Lockup when libvirt running during upgrades

2018-01-30 Thread David A. Bandel
Folks, I have three servers that, when I run apt upgrade or apt dist-upgrade and any kvm's are running, the system freezes. When it does, the console shows some daemon is reloading, but I have been unable to ascertain which daemon -- it never actually gets to the name of the daemon that is reload

Re: Generate OpenSSL CSR in Squeeze

2011-07-27 Thread David A. Parker
On 07/27/2011 11:55 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: David A Parker writes: > We have an RSA key with no encryption password, and we need to generate > a CSR using this key. However, when I try to generate a CSR, I get an > error: > # openssl req -new -key server.key -ou

Generate OpenSSL CSR in Squeeze

2011-07-27 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, We have an RSA key with no encryption password, and we need to generate a CSR using this key. However, when I try to generate a CSR, I get an error: # openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr Enter pass phrase for server.key: 32208:error:28069065:lib(40):UI_set_result:result t

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread David A. Parker
One quick note, you will need the firmware for the network hardware in these machines. Download this file: ttp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb ...or use the squeeze + non-free installer: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-inst

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread David A. Parker
On 05/23/2011 09:33 AM, Jacek Politowski wrote: I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correctly with Debian (either squeeze or testing (or even unstable)). Serve

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
On 03/09/2011 06:04 PM, David A. Parker wrote: On 03/09/2011 05:32 PM, David A. Parker wrote: So far, this has never happened randomly during an SSH session. It always seems to be triggered by some sort of network activity. What's especially frustrating is that absolutely nothing gets logg

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
On 03/09/2011 05:32 PM, David A. Parker wrote: So far, this has never happened randomly during an SSH session. It always seems to be triggered by some sort of network activity. What's especially frustrating is that absolutely nothing gets logged in the system logs when this happen

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
On 03/09/2011 04:30 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:11:41 -0500 "David A. Parker" wrote: Hello, I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network connection seems to drop periodical

Network connection drops in Squeeze

2011-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network connection seems to drop periodically, but it comes back if you hit a key on the keyboard plugged into the machine. Here's the general way it happe

squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

2011-01-04 Thread David A. Bandel
I will RTFM gladly if pointed at the appropriate FM to R. TIA, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition.             - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto Visit my web page at: http://david.bandel.us/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread David A. Parker
I think that the virtualization support in some CPUs is not compatible with KVM. I have an HP server with two dual-core Xeon model 5160 CPUs in it. According to Intel's website, this CPU has the VT-x extension for virtualization support, and I enabled virtualization support in the BIOS. Howe

Re: Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

2010-09-03 Thread David A. Parker
On 09/03/2010 02:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: David A. Parker wrote: I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do *not* want it to set a default

Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

2010-09-03 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do *not* want it to set a default gateway. I set up a definition for each interface in dhcl

Re: samba query

2009-11-16 Thread David A. Parker
Daniel Dalton wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50:10PM -0500, David Parker wrote: This works fine for me. You might simply be missing a line in your config file or something. In your smb.conf: Thanks:) I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. On a home network with wpa encryption

Re: Lenny Annoyance

2009-09-07 Thread David A. Pettit
Scratch that. Skype does still crash the network connection. It just took it a little longer than normal this time. David On Monday 07 September 2009 09:46:28 am David wrote: > I tried turning off ACPI and it still seems to be doing the same thing. > However, I tried starting Skype and it di

gcc 3.3 in Lenny

2009-08-27 Thread David A. Parker
I'm trying to build something in Debian Lenny (x86 32-bit) from old source code that needs gcc 3.3 but the oldest version I see in the repository is 3.4. Is there any way to get packages for gcc versions older than 3.4 under Lenny? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Parker Utica College Integrate

Re: ldapsearch -- troubles connecting to LDAP server (SASL config?)

2009-07-16 Thread David A. Parker
w...@serensoft.com wrote: Hello Debianistas! We're a bit new to the LDAP world and are having trouble configuring a connection to the LDAP server. Using "ldapsearch" as a diagnostic tool, here's what we are getting: # ldapsearch -h 10.3.1.37 SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started ldap_sasl_inter

Re: trouble with custom kernel

2009-06-16 Thread David A. Parker
Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I have been building custom kernels for my system a while now. Recently I run into trouble that I haven't experienced before: I build my kernel with: $ make menuconfig $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_header

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread David A. Parker
Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/4/21 T o n g : Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#C

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-18 Thread David A. Parker
kj wrote: Hi guys, This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better way. I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed. Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread David A. Parker
Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: AMD64 in vmware Hi, Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware which is hosted under i386? IIRC, launching AMD64 apps under chroot in i386 won't

Re: ssh

2009-01-21 Thread David A. Parker
Francesco Pietra wrote: That's odd. I am able to get commands to work over SSH without a password. I copied the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on my work computer into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on my home computer. Now I can SSH from my work computer to my home computer like this: ssh m...@myhome

Re: ssh

2009-01-20 Thread David A. Parker
Christopher Browne wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David A. Parker wrote: Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the passw

Re: ssh

2009-01-20 Thread David A. Parker
Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the password? With 'fully' I mean that command: ssh target_machine_name date gives the date without ask

Re: OT: BIOS Problem

2008-11-17 Thread David A. Parker
Thomas H. George wrote: If your slave drive has failed completely, it's possible that your master drive needs to be jumpered as "single" instead of "master" (if it is one of those drives which make that distinction). Sometimes the BIOS will get hung up for a while trying to find a second d

Re: error in script

2008-09-05 Thread David A. Parker
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:00 AM, David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: - Original Message - From: "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:50 pm Subject: error in script

Re: Off subject question.

2008-08-19 Thread David A. Parker
We have a client that needs to get registration information when their client installs software. They had been using FTP to do this but this has many security issues. Email of course cannot be used. What do people use to get this type information back when someone registers software. I need to

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-07-31 Thread David A. Parker
dd if=${device} conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | ssh -l ${user} ${host} "dd of=file.bin bs=64K" I have used dd to back up and restore hard drives before, but I've saved the image on a NFS directory instead of using ssh. - Dave -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of Integrated Informatio

Re: UNIX Logins by Proxy Over the Web

2008-07-31 Thread David A. Parker
The way I imagine it, when a client clicks a link, he/she triggers the server to ssh to an account on the UNIX system where they begin running my application by default, in other words, that's all you can do there. When finished, the connection drops. Could you have a web form which col

Re: obscenely OT Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-28 Thread David A. Parker
Cantilevered elastics work wonders. As does a firm dis-belief in gravity. One view of National Geographic will disabuse you of that notion... that's the whole point of firm dis-belief! National Geographic is just clearly mistaken. Plus few of those were likely to be of the proportions under d

Re: Intel Graphics Drivers

2008-02-29 Thread David A. Parker
Alok G. Singh wrote: On 29 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some problems. You do know that they are already packaged for Debian, right ? xserver-xorg-video-intel is the package.

Intel Graphics Drivers

2008-02-28 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some problems. I downloaded the necessary source trees from their git repository using the links provided in the downloads section of that page. I have been trying to compil

LDAP Authentication

2007-11-28 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have a box running Lenny which I am trying to configure to use LDAP (as opposed to local) user authentication. Both nss_ldap and pam_ldap are installed from the current packages. The server it is authenticating against is a Sun LDAP server which stores passwords as SHA2 hashes by d

Re: New Server

2007-10-29 Thread David A. Parker
Ed Curtis wrote: I'm getting ready to build a new server. Has anyone on the list had any problems or used Silicon Mechanics before. I'm checking out some quotes from there. They use Nvida MCP55 Pro dual nics in their system. I thought I had heard about problems with Nvida nics in the past on th

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-23 Thread David A. Parker
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Andrew Sackville wrote: personally, I think network-manager is more trouble than >its worth, but that's jsut me. Im starting to feel that your right--when it works its nice but when it doesnt i never know what to do. please provide the exact output of the follo

rkhunter, changed files = problems?

2007-10-08 Thread David A.
Hello, starting oct. 2nd rkhunter has started to log warings about changed files. At first i thought "ok" it's probably because I usualy do a "aptitude full-upgrade" once every day or so, running SID, i386. But now I'm not so sure... Can anyone help me veirfy this as a false positive or a real pr

Re: Disk access.

2007-10-05 Thread David A.
> How I can find what processes access harddisk frequently, periodically > from ~20sec to ~20sec ? I did go to some extent to spin down my disk, here are som e info; What file system are you using? "Journaling filesystems like ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. Th

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-14 Thread David A. Parker
Randy Patterson wrote: I ran 'chmod 755 test.php' on the file in question. Loaded this file with browser and got the very same results. Checked /var/log/apache2/error.log and no error. Checked /var/log/apache2/access.log and I had accessed the file. I have been to debian-administration.org

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread David A. Parker
Randy Patterson wrote: Hey, I installed apache like; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.3-1+b1 I point my browser to; http://localhost/apache2-default/test.php The file test.php contains this code; PHP

Re: Moving MySQL database from one machine to another and remotely accessing dbs?

2007-09-10 Thread David A. Parker
Martin Waller wrote: Hi, I'm using MySQL 4.1 on Etch and have a database (that I created) on another machine (still Sarge) that I want to transfer to the other before upgrading to etch on that machine also. Where should I look to find out how to do this? Is it just a matter of locating the d

(solved) Re: new drive = new install?

2007-08-29 Thread David A.
> > What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to > > another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive > > and "copy everything" from the old one? > > Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available, > one being

new drive = new install?

2007-08-24 Thread David A.
Hi, I've bought a samsung solid state drive, 8gb, to replace my HD in my "silent home server". What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and "copy everything" from the old one? As I said, small home server

Exim4, GMail TLS error?

2007-07-12 Thread David A.
Hi all, I've been trying to forward mail from my SID box to my GMail box. I've followed http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 and actually successfully managed to get some mails through! However then I ran into problems, Exim now says: "A TLS packet with unexpected length was received." when exim t

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread David A. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to root terminal and entered my root pw and entered su -c "more /var... and got no such file or directory. I should have clarified, you do not need to do the whole "su -c ..." thing if you are already root. That simply runs a command as root from your normal

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread David A. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in root the first time and when I did su-c... I got command not found -- Original message -- From: "David A. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The response I got from

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread David A. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The response I got from your quiry was bash: /var/cupe...: permission denied You probably need to be root to read those files. Try: su -c "more /var/log/cups/error_log" And enter your root password when it asks for one. -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread David A. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to linux and have etch installed with gnome and things seem to be ok but I can't get my printer installed. I've gone to desktop, admin., printing, new printer and etch recognized the hp printer and I selected finish. I then right clicked on the printer, selected

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread David A. Parker
Eric A. Bonney wrote: You know...I have been giving this thread alot of thought. I think the issue is that we the end user expect to much from Linux in general and I don't think that the average person thinks of certain things. Like, how long have you been using Windows? I know I have been u

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread David A. Parker
George N. White III wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera.

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread David A. Parker
Tarek Soliman wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server?" OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer "none" ? I was gonna say "Tell that to Redhat and ORACLE UNBREAKABLE LINUX" but I real

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

2007-03-12 Thread David A. Parker
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Ben Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kinda curious, uname -a said "Linux dr02g 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux". This is not a SMP kernel, not a real one or something different?! ~$ grep SMP /boot/confi

Re:

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
David A. Parker wrote: Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I

Re:

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I never use the Intel website,

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Ben Humpert wrote: Here it comes ;) dr02g:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU3060 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 2400.240 cache size : 4096 KB

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 14:02 -0500, David A. Parker wrote: Anyway, as you probably know, hyper threading is not the same as having a second core. To the best of my knowledge, a dual-core CPU will always show 2 cores regardless of whether it supports hyper threading. I don&#

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Ben Humpert wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:08:25 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ben Humpert wrote: > > my dell PE 860 has a Intel DualCore Xeon with hyper-threading, my Dell > > PE 850 only has a Intel P4 with HT. On both i only see two processors > > (for sure, the dualcore has two

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

2007-03-09 Thread David A. Parker
Ben Humpert wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:00:17 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860] > > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860 >

Re: Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

2007-03-09 Thread David A.
Hi all, I have similar worries since I run a fanless EPIA. If load gets to high and I'm not at home, or asleep I want the system to shut down. I wrote this small script using sensors to detect and warn high temps. At very high temps execute shutdown. A wall-message and a 30 sek timeout is good if

Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860

2007-03-08 Thread David A. Parker
Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100 Ben Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and c

Re: X Authentication Problem

2007-03-08 Thread David A. Parker
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:40:28PM -0500, David A. Parker wrote: Kent West wrote: David A. Parker wrote: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such

Re: X Authentication Problem

2007-03-07 Thread David A. Parker
Kent West wrote: David A. Parker wrote: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console I have

Re: X Authentication Problem

2007-03-07 Thread David A. Parker
Kent West wrote: I don't believe this will be the problem, but I'd look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, which probably should look like: allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 I would also try disabling kdm temporarily (sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop) and logging in as mythtv via "startx". Thanks

X Authentication Problem

2007-03-07 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have a MythTV box running Debian Sarge. Last night I had to reboot it, which has never caused a problem before, but now the "mythtv" user cannot authenticate with X and get access to display :0.0. I am using kdm and it usually logs the mythtv user in automatically when the X server

firefox / Xorg memory usage / swap

2006-11-13 Thread David A.
Hi, sometimes when I have many tabs open in firefox (10-15 or so) the system begins to swap and become virtually unresponsive. If I'm quick I can kill firefox. Below is a snapshot from top while swapping. As you can see Xorg is the heavy Mem-consumer. My questions; 1) why does Xorg consume much

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-06 Thread David A.
> ...Very intelligent > and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around > here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty bickering. Well, some people like synaptic or pure apt-get, others worship aptitude.. it's all about what attitude you have.. Oh - attitude... I read ap

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-28 Thread David A.
> > If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. > That's 2.0-beta2, which the add-on I'm trying refuses to install on. I'm also intrested in FF2 since it is officially released now. Is there an ETA into Debian? It would be too bad if political/license stuff prevents "normal/unstable users" to move

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-23 Thread David A.
I look here when I compile my own kernel: http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ /David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread David A.
Jeff Zhang wrote: > The BTS of shorewall has a little long time between responses to bugs > report and 3.0.7 is also very lag of official stable version(3.2.4). > Does anybody maintain it? I like shorewall. But I too am worried by to big lag. I don't want to run an out-of-date firewall. Is there

Re: Compiling flops.c

2006-09-05 Thread David A. Parker
David A. Parker wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile flops.c on my Debian (etch) system. I have used gcc 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1 with the same result. This is the output I receive: $ gcc-4.1 -o flops flops.c flops.c: In function 'main': flops.c:174: warning: return type of 'main

Compiling flops.c

2006-09-05 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I am trying to compile flops.c on my Debian (etch) system. I have used gcc 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1 with the same result. This is the output I receive: $ gcc-4.1 -o flops flops.c flops.c: In function 'main': flops.c:174: warning: return type of 'main' is not 'int' /tmp/cce46kOB.o: In functio

Re: Weird cups problems

2006-07-11 Thread David A. Parker
Thanks for your reply, George. Whenever I start cups, it puts several random network printers located in other people's offices into my /etc/printcap file and they show up when I go to localhost:631. There is an option in the config file to stop this happening (can't remember which one.) Re

Weird cups problems

2006-07-11 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I am running Debian Etch, and I have recently upgraded cups on my system. Aside from all of the other problems which have already been reported with the new version of cups, I have one I can't seem to find much information on. Whenever I start cups, it puts several random network pri

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-25 Thread David A. Parker
Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? I was receiving all messages from lists.debian.org on a substantial delay a few days ago. Most messages seem to be coming in fine

Xorg and Intel 945G problem

2006-05-17 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have a Dell GX620 with an integrated Intel 945G graphics chipset, and I am attempting to run Debian sid amd64 on it. I used 'X -configure' to create an xorg.conf file, in which it creates the following "Device" section: Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:-

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-10 Thread David A. Parker
Have most packages been ported to the amd64 architecture, or is there a limited selection? Check out http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ Yes, most packages have been ported. I found the amd64 "testing" version here: http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/images/

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread David A. Parker
Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D "feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster memory / peripherals. Not been running these for very long at all - but no obvious pro

Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has used the AMD64 testing version of Debian on a 64-bit Pentium D processor, and if there was any word on how stable it is? I may be getting a new PC here at work with a Pentium D in it, but if I don't run 64-bit Debian on it, I might as well stick with

Re: Permanently swapping a key

2006-04-10 Thread David A. Parker
I was able to get it to remap these keys on boot, both in X and in the console. In case anyone else is interested, this is what I did (I'll indent commands and file contents for readability): First, to remap the control key to the Windows key in X every time the X server is started, I added a

Re: Permanently swapping a key

2006-04-10 Thread David A. Parker
I have an old laptop which I installed Debian on, but then discovered that the control key (CTRL) does not work at all. I can solve this by swapping control with the unused Windows key and using that key instead. I was able to reassign CTRL to the Windows key in X using xmodmap as follows ("S

Permanently swapping a key

2006-04-07 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have an old laptop which I installed Debian on, but then discovered that the control key (CTRL) does not work at all. I can solve this by swapping control with the unused Windows key and using that key instead. I was able to reassign CTRL to the Windows key in X using xmodmap as fo

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-17 Thread David A.
I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example. I run ext2 and noflushd and it works rather OK. Logfiles spin it up say once every hour. I believe demand for "quiet pc's" is raising, and minimising disc activity

Re: Promise card

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
(sarge also) I am using a 100 GB WD drive. The Promise cards are great! gere David A. Parker wrote: Thanks for your reply. It's probably not worth having you switch out your cards right now, but the offer is appreciated. What kind of drives do you have connected to your Ultr

Mailing list question

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, When I post to this list, I do not currently get a copy of that message back from the list, but I would like to. Other mailing lists I am on do this, and it is handy because I know the message actually got posted, plus I can sort messages by thread and mine are included in there. Does

Re: Promise card

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Thanks for your reply. It's probably not worth having you switch out your cards right now, but the offer is appreciated. What kind of drives do you have connected to your Ultra 100 cards? I should have mentioned before that this was a Western Digital 120 GB drive w/ 8 MB buffer, connected to

Promise Ultra133 TX2

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, Has anyone ever gotten the Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE controller card to work well in sarge? I tried, but I/O with the drive attached to it was unstable at best, and eventually it just didn't work at all. I ended up with all sorts of CRC errors in my logs, and the drive would only mount

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread David A.
Hello, since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. I use "noflushd -n 5" to spin down hd, noflushd is "aptable". I also use ext2. "man syslog.conf" - there are some options here to sinlence syslogd. "man syslogd"

Re: Upgraded to testing, broke X, can't open /dev/input/mice

2005-12-07 Thread David A.
This works for me in unstable/xorg, snipps from xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" #Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "ZAxisMapping

Re: centericq and sarge

2005-12-06 Thread David A.
I use centericq on unstable. I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on MSN I see no MSN-contacts online - eve thogh I know they are online... :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP: Can't get better than 800x600

2005-12-06 Thread David A.
Hi, I've had some problems too but with the right configure it will work. I run unstable and xorg. I use a kernel with via-module/driver enabled - I do not know if this is a requierment. Snipps from kernel config; -- CONFIG_DRM_VIA

Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb
ctly conflict with the older is not likely to break an application.  Is this a bug in apt?  If so, is it a known bug? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.Fre

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb
the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. Could anyone confirm this. Thanks... -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinn

updade process, bzflag

2005-10-17 Thread David A.
Hello, I'm rather new to debian, I wonder how the package update process works. I run update && upgrade once a day - works great. Unstable feels stable enough for me. Now I've found that bzflag is updated - cool. I've looked here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzflag.html OK - so it is updated

cvspserver and frequent "inetd address already in use"

2005-09-22 Thread David A. Cobb
e conflict it might help, but other than that, can anyone give me a clue? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linu

kernel 2.6.13.1 make: *** [deb-pkg] Error 2

2005-09-18 Thread David A.
Hi, I've downloaded 2.6.13.1 kernel, successfully run "make all". But when I run "sudo make deb-pgk" i get; ... INSTALL net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.ko INSTALL sound/core/snd-rtctimer.ko if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.1/d

Concerning make-kpkg --append-to-version

2005-09-08 Thread David A. Cobb
o I have to forcably get rid of the header line in '.config' where the LocalVersion appears? I am already removing 'include/linux/version.h' (and debian/official) before building. Are there other places where I need to remove remnants of the code? -- David A. Cobb, Softwa

Concerning APPEND-TO-VERSION in make-kpkg

2005-09-08 Thread David A. Cobb
o I have to forcably get rid of the header line in '.config' where the LocalVersion appears? I am already removing 'include/linux/version.h' (and debian/official) before building. Are there other places where I need to remove remnants of the code? -- David A. Cobb, Softwa

Two questions about building kernels

2005-08-29 Thread David A. Cobb
initrd kernel won't boot? It panics with Cannot open root device on (3,01), please specify a correct root. My lilo.conf indeed says root=/dev/hda1 which is correct. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actio

Silence syslog (noflushd & dhclient)

2005-08-18 Thread David A.
Hello, this is my first post here. I use Debian unstable on my fanless VIA EPIA home workstation. Noise is a big deal for me, so I use noflushd to spin down the HD. However log-messages spin it up, especially dhclient. I have tried adding "-" chars in /etc/syslog.conf but it keeps spinning up. Wh

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only

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