Re: Upgrading to Buster but keeping Postgresql-9.6

2019-07-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Phil, > Thanks Richard, that looks like the best solution. They even > have a mailing list. I have have really enjoyed using docker for such issues - mix&match useland as you like it - without interfering with you "main" distribution and without any performance overhead. Br, Clemens Br, Cle

Jessie / Mips fails to downoad index

2018-11-25 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I am running debian jessie in an chroot environmet on an TP-Link router (with fp emulation enabled in kernel) with OpenWRT kernel 3.10.49. This works perfectly well, however I can't upgrade because the next debian version's glibc is no longer compatible with that old kernel. Therefore I would

Re: Jessie / Mips fails to downoad index

2018-12-16 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi again, Does really nobody know how to get packages for jessie/mipsel? > Therefore I would like to continue to use jessie (even if packages are > outdated or have known security issues), however apt-get update seems > to fail consistently. > Is there anythinbg I can do so I will be able to cont

Re: Jessie / Mips fails to downoad index

2019-03-03 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Georgi, > It seems that Jessie is on Debian mirrors. > For example - http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/ It indeed seems to, however the InRelease-File does not contain the mips-binary sections anymore. This is what apt complains abount: Fetched 500 kB in 1min 49s (4573 B/s) W: Fail

Re: can I use ext4 now?

2009-07-29 Thread Clemens Eisserer
As far as I know 2.6.27 included stable ext4 support. - Clemens 2009/7/29 Rick Pasotto : > I just got a new 1tb sata drive and formated it and then created a > filesystem with 'mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1'. This completed without errors but > evidently 'mount' doesn't know about ext4. The command I tried

Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I am running Sarge on an old Pentium-90 (i586). When I try to install autossh I am asked to install libc6-i686: > mesrv:~# apt-get install autossh > Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig > Abh�ngigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut... Fertig > Die folgenden zus�tzlichen Pakete werden installiert: > lib

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > This should guide you: > $ apt-cache show libc6-i686 Well, so far it says: > This set of libraries is optimized for i686 machines, and will only be > used if you are running a 2.6 kernel on an i686 class CPU However uname -m says I am running a 2.4 kernel on an i586: > Linux mesrv 2.4.27-2

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > Wow. Even your 2.4 kernel is old!! I never received a kernel update, although I did frequent "apt-get update/upgrade". And I don't want to update to a newer debian version, because that machine has onle 24mb RAM and who knows how well a new version of postgres or the kernel will cope with t

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
>> Is there any way to use libc6-i586? > > I don't think that there currently is such a beast. But after all, where does that libc6-i686 package come from? I installed Debian-3.1 on that machine, and when asking apt to install something, it should look into Sarge's online repositories - and as far

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> You're stressing out over nothing. It's obvious: your PC is a 586. > lib6-686 is designed for 686+; thus, don't install lib6-686. > > What the hell could be more obvious?? That was my question after all. I would like to install "autossh", but apt detects some dependencies, including some p

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> It's just a "Suggest", so it won't be installed, unless you ask for it. > > So simply don't. The original command output shows that only > libc6 libedit2 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libncurses5 libssl0.9.8 locales > openssh-client > will actually be installed. All other packages are just suggestions,

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-18 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi again, >> It's just a "Suggest", so it won't be installed, unless you ask for it. > > Didn't I say that? Ok, everything turned out bad. I did "apt-get install autossh", the apt ask me if I want to update glibc and I said yes of course. However glibc update stopped because it requires a 2.6 ker

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-18 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, Sorry for bothering you again :-/ > It really depends on what you want. If you want to stick to Sarge > (which may be sensible on a system with only 24 MB RAM), you should > point your sources.list to it, i.e. use > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free Thanks fo

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-18 Thread Clemens Eisserer
, any idea where I have to look? Thanks, Clemens 2009/2/18 Douglas A. Tutty : > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:33:52PM +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry for bothering you again :-/ >> >> > It really depends on what you want. If you want to stick to Sa

Re: Lenny and K7 AMD

2009-07-07 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > It does not look like this new kernel is using everything the Athlon has to > offer. It there another linux-image we can use that will use all the AMD > Athlon has to offer? Don't bother, really. Userland is compiled against i486 too, and this is where usually most (>95%) of cycles are spent

Patch wheezy's glibc to run on ancient kernel (2.6.16)?

2014-09-01 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I would like to run debian wheezy on my nokia-770 (Linux-2.6.16.27) in a chroot environment, unfourtunately chroot telling me the kernel is too old. The latest version that worked this way is Debian Lenny, which is unsupported since mid 2012. Because updating the kernel almost impossible (bin

Re: embrace, extend, extinguish

2014-09-02 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> Then again, endless spreading of FUD on a list that is powerless to do > anything about the situation, could, and should, be regarded as trolling. +1. Please stop! - Clemens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Patch wheezy's glibc to run on ancient kernel (2.6.16)?

2014-09-05 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Sven, > This is not too worrying since the 2.6.16 kernel has been unsupported > since 2008, and 2.6.16.27 is even two years older. Sure, for debian it is fine - however for me, being limited to that old kernel, it is a showstopper. Granted, the use-case is rather obscure ;) > Probably. To pa

Where to find weekly livecd builds?

2018-02-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi there, I am looking for weekly usb images of testing or unstable - including the functionality to persist changes made to the filesystem to usb. What I've found so far is: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ However I don't see any downloadabe images, only .

Re: Where to find weekly livecd builds?

2018-02-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Hans, > Take a look here: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ > > Is it this, what you are looking for? Thanks for the pointer, however I am looking for something more current (equivalent of testing or even better unstable). So the weekly built live-im

Re: After update only opengl 1.4 instead of 2.0

2017-10-18 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello Hans, i945 only supports OpenGL-1.4, it lacks a few hardware features to reach 2.0: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-i915-OpenGL-2-Drop advertising it as 2.0 capable caused many issues, so mesa developers decided to revert back to 1.4 best regards, Clemens 2017-1

Where to find sarge (3.1) packages?

2010-09-23 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, Any idea where I could still find packages for debian sarge for manual download? I have a quite old and very broken sarge installation running on a Pentium-90 machine. I would like to install dhcp3-server by hand, because apt-get's database destroyed itself some years ago ;) The machine simpl

Re: Where to find sarge (3.1) packages?

2010-09-24 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Sven, >> Any idea where I could still find packages for debian sarge for manual >> download? > > http://archive.debian.net/ > You need to download dhcp3-common as well, if it's not installed yet. Thanks a lot, you saved my day. The P90 is now happily sending out DHCPOFFER packages ;) Thanks a

Where to find tcng for debian sarge?

2005-09-19 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello, first of all thank you for this reliable and very well designed linux distribution. I am quite new to debian but thanks to the user friendly installation I am quire happy with it - Furthermore it was the only major distribution which was able to install itself on a P90/24mb ram ;-) 1.) I w

Re: Where to find tcng for debian sarge?

2005-09-19 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello Jeff and thanks a lot for answering, > if you have the tcng package installed, look in /usr/lib/tcng/bin/ > you should find your binaries in there. Ah, in the tutorial I read the compiler was named "tcng" wheras in debian its named "tcc" - but since it does exarly what I want its fine too ;-

Howto make the computer beep when system is halted?

2005-09-19 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello, Some Linux distributions make make the computer play a beep-sound when the computer is halted which is quite useful for shutting down screenless servers. Is this also possible with debian? Thanks, lg Clemens

Re: Howto make the computer beep when system is halted?

2005-09-19 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> Some time ago I had a problem with a server that would not power down > automatically so I added the following lines to /etc/init.d/halt to > make it beep continually when it had shut down fully: > > while test true > do > echo -e "\a" > sleep 1 > done > > This should co

Problems with traffic shaping (tcng / tc)

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi there, I use a old P90 for routing our LAN into the internet, however sometimes I want to download large binaries to the server itself which may not slow down the internet-connection of the PCs in the LAN. I wrote a small tcng-skript which should do the trick - basically assign all available b

Re: Problems with traffic shaping (tcng / tc)

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
, Clemens Eisserer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi there, > > I use a old P90 for routing our LAN into the internet, however > sometimes I want to download large binaries to the server itself which > may not slow down the internet-connection of the PCs in the LAN. > > I wrote a sma

No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi there, I am still running a 2.4.x kernel since I need stable isdn support which is not really there in 2.6 - however I wonder why no kernel updates are distributed over apt-get. I am still using the 2.4.27 shipped with sarge - although already 2.4.31 is out. No chance to get pre-compiled up2da

Re: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Alejandro, > > Hi there, > > > > I am still running a 2.4.x kernel since I need stable isdn support > > which is not really there in 2.6 - however I wonder why no kernel > > updates are distributed over apt-get. > > I am still using the 2.4.27 shipped with sarge - although > > already 2.4.31 i

Re: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello again. > You are definitely right. You might want to send an email about it in to the > debian-kernel ML? Well, at least I could try. Do you think it makes sence - I do not want to bother they. > Anyway, you can always move to 2.6.13. I have my iptables box working cool > with 2.6.12. Well