Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-26 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 10/25/17 22:19, David Christensen wrote: On 10/25/17 21:23, Russell L. Carter wrote: Greetings.  Your reply is completely nonresponsive to the zfs kernel upgrade situation as it is today on debian. Why did you bother?  It's weird. I don't actually care very much.  I'm goin

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread Russell L. Carter
s, Russell On 10/25/17 21:18, David Christensen wrote: On 10/25/17 19:42, Russell L. Carter wrote: This has been happening for over 2 weeks now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877694 It has such cheerful effects as: root@knuth> zpool status The ZFS modules are not loa

debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread Russell L. Carter
This has been happening for over 2 weeks now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877694 It has such cheerful effects as: root@knuth> zpool status The ZFS modules are not loaded. Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them. The symptom displays via several ways like th

cyapa kernel module equivalent in 4.1.0-2-amd64

2015-09-11 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I am tracking testing, currently my kernel version is 4.1.0-2-amd64. I have a nifty ACER c720 working almost perfectly, except for the trackpad, which dmidecode thinks is: Handle 0x0007, DMI type 41, 11 bytes Onboard Device Reference Designation: trackpad Type: Other S

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 10:36, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. P

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 01:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please ent

audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the preferences dialog." Click ok, then: 2. An error popup appears s

Re: isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-07 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 12/05/2013 06:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Russell L. Carter wrote: >> Ok, I need to do some experimenting here. I've broken out a long patch >> cable to bypass the switch > > I would really be surprised if the switch has broken down. Not impossible > of cours

Re: isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
Greetings Bob, On 12/05/2013 04:27 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Russell L. Carter wrote: >> I've got an internal net with several dual-homed jessie boxen. > > I see that you have 10.0.10.0/24 on one and 10.0.11.0/24 on the other. Is > that correct? And you only want dhcpd to

isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, After wearing out the google I'm going to foist my problem onto you good folk. I've got an internal net with several dual-homed jessie boxen. I would like to get isc-dhcp-server up so I can configure my new UniFi toy. The server has two statically configured interfaces, eth0 and eth1. The

3w-9xxx performance bug in kernel 3.1.0-amd64

2011-12-02 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I've got a testing amd64 system with two 3Ware 9500S controllers and performance with the newest kernel is dramatically slower than with 2.6.32-5-amd64. Also response to tw_cli and 3dm2 is glacial. Possibly an IRQ issue? Anyway my question is what list is best to ask about this problem. Or

Re: recent iceweasel desktop switching problem

2011-08-02 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 08/02/2011 07:56 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Hi Folks, [...] > The problem is that when using the squeeze backports iceweasel versions, > when I click on a URL with mouse-2, it switches me to the fvwm desktop > directly below the active desktop, instead of opening a new ta

recent iceweasel desktop switching problem

2011-08-02 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi Folks, First, I'm not sure I have the diagnosis right so if my description is wrong I would appreciate tips on how to improve it. I'm on testing (wheezy) and I'm using fvwm, as I always have for the last 20 years (not sure I should admit that). Comparing 5 browsers: stock testing: iceweasel 3

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/16/2011 01:57 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> 15/05/2011 20:52, Russell L. Carter wrote: >> [...] >> > > Do you have the logs from the upgrade right before the crash, what > packages got upgraded ? > In between your different trials you cleaned u

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/15/2011 12:17 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote: >> I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" >> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. > > Does this mean that everything is ok no

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. On 05/15/2011 11:52 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who > see a new day before me. I have du

[some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a fixed hardware config that I've tracked debian-testing on for two years, and also tracking

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi Curt, On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often > after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to > simlinks. > > If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it. I did that. I reinstalled

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/14/2011 04:56 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell L. Carter wrote: >> >> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two >> years that I have kept current with testing through that time. >> Yesterday&#

NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for a GT520 and got identical results. I tried a different

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
Ryan Manikowski wrote: On 4/6/2010 4:37 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: What you're trying to do here is login to the 'root' account using your non-root account to initiate the ssh connection. It is reading the 'id_rsa.pub' pubkey file from /home//.ssh/ and this is w

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
ion method: password r...@localhost's password: Ryan Manikowski ]] Devision Media Services LLC [[ www.devision.us r...@devision.us | 716.771.2282 On 4/6/2010 4:06 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:24:04PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
I dist-upgraded yesterday and ssh root logins started requiring a password. I also tweaked some other stuff and installed calibre and miro to check them out and they came with a boatload of dependencies so maybe there's something lurking there. Regular user ssh logins work just fine. I decided