Re: Etch Lenny Squeeze upgrades and sysv-rc

2012-03-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mar 12, 12:29:30, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if it is because several of my servers started out as > Etch then got upgraded to Lenny end then to Squeeze, or if it is > something in the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade but ... > c libdevmapper1.02

Re: etch mirror

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed December 29 2010 13:00:53 Vuki wrote: > does anyone know a working etch(4.0) apt mirror? Please see: http://archive.debian.org/README --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: etch mirror

2010-12-29 Thread Petrus Validus
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 22:00 +0100, Vuki wrote: > hi! > > does anyone know a working etch(4.0) apt mirror? http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: etch kernel version 2.6.18

2009-09-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-02 08:07 +0200, Greg Madden wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Greg Madden wrote: >> I have a Lenny box running the 2.6.18 kernel. I have the following >> sources added to the Lenny ones: >> >> deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main contrib >> deb http://security.debian.org

Re: etch kernel version 2.6.18

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Greg Madden wrote: > I have a Lenny box running the 2.6.18 kernel. I have the following > sources added to the Lenny ones: > > deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib. > > This gives me kernel

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-31 Thread spokz
??? ?? wrote: > Jason Self wrote: >> Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to >> Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be >> getting a warning. The contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list: >> > > whatever you do, be sure to take an imag

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: This is indeed not enough to unpack a linux-image package. Try removing all kernels but the current one. Thank you for the suggestion -- Removing old kernel images appears to have freed up enough space that the upgrade was able to complete

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-29 20:42 +0200, Jason Self wrote: > Er; sorry. It should be: > > /home (100.30 GB in size / 60.29 GB free) > / (276 MB in size / 30.90 MB free) This is indeed not enough to unpack a linux-image package. Try removing all kernels but the current one. > /swap (2.96 GB) > /tmp (392 MB in

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
Er; sorry. It should be: /home (100.30 GB in size / 60.29 GB free) / (276 MB in size / 30.90 MB free) /swap (2.96 GB) /tmp (392 MB in size / 349.98 MB free) /usr (4.77 GB in size / 3.38 GB free) /var (2.86 GB in size / 2.13 GB free) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
Okay; I've gone through the process and have since restarted. I noticed that aptitude mentioned that 180 upgradeable packages were available. It appears I've run out of space somewhere??? I'm not sure which partition it's claiming to have out of space. Perhaps root? The system in partitione

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-29 19:47 +0200, Jason Self wrote: > Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to > Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be > getting a warning. > [...] > # sudo aptitude dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building depende

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jason Self wrote: > Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to > Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be > getting a warning. The contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list: > whatever you do, be sure to take an image of your HD using for example c

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-10 18:49, line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: [snip] The root filesystem is encrypted to make it more difficult for a local attacker to replace system binaries with backdoored versions. I don't think this is a valid reason for encrypting root. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 17:41:48 line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > Ok I guess the system is just hosed. If no one has any more suggestions in > the next couple days I will reinstall. > > > I will never trust Debian upgrades again, at least not when encrypted > filesystems are in use. Well, all

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread lineman
Ok I guess the system is just hosed. If no one has any more suggestions in the next couple days I will reinstall. I will never trust Debian upgrades again, at least not when encrypted filesystems are in use. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:49:51PM -0500, line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > > hmm

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-10 Thread lineman
> hmmm not sure, you could try > turning of quiet mode remove the quiet from the kernel option on boot > and maybe try turning on debug (add debug to the kernal options) There is no quiet mode in my kernel line. Adding the debug option didn't seem to add any additional relevant information; >

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 19:54:50 line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same > problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until > cryptsetup has loaded? Hi again lineman (and list). Just for another da

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-07 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 19:21 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 18:50 -0500, line...@halo.nu wrote: > >> Hi - > > > >> I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. > >> The file system was encrypted with LU

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-07 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 18:29 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Thursday 06 August 2009 04:16:42 Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > Please bear with me, I'm asking this out of curiousity. Why did you > > encrypt the full root FS? I can understand that you want your $HOME > > encrypted, to a lesser degree I c

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Aug 06 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 18:50 -0500, line...@halo.nu wrote: >> Hi - > >> I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. >> The file system was encrypted with LUKS at install time. > > Please bear with me, I'm asking this out of curious

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 06 August 2009 04:16:42 Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 18:50 -0500, line...@halo.nu wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. > > The file system was encrypted with LUKS at install time. > > Please bear with me, I'm asking

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-06 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 18:50 -0500, line...@halo.nu wrote: > Hi - > I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. > The file system was encrypted with LUKS at install time. Please bear with me, I'm asking this out of curiousity. Why did you encrypt the full root FS? I can un

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-05 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 19:54:50 line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same > problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until > cryptsetup has loaded? This could happen if the new kernel's initramfs doe

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:54:50PM -0500, line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same > problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until > cryptsetup has loaded? hmmm not sure, you could try turning of quiet

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-05 Thread lineman
I tried configuring fstab to use the UUID from blkid, but I had the same problem. Could the problem be that the SCSI drives are not coming up until cryptsetup has loaded? Here is some info on my configuration: t...@magnesium:/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d$ cat resume RESUME=/dev/mapper/magnesium

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:50:56PM -0500, line...@halo.nu wrote: > Hi - > > I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. The file > system was encrypted with LUKS at install time. > > The upgrade appeared to go well, however when I boot into the new system, it > gives the f

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 21:26:31, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > You can use one of the many Live CD's and delete you system files > before the install and then install without formating, it works a > charm. :) Compared to: # sed -i -e 's/etch/lenny/' /etc/apt/sources.list # aptitude update # aptitude insta

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? You won't have to answer all those setup questions

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. I'm sure that I'm not along when I say tha

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: > >> Hi. >> I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to >> upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? >> >> > Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most c

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. Usually the machine's configuration is not affected during the u

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:46:34PM -0700, Adriano Trentini wrote: >Hi. >I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. >Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny?

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Adriano Trentini
Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? --- Em seg, 29/6/09, Ed Sutter escreveu: De: Ed Sutter Assunto: Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem... Para: "Rich Griffiths" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ai

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: > Hi, > Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go > well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) > and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. > > Bottom line... > It ain't good. :-

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Tha

Re: etch pam update not signed

2009-05-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > > Anyone know why these aren't signed (or signed by an unknown key)? I > > installed the latest keyring. > > > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > > libpam-runtime libpam0g libpam-modules libpq4 > > Install th

Re: etch pam update not signed

2009-05-27 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Tom, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > Anyone know why these aren't signed (or signed by an unknown key)? I > installed the latest keyring. > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > libpam-runtime libpam0g libpam-modules libpq4 > Install these p

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

2009-05-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin McCormick wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: So what's 'y' in /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh? This is an excellent question. That particular application /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is a 294-line bash script I am afraid to upgrade ker

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

2009-05-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > So what's 'y' in /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh? This is an excellent question. That particular application /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh is a 294-line bash script which appears to take a bunch of file names as input and

Re: etch make of 2.6.29 kernel is Broken.

2009-05-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin McCormick wrote: If I start to build a custom kernel, the process runs for about a minute and blows up as follows: /home/martin/linux-2.6.29/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open 'y' make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz] Error 1 make: *** [usr] Error 2 So what's 'y' in /h

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-22 Thread Graham Williams
> ldconfig -pNX | grep /local/ Bingo! Our servers have XWin32 LIVE libraries installed (A X11 server for MS/Windows, but which installs some libraries on the Linux box). The install of XWin32 placed links in /usr/local/lib. I removed those links and X is now functioning Thanks for th

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:54:25 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Williams
Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] > There should be some input device

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] > > > udev 0.125-7 > > > > You should upgrade udev to version 0.125-7+lenny1 (security.debian.org)

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-19 Thread Graham Williams
Thanks again Florian. Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > > > Receiv

Re: Etch (7.4) -> Lenny (8.3) PostgreSQL upgrade issues

2009-04-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:57:35AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:53:03PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:51:17AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > So, what do I need to do to recover from this? > > > > Not had this problem myself but at a guess... put

Re: Etch (7.4) -> Lenny (8.3) PostgreSQL upgrade issues

2009-04-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:53:03PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:51:17AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > So, what do I need to do to recover from this? > > Not had this problem myself but at a guess... put a deb-src line for etch > in your sources.list file, then > > apt-get -b

Re: Etch (7.4) -> Lenny (8.3) PostgreSQL upgrade issues

2009-04-19 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:51:17AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > So, what do I need to do to recover from this? Not had this problem myself but at a guess... put a deb-src line for etch in your sources.list file, then apt-get -b source postgresql-server-7.4 Install all the needed things, then o

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > > Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-16 Thread Graham Williams
Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > > > Have just upgraded > > > > > > T

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > > Have just upgraded > > > > To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? > > >From etch to lenny, as per Subject

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-13 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > > > Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > >> > >> > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-13 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: Thanks for the suggestions Florian. More details below. > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Have just upgraded > > To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? >From etch to lenny, as per Subject. > >

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-10 Thread Thorny
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: >> >> > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision >> > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics ch

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Graham Williams
Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > > > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 > > (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on > > reboot and starting up G

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Have just upgraded To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? >a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. Which chipset is it? Post the output of lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'v

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Thorny
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 > (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on > reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen > resolution changin

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
All I can recommend is to boot single user mode, sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade sudo dpkg --configure gdm perhaps even aptitude remove gdm and aptitude install gdm then reboot into multy user mode. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:10:41PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Have just upgr

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
2009-03-19_14:22:45-0400 Sven Joachim : > > The inode size of existing filesystems is always left alone. According > to mke2fs(8) it is not even possible to change it after the filesystem > has been created. > > For the record, the etch kernel should not have any problems with 256 > byte inodes,

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
2009-03-19_11:59:59-0400 rpeterso: > As I understand things, lenny's ext3 implementation uses 64 bit inodes, > to be forward compatible with ext4, etc. Sorry, I meant 256 byte inodes. Same issue, despite my brain fizzle. > I have FC disks that I'd like to use on either of two servers I have. > O

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-19 16:59 +0100, Ron Peterson wrote: > As I understand things, lenny's ext3 implementation uses 64 bit inodes, > to be forward compatible with ext4, etc. The default inode size in lenny is 256 bytes, not 64 bit. > I have FC disks that I'd like to use on either of two servers I have. >

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-07 Thread Mark Copper
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. >> >> "aptitude upgrade" ends with >> >> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... >> update-initramfs: Generating /b

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > Hi, > > Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. > > "aptitude upgrade" ends with > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: m

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Graham
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:57:48 + Graham wrote: > > aptitude show mktemp > > > > says, no, it's not installed. But if I do try to install it: > > > > deneb:~# apt-get install mktemp > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > > to correct the problem. > > > > So

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Graham
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:30:47 -0600 Mark Copper wrote: > Hi, > > Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. > > "aptitude upgrade" ends with > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: mktemp:

Re: Etch -> Lenny upgrade error (util-linux)

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-18 20:44 +0100, yasbean wrote: > I was trying to upgrade from a pure Etch system (i386) to Lenny, and > have come to an impasse. apt-get install apt (or aptitude install > aptitude) fails when trying to replace util-linux, saying: > > install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for

Re: Etch -> Lenny upgrade error (util-linux)

2009-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:44:30 -0800, yasbean wrote: > I was trying to upgrade from a pure Etch system (i386) to Lenny, and > have come to an impasse. apt-get install apt (or aptitude install > aptitude) fails when trying to replace util-linux, saying: > > install-info: No dir file specified; t

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth : > Hi Adrian > > thanks for the quick reply. > >> Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed >> through the /dev/evms/ mount points? > Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot > function. They are EVMS on LVM2 on a

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Dr. Muth
Hi Adrian thanks for the quick reply. > Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed > through the /dev/evms/ mount points? Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot function. They are EVMS on LVM2 on a software RAID. I could probably convert

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth : > Hi > > Since lenny dropped support for EVMS I guess it would be fatal to just > dist-upgrade an etch system that is based on EVMS volumes. > However, I could not find anything on this issue in the release notes. > > Should I file this as a bug against the release note

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-16 Thread Joe
Just as a final note on this one: Solving the wireless card (udev related) problem seems to have fixed another glitch in the system. About 20% of the time resuming from suspend resulted in 'no such device' errors with an external USB drive, although it was still listed in mtab and by df. Had to

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:32:43 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-01-14 21:31 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Sven Joachim writes: ... > >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. > > > > # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules > > # program, probably run by the per

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Joe
Sven Joachim writes: >> Sven Joachim writes: >> # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too) >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:c0:9f:45:a6:0f", >> NAME="eth0" >> >> # PCI device 0x1814:0x0201 (rt2500) >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:11:50:65:9d:75", >> NA

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-14 21:31 +0100, Joe wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Why is wmaster0 renamed to eth1? And what about wlan0? > > Eth0 is the onboard Realtek ethernet. Don't Know why wmaster0 is > renamed. The configuration is the Debian default setup, except for > one modification to /etc/network/

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Joe
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-01-14 19:41 +0100, Joe Dennigan wrote: > >> I installed Etch on a HP Pavilion ZE4900 in June 2008, and have since >> 'upgraded' to unstable. However, from the beginning there has been a >> glitch configuring my wireless card. It's a Belkin F5D7010 (RaLink >> RT25

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-14 19:41 +0100, Joe Dennigan wrote: > I installed Etch on a HP Pavilion ZE4900 in June 2008, and have since > 'upgraded' to unstable. However, from the beginning there has been a > glitch configuring my wireless card. It's a Belkin F5D7010 (RaLink > RT2500). > > If I boot, wait for th

Re: Etch: iceweasel crashing with EAGAIN error

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 18:10 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm running the lastest version of iceweasel on Etch, and am finding > that the browser crashes regularly with a segmentation fault. When I run > strace, I get "EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" as part of the > trace just before it dies

Re: Etch and a half in commercial package

2008-11-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-27 07:27 +0100, jeffry killen wrote: > Hello: > Is it possible to get a commercially packaged dc/dvd > with Etch and a half? If you mean: find someone who sells CDs/DVDs, yes. Just visit http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ and choose a seller near to you. Beware that the list there is h

Re: Etch pthread_mutex_lock - bad backtrace

2008-11-13 Thread Tudor Golubenco
lee wrote: > > Also, I would appreciate if you could run the > > above program on your Etch system and let me know if you can get a > > meaningful bt. > > This is on testing: > [...] > (gdb) backtrace > #0 0xb7fd7424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > #1 0xb7faea71 in pause () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpt

Re: Etch pthread_mutex_lock - bad backtrace

2008-11-13 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:48:54 +0100 Tudor Golubenco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I would appreciate if you could run the > above program on your Etch system and let me know if you can get a > meaningful bt. This is on testing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc test.c -o testprog /tmp/ccs4xx0w.o: In

Re: Etch and ATI Xpress 200G video support?

2008-11-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Scott R. Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Compaq desktop whose motherboard has an intergrated ATI Tech RS480 > [Radeon Xpress 200G series] video card. I have pretty decent video support > now under Ubuntu. If I were to switch to Debian, what are peopl

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > > Dear Deloptes, > > I have the incommensurable pleasure to announce you > that I have managed to install Lenny on my laptop thanks > to your precious help! > And "icing on the cake" (I think this is the way you put it > in English), I perfectly dual boot with the *!#)=} other >

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Dear Deloptes, I have the incommensurable pleasure to announce you that I have managed to install Lenny on my laptop thanks to your precious help! And "icing on the cake" (I think this is the way you put it in English), I perfectly dual boot with the *!#)=} other "win-thingy" OS I have on it!

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Ok, thanks a lot. I took the one you would have taken... I'll let you know if it works or not. Thanks again. Regards, -- Lmhelp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Etch---Netinst---Asus-laptop---Problem-tp20262860p20301691.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz I think you have to download the hole directory for the netboot not only the tar.gz file http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > >> I would suggest that you simply download the netinst CD ROM, burn it on >> CD and try installation with it. > > Would you please be so very kind to tell me where to find the image > to burn on the Debian website so that I do not make another mistake? > >> I think the problem

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
> I would suggest that you simply download the netinst CD ROM, burn it on CD > and try installation with it. Would you please be so very kind to tell me where to find the image to burn on the Debian website so that I do not make another mistake? > I think the problem you have now is that you ha

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > > Hi again, > > I did a: > # wget > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz > -O /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 > instead, in the procedure I described in my first post... > > This time, "Network configuration has succeeded". >

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Hi again, I did a: # wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz -O /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 instead, in the procedure I described in my first post... This time, "Network configuration has succeeded". But, I have another error message a

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Oh, I forgot: > when you boot switch to console and do 'uname -a' ~ # uname -a Linux (none) 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Sat Jan 26 08:50:43 UTC 2008 i686 unknown Thanks, -- Lmhelp -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Etch---Netinst---Asus-laptop---Problem-tp20262860p20300164.html Sent fr

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-03 Thread lmhelp
Hi, Thanks again for your answer. Can you tell me if this is on that kind of website where I can know if "lenny" has support for my ethernet card "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express G"? http://hardware4linux.info/component/15869/ Thanks in advance, -- Lmhelp -- View thi

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-01 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > > Hi, > > Thank you for answering so fast. > > Unfortunately, installing Debian is an "extra" for me > (I do it when I have some free time) and I am presently > overwhelmed with work. I cannot handle the problem > right now. > >>-

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-11-01 Thread lmhelp
Hi, Thank you for answering so fast. Unfortunately, installing Debian is an "extra" for me (I do it when I have some free time) and I am presently overwhelmed with work. I cannot handle the problem right now. >- > Which kernel ar

Re: Etch - Netinst - Asus laptop - Problem

2008-10-31 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lmhelp wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Thank you for reading my post. > > -- > > I have recently purchased a laptop (Asus M51Vseries). > > -- > > CDROM installation att

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread David Christensen
Andrei Popescu wrote: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Thanks! 1600x1200 @ 85Hz is much easier on my eyes. :-) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Christensen wrote: > The "Resolution" drop-down list has the resolutions I picked when > installing. But the "Refresh rate" drop-down list only seems to offer > 60 Hz. Do I need to do the math and edit an X configuration file > somewhere? I recall doing such years ago, but was hoping th

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 19:28:25, David Christensen wrote: > How do I change the screen resolution and refresh rate on Debian Etch > 4.0r4a? Since you are still on etch you can open a root terminal and run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg You will get some questions. Generally the ones you have no idea

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:57:49 -0700 David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Soules wrote: > > Hm. For me it's Desktop menu -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution. > > Thank you. I thought it should be something simple, but am > unfamiliar with the Gnome UI. :-) > > > The "Resolution"

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-10 Thread David Christensen
Jeff Soules wrote: Hm. For me it's Desktop menu -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution. Thank you. I thought it should be something simple, but am unfamiliar with the Gnome UI. :-) The "Resolution" drop-down list has the resolutions I picked when installing. But the "Refresh rate" drop-do

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