"Failed to assemble all arrays" during initramfs

Hi I've gor the problem that mdadm does not assemble my arrays during initramfs time. However, when booting with Knoppix I can assemble all my arrays with mdadm-startall without problem. During initramfs I get: (initramfs) mdadm -A /dev/md1 /dev/sd[ab]5 md: md1 stopped. ... mdadm: /dev/md1 has b

writing huge files on DVD

Hi I've made a strange observation: I can write files up to ~100M on DVD without problem (using k3b, which in turn uses dvd+rw-tools). But everything >1G gets written corrupted and takes up only about 15M on the DVD, even though k3b does not find any difference while validating after the write!

mozilla extensions in debian

Hi all I tried to install a few extensions to my mozilla on debian testing, especially mycroft and google bar, but did not succeed. It looked as if it were installing something, but then nothing changed. I very much guess that it could have something to do with permissions. Although I don't see a