bootcharts:
http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-init.png
http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-initng.png
initng's boot log is http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-log.txt
It seems you have some error messages: "
system/mountroot : bash_helper[system/mountroot]: line 16: /usr/bin/awk: No such
system/m
On 4/1/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Cedric
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How
> would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb
> question, but I don't want to screw things up
Cedric
Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How
would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb
question, but I don't want to screw things up). And yes, should have been
more explicit - the partitions *are* on the same box.
If you perform a
On 3/31/07, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Most recently, how much of the heavy traffic on this list has had anything
to
do with Debian? With Linux? With computers?
The price of bread, love or hate Wallmart or Sponge-Bob, Ubuntu or Dell
(ok U
is a Linux distro and Dell makes computers,
What about the classical "1> /dev/null 2>&1"?
This probably has identical behavior identical to &> /dev/null, but is
longer to type.
&>/dev/null seems less portable. Here I have bash and dash, and &>/dev/null
does not work under dash. "1> /dev/null 2>&1" works everywhere.
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On 3/31/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar
> quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' .
> Adding > /dev/null doesn't
I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar
quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' .
Adding > /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and
keep it from shouting all over the place?
a "> /dev/null" redirects stdou
All* rechargable AA batteries are 1.2v whilst normal AA batteries are
1.5v.
How embarrassing. I guess the battery was just broken then.
There are a lot of other arguments against Sony still.
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I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi
carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting...
This reminds me of restaurants. I like the small, family food ones 10 times
better than the expensive ones. I prefer tasty food over fancy food that
t
I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly
as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to
close, I'll never know.
For the same reason people want SUVs.
For the same reason women like gold and diamond.
For the same reason people want brand clo
Hi all
I have add memory and spam questions
1/ After adding the memory from 1G to 2G, the bios can
show the correct 2G memory. but the kernel can't show
it. Do I need to change any setting?
I believe this is related to a kernel config option. I am assuming you know
how to configure the kernel
Except for Dell, most hardware vendors sell their product wholesale to
retailers. These vendors need to convince retailers to stock their product
and offer it to the public. The retail marketplace is dominated by
Microsoft. Much as I like Debian and Linux, I find it hard to believe
that Microsoft
On 3/30/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at
it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the
install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open
at all. I can run the software, but I
Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one...
AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't
ask me why.
In the initng site, I found this:
http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/
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On 3/29/07, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>>
>> Skreenshot of the error is available here:
>> http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg
>
>
> I got a 404 on this.
>
Sorry my mistake, should have been
http://faaltu.ne
I believe it would also be useful for you to try a more recent version of
ifiles. I use it from cvs.
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Skreenshot of the error is available here:
http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg
Why don't you send me , attached? If you compress it enough it will probably
be just a few KB, and I think my mail can handle even a few MB.
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Skreenshot of the error is available here:
http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg
I got a 404 on this.
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Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't
booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the
messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to inability to start
system/mountfs daemon (or service ?).
Hum... It would probably be more productive if you
> Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as
> everybody thinking something does not make it true.
Except, of course, when it comes to language, especially idioms, where
a
large enough group can make any foul syntax and grammar
correct. Remember,
Lexicographers not
Hell, lots of people are missusing that phrase.
Which begs the question: Are they wrong?
It raises the question. And the answer is yes.
Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as
everybody thinking something does not make it true.
--
Chris.
==
Don't forget to c
I did try it, just for kicks since I already had Debian installed. It
works just as advertised. It will detect which processor you have, and
download appropriate net install (daily build if I am not mistaken) for
Etch and then offer you a chance to install it next boot. The install
works just
I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on
http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the
machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them.
After I was done with making a bootchart for init, I tried doing the
same with initng and
> I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After
> reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages
> (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on
> one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option
> anywhere when attempting
1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has
proper
swapping behavior. This happens because tmpfs can avoid a great deal of
costly operations that other filesystems with backing store need to
perform
(such as the need to keep metadata in sync on the backing store).
2. It
Does anyone have experience in using either of these? How much is the
performance different than the current init?
I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where
Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving from
Sysvinit to initng.
The perf
If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option.
There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use)
which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows.
Why not just use NTFS-3G? I hear that there is a stable release since
January 2007.
--
So
If path specifies a directory, remove(path) is the equivalent of
rmdir(path). Otherwise, it is the equivalent of unlink(path).
I believe using unlink is less portable.
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The following little C program will illustrate:
#include
#include
int main(void) {
FILE *f;
f = fopen("check_my_size", "w");
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
fprintf(f, "This is just filler for the file");
system("ls -lk check_my_size");
printf("Checking utilization:\n")
On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings;
I just learned of Icedove today.
Is anybody here using it?
What do you think of it?
Where caqn I find some more info on it?
Thanks for any info!
Dennis
Slightly off topic, but I use and like Sylpheed. Sylpheed is a very
icedove is debianised version of Mozilla Thunderbird (the same software,
but
different name due to licensing issues). so I'd say MANY people use it.
Only to be mathematically rigorous: not only the name, but some of the
artwork, is different.
The actual *code*, however, is essentially the same.
mount /tmp onto tmpfs and run tmpreaper. No problems, just watch your swap
space, limit its (/tmp) size and instead of separate partition for /tmp
use
bigger swap area.
What is the performance impact of mounting /tmp in tmpfs? Some thoughts:
1) Maybe it will make the system faster, because fil
Thanks for clarifying the issue. I wait till the final version come out
hoping that it will include the package. In the mean time I take up the
issue on the developer-testing list or file a bug report as you suggested.
It seems that all you have to do is install two packages, ppp and pppconfig.
Can someone advise me on the pros and cons of deleting the contents of
/tmp/ as part of general security conscious non-paranoia. I was thinking
that it would be an okay thing to do periodically (or at logout, etc.)
using a overwriting/shredding program. But, before I committed myself,
decided it
Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the
relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of
dpkg).
Also, depending on the amount of missing packages, you can easily download
them from Ubuntu.
This was the output massage:
depends on ppp (<=2.3.
The standard implementation of NTFS for Linux is read-only IIRC. There is
NTFS-3g, which is rw, you can try that.
As for the partition being mounted root-only, read the manual page of mount
(man mount). Look in the section "Mount options for ntfs" for the options
uid=value,gid=value and umask=val
Thanks for the pppconfig package but I cannot install it because of
dependency problems.
jmak
Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the
relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of
dpkg).
Also, depending on the amount of missing packa
If you can post to this mailing list, then you have internet access from
some other computer. I think it should be enough to download just these
two files:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.4rel-8_amd64.deb
How do you know his architecture is amd64?
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Also after installation my ubuntu on the other partition doesn't see the
partitions any longer. What could be the problem.
If I understood right, when you installed Etch, Ubuntu ceased to see the
partitions in which Etch was installed.
Perhaps you changed the filesystem in the partition when yo
I'm sure you can do it without recompiling, through some 'mknod' kind of
magic. Can't help you there, though. If you need help compiling your own
kernel, I can give you some hints.
But nowadays, with things like udev, it its perfectly possible that the
device will be created simply by loading
On 3/19/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 03/19/07 18:20, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
[snip]
>
> By the way, you can use Swiftfox. It is an optimized build of Firefox
> with machine-specific optimizati
I think that non-free software go to restricted and to multiverse, while
main and universe are pure.
I believe main and restricted are enabled by default, and that is why you
ended up with unrar.
Humm, thinking again, Ubuntu keeps restricted to a bare minimum, and unrar
would certainly go to
And I'm a GNU Purist, besides my wireless drivers (Which are in
contrib) I have no non-free packages installed on my system. Ubuntu
doesn't offer any differentiations between non-free packages and free
packages in their repositories, which upset me when I run my weekly
"vrms" to find that the pr
After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb
installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a
shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It
spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to
read them and then locks the system.
Be more clear. The message appear before or after the ke
You mean GNUS?
I love Emacs, but I eventually gave up on Gnus. I just couldn't grok it.
I'm on Sylpheed now. Haven't tried Claws.
I don't use any calendar.
On 3/19/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matthew K Poer writes:
> are there others?
Emacs.
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To UNSUBSCRIBE,
And for the people who actually want to use Linux, they will
eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian.
I don't want to start a flamewar, but I don't why Debian is superior to
Ubuntu for a home user.
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So right now I use iceape. Its big and clunky I suppose, but mostly I
don't like all the security bugs that keep being found in the
gekko-based browsers (per the debian BTS).
Well, I was trying to find a lightweight browser too. Dillo is beautifully
fast, but
1-) Lack some features as you ment
An Appeal to Authority is not always an invalid tactic. (Although it
often is.)
Agreed. This is a common confusion. People tend to refute Ad Hominen or
Appeal to Authority, but they are often valid.
If you claim that I am sick, I'll trust you more if you are a doctor.
This is appeal to author
Two approches:
1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the Save As XHTML
feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for a quick
page. However,
2. For creating an intricate web site, or a series of web pages, Learn
XHTML, CSS, and perhaps javascript. Code it from s
While I haven't used DW in many years (since I realized it has serious
vendor lock-in issues)
I didn't know that. And I suspect my friend didn't know that before he
started using DW.
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So this is something like
"Ubuntu considered Debian"
?
:)
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This friend knows that Dreamweaver does *not* produce web-suitable HTML,
right? (If it doesn't pass http://validator.w3.org/, it's not
web-suitable).
(And are you really his friend for not suggesting something better than
Dreamweaver?)
I did not know that. I know nothing about Web designing.
we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance
QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics.
Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both
with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring everything
exactly.
So some of those pe
Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and
compile away...
I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he
had some problems (which I don't remember, and my friend is not here right
now). He runs Debian Unstable.
So you guys are saying that the .
On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>>
>> - tar has been around forever
>> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar
>>
- tar has been around forever
- tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar
becoming more common even on commercial Unices)
Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many,
many others, can handle tar well.
- gzip provides better compression th
I haven't even read this entire (huge) thread, but it seems strange to me
that KDE applications don't work with arts.
Can it be that the apps are misconfigured to use ALSA directly but you are
running arts? You should either:
1)Leave arts on with application set up to use it
or
2)Set application
On 3/15/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
wrote:
> >
> >Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be
something
> >like this:
> >
> >00 06 *
Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something
like this:
00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script
for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month
I didn't know it was possible to put this kind of thing (the output of a
command) in crontab. I search
Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point (only) to this images.
But this has obvious problems. What is the "correct" way to share
I have solved the problem by recreating the user's
account, but I still don't understand it, since the
.bashrc of the user was identical to mine... but well,
consider it solved.
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escreveu:
> Jorge Peixoto wrote:
> > One of the us
One of the users of this machine has a wrong bash
prompt. It works well on a virtual console, but on
xterm or gnome-terminal, PS1 is set to \s-\v\$ , which
is very unhelpful. But this user's .bashrc is
identical to mine (as told by md5sum), and I don't
have this problem, so I don't know what to do.
I´m a user of kurumin, a sitro based on Knoppix.
Actually, it´s just a Debian testing.
My HD was divided into a main reiserfs partition and a
swap one. Because I needed a small fat32 partition, I
used Qtparted to shrink the reiserfs one, and then I
used cfdisk to create the fat32 partition (should
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