick with Debian and have no need of Window$. Touch screen is not essential

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3 > /dev/ad0s1 /mnt > mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device > [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3 > /dev/ad6s1 /mnt > mount: /dev/ad6s1

Is "APEI: Can not request iomem region ... for GARs" in kernel 3.2.0-0.bpo.3 a bug and should it be reported?

2012-11-12 Thread Max Mustermann
Dmesg output/boot console contains a line: "APEI: Can not request iomem region ... for GARs". Environment: - Super Micro X8I motherboard - Debian squeeze 6.0.6 - Backports kernel: Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Context: [1.172543] int

Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?

2012-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:21:58AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:20:38 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > I already asked on some lists about my RME HDSPe AIO card. I > > explicitly bought this for Linux usage only in 2011, but never needed > > all available ch

Mounting of USB flash drives - observed strangeness

2012-11-12 Thread Richard Owlett
I've a 64 GB USB stick formatted as FAT32 as it will be occasionally used on a Windows machine. Right now I'm trying to use it on two Debian 6.0.5 machines created from the same DVD. One is physically a desktop machine whose install was done in "expert" mode -- do not recall what options I ch

Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 07:30, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: On 11/12/12 05:01, Fredrik Jonson wrote: Are you sure that /dev/ad0s1 is your file system? I'd expect a PATA drive to show up named /dev/hda or /dev/hdb and partitions named /dev/hda1 etc. Likewise SATA drives are normally named /dev/sda with

Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 05:58, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Fredrik Jonson wrote: William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I am brand new to Debian [...] [I have a box that] has 2 other drives on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB WD. Those are both use ext3 filesystem, left over fr

Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

2012-11-12 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/12/12 05:01, Fredrik Jonson wrote: Are you sure that /dev/ad0s1 is your file system? I'd expect a PATA drive to show up named /dev/hda or /dev/hdb and partitions named /dev/hda1 etc. Likewise SATA drives are normally named /dev/sda with partitions named /dev/sda1 etc. Are you running debi

Re: how do i disable auto-connect to wireless network on wheezy?

2012-11-12 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Umarzuki Mochlis, 12.11.2012: > hi, > > i had installed gnome environment on wheezy 64-bit but unlike squeeze, > i cannot configure a particular wireless network to not auto-connect > whereas it can be done on squeeze. It is because the network applet is > not network-manager's? > > when i tried

Re: New Dovecot and Kmail

2012-11-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:24:47AM +0200, David Baron wrote: >Every version upgrade of Dovecot causes config problems (running Sid). I >hand edited the doveconf -n stuff in after choosing to keep my old .conf >and not being able to get the choice again. Got it working, finally. If you'

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:56:43AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have > been shying away for too long. > > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: > > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack >

Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Fredrik Jonson wrote: > William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> I am brand new to Debian [...] [I have a box that] has 2 other drives >> on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB WD. Those are both use ext3 >> filesystem, left over from the CentOS 5.7 that I

Re:mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

2012-11-12 Thread Fredrik Jonson
William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I am brand new to Debian [...] [I have a box that] has 2 other drives > on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB WD. Those are both use ext3 > filesystem, left over from the CentOS 5.7 that I was running on that box > before the root drive died. I tried

Re: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-11-12 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: 9.9.2 is now in Experimental; http://packages.debian.org/experimental/bind9 1:9.8.4 is now in unstable. Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: mdadm: raid1: redirecting sector to another mirror

2012-11-12 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 08/11/12 10:52, Berni Elbourn wrote: Hello, Please can I share my puzzlement here in the hope a problem shared is a problem halved... Sdb on this system has smart errors and a replacement disk is on order. However, I notice that sda is also mentioned. Oct 29 01:42:03 sv24 kernel: [1529665.

asterisk 10+freepbx 2.10

2012-11-12 Thread binary dreamer
Hi. i am trying to install asterisk 10 and freepbx 2.10 on Squeeze. up to now i managed to install asterisk, dahdi and tools, correctly unfortunately the freepbx it does not start. Did anyone had any success with the above, or is there any script? Sincerely yours!

squeeze - apt-cache policy don't report additional info

2012-11-12 Thread Nicolas T
Dear all, I've got troubles with apt-cache policy and pinning. We created some mirrors of official distrib mirrors and I am not able to get the "Release, Origin, Version, Label etc" on apt-cache policy. Sometimes I got it, sometimes not.. and I don't know why. It causes my preferences are not wor