Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Andrew I don't get any display when pressing its power on key but it seems that the server is halted as the attached PS/2 mouse has power applied to it . Looking for your reply Regards H.Motamedi On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater < amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: > O

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread Kent West
hadi motamedi wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrei Popescu > mailto:andreimpope...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Sat,28.Mar.09, 15:39:20, hadi motamedi wrote: > > Dear Andrei Popescu > > Thank you very much for your reply . But the server is halted > and when I > > press

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:39:20PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear Andrei Popescu > Thank you very much for your reply . But the server is halted and when I > press its power on key it will be lit just for a moment and then goes off > (without any message on the attached diplay) . But the attach

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/28 hadi motamedi > Dear Umarzuki Mochlis > Thank you for your reply . I replaced it with the PS/2 mouse but the > problem is still persisting . Do you have any more hints for us ? > Regards > H.Motamedi > OK, try swapping harddisks (don't forget to label it 1st for which bay etc) and do a

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Umarzuki Mochlis Thank you for your reply . I replaced it with the PS/2 mouse but the problem is still persisting . Do you have any more hints for us ? Regards H.Motamedi On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2009/3/28 hadi motamedi > >> Dear Andrei Popescu >> Can

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/28 hadi motamedi > Dear Andrei Popescu > Can it comes from any wrong key combinations hit after issuing the fsck and > before trying for the power cycle ? > Regards > H.Motamedi > I once had problem with USB drive on Debian Etch. Try using PS2 instead. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Andrei Popescu Can it comes from any wrong key combinations hit after issuing the fsck and before trying for the power cycle ? Regards H.Motamedi On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,28.Mar.09, 15:39:20, hadi motamedi wrote: > > Dear Andrei Popescu > > Thank you

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Andrei Popescu Thank you for your reply . But the server was up when trying for the fsck and just the reboot command not found . Are you sure it can be caused from an HW problem ? Regards H.Motamedi On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,28.Mar.09, 15:39:20, hadi m

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,28.Mar.09, 15:39:20, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear Andrei Popescu > Thank you very much for your reply . But the server is halted and when I > press its power on key it will be lit just for a moment and then goes off > (without any message on the attached diplay) . But the attached USB mouse >

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Andrei Popescu Thank you very much for your reply . But the server is halted and when I press its power on key it will be lit just for a moment and then goes off (without any message on the attached diplay) . But the attached USB mouse has power showing that the server is power on and halted .

Re: Technical Inquiry regarding Debain Linux 3.1

2009-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,28.Mar.09, 14:38:17, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > We have an HP t5725 Debian Linux 3.1 server that got problem from sudden > power cut . After getting the root password and reaching to the maintenance > menu , we run "fsck" to fix the problem and it found two bugs that need to > be Fixe

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:52:20PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:13:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Shouldn't.. > > > > # mount > > > > .. tell you all you need to know? > > > > Or are you referring to something else? > > Well, if you look in /etc/rcS.d, yo

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:13:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:13:44AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, > > > which you would need in o

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:13:44AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, > > which you would need in order to change root's password. > Well, once you're root (with init=/b

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Thorny
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:30:35 +, Lisi Reisz posted: > On Saturday 21 March 2009 10:21:24 Thorny wrote: >> If I remember correctly, Sarge security support ends at the end of >> March, this year. > > They announced that it had ended last year. As I understand it, they took > the repositories do

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeffrey Cao wrote: > >> Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >> Then, you can change root password. > > Says he, carefully snipping the admonition in the post he quoted about > top posting. Priceless. I don't actually think that he snipp

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 21 March 2009 10:21:24 Thorny wrote: > If I remember correctly, Sarge security support ends at the end > of March, this year. They announced that it had ended last year. As I understand it, they took the repositories down this year and archived them. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Thorny
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:17:28 -0700, hadi motamedi posted: > Dear All > Can you please do me favor and provide me with the answer for the > following case at hand : > "We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed but the > operator is getting the following message on the console port

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 22:06:24 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 11:57:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > >> It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root > >> a new password, which is the chance you could

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 11:57:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: >> It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root >> a new password, which is the chance you could change root password without >> knowing the old one. > >We must have di

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeffrey Cao wrote: Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. Then, you can change root password. Says he, carefully snipping the admonition in the post he quoted about top posting. Priceless. On 2009-03-20, Sudev Barar wrote: 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : "We h

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
Lisi Reisz wrote: When I need to change a root password on Etch or Lenny because I do not know the root password, I chroot from a live CD which does allow root access. Lisi Agree... I just changed the password on a laptop I rarely use running Lenny this way. Alternatively $ sudo su o

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 17:11:20 Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:57:29PM EDT, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:57:29PM EDT, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > > >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 16:14:03 Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:34 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Technical Inquiry > &g

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > >> > Then, you can change root password. > >> > >> Ah..banging my h

RE: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez
> -Original Message- > From: Lisi Reisz [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:34 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Technical Inquiry > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao :

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:14:57PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : > > Dear Sudev Barar > > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please let me know from where I > > can download the Debian Linux 3.1 and burn the CD for this purpose ? > > Looking forward your reply > >

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : >> > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >> > Then, you can change root password. >> >> Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this... > > Because it doesn't work in

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:33:54AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > > > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > > > Then, you can change root password. > > > > Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this...

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : > Dear Sudev Barar > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please let me know from where I > can download the Debian Linux 3.1 and burn the CD for this purpose ? > Looking forward your reply Boot with another distro and then mount the root partition. Copy file /etc

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > > Then, you can change root password. > > Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this... Because it doesn't work in Etch or Lenny? Don't know about other versi

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. > Then, you can change root password. > Ah..banging my head why I did not think of this... -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: I know most of people do not follow

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. Then, you can change root password. On 2009-03-20, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : >> "We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed but the >> operator is getting the following message on the console port when trying

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/3/20 hadi motamedi : > "We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed but the > operator is getting the following message on the console port when trying to > boot the server : > "Unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually . give root password for > maintenance or type ctrl-D to