Etch and beyond: How to keep initrds able to mount encrypted drives?

2007-05-07 Thread Bradley Alexander
I just built a fresh etch box, workstation build. I encrypted everything but /boot using lvm. My goal is a sid box, but I've had to go through several iterations of the etch install. First, I found that the installer/initrd did not like having multiple physical volumes on the root volume group.

Re: Many LUKS partitions

2007-04-30 Thread Bradley Alexander
Hi Salvatore, The easiest way I have found to do this is to create a partition which you open with a passphrase that contains the key files for the other partitions...Then set the other partitions up to open on said key files. In fact, if you set it up right, you should be able to have the key

Encryption + LVM + multiple PVs...Possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Bradley Alexander
Just trying out my first etch install. Kudos to the Release team and everyone involved in getting this out the door. I'm trying to rebuild my system with a pair of 120 GB drives and a 160GB drives. In the partitioner, I configured hda with hda1 1.5GB encrypted swap hda2 500MB /boot hda3 500

Keyboard not working in X

2006-12-26 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have two machines, both running unstable. On the one I dist-upgraded over the weekend, I attempt to log in but each keystroke changes the resolution of the X display. In the X messages, I see the following messages: xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_t

Re: Sound system stopped working

2006-11-23 Thread Bradley Alexander
- From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:22:08 PM GMT-0500 US/Eastern Subject: Re: Sound system stopped working Bradley Alexander wrote: > Having an issue with sound on my sid box. It used to work fine, but now, I > get errors,

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-22 Thread Bradley Alexander
I do something very similar. In fact, I just had to change out my mailserver, and wound up changing from Kolab/Kroupware to Zimbra (community edition). I highly recommend Zimbra if anyone is looking. --b - Original Message - From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.d

Sound system stopped working

2006-11-22 Thread Bradley Alexander
Having an issue with sound on my sid box. It used to work fine, but now, I get errors, and my sound card is not detected. I tried several approaches to get it to work, including the page at http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/sound.htm It is a SBLive! Platinum running on an Athlon XP1800. lspci shows:

Corellating hardware with drivers

2006-11-22 Thread Bradley Alexander
I am hoping there is an easy way to do this. I am looking for a way to map drivers to hardware in a box. I have been tasked with a project at work in which I need to display the driver associated with a piece of hardware in a box. The problem is that we have a variety of platforms, including Del

Mail/collaboration server

2006-09-20 Thread Bradley Alexander
I've been using Kolab for my mail/collaboration software for home about 4 years. Right now, the hard drive on the machine I'm running on is failing. I have other hardware on which to run the new mail server, however, I am trying to decide the best suite to use. I can stick with Kolab, as there is a

ALSA or ARTS strangeness

2006-09-05 Thread Bradley Alexander
I dist-upgraded my sid box the other night, and now I am seeing several strange things. For instance, my sound card, a SBLive, is not being detected wrong lspci shows that I have 01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 01:08.1 Input device controller: Creativ

Re: Panic on new kernel

2006-09-04 Thread Bradley Alexander
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Bradley. > > >> So the problem I have is that any more recent stock kernel (I have tried >> 2.6.16-smp and 2.6.17) panics on boot: >> >> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel >> > > How does the config file of your bootmanager look li

Panic on new kernel

2006-09-04 Thread Bradley Alexander
Got a problem with a box, dual PIII/933 2GB RAM, dual 36GB SCSI drives on a MegaRAID controller. The box is running unstable. The original kernel, linux-image-2.6.15-1-486, boots. However, this box is slated to run VMware server. Since Debian is not a "supported" host OS, there are no pre-compiled

Re: Public build servers for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-14 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:39 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian > source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb > distros and let me download the results? > > Specifically I want to take a few source packages and get

Re: How to test a hard drive

2006-05-30 Thread Bradley Alexander
Another alternative may be to get the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), which ships with a number of motherboard tooks, manufacturer hard drive tools, filesystem tools, plus a copy of the INSERT live Linux distro. I have successfully used this at work to get the manufacturer's failure code from a dead (dyi

Odd hangs, need recommendations

2006-05-20 Thread Bradley Alexander
Having a problem tracking down a problem with my wife's machine. Its a 1.2GHz Athlon, 768 MB RAM, two HDs a DVD ROM and a CD-RW: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010, ATA DISK drive hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ST328040A, ATA DISK drive hdd: HITACHI GD-2000, ATAPI CD/DVD-R

Xorg upgrade with closed drivers

2006-04-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx drivers. Both upgrades failed miserably. On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed

Etch testing beta 2

2006-03-22 Thread Bradley Alexander
I tried the netinst CD on my laptop last weekend and it worked beautifully. Great job, guys... That said, I have been trying to install on the following hardware: Penguin Relion 120 Dual PIII/966 2GB RAM MegaRAID card Dual 36GB Hitachi SCSI drives (RAID 1) When I run the installer, it wo

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I > heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but > it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /. Is this specific to AMD? I have been ru

2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees consol

Firewalling: best approach?

2006-02-08 Thread Bradley Alexander
I am trying to configure a firewall, but nailing down the configuration is eluding me. The box is running Debian stable. I have tried with iproute2 (I'm including a description below), but not gotten the intended effect. I have tried the lartc list, to no avail. A friend of mine suggested setting u

Installer (i386) problem

2005-12-18 Thread Bradley Alexander
I'm trying to [re]install Debian on my wife's machine, a PIII/800 with 512MB ram. It has an nVidia GeForce 2 card and a pair of 30GB drives. It was formerly running Libranet (which is Debian based), with kernel 2.6.11. She was having some hard to pin down hardware problems (which I think was me

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Monday 26 September 2005 11:25 am, Dick Davies wrote: > On 26/09/05, Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a > > home computer. You mentioned a "home" computer. I have more than on

Sarge on IBM X330

2005-08-22 Thread Bradley Alexander
Hi, I built sarge on an IBM X330. System specs, IBM X330, dual 1GHz PIIIs, 1GB RAM, dual 36GB u160 SCSI cards on a ServerRAID 4Lx, configured for mirroring. BIOS version 1.04, ServerRAID version 7.00. I installed sarge on the machine, but when I tried to boot the linux26 kernel, it wouldn't bo

Re: MS Project 2003

2005-07-25 Thread Bradley Alexander
There was something similar called TaskJuggler, but I don't know whether or not it will read/write Project files. As someone said, Project is a beast, and I don't know if TJ is up to that level yet, since I haven't looked at it in over a year. On Monday 25 July 2005 22:15, Rajiv Vyas wrote: > T

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:05 am, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh > which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a > package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add > iptables rules to dro

Painlessly removing devfs

2004-11-23 Thread Bradley Alexander
I'm running sid on an Intel box. I have been running devfs for about 5 years. My motherboard is a KT133 with a Southbridge PCI controller and a Promise PDC20265 controller. I have the following drive config: Southbridge controller: hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DIS

Re: I need a fast installation method

2004-11-14 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Sunday 14 November 2004 20:20, Nicolas Patik wrote: > Hi, I was wondering which are your favorites fast installation methods? > > I need to have ready a fast install method, > what do you suggest? > anything apt related? > or creating my own CD? > or a NFS install? > > Is it possible to install

USB under kernel 2.6.8

2004-11-08 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have been having problems with USB on a couple of machines, and I would like to get it fixed. The first machine is an 1GHz Athlon running sid. I have a Palm Tungsten E, a 512MB Lexar Thumb, an Archos Recorder 20 mp3 player and a 512MB SanDisk SD card for the Palm, with a Sandisk Cruzer read

apt question

2004-09-29 Thread Bradley Alexander
Got a quick apt question. I had a DIMM go bad in my sid system, and thanks to having to hard reset it during troubleshooting, a couple of filesystems got trashed. I removed the bad DIMM, and was able to rebuild the filesystems (reiserfs). However, a slew of files (700+) got put in lost+found. S

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-29 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 July 2004 15:51, Frédéric Dreier wrote: > I use it with a netgear switch (802.11g) which support the mac-address > restrictions. I was just a little disapointed to learn that encryption > was not so difficult to break... but it seems t

2.6.7 + Palm problems

2004-07-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Having problems with 2.6.7, hopefully someone can help. I have USB1.1 on the motherboard, but I bought a Belkin USB2.0 card a month ago. USB2.0 hub plugged into the USB2 card. Upgraded to 2.6.7 a week ago. My problem is that my Palm Tungsten E doesn

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-14 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 July 2004 05:12, Dave Thayer wrote: > I have a similar set of toys working nicely on 2.6.2 (Hmm, I should > probably update). Did you remember to enable hotplug support > (CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y)? If so what do your logs say. When I plug in

2.6.7 questions

2004-07-13 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just took the plunge into the 2.6 world, and it rocks. I have a couple of lingering issues that I wanted to ask the list about. 1. USB devices - I have a number of USB devices, from an Archos 20GB mp3 player (which works) to a Cruzer SD card reade

Upgrading XFree86

2004-06-04 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did a dist-upgrade on one of my sid boxes yesterday, and I can't get xserver-xfree86 to install. Because of that, x-window-system-core and x-window-system cannot install. When I run apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get -f install or manually dpkg -i, I g

Re: help setting up a home network

2004-04-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This list is the Debian-user list. If you are running XP and 2000, aren't you looking in the wrong place? On Friday 16 April 2004 12:23, abdoulaye kebe wrote: > Hello everybody, I' am trying to set up a home network . I have a pc > running 2000 pro a

Re: tun device on 2.6?

2004-03-12 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:28:01 -0600 Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Bradley, > > Bradley Alexander wrote: > > I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally > > compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use >

tun device on 2.6?

2004-03-02 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use of the tun device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel documentation, but when I try to bring the device up by hand, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] net]# ifconfig

Runaway X process

2004-01-01 Thread Bradley Alexander
On my home workstation, I have an intermittent problem with X running away. The machine is a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, GeForce4MX/64 MB. It has been occurring for the past several months. Basically, what happens (normally, after the screen blanks) is that the XFree86 process starts eating 97-100% o

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:32:08 -0700 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:18:40PM -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > > I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having > > problems getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23 > >

Upgrade issue

2003-10-14 Thread Bradley Alexander
I did a dist-upgrade on my sid box tonight, and ran into two debs that are being a thorn in my side. The first one is xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.2.1-12.1_i386.deb and the second is nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.4496-5_i386.deb. Currently I have [defiant /home/storm]# dpkg -l xlibmesa-gl-dev nvidia-glx-dev Desired=Unk

Rebuilt box, problems booting

2003-09-28 Thread Bradley Alexander
My sid workstation had a boot drive failure. I replaced the failed drive (a Maxtor 30GB) with a Maxtor 120GB. I kept the same partition layout (swap hda1; / hda2; lvm hda3). I then rebuilt the base system from the woody bf2.4disks and did an apt-get dselect-upgrade from the package list in backups.

KDE installation broken?

2003-09-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I tried to install kde 3 on my sid system and found that it is broken in sid and woody: [defiant /]# apt-get install kde Reading Pacage Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are u

XFree86 + Signal 11 = Bad Juju

2003-09-08 Thread Bradley Alexander
I've been seeing problems for the past several weeks and I am finally beginning to see a pattern. It started about the time I upgraded to a GeForce4MX after my GeForce2 died. At first I thought it was being caused by Gnome apps, because it was happening with greater frequency with Galeon and Evolut

Re: Again with the nvidia...

2003-08-19 Thread Bradley Alexander
, because the nvidia driver doesn't supply them, and GLcore is supplied by the nvidia driver itself. Thoughts? On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:47:45 +0200 Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:40:09 +0200, Bradley Alexander wrote: > > > O

Again with the nvidia...

2003-08-18 Thread Bradley Alexander
Running sid on a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, MSI GeForce4MX, kernel 2.4.21 (self compiled), nvidia-glx/glx-dev version1.0.4349-1, nvidia-kernel version 1.0.4349-3. Previously, I had a GeForce2, and didn't have problems like this, but with the GF4, I do. At the same time, its only occurring with Gnom

nVidia questions

2003-08-02 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have been having some problems on my workstation at home for a few weeks now, and I'm not sure any more where to look. At first, I thought (and I'm still inclined to look in that direction) that it was a Gnome problem. I have always had abyssmal luck with Gnome, I tried the desktop back in the da

Re: X lockups

2003-07-08 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 15:10, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > My suspicion is towards Mozilla-Firebird. At least one time, I was > editing an input form. At the moment, this activity still crashes > firebird quite often, but luckily with no harm done to X. I am really starting to suspect Gnome. I am not

Compiling winex

2003-06-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I downloaded the latest cvs from sourceforge (which is getting almost unreasonably congested, but thats another thread) on my sid box. Thus far, I have had zero luck getting it to compile. I have tried it with gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.3, and it seems to be having problems with flex. I also backrevved fle

Re: Easy firewall advice

2003-06-19 Thread Bradley Alexander
If you can navigate through an editor, I've had excellent luck with gShield, http://muse.linuxmafia.net (and with a domain like linuxmafia, how can you go wrong? :) In any case, rather than a gui like firestarter or fwbuilder, you edit a config file once and run it every time you boot and basicall

Re: Network issue

2003-06-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:25, Moe Binkerman wrote: > what happens if you just do the ifconfig command and then route? When The same thing. Usually it takes about two network commands before things start going awry. I tried on one boot to bring eth2 up with no default gateway, so it would be on sta

Network issue

2003-06-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
Got a networking question. I have this box thats acting as a firewall. Basically, its a PII/350 running Woody and gShield. eth0 is the external interface (DSL) and eth1 is the internal interface. When Verizon screwed him, he got cablemodem as a backup connection. So I added another interface (all t

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Bradley Alexander
I will give several levels of answer, since I don't know how much Linux and filesystem experience you have. First of all, as everyone notes, drive partitioning is a personal decision, and more art than science. It varies from machine to machine. That said, depending on how you want to use your sys

Re: [OT] Best MP3 player used with Debian

2002-12-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 01:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I am thinking to buy a 64MN-128MB class small portable MP3 player and > going to use it as a language leaning (tape) player. What is the best > portable MP3 player which can be used with a Debian system with USB? > > I was checking Fry's (

Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

2002-12-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard. Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :) In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C running Debian/sid. The motherboard is an Asus A7V133 with 768MB of RAM. It has