Question about "mv" operation.

2015-08-04 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Say I am moving a file between two harddisks. Both filesystems are Ext4. During the operation, I cut off the power. Then boot the host, and fix the filesystems. Now, I see in both locations, there are the file. My question is, is it safe to remove file in dest, and move to it again from src?

Re: How to get the processes that open (connect to) certain display?

2014-06-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Splendid!, Thank you. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Reco wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:35:45 +0800 > Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > There are two situations. Local program, remote program via X forward. > > > > All I can think

How to get the processes that open (connect to) certain display?

2014-06-09 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, There are two situations. Local program, remote program via X forward. All I can think of is to iterate local procs and read DISPLAY env. I have no idea how to do with remote programs. Any ideas? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 And for G+, please use magiclouds#gmail.com.

Re: [Bash script] How can I read a tty device?

2013-05-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Ah, I get it. 'read -n1' is the way. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds < magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Say I have device /dev/ttyACM0. If I `stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 raw`, then > `cat /dev/ttyACM0` in one term, and `echo -e &

[Bash script] How can I read a tty device?

2013-05-16 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Say I have device /dev/ttyACM0. If I `stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 raw`, then `cat /dev/ttyACM0` in one term, and `echo -e "QUERYCOMMAND" > /dev/ttyACM0` in another term. I would get the data in first term. But if echo first, then cat. The data seemed lost. Cat would not get anything. So I think

How to forward serial devices' input to X?

2013-04-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, We have a barcode scanner used here, which for some reason has to be a serial device. So all its scanning output is sent to /dev/ttyACM0. If I `cat /dev/ttyACM0`, I could get the strings. Problem now is, how to let these input be sent to X, acting like a normal keyboard. Any ideas? --

Re: How to forward local mail to external address?

2013-02-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am 05.02.2013 05:46, schrieb David Guntner: > > Magicloud Magiclouds grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> Hi, > >> By default, many tools like cron will send mails to local, like > >> ma

Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?

2012-11-04 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > On 11/2/2012 12:05 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > > > SSD like samsung 840 (TLC) only has 1k write times. Swap directly > > > > on it would not be horrible? > > > > > > Your question I presume: "Is SSD suitabl

Re: Any recommendation for an auto-proxy tool?

2012-04-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry for the confusing, I am not providing a proxy. What I meant was, WPAD with IE works great when laptop user moves between proxied company environment and home. With auto discovery option on, IE does not have to change anything, if there is a proxy, use it. If not, directly access. So I am thin

Any recommendation for an auto-proxy tool?

2012-04-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, The subject is confusing. By auto-proxy, I meant something like the auto-discovery of IE. With this option on, if there was a proxy broadcast in the network, then used it. If not, then just direct connection. How to archive this purpose? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 And for G+, please use magiclou

Is there a system sync tool?

2012-04-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have a PC at work, and a PC at home. And I am really tired to build the same environment at home every time I changed something at work. So just wonder if you guys have some idea to help. For example, when I updates something (configuration, packages, etc), the tool would somehow record t

Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso from cdimage.debian.org. Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso > /dev/udisk`. It booted, things seemed fine until the step of finding the install cd (sorry I cannot remember the exact menu item name now). It fai

Re: Dual monitor problem.

2012-01-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Magicloud Magiclouds, 19.01.2012: >> Hi, >>   I have this Lenovo E46G laptop, which works well with windows 7. >>   Now I installed Debian Sid (xorg + gnome 3 desktop). Everything >> seemed fine except ex

Dual monitor problem.

2012-01-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have this Lenovo E46G laptop, which works well with windows 7. Now I installed Debian Sid (xorg + gnome 3 desktop). Everything seemed fine except external monitor. When I plugged in the vga connector, after 1 or 2 secs, the system recognized the monitor and extended my desktop to it. T

Re: Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:37:23AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Hi there, >>   Sorry for the delayed reply. I am using grub on x86_64. And >> regenerate initramfs (default configuration) did not help. >>   On

Re: Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-21 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:23:25AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >>   The error was "cannot find root $UUID" specified in root bootflag. >>   I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in

Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have a machine with lvm as root that has not been rebooted for long. I just rebooted it. And it cannot boot up. The error was "cannot find root $UUID" specified in root bootflag. I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in busybox, I `ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid`, I

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >>>   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version >>> is

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >>   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version >> is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0     0 10270     1  20   0 >&

How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0 0 10270 1 20 0 58428 620 ? R?3821:44 /usr/lib/apt/methods/rred Now I cannot kill it, kill -9 did work, either. And it uses 100% of a cpu core. What

Re: Anyone using Lenovo E47 laptop's bluetooth?

2011-09-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:14:40 -0300, Henrique wrote in message > <20110918131440.ga7...@khazad-dum.debian.net>: > >> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >   But there is no bluetooth or hci

Re: Anyone using Lenovo E47 laptop's bluetooth?

2011-09-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >>   But there is no bluetooth or hci devices in lspci. `hcitool dev` >> returned no device, either. >>   What should I do? > > Enable in BIOS, o

Anyone using Lenovo E47 laptop's bluetooth?

2011-09-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi there, I own a E47 now and want to connect my cell with by bluetooth. I checked dmesg, I got: 789:[8.895748] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 791:[8.895772] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized 792:[8.895775] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized 793:[8.895777]

Re: How to control network speed?

2011-09-01 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. I do not know why my mailbox did not show this thread. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, green wrote: > Artur Frydel wrote at 2011-08-26 14:03 -0500: >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> >  For some reason

How to control network speed?

2011-08-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, For some reason, I have a linux machine that has to have a network bandwidth limitation for the whole system. So I looked into command tc. And used this script from the internet. Well, the script returned successful, but in fact it did not effect anything. Could someone help me? Thanks.

How to configure static route?

2011-06-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I used to use configuration like "up ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 via a.b.c.d dev eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces to do this. But today, in debian doc (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html 5.5.14), I found that there is a /etc/network/routes to do this. Well, I cannot find mo

Problem about ldap

2011-06-18 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, This may not be a proper place to ask this. I am using ldap-utils in debian sid. When I do search, kind like: $ ldapsearch -x -h ldap-server -d "CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com" -b "CN=Magicloud,CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com" -w "A^b3" It failed with error on binding. If I c

network-manager-gnome cannot create vpn connection successfully.

2011-05-21 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, When adding a new connection, everything seemed fine. But when connection to it, a immediate error occurred as "no valid secrets . From the internet, they said this is a bug of network-manager-gnome that it did not save the password to keyring, but asked for it when connecting. How to resol

Xorg keyboard/mouse "no reaction" under testing.

2011-05-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, As I recalled, I had learnt about this problem. Well, I forgot how to resolve it With Debian Testing branch, newly installed xorg, when startx, the keyboard/mouse lost their function at all. By this I mean, click/move/any key press does not work at all. Any idea? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞

Why my xorg started into framebuffer mode?

2011-05-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I'd like to try out gnome3. So I had a laptop for a installation of debian testing. Then I installed xorg from testing branch. With '# startx', I had the xterm window. But when I exited, the console turned into framebuffer mode. /proc/fb shows interdrmfb. What happened? Did the stage with

Re: dpkg died.

2011-05-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > grrr, for the list :) > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: shawn wilson > Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:52 AM > Subject: Re: dpkg died. > To: Magicloud Magiclouds > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011

dpkg died.

2011-05-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Today I installed a third party .dpkg file, which failed due to unmet dependencies. Then I tried to remove it, or install the dependencies by aptitude. Well, dpkg database seemed to be interrupted. For example, when I tried to remove, I got: dpkg: error processing navalplan (--remove):

Re: A question about DNS.

2011-03-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >> Hi, >>  I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry >> for the meaningless title. >>  I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But luck

Re: A question about DNS.

2011-03-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote: > On 3/16/11 11:42 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Hi, >>   I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry >> for the meaningless title. >>   I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But

A question about DNS.

2011-03-16 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry for the meaningless title. I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But lucky I have a ipv6 tunnel working. So I have an idea here: redirect all queries to *.dropbox.com to *.dropbox.com.sixxs.org to make dropbox tools work

Re: mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
No wonder 2.6.37 compiled so fast on my crap machine. make-kpkg did not make most of the files at all. make works now. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Turns out, the kernel directory in /lib/modules is almost empty. I do > not know why > > On Mon,

Re: mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Turns out, the kernel directory in /lib/modules is almost empty. I do not know why On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, >  I just compiled 2.6.37 with all default options. After I installed > it and made initrd.img, it cannot boot up. I found that >

mkinitramfs tool makes a weirdly small initrd file.

2011-01-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I just compiled 2.6.37 with all default options. After I installed it and made initrd.img, it cannot boot up. I found that initrd.img-2.6.37 is way too small compared to 2.6.36.3. I then remade these files, the situation was still there. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.8M Jan 21 09:02 initrd.img-2.

How to use libpam-otpw?

2010-12-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I installed libpam-otpw a few days ago and configured it as: --- /etc/ssh/sshd_config --- UsePrivilegeSeparation no ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes --- /etc/pam.d/sshd --- #...@include common-auth auth required pam_otpw.so session optional pam_otpw.so Now when I login, it prompt me for

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >>> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. >> >> Well... gathering information about the running terminal is

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:03:12 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>>> Sorry, I meant to know how it could be "not wrapping". The source >>>>

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:12:50 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >>> >>>>   The

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, I meant to know how it could be "not wrapping". The source somehow confused me. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >>   The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, wi

Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-22 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, without wrapping like `ls`. I looked into the source of output, confused by the code. May I have some clue here? How does `ps` know the width of the terminal, or I was mislead, `ps` prints over the behavior of printf ()? -- 竹密岂

Problem with btrfs supporting in debian-installer daily build.

2010-11-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I got a daily build version of debian netinst CD yesterday and used it to deploy a machine. I choose btrfs for root device. And it cannot boot up since the btrfs module cannot be loaded. A blur memory from my experience with btrfs rooting, I think this is the fault of initrd scripts. Two ot

Problem using debian-cd.

2010-10-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am learning about relative tools, from trying to make a netinst CD. Well, I got the tools, and made the deb mirror. Edited the CONF.sh, then $ . CONF.sh $ make distclean $ make status Updating task files... - copying task files from 'tasks/sid/' - copying firwmare task file from 'tasks/fi

Re: OT What's going on with virtualbox.org?

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> What's going on with www.virtualbox.org?  It seems to be down and has been >> for a few days.  Has Oracle finally given it the axe? >> >> >>

Re: OT What's going on with virtualbox.org?

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > What's going on with www.virtualbox.org?  It seems to be down and has been > for a few days.  Has Oracle finally given it the axe? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Troub

I cannot remove readlines dep when building reiser4progs with dh.

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to build a .udeb for reiser4progs. I got it source from `apt-get source reiser4progs`. And modified the debian/control and debian/rules files as below. But still, dh build configured with readlines option. What should I do? Thanks. ~/reiser4progs-1.0.7$ more debian/control Source

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:50:38 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell >> wrote: >>> >>> Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to d

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-24 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:14:07 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell >> wrote: >>> >>> There are a number of different installation methods availabl

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, St

Unfamiliar with DebianInstaller.

2010-09-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to custom d-i a little. With this document: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel, I cannot understand step 2. kernel-wedge failed: make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 And in fact, I can

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-10 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I am not quite sure. Is this the document for debian-installer? How if I do not want to use a special "install disk"? Or you mean I have to make an install disk myself? On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), "Magic clouds" wrote: >> >> M

May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-10 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I mean from a non-Debian linux environment and an empty disk, and internet. I'd like to try out reiser4 for root. I have compiled 2.6.35.4 with reiser4 into .deb, and a disk with reiser4 filesystem. Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
You are good! And Sven Joachim is right. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 28 June 2010 21:14:32 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Hi, >>   I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. > > Make sure it is Sid.  There were

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I did use Google, and followed some documents. Well, he succeeded, not me. And I think bootloader do not have to understand root partition, right? On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/29/2010 01:51 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, my mistake, nothing about 64 bit. I compiled the 32bit kernel in xfs. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > I am using debian unstable 64 bit with lvm and ext3. All options are default. > How did I find out? This OS is a VM. And the disk data is in a >

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/28/2010 09:14 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >> Hi, >>   I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. > > Why?  It's still tagged EXPERIMENTAL. I am just trying. 8-) > >>  I in

How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. I installed debian sid on ext3 root, compiled 2.6.34 kernel. Booted to 2.6.34, it mounted a btrfs data partition right. Then I booted into debian live, converted the root to btrfs, rebooted. I got this: FATAL: Error inserting b

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
that has data to write. And I think this is not just about ext3, but ext3 & 64bit. Because with the same environment, 32bit works fine for this process. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:54 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 27/06/10 10:51 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Thank you guys. >>

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-27 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. I have not follow Stephen's guide, but I figured the reason out. It seems like an ext3's fault. The space (i-node wise) was used 5.x GB, but the actual space (data wise) was used only 1 GB. So a lot of space was just empty and wasted. I attached another disk to get the job done. PS

Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using debian unstable 64. Recently I wanted to compile a 2.6.34 kernel. Well, the source package is 64MB. Before `make-kpkg linux-image linux-headers --initrd` finished, the source directory took 6GB space, made the volume full. Tried a few times, the problem is still there, and alwa

Re: Problem on dpkg --unpack.

2010-01-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, thank you guys. So may I know what should I do now? This problem really affects me a lot. It seems like tar also fails on other situation. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Guillaume Ayoub wrote: >> Please file a bug against libc6. > > Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5637

Problem on dpkg --unpack.

2010-01-03 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, today, while I was trying to `aptitude upgrade`, I got this for all upgrading packages: tar: ./postrm: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./postinst: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./md5sums: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./shlibs: Cannot utime: Bad file descriptor tar: ./

Where is /etc/environment involved?

2009-10-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I looked over the init scripts. I cannot find the exact place that reads /etc/environment. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞

Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I do not think tomboy supports tag, or property list view. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/10/27 Magicloud Magiclouds : >> Hi, >>  In my opinion, it should be something like this. >>  1. Taking note in a very simple way. >>  2. The notes cou

What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-26 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, In my opinion, it should be something like this. 1. Taking note in a very simple way. 2. The notes could take some tags. 3. I could browse all my notes, by date, by tag, etc. Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Is there any limitation or requirement using bond mode 6?

2009-08-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I have used mode 6 bonding for a long time, for 2 or 4 ethernet cards. Today, I just heard someone said that, there are some requirements for the ethernet card when using bond 6. So I just wondering, what is it? -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-09 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Sorry, by "cannot", I did not mean I had any problem, it is just company policy On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:00:58PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Really? I am sorry, I did searched about "x

Re: Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-07 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Really? I am sorry, I did searched about "xorg 7.4 2.6.18", nothing useful came out Could you give me the google link? Thanks. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:41:06 +0800, Magicloud wrote in message > <3bd412d40908070141u4c2

Re: Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-07 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:28:55 +0800, Magicloud wrote in message > <3bd412d40908060228n6cb1b143nc9893c4a9dcb...@mail.gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >>   I am using Debian Sid, with 2.6.18 kernel. A few days ago (two >> weeks? may

Xorg is very slow.

2009-08-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using Debian Sid, with 2.6.18 kernel. A few days ago (two weeks? maybe), when I apt-get upgrade, I noticed that some parts of xorg were upgraded. Then the nightmare began. When I started firefox, the CPU usage was full, things were very slow. I had to kill firefox, to make everything b

xorg hangs.

2009-05-03 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am using debian sid. Recently I installed a new box, after installed xorg, I started it. It displayed a black desktop with my wm. Keyboard/Mouse/Screen are all freezing. Even ctrl alt backspace does not work. I have to remote login and kill the session. And there is (EE) in Xorg's log

Scim problem.

2009-01-13 Thread Magicloud
Hi, I am using scim as my Chinese input method. But when I input, like into a vte term, opera etc, I cannot get the Chinese, but something like "d= e%=". What should I do? I set LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF8, which makes the scim work. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

2008-07-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Any suggestions about which one? DWM? I do not know. Thanks. Shachar Or wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008 09:04, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start. Look at the dependencies of the x-window-manager virtual package. Look at the sources

[not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

2008-07-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

答复: 答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread Magicloud
>On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:01 +0800, Magicloud wrote: >> I don't think so. Obviously, if the network is broken, it absolutely >> does not mean that there is NO packages, just aptitude can not know. >That's by far the most round logic I've heard tonight. If it c

答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread Magicloud
hould think that I DIE? And call the cops, and throw out all my staff? It is not right, Mr. -邮件原件- 发件人: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 发送时间: 2008年7月2日 12:46 收件人: debian-user@lists.debian.org 主题: Re: Stunned by aptitude. On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:40 +0800, Magicloud wrote: &g

Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-01 Thread Magicloud
Hello, When I used aptitude, I noticed that aptitude does not have an error handling mechanism. When I `aptitude update`, if the network is broken (like dns problem, route problem), it can not connect to the server, so it reports error, and clean up local apt record. If I stupidly `aptitu

How to make a link backup?

2008-06-10 Thread Magicloud
Hello, Assuming I have two WAN link, with two different routes and ips. And I have two nics in my box. Usually, I only use one link, the primary link. But sometimes, the primary link is down, I need to switch to another link ASAP, and switch back when the broken link is OK again

Last block device in striped LV or soft RAID0 would have longer await?

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, As I am trying some configurations for storage solution. I found out that, the last block device (normally, by alphabet) in striped LV or soft RAID 0 will have longer await. Especially in high concurrency IO. The same time, its avgrq-sz is more than others, but rrqm/s, wrqm/s, r/s and

iostat -x 2 only prints out 0!

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, Recently, I am monitoring a storage for high concurrency IO, to tune it. While I am using iostat to see the speed per second, and await value. I found out that sometime, when the machine is working, iostat just gives out all 0 values for a few times, then return normal, or never

Re: subversion that just updated in sid does not support ssl?

2008-04-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008 06:20:15 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hello, I update my sid everyday. A few hours ago, subversion was upgraded to 1.4.6, then it can not recognize https any more. Anything I should know? Like I need some more packages

subversion that just updated in sid does not support ssl?

2008-04-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I update my sid everyday. A few hours ago, subversion was upgraded to 1.4.6, then it can not recognize https any more. Anything I should know? Like I need some more packages installed or this is a bug. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Problem with Debian and LSI 320-1.

2008-03-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I have modified /usr/share/initramfs-tools/modules, to add "megaraid". Still, cannot work. Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hello, I am using a LSI 320-1 as system hdd. When installed RHEL, everything is OK. But when installed Etch, the system can not boot. It seems that t

Problem with Debian and LSI 320-1.

2008-03-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I am using a LSI 320-1 as system hdd. When installed RHEL, everything is OK. But when installed Etch, the system can not boot. It seems that the lvm and mount root script in initrd.img run before the device was recognized. So it reports "no root". When I used a nfs-rooted net-b

Would we have a replacement for Xorg?

2008-02-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I do not know why, firefox is very slow in my box. While I checked out this with my friends, and some information on internet. The answer is because Xorg, a very-slow-rendering graphics system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

How to reprobe scsi devices?

2007-12-27 Thread Magicloud Wang
Dear, I am using megaraid_sas. When I configured a raid, it did not appear in os as a device (/dev/sdx). I used to `modprobe -r megaraid_sas && modprobe megaraid_sas` to make it appear. But with the new version of megaraid_sas, which is always used by 6 others (not kernel modules), I ca

[SOLVED]Re: How to know the filesystem type on one block device?

2007-12-20 Thread Magicloud Wang
Dear, Yeah, thanks. On 2007年12月20日Thursday 18:59:02 Timothy wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 23:56:04 Timothy wrote: > > On Thursday 20 December 2007 22:27:45 Magicloud Wang wrote: > > > Dear, > > > By filesystem type, I mean including swap. > > >

How to know the filesystem type on one block device?

2007-12-20 Thread Magicloud Wang
Dear, By filesystem type, I mean including swap. Mount it or `file` a dd image of it sure can tell me the filesystem. But these can not deal with swap, and too complax. Parted can tell this information of a partition, but can not deal with lvm. While `lvdisplay` can not

Gtk2.0 in sid works abnormally.

2007-12-16 Thread Magicloud Wang
Dear, I have been using gtk2.0 from May this year till now, with 2.6.18, 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22, 2.6.23 kernels. All have a problem that sometime gtk applications can not response to key input at all. Mouse is OK, and programs run OK. I have to closed the program or even restar

Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, I do not think so. While I used `apt-get install xorg`, same problem. Thanks. Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Peter Smerdon wrote: Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64 installed. I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that /v

Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, I have the same problem on two new installed box. I do not know what to do. And on an old box which upgraded to 7.3, it crashed a lot, and switching to tty just gives a beautiful colored screen Thanks. Peter Smerdon wrote: Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with

Re: xorg 7.3 does not work

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, And mplayer under the working 7.3 crashed a lot. Thanks. Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Dear all, I installed a new box yesterday with debian sid, which is fine. Then I `apt-get install xorg`, after I configure xserver-xorg as usual, `startx` failed, with message 'xinit: S

xorg 7.3 does not work

2007-11-20 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I installed a new box yesterday with debian sid, which is fine. Then I `apt-get install xorg`, after I configure xserver-xorg as usual, `startx` failed, with message 'xinit: Server error.' and nothing more. I installed another box this morning, still the same. While another b

What is the debian way to configure raw device?

2007-11-14 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, In Redhat or SuSE, there is 'rawdevices' under /etc. While what is the debian way? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, It has been a long time Also, I think sid's packages update little these days. Does this mean a new stable? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to upgrade a 686 system to x86_64?

2007-07-31 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using a x86_64 hardware, but I installed a 686 sid on it. Now I want to use x86_64 sid. I installed x86_64 linux image, and booted, but all my softwares are still 686, so new x86_64 software can not be installed. How to upgrade all my softwares? Thanks. -- To UNSUBS

pidgin problem

2007-07-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using unstable brench. Today I did an "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot", then my pidgin can not response to keyboard at all. I can not key in anything, but my mouse works well (click, and paste text by right-click menu). And all other programs (firefox, and so on) have

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