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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2026

Today's Topics: 

  adduser kills sound pt. 3             [ "Rick Spillane"  ]
  Re: Newbie, Video help                [ bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) ]
  Re: Cron and mail                     [ Marc  ]
  Re: OT: Cycling                       [ Max Hyre  ]
  Re: Newbie, Video help                [ "Nguyen, Cuong K."  ]
  Re: [OT] Interview with Con Kolivas   [ "s. keeling"  ]
  Suspicious PAM messages               [ alephnull@airtelbroadband.in (Alok  ]
  Re: [OT] A significant negative impa  [ Terence  ]
  Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3         [ "Rick Spillane"  ]
  Re: with etch, /etc/fstab root not n  [ =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg-Volker_Peetz? ]
  Re: syncing logs                      [ koffiejunkie  ]
  Re: USB scanner crashes VMware XP cl  [ Hugo Vanwoerkom 

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:46:15 -0400


From: "Rick Spillane" <necro351@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: adduser kills sound pt. 3

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OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names
that can be used to install packages under. I checked
/var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a
name 'root' in there, thus doubling my confusion. My guess is that the
there was once a root group in /etc/group, however it is no longer
there (I checked). Could someone post an /etc/group so I can try to
piece back together my /etc/group? I think this is the core of my
problems.


-- 

Rick
necro351@gmail.com


Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:00:36 -0300
From: "Sergio Belkin" <sebelk@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Cron and mail
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Hi
Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled tasks.
I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are performed
but users are not notified.

I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this?
-- 
--
Sergio Belkin -



Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:20:30 -0600
From: bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Newbie, Video help
Message-ID: <20070726032030.GA29118@dementia.proulx.com>
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justin reeves wrote:

> heres the response 


Please reply to the mailing list so that all can participate in the
discussion and the answer will be available in the archive.  If your
mailer has a reply-to-list action that is the one to use.  If not then
use the group-follow-up action and delete the non-list address.  Thanks.


>  nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (r ev a2)


That really is an nVidia and so using the 'nv' driver should work.

Determine what resolution your monitor can support and then
try this:

  $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

The default installation probably installed the 'vesa' driver.  That
is a generic driver that generally always works but has limited
resolution.  Select the 'nv' driver.  Select additional higher
resolutions as appropriate for your monitor.

After reconfiguring this should write a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
You can verify that the new 'nv' driver is listed there:

  $ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Bob


Do you need help?X

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:41:44 +0200
From: Marc <debian@roth.lu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Cron and mail
Message-ID: <46A817F8.7010108@roth.lu>
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Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not
"MAIL"?
You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says:
"When executing commands, any output is  mailed  to  the  owner  of 
the  crontab ..."

Sergio Belkin wrote:

> Hi
> Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled tasks.
> I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are performed
> but users are not notified.
>
> I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this?

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:02:45 -0400
From: Max Hyre <max@hyre.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: OT: Cycling
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> On 16 Jul, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     =20
>>     Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to
>> ride against the flow of traffic?


   Almost certainly.  In the U.S., every state has adopted some form of
the Uniform Traffic Code, one of whose clauses is equivalent to

	The rider of a bicycle shall have all the rights
	and responsibilities of a driver of a vehicle.

   Here in Connecticut, it's Sec. 14-286a:

	(http://www.cga.ct.gov/2007/pub/Chap248.htm)

	Every person riding a bicycle [...] shall be granted
	all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the
	duties applicable to the driver of any vehicle[.]

   Riding on the right side of the road is a duty, and as such, is
/required/.

   Wrong-way riding is one of the two top causes of bicycle fatalities.
 (The other is riding at night without lights.)

   For a good run-down, see

	http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/usa/index.htm

If you want the whole megilla, buy _Effective Cycling_, by John Forester:=

	http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=3D02625=
60704

He puts it succinctly:  ``Cyclists fare best when they act, and are
treated, as drivers of vehicles.''

   Want more?  Ask me off-list.


--=20
	    Best wishes,

	    	 Max Hyre



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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:58:52 -0400
From: "Nguyen, Cuong K." <cuongkieunguyen@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Newbie, Video help
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On 07/25/2007 11:20 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

> justin reeves wrote:
>   
>> heres the response 
>>     
>
> Please reply to the mailing list so that all can participate in the
> discussion and the answer will be available in the archive.  If your
> mailer has a reply-to-list action that is the one to use.  If not then
> use the group-follow-up action and delete the non-list address.  Thanks.
>
>   
>>  nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (r ev a2)
>>     
>
> That really is an nVidia and so using the 'nv' driver should work.
>   

You can also try nvidia driver if you want to have a fancy desktop with 
3D capabilities. The link below will help you to install that non-free 
driver:

http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

KC.

> Determine what resolution your monitor can support and then
> try this:
>
>   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> The default installation probably installed the 'vesa' driver.  That
> is a generic driver that generally always works but has limited
> resolution.  Select the 'nv' driver.  Select additional higher
> resolutions as appropriate for your monitor.
>
> After reconfiguring this should write a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
> You can verify that the new 'nv' driver is listed there:
>
>   $ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> Bob
>
>
>   


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On 07/25/2007 11:20 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid20070726032030.GA29118@dementia.proulx.com"
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  <pre wrap="">justin reeves wrote:
  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">heres the response 
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
Please reply to the mailing list so that all can participate in the
discussion and the answer will be available in the archive.  If your
mailer has a reply-to-list action that is the one to use.  If not then
use the group-follow-up action and delete the non-list address.  Thanks.

  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap=""> nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600] (r ev a2)
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
That really is an nVidia and so using the 'nv' driver should work.
  </pre>
</blockquote>
You can also try nvidia driver if you want to have a fancy desktop with
3D capabilities. The link below will help you to install that non-free
driver:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers">http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers</a><br>
<br>
KC.
<blockquote cite="mid20070726032030.GA29118@dementia.proulx.com"
 type="cite">
  <pre wrap="">
Determine what resolution your monitor can support and then
try this:

  $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

The default installation probably installed the 'vesa' driver.  That
is a generic driver that generally always works but has limited
resolution.  Select the 'nv' driver.  Select additional higher
resolutions as appropriate for your monitor.

After reconfiguring this should write a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
You can verify that the new 'nv' driver is listed there:

  $ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Bob


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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:43:38 -0700
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
To: "Lic. Orestes leal" <orestesleal13022@cha.jovenclub.cu>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net
Subject: Re: OpenGL programming for  GNU/Linux
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:55:18PM -0400, "Lic. Orestes leal" <orestesleal13022@cha.jovenclub.cu> was heard to say:

> > The only platform-specific parts are 1) getting a GL surface on the screen,
> > and 2) installing the libraries/headers. For (1) you just use GLUT or Qt
> > (or another cross-platform windowing API with OpenGL support), and for (2)
> > you just apt-get install freeglut3-dev glut-doc (you're on Debian,
> > otherwise you wouldn't be posting to this list, right?).


  I'd also suggest that you check out SDL.  It doesn't let you work in the
context of a standard GUI toolkit like Qt does, but my experience has been
that it's a lot nicer than GLUT for input event handling, and it also has
support for other stuff games need (joysticks, sound, etc).  Depending on
just what you're trying to do, it may be a better environment for you
than either GLUT or Qt.

  Daniel



Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:40:30 -0400
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: XKB broken
Message-Id: <20070726004031.488b7efe.celejar@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:17:39 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:


> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:50:05 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:14 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 15:42:04 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >=20
> > > > On my uptodate Sid system, XKB has suddenly broken.  None of my XKB
> > > > settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf are active, /var/log/xorg.0.log cont=

ains

> > > > the line "(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB
> > > > keymap" and setxkbmap (even without any options or flags) invariably
> > > > returns "Error loading new keyboard description".
>=20
> [...]
>=20
> > > If you post your configuration I can try if it works on my system.
> >=20
> > Thanks, Florian.  I'm attaching my current xorg.conf.
>=20
> Your keyboard section works when I put it in my xorg.conf. I get the US
> keyboard layout, CTRL and CAPSLOCK are switched and ALT + SHIFT toggles
> between US and GB layout. (I checked the last point with SHIFT + 3,
> which produces "#" or "=A3" depending on the layout.)


I don't get any of that :(
=20

> I don't see any keyboard-related error messages or warnings in my Xorg


I do, as above.


> log; setxkbmap works normally, too:
>=20
> $ setxkbmap -print
> xkb_keymap {
>         xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)"       };
>         xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
>         xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
>         xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+gb:2+group(alt_shift_toggle)+ctrl(=

swapcaps)"     };

>         xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };
> };


This setxkbmap invocation actually works for me; what doesn't is
something like 'setxkbmap us' or even just 'setxkbmap'.=20


> Maybe we should compare the versions of xkb-related packages and
> dependencies. Here is what I have:
>=20
> $ aptitude -F '%p%30v' search '~i(input-kbd|xkb-data|xbase-clients|~Rxbas=

e-clients)' | awk '{print $1,$2}'

> cpp 4:4.1.2-3
> libc6 2.6-3
> libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2
> libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1
> libfs6 2:1.0.0-4
> libgl1-mesa-glx 6.5.2-7
> libice6 2:1.0.3-3
> libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2
> libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1
> libx11-6 2:1.1.1-1
> libxau6 1:1.0.3-2
> libxaw7 1:1.0.3-3
> libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2
> libxext6 1:1.0.3-2
> libxft2 2.1.12-2
> libxi6 2:1.1.1-1
> libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1
> libxkbfile1 1:1.0.4-1
> libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1
> libxmuu1 1:1.0.3-1
> libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1
> libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1
> libxss1 1:1.1.2-1
> libxt6 1:1.0.5-3
> libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-4
> libxtst6 1:1.0.2-1
> libxv1 1:1.0.3-1
> libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.1-2
> libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2
> x11-common 1:7.2-5
> xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2
> xkb-data 1.0~cvs.20070721-1
> xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1
> zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5


I'm attaching mine; the only difference I see is libx11-6; I have
version 2:1.0.3-7 from unstable, and you have 2:1.1.1-1, apparently
from experimental.  I'll try yours and see what happens.


> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>           Florian   |


Thanks for the troubleshooting,
Celejar
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:36:43 GMT
From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures
Message-ID: <slrnfagcna.rkr.keeling@heretic.nucleus.com>

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>:

>  David Brodbeck wrote:
> > To me it always smacked a little of "me-too-ism", too ... the GNU  
> > folks felt Linux wasn't GNU-ish enough, so they had to go write their  
> > own kernel.
> 
>  The GNU Hurd has existed long before Linux existed.  Hurd has been in
>  development for many years.  (Hurd is technology of the future.


aka. "Vapourware"?


-- 
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(*)                                             Linux Counter #80292
- -    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html    Please, don't Cc: me.



Date:  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:11:51 +0530
From: alephnull@airtelbroadband.in (Alok G. Singh)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Suspicious PAM messages
Message-ID:  <87vec7afhc.fsf@klein.localdomain>
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hello,

Of late (a week or so) I have started noticing some strange syslog
messages:

su: PAM [dlerror: libselinux.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]: 2 Time(s)
su: PAM [dlerror: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory]: 2 Time(s)
su: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_rootok.so: 2 Time(s)
su: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so: 2 Time(s)
su: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_rootok.so): 2 Time(s)
su: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so): 2 Time(s)
su: pam_authenticate: Module is unknown: 2 Time(s)

I don't use su at all. AFAIK, the only thing that uses su on my system
is the console-log package.

Are the messages indications of something suspicious ?

-- 
Alok

I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.



Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:55:08 +0100
From: Terence <terence.john@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: "List Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?
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On 25/07/07, David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> wrote:

>
>Bicycles don't contain engine computers running close-source software. ;)



Aha! I knew there must be a link! Thanks , David.



>On 25/07/07 Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>
>That errupted into a brief
>shower of fire about bikes vs cars and subsequent OT ramblings about
>all sorts of bicycle related issues. We're now down to maybe 1 or 2
>messages a day in the thread and it looked to be dying... until you
>brought it up again... ;)


Sorry about that : )

I read the first few in the thread but missed the metamorphosis into
the "four wheels bad, two wheels good" part.

I shall have to pedal harder.

Terence


Do you need more help?X

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:22:57 -0400
From: "Rick Spillane" <necro351@gmail.com>
To: "Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>,
	debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3
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OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and
relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking
at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they
were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would
recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path
or some substitute that issues a warning. Regardless, I have placed
/etc/ under source control using mercurial so that I can roll back
files and compare differences after utilities go in and modify things.
Thanks Octavio!

On 7/26/07, Rick Spillane <necro351@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, this is really helpful!
>
> On 7/25/07, Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:46:15 -0700, Rick Spillane <necro351@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names
> > > that can be used to install packages under. I checked
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a
> > > name 'root' in there, thus doubling my confusion. My guess is that the
> > > there was once a root group in /etc/group, however it is no longer
> > > there (I checked). Could someone post an /etc/group so I can try to
> > > piece back together my /etc/group? I think this is the core of my
> > > problems.
> >
> > Sorry for not posting to the list.
> >
> > --
> > Octavio.
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Rick
> necro351@gmail.com
>



-- 

Rick
necro351@gmail.com



Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:38:17 +0300
From: David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Boinc Clients Niceness
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Is there any way to control the niceness of boinc_client processes?

Setiathome, for example, will initially come up niced. When it restarts, for 
example a new "work unit", it comes up not nice. It's options, controlled 
from their site, include nothing to control this and it has its own system of 
assigning priorities and niceness on its start.



Date:  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:30:23 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg-Volker_Peetz?= <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: with etch, /etc/fstab root not needed?
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Bob Proulx wrote:

> J=F6rg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>> Larry Evans wrote:
>>>   proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>> The /proc entry is obsolete if you use default mount options. It is
>> mounted by one of the initscripts.
>=20
> Hmm...  The stock Etch installer still creates the entry.
>=20
> I don't see an initscript that does this.  Can you point it out?  Or
> is this something new in Sid but not Etch?
>=20
> Bob
>=20

I'm using testing now, but as I remember it was this way also in etch.
The script is /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
--=20
Regards,
J=F6rg-Volker.



Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:19:06 +0100
From: koffiejunkie <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: syncing logs
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Tony Heal wrote:

> Does anyone have a way to synchronize logs, such as determine what 
> happened in apache at (or around) the same time that the syslog has an 
> entry. Since most logs have a date/time stamp per entry I would think 
> there was something around that could do this, but I can not find it.


If the logs have the same format date/time stamp at the start of each 
line, you can do something like

cat log1 log2 | sort | less

I'm not sure what you can do if the log formats differ.

If you're troubleshooting an ongoing issue, you can do:

tail -f log1 log2 (log3 etc.)

which will show the events from all specified logs as they happen.



Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:51:45 +0300
From: Yuriy Padlyak <yura@cvt.com.ua>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: to lvm or not to lvm?
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Hi guys,

No one can help me? :)

Yuriy Padlyak wrote:

> Hi again!
>
> Have found some time to do it all. Didn't want to reinstall 
> everything, done everything as you suggested except /boot is still on 
> "160GB drive"
> without raid :-(, now I'm trying to find out how to put it on RAID :).
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to make it safely?
>
> Also all file systems are in one VG now, wondering how to split them.
>
> Yuriy
>
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:54:41AM +0300, Yuriy Padlyak wrote:
>>  
>>> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 12:33:44PM +0300, Yuriy Padlyak wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Thank you for your reply. Looks like you're suggesting 
>>>>> installation, but I have Etch 4.0 installed already. Wondering if 
>>>>> it's possible to put existent /boot on ext3 partition and LVM 
>>>>> volume group on RAID1. Or possibly it will be easier to reinstall 
>>>>> and restore configuration.
>>>>>         
>>>> It all depends on how much extra space you have.  Its a little like a
>>>> shell game with clear shells. 
>>>> If you give us your current drive(s) layout including free space, and
>>>> your goal layout, perhaps we can help you with an implementation map.
>>>> I've totally forgotton how your drives are currently set up so I won't
>>>> make any if,then,else suggestions.
>>>>       Have additional hard drive, which can store any data 
>>>> temporary, while       
>>> I'm preparing main disks. I have 160GB and 60GB drives. I have plan 
>>> to make 60GB raid1 and 100GB for not very valuable data on rest of 
>>> the 160GB drive. Now my VG(consisting all data) is on temporary 
>>> 320GB drive and my /boot on ext3 partition is om 160GB.
>>>
>>> What I want is to put that /boot on raid1 along with very valuable 
>>> data from temporary drive (VG) and not very valuable data on that 
>>> 100GB not raid part. Everything except /boot should be on LVM.
>>>
>>> Hope my goal is clear now :)
>>>     
>>
>> I don't have any experience setting up raid/LVM from anything other than
>> the installer: I set it up there and haven't had to touch it.  So if it
>> were me and I had the netinst.iso or CD-1, I would do a minimal
>> reinstall on your two target disks and have ignore your 320 GB drive,
>> BUT I also don't have any experience of verifying how to get a new
>> install to find an existing LVM.  So read lots of man pages, and
>> consider backing up your data to a tarball on either a raw device or a
>> file on a filesystem, either way to that 320GB drive.  Either way, read
>> the raid HOWTOs and the LVM HOWTO.
>>
>> Your disk layout seems good:
>>
>> 60 GB drive partitions:
>>     1    32 MB        for raid1 md0
>>     2    59968 MB     for raid1 md1
>>
>> 160 GB drive partitions:
>>     1    32 MB        for raid1 md0
>>     2    59968 MB    for raid1 md1
>>     3    remainder    for LVM, VG-stripe
>>         this allows you later to add a device to this VG either
>>         to extend the size or migrate data if this drive starts
>>         to fail.
>>
>> Raid setup:
>>     md0    filesystem    /boot
>>     md1    for LVM        VG-mirror
>>
>> LVM setup:
>>     VG-mirror:
>>         LV-root        384 MB        /
>>         LV-usr        4 GB        /usr
>>         LV-var        6 GB        /var
>>         LV-home        ??        /home
>>     VG-stripe:
>>         LV-??        ??        ??
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
>>   
>
>

Date:  Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:03:18 -0500
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: USB scanner crashes VMware XP client
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Steve Kleene wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:22:06 -0400, I wrote:
> 
>> I'm running a VMware Server 1.0.2 XP client on an Etch host.  I'd like to
>> use an Epson Perfection 2400 scanner from the XP client, but it crashes XP.
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:16 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom replied:
> 
>> a year ago I tried a USB Winmodem on VMware Server XP client and got nowhere.
>>
>> Researching at that time I found that VMware stated its USB services could
>> not be guaranteed.
> 
> Yes, the manual for my version of VMware server says, "Modems and certain
> streaming devices, such as speakers and Web cams, do not work properly."
> However, it also says that "In general ... you should be able to use ...
> scanners".  I guess "In general" can mean almost anything.
> 


[OT] I switched for my (rare) XP tests to qemu. That may do it, I 
haven't tried my USB scanner on it.

Hugo

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