RE: Broken System After Update[Solved]

Hi There, I found a solution by Michael Tokarev which addressed BusyBox bug# 646284. It required updating BusyBox and running update-initramfs in a chroot environment. Thank you all for your suggestions. Regards, Ogya

RE: Broken System After Update

From: carlo.bore...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 02:09:18 -0300 Subject: Re: Broken System After Update To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [...] Yes, I have /usr and /var on separate partitions and both were required to be mounted before the command worked. I tried your alternative solutio

RE: Broken System After Update

> > > # /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) -u > > It is also possible that a broken initrd is not the problem and that > the problem is elsewhere on your system > > > This is what I did: > > Thank you for the very nice and complete description of what you did! > That was very go

RE: Broken System After Update

> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: hvw59...@care2.com > Subject: Re: Broken System After Update > Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 15:11:03 -0600 > > Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running Sid and a couple of months ago I updated my system > &

Broken System After Update

Hi All, I am running Sid and a couple of months ago I updated my system including the kernel. After restarting my machine, I realised that my system was broken. Whenever I start the machine, I get a message lilke this: No init found. Try passing init= bootarg BusyBox v1.19.2 (Debian 1:1.

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

> If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should > back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go > about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, > you should investigate them. With the Ultimate edition, Win 7 comes

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: noela...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:02:28 + > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:54:57 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > > I have just bought a pc with

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:28:15 -0700 Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I

Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition? Kind regards, Ogya

RE: Basic Statistical Tool

> > I have KOffice on my install, but maybe it is from experimental? In any case, > KOffice 2 is a bit iffy at the moment (like KDE 4.0 or 4.1 was). > > There is also Gnumeric, the Gnome Office spreadsheet. It has at least some > data analysis tools, although I do not know how extensive. > > Gn

RE: Basic Statistical Tool

> > Are there any tools similar to the Excel Data Analysis tool? What happened > > to KOffice in Sid? apt-cache search koffice does not turn up anything. Any > > help will be very much appreciated. > > I'm unfamiliar with the Excel Data Analysis tool, so I may be > misunderstanding the requir

RE: Basic Statistical Tool

From: ogyach...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Basic Statistical Tool Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:36 +0200 Dear All, I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in instal

Basic Statistical Tool

Dear All, I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but it lacks some features for graphing that I need. For example, in Excel,

RE: Wireless networking stopped working

> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:05:03 -0700 > From: waterho...@ultrasw.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Wireless networking stopped working > > Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running sid on a laptop computer and I had wir

Wireless networking stopped working

Hi All, I am running sid on a laptop computer and I had wireless networking working. I run tasksel afterwards and a number of things went wrong including wireless networking. I managed to fix things like printing with cups but wireless networking still does not work. I keep getting "wrong pass

RE: Sid Sound Problem

> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:15 -0500 > From: linux...@gmail.com > To: ogyach...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Sid Sound Problem > > Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get

Sid Sound Problem

Hi All, I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When the computer is booting up, the following error message shows: Starting Open Sound System: Failed (No Modules detected). What kernel module needs to be installed to fix this problem. Kind regards, Ogya

RE: Any Linux CAD tools?

> If you are looking for something similar to 3DS Max, or Maya, or > Houdini, ie a full featured 3D modelling app, then hav a look at > 'blender' > > http://www.blender.org/ > > Regards, Tim. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "u

RE: Any Linux CAD tools?

> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:20:34 +0900 > From: os...@debian.org > To: ogyach...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Any Linux CAD tools? > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > I am looking for a CAD tool...

Any Linux CAD tools?

Hi All, I am looking for a CAD tool to draw among other things contours. I have tried to use the spline feature of QCAD. The issue is that I don't seem to find any way of joining two splines together or extending an open spline. I have also looked at PythonCAD but it does not seem to have any

RE: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj[Solved]

> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:03:15 +0800 > From: haoniu...@gmail.com > To: ogyach...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj > > How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? > > Ogya Chief wrote: &g

RE: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:03:15 +0800 > From: haoniu...@gmail.com > To: ogyach...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How to use Sun Java instead of gcj > > How about trying to use update-alternatives to set java? > > Ogya Chief wrote: &g

How to use Sun Java instead of gcj

I installed sun-java6 but "java -version" showed version 1.5. Upon further investigation I realised gcj is also installed on the machine and OpenOffice depends on it. I have two questions: 1. How can I make OpenOffice use Sun-java instead of gcj so that I can remove gcj? 2. If it is not poss

RE: Showing only files on a virtual desktop

> > I am not sure what you mean by "files associated with a virtual desktop". > If you want to only see tasks for the active desktop in the task bar, > you can do so by right-clicking on the task bar, "Task Manager > Settings", select "Only show tasks from the current desktop" in the > Filters

Showing only files on a virtual desktop

Hi All, I am running sid and kde desktop and I want to see only the files associated with a particular virtual desktop and not all open files on other virtual desktops in the panel. I have checked the online kde manual but I did not see anything on this issue. Is it possible to do that? I wan

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi[Solved]

Hello Sebi, This is to inform you that my wifi is working. The problem was that I supplied a wrong passphrase. Thank you very much for your help in the last three days. I do appreciate it so much. Kind regards, Ogya

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:42:24 + > From: levi.vi...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi > > Hello again > > > not sure what you mean by "interface configuration file", my I meant the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces file. >

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

> Da > No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for > apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the > package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and > configure apt to "prefer" one of them so that when you install/upgrade > it automagically c

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:58:36 + > From: levi.vi...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:42PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Hi Ogya > > > I am hav

Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

Hi All, I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the wireless card and a Hewlett-Parkard laserjet P1005 printer. I have search for solutions on the internet but so far I have not found any

Corrupt Reiserfs file system

One partition on my linux box with reiserfs is corrupt and I am trying to get it fixed. I ran the following command: reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/sdb2. The report I got indicates that either I have a corrupt journal or I have changed the start of the partition table editor. It prompted me t

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions) [Solved]

> It appears that particular chipset is not supported by the b43 > open-source driver. You have three alternatives: > > 1. Use the vendor-provided, non-open-source Linux driver. See > http://wiki.debian.org/wl > 2. Use ndiswrapper. This lets you use the Windows driver in Linux. See > htt

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

> > > > > Is the firmware being loaded to the card correctly? Try something like > > $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog > > And look for messages that might indicate failure. > > -- Kevin > grep wl_apsta /var/log/syslog did not give a

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

I do not know why the messages of my last two posts were deleted. I wrote that after installing b43-fwcutter and extracting the firmware the wireless card still did not work. It was suggested that I configure it but I did not understand what the specific configuration the writer was referrin

RE: How do I setup wireless network

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RE: How do I setup wireless network

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RE: How do I setup wireless network

Cheers > swhe > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have installed Debian 5.02 on my laptop with Broadcom wireless network > > card but I do not know how to get this card to work. The in

How do I setup wireless network

Hi All, I have installed Debian 5.02 on my laptop with Broadcom wireless network card but I do not know how to get this card to work. The installation did not detect the card. Any leads will be appreciated. Regards,Ogya _ With Windo

Upgrade of Etch to Lenny Broke System

Hello All, In the process of upgrading my Etch system to Lenny, the system broke. I tried to rundpkg --configure -a and this is what I got: Setting up libuuid1 (1.41.3-1)...groupadd: invalid option --Kusage: groupadd [-g gid [-o] groupdpkg: error processing libuuid1 (--configure): subproc

Partitioning Harddisk

Hi All, I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows Vista preinstalled. I am having endless problems with this OS and I decided to install Debian Linux 5 on it and dual boot. I started the installation and got to the disk partitioning stage. There were four partitions on the disk (#1 to #

Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found

From: Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:37:04 -0500 On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to install De

Installation problem: No partitionable media found

Hi All, I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message: No partitionable media found What could be the problem and what am I missing? Any pointers on how to resolve this problem will be very

cyradm: cannot connect to server

Hi All I am trying to setup a mail server with postfix and cyrus-imap server and I have followed the instructions in the document: http://wiki.ev-15.com/debian:mail_system to the letter but whenever I issue the command "cyradm localhost", I get the above error message. I have googled

Re: Network setup problems

From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I doubt it; have you tried pinging by address instead of by name? This "feels" like a problem with Windows; do you have a firewall on the W2K laptop? It might be blocking ping traffic. I'd pop a Knoppix CD into the W2K box and see if it works correctly on the

Re: Network setup problems

From: Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> what seems to me ,is that you have duplicate ip's on both linux and win2k machine . as you say "also I have the same entries in the host file on win2k" if my guess is wrong please supply full detail of your linux and

Re: Network setup problems

From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network setup problems Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:47:45 -0500 So your Win2K laptop gets the 0.5 address when connected to your home LAN? And your Linux server has the address of 0.1? Correct Can you ping localhost? Do you have ot

Network setup problems

Hi All, I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip address anytime I log onto the work network. I have a small linux network at home and I wanted to setup samba to be able to use the laptop at h

Network setup problems

Hi All, I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip address anytime I log onto the work network. I have a small linux network at home and I wanted to setup samba to be able to use the laptop at h

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Capturing all bootup messages Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:54:31 +0200 On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a > >log file or, how can I pause the syste

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

We really need some standard way of capturing those messages. I think I've heard of some switch you can add or line you can uncomment in /etc/init.d/bootlog, but I'm not sure. One way that should work is to deactivate any auto-startup of X (kdm, etc) and then the next boot will stop at a cons

Capturing all bootup messages

Hi All, When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, neither does /var/log/messages. My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the system to read those

Re: dcopserver would not run

From: James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dcopserver would not run Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 05:57:28 -0700 John Summerfield wrote: > Ogya Chief wrote: >> There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. >

dcopserver would not run

Hi All, Last night I wanted to install Konqueror on my Sarge box and I decided to use dselect for the installation. Dselect indicated that Konqueror was installed so I marked it for deletion and went ahead and deleted it but it deleted about 50 other KDE packages. I noted down all the packages t

Re: Can't play audio CD's

From: Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't play audio CD's Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:10:34 -0400 On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:16:12 +0100 Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...and then wondered whether Chris Metzler was correct in saying: > > 'Group "disk" h

Re: Can't play audio CD's

From: Mark Par <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't play audio CD's Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:02:18 +0800 On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:39:22 +0100, James Hosken wrote: > I've just got my sound card working by installing the 2.6.6 kernel. I've > been using xmms to play some mp3s.

Re: ppp setup problem-Solved

From: Iain Mac Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ppp setup problem Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 14:31:40 +0100 On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:00, Ogya Chief wrote: > > I will check the modem documentation to see what is required. > As an example here is the pertine

Re: ppp setup problem

That's a big clue. Try plugging a 'phone into your wall socket and try dialling out. Did you hear a dial tone? If that works try plugging in your modem again. If it still doesn't work are you using the correct cables? I did plug a phone into the phone socket of the modem and it worked. If your 'p

Re: ppp setup problem

From: richard lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ppp setup problem Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 06:04:15 -0400 On Tuesday 18 May 2004 05:25, Ogya Chief wrote: > Dear All: > > Whilst trying to set up ppp, I ended up with a system that does not > connect to

ppp setup problem

Dear All: Whilst trying to set up ppp, I ended up with a system that does not connect to the net. Whatever option I use to connect, I get a message that says: /usr/sbin/pppd: unknown host: (none) Has anybody ever come across this? What do I have to do to fix this? If I have to setup netw