Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-29 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On 2014-07-27 00:48, Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 20:32:32 +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: I tried different kernels. Same error. Only that the error message is less specific on 3.2.0 than with 3.1.14: The later always says "(error -8)". 3.14.1? Please see the date on the

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Am 2014-07-26 20:42, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 26.07.2014 20:32, schrieb Gregor Hoffleit: Obviously the error 8 is for ENOEXEC - Exec format error. I wonder what this could mean. The kernel is i386 (686-pae) and /sbin/init is as well i386. What kind of hardware do you have? Does your

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Am 2014-07-26 17:10, schrieb Brian: I would appreciate any hints! A d-i image such as the netinst one has a rescue mode which could help in any repairs to your machine. Thanks for the hint. I never realized how capable rescue mode is. But now I'm even more confused. Whatever I try, I alway

Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
My system is running a mix of stable/testing. I managed to upgrade to systemd, which brought a whole bunch of problems, boot still booted nevertheless. But now, somehow, the system is stuck in the very early boot process: After just 1,5s the system stalls with this error: ... Failed to execu

Re: python2.1 and MySQLdb

2001-12-30 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011226 18:11]: > I just apt-get upgraded my python and the MySQLdb module now > gives the following error: > > Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24) > [GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2 > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more info

Re: Any tool to write/read/convert 16bit TGA files ?

1999-07-28 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:04:18PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > See if 'convert' in the imagemagick package will do. Note that this > is non-free, so you need to check the license also. I don't think that it does. Direct-class 15/16-bit modes (i.e. separate, absolute values for the R/G/B channel