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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2999

Today's Topics: 

  ppp set up                            [ "jamesfoster"  ]
  Postfix: local aliases vs virtual ma  [ Stephane Durieux  ]
  Re: Compile boinc for amd64           [ Jonathan Kaye  ]
  Re: Latest kernel security update wo  [ Graham  ]
  changing hwclock's timezone           [ John Schmidt  ]
  Re: aptitude has poor exit status be  [ Joey Hess  ]
  Re: Postfix: local aliases vs virtua  [ Allan Wind  ]
  Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client        [ Felix Karpfen 
  Strange error message from mac-fdisk  [ Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com> ]
  Re: Latest kernel security update wo  [ Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwe ]



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:58:28 +0100


From: "jamesfoster" <jamesfoster@libero.it>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: ppp set up

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Hi,


I still cannot set up dial up internet connection for Debian Etch. Help!
I try to install the wvdial program but get 



'Error: Dependency is not satisfied: libaniconf4.2'



so no joy there.


Do you need help?X

I have installed the ppp program as advised in a help section of the Debi=
an.org site but when I type in 'pppconfig' as advised on the root termina=
l, it doesn't recognise the command.



I cant' find a program called 'ppppam' that the help notes advised me to =
install with the 'ppp' program.


Please help me to resolve my problem (if possible in simple, clear layman=
's language) or direct me to easy to follow, comprehensive instructions. =
I am trying to break away from the microsoft monopoly, but drowning in th=


e process.



Thanks



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:16:12 +0000


From: Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>
To:  debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Using Linda

Message-ID: <47615ACC.90200@untrammelled.co.uk>
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David Schulberg wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> Have just set up Linda or I thought I had.
> 
> When I run 'linda package.deb' I get errors as follows:
> 
>  
> 
> debian:/home/david/Desktop/Downloads# linda checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb
> 
> Linda: Running as root, dropping to nobody.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "/usr/bin/linda", line 101, in ?
> 
>     main.run()


[...]

> What is the problem here?
>

When you build a Debian package you end up with files like these:


	package_n.n.n-n_xxx.deb
	package_n.n.n.orig.tar.gz
	package_n.n.n-n.diff.gz

Do you need more help?X

	package_n.n.n-n.dsc
	package_n.n.n-n_i386.changes


I think that you are meant to run linda on the ".changes" file.


Can we help you?X

        linda package_n.n.n-n_i386.changes



The Debian New Maintainers' Guide [1] has more details.



[1] http://www.us.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

Hope that helps,


-- 
Chris.


Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:37:11 -0700
From: Bernd Prager <bernd@prager.ws>
To: jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: vim syntax line
Message-ID: <3fb60eada41a8e8b65a3427c10e96d04@prager.ws>
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Jerome,

Could you figure out what the issue is and how to fix that?
I am using version 7.0.235 and I experience the same problem.
My debian.vim does not mention anything about the syntax option.

-- Bernd

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:34:59 +0800, Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.ne=
t>
wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> there is an explanation in the `debian.vim' .
> Jerome
>=20
> Lucas Prado Melo wrote:
>> I don't know why... but when it happens I (re-(?))install vim...
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2007 8:00 PM, Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net
>> <mailto:jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     You get the point.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Jerome
>>
>>     Magnus Therning wrote:
>>      > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>      > Hash: SHA1
>>      >
>>      > On Dec 10, 2007 6:16 PM, Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net
>>     <mailto:jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>> wrote:
>>      >> Hello List,
>>      >>
>>      >> I have just noticed on my Lenny box that the vim syntax line
>>     command in files
>>      >> does not work anymore whereas the syntax feature is on.
>>      >> May I set something in vimrc to make it works ? or is it a bug=

 ?

>>      >
>>      > Are you talking about  `modeline'?
>>      >
>>      > The relevant variables are `modeline' and `modelines'.
>>      >
>>      > /M
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>>      >
>>      > iD8DBQFHXmF6iMWTaatN+6QRAq4PAKCU4nFeDaZmZ+QmXIf7wsNaYm+HcwCfRb6=

m

>>      > LKmDnl1aK4DS1dEhsFxUgII=3D
>>      > =3DhE3K
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>>      >
>>
>>     --
>>     Jerome BENOIT
>>     jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
>>     <mailto:debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org>
>>     with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
>>     listmaster@lists.debian.org <mailto:listmaster@lists.debian.org>
>>
>>
>=20
> --
> Jerome BENOIT
> jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net
>=20
>=20
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
> listmaster@lists.debian.org

-- Bernd Prager



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:55:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Stephane Durieux <durieux42@yahoo.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Postfix: local aliases vs virtual mailboxes 
Message-ID: <883312.77388.qm@web27802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Hello,

As a newbie I need advices concerning Postfix accounts
method.
I am dithering between aliases to local system
accounts and virtual mailboxes.

I have only a domain to manage (so virtual mailboxes
are not mandatory, only an option)=20

But I need a good level of security

So :=20

- alias to local accounts with /bin/false for users in
/etc/passwd plus netfilter and pam restriction (ssh
...)

- virtual mailboxes=20

Thanks for reply
=20



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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:48:10 -0600
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: ppp set up
Message-ID: <8763z2pmlx.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

jamesfoster writes:

> I try to install the wvdial program but get 'Error: Dependency is not
> satisfied: libaniconf4.2'


How did you install wvdial?


> I cant' find a program called 'ppppam' that the help notes advised me to
> install with the 'ppp' program.


There does not seem to be any 'ppppam' package.


> I have installed the ppp program as advised in a help section of the
> Debian.org site but when I type in 'pppconfig' as advised on the root
> terminal, it doesn't recognise the command.


Install pppconfig with 'aptitude install pppconfig' as root.
-- 
John Hasler



Date:  Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:26:16 +0100
From:  Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Compile boinc for amd64
Message-ID:  <fjrmfe$2v8$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Fabio wrote:


> Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is
> possible to increase the power of boinc?
> there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me?
> thanks
> Fabio

Hi Fabio,
I assume you want to compile a 64 bit version.
I found this on the Boinc website:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SystemRequirements
Linux 64-bit =C2=B6

32-bit binaries don't just work on every 64-bit Linux. For example, on
Ubuntu 6.10 or 7.04, 32-bit binaries won't work. They are not even
recognized as valid executables. You first have to install the ia32 packa=
ge
and dependent packages.

Further, for programs that link with the graphic library, you will manual=
ly
have to copy a 32-bit libglut library to the usr/lib32 directory. If afte=
r
this they still get client errors, tell them to find your exe in the
projects directory and run ldd to see what libraries are missing.
Cheers,
Jonathan
--=20
Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
Can't find what you're looking for?X

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:38:45 +0000
From: Graham <doubleyou@loftmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot
Message-ID: <20071213173845.4de3a398@pluto.lan>
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On 13 Dec 2007 10:38:00 -0500
Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> wrote:


> I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO
> 
> I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the
> 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5
> 
> The install produced a message about the fact that it was updating the
> running kernel and I should reboot right away - which I did.
> 
> Reboot failed with kernel panic which was something like:
> 
> VFS - cannot open root device "302" or block 302 not found (this is
> approximate).
> 
> I tried root=/dev/hda2, and root=/dev/ide/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 -
> neither worked.
> 
> I copied a backup of my old 2.6.18 kernel and initrd.img as another
> kernel image and ran lilo, all from the rescue cd.
> 
> I booted the old system successfully.  I then ran a reinstall of the
> kernel under aptitude, but it still won't boot.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Have my devices been somehow renumbered here? If so, how do I figure
> out what the new numbering is?
> 
> Any other possibilities?


Probably a stupid question, but still worth asking: when you saw the
message that you should reboot the machine after the new kernel is
installed, did you hit the tab key to highlight the "OK" at the bottom
of the message, then hit enter, or did you just reboot straight away
without doing so? There is still stuff to do with the kernel
installation after that message is displayed, so you should of hit the
"OK" instead of immediately rebooting. If you followed the procedure
correctly, then sorry if I've wasted your time, but thought it worth
asking.


Graham



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:11:48 -0700
From: John Schmidt <john.andrew.schmidt@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: changing hwclock's timezone
Message-Id: <200712131111.49004.john.andrew.schmidt@gmail.com>
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Hi,

I have a friend whose time is being reported incorrectly with the date command 
and the hwclock command.  Both commands are reporting the commands in UTC 
instead of the eastern timezone.  He just installed ntp on his box.

His /etc/timezone is 

	America/New_York


The output of the date and hwclock commands:

sh-3.1# date
Wed Dec 12 21:52:41 UTC 2007
sh-3.1# date -u
Wed Dec 12 21:52:46 UTC 2007
sh-3.1# hwclock
Wed 12 Dec 2007 04:22:58 PM UTC  -0.780500 seconds


On my debian boxes, the hwclock reports the time using my timezone.  I am 
guessing that the problem was the use of UTC instead of EST.  I tried to have 
him adjust the hwclock, but couldn't get the right syntax.

So the questions are:

1.  Would manually setting the time via the date command to something close to 
the correct time fix things so that ntp would eventually sync things up, 
since the time difference is too big for ntp to work?

2.  Do I have to set the time via the hwclock?  If so, how do I do that?

I didn't have him check the bios to see what the time is reporting there.

Thanks,

John Schmidt



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:18:37 GMT
From: Fabio <stratosphere1982@libero.it>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Compile boinc for amd64
Message-ID: <47618558.5000707@libero.it>
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Jonathan Kaye wrote:

> Fabio wrote:
>=20
>> Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is
>> possible to increase the power of boinc?
>> there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me?
>> thanks
>> Fabio
> Hi Fabio,
> I assume you want to compile a 64 bit version.
> I found this on the Boinc website:
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SystemRequirements
> Linux 64-bit =C2=B6
>=20
> 32-bit binaries don't just work on every 64-bit Linux. For example, on
> Ubuntu 6.10 or 7.04, 32-bit binaries won't work. They are not even
> recognized as valid executables. You first have to install the ia32 pac=

kage

> and dependent packages.
>=20
> Further, for programs that link with the graphic library, you will manu=

ally

> have to copy a 32-bit libglut library to the usr/lib32 directory. If af=

ter

> this they still get client errors, tell them to find your exe in the
> projects directory and run ldd to see what libraries are missing.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan



Oh thanks for the advice man..!



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:49:07 -0500
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
To: 233129@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour
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bts tag 233129 d-i
thanks

Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   I'm currently busy working on other parts of the program.  If you want
> this in a hurry your best bet is to either send a working patch to a bug
> report or (if such a patch already exists) to harass me via email until
> I apply it. :-)  Preferably all such harassment should be conducted via
> emails sent to bug reports so that it gets archived with the bug and
> filtered into my debbugs folder.


Please consider yourself harrassed. :-)

In d-i, we've implemented everything we need to get a nice progress bar
during the system's initial update of the Packages files from the
mirror. Except that apt doesn't send progress info for apt-get update
over the status-fd interface (#448908). Happily aptitude does send such
progress info over that interface, but since it doesn't propigate
download failures, lack of which would utterly break d-i, we can't
switch to using aptitude there.

(FWIW, #282408 is no longer on the d-i code path due to other changes,
and if #445035 were fixed, it might break tasksel in some situations
(though I'm sure I could deal with that).)

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see shy jo

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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:15:23 -0500
From: Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Postfix: local aliases vs virtual mailboxes
Message-ID: <20071213191523.GB2271@lifeintegrity.com>
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On 2007-12-13T17:55:08+0100, Stephane Durieux wrote:

> But I need a good level of security
> 
> So : 
> 
> - alias to local accounts with /bin/false for users in
> /etc/passwd plus netfilter and pam restriction (ssh
> ...)
> 
> - virtual mailboxes 


If you do not need the accounts then use virtual mailboxes, otherwise 
use (plain) aliases.

I alias all system accounts to root, and root to user accounts for 
administrators (i.e. me).  On my personal work-station I also have a 
virtual alias:

allan allan@vent

so mail send from this host to myself is delivered locally instead of 
sent to my central mail server (replyhost).


/Allan



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:36:42 -0500
From: Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot
Message-ID: <476189c9$0$5935$607ed4bc@cv.net>
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Graham wrote:

> On 13 Dec 2007 10:38:00 -0500
> Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO
>>
>> I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the
>> 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5
>>
>> The install produced a message about the fact that it was updating the
>> running kernel and I should reboot right away - which I did.
>>
>> Reboot failed with kernel panic which was something like:
>>
>> VFS - cannot open root device "302" or block 302 not found (this is
>> approximate).
>>
>> I tried root=/dev/hda2, and root=/dev/ide/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 -
>> neither worked.
>>
>> I copied a backup of my old 2.6.18 kernel and initrd.img as another
>> kernel image and ran lilo, all from the rescue cd.
>>
>> I booted the old system successfully.  I then ran a reinstall of the
>> kernel under aptitude, but it still won't boot.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Have my devices been somehow renumbered here? If so, how do I figure
>> out what the new numbering is?
>>
>> Any other possibilities?
> 
> Probably a stupid question, but still worth asking: when you saw the
> message that you should reboot the machine after the new kernel is
> installed, did you hit the tab key to highlight the "OK" at the bottom
> of the message, then hit enter, or did you just reboot straight away
> without doing so? There is still stuff to do with the kernel
> installation after that message is displayed, so you should of hit the
> "OK" instead of immediately rebooting. If you followed the procedure
> correctly, then sorry if I've wasted your time, but thought it worth
> asking.
> 
> 
> Graham
> 
> 

Not what I saw.  I hit enter and then eventually returned to aptitude. 
I was seeing a text interface, not a curses interface on the terminal.

Another fact - initrd.img is tiny.  So something didn't get built.



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:09:12 -0800
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:56:53PM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote:

> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote:
> >
> >> (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum
> >> behaviour.  In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various
> >> failure situations
> [...]
> >> I did a quick test with 'apt-get' on Sarge, and found it returns exit
> >> status 100 in at least some of these situations (I didn't test all of
> >> them), so there seems to have been some regression here :
> >=20
> > apt-get is a different program. There's not a regression unless the
> > lack of error codes appears in apt-get in etch and later.
>=20
> Agreed it's a different program (though I would guess it shares at least
> some code) - but what I meant was a regression in system functionality
> as a whole, rather than in 'aptitude' specifically.  Sorry if I abused
> the term.


fair enough. meanwhile, looks like you got a fantastic response!

A

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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:13:40 -0800
From: "Robert Bond" <r.bond@verizon.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: RE: Files/directories dated 2012?
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>> I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so

40+

>> packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it

appeared

>> to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem

down

>> to the fact that many files and directories on my system had a

modification

>> date of 12/12/2012! I fixed most of them with some "touch" scripts and

got

>> the upgrades to work.

>Where did those files come from? If they belong to some debian package, 
>you might want to check the timestamps of the files in that package with:


I spent some time trying to figure this out. The question lead me to some
interesting facts. There are 125 .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives that
had the 2012 date. I take that to mean that the clock was probably wrong
when these file were loaded. Many, many other files scattered around the
system were wrong. 

The updates for the new packages came in a couple of waves - the first bunch
were just the ones that the Gnome applet (don't know what this is called)
prompted me to install. Once I did that I ran apt update and the second wave
came. I'm going to make the hypothesis that something during the first wave
changed my system clock to 2012. I extracted these lines from "ls -tl /etc":

drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 16:17 vim
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 16:17 w3m
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 16:17 wpa_supplicant
drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 16:17 xdg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 16:17 xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      349 2007-12-11 15:45 mtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root       46 2007-12-11 15:44 adjtime
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 15:41 gre.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    49345 2007-12-11 15:41 ld.so.cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 15:40 alternatives
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 15:40 bash_completion.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 2007-12-11 15:40 openoffice

Everything with a date of "2007-12-11 16:17" was fixed when I ran my "touch"
script so these items had the date 2012. Indeed,
/var/cache/apt/archives/vim-common_1%3a7.0-122+1etch2_i386.deb had the 2012
date. So /etc/vim was probably hosed when it was installed.

It is interesting that /etc/adjtime is one of the last things that changed
before things went south. Does anyone know what programs mess with
/etc/adjtime? Maybe I can track that down....

		Bob


Don't know where to look next?X

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:14 +0000 (UTC)
From:  Felix Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client
Message-ID: <fjs4de$s0j$1@ger.gmane.org>
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I have located the following relevant info in

"/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz":

   If you want to set up exim as SMTP AUTH client for delivery to your
   internet access provider's smarthost put the name of the server, your
   login and password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. See the man page for
   exim4-config_files(5) for more information about the required format.

This works well for emails sent via my ISP.  But I also have a "gmail"
account (as a fallback - in case my ISP bombs out).

_My_ ISP does not require SMTP-AUTH; the ISP used by one of my regular
correspondents will not accept emails that do not have it.  GMail offers
relevant info on using "GMail + procmail"; nothing on using "GMail +
exim4".

My question is:

Are there any  problems with having more than one entry in my
"etc/exim4/passwd.client" file?

All advice will be gratefully received.



Felix Karpfen



--=20
Felix Karpfen
Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:28:09 -0500
From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>
To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Strange error message from mac-fdisk in Lenny on PowerMac G4
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Anybody know what this error message means?


> greybox:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
> mac-fdisk: Symbol `sys_errlist' has different size in shared  
> object, onsider re-linking



The machine in question is a PowerMac G4 running Lenny.

Thoughts?

Rick



Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:32:03 -0800
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot
Message-ID: <20071213203203.GP3266@localhost.localdomain>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:36:42PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote:


>> Marc Auslander <marcslists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO
>>>
>>> I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the
>>> 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5
>>>
>>> The install produced a message about the fact that it was updating the
>>> running kernel and I should reboot right away - which I did.
>>>
>>> Reboot failed with kernel panic which was something like:
>>>
>>> VFS - cannot open root device "302" or block 302 not found (this is
>>> approximate).
>
> Another fact - initrd.img is tiny.  So something didn't get built.
>


missing some modules in initrd? try rebuilding it and see what
happens. look at mkinitrd or mkinitramfs (I don't remember which comes
with etch).=20

the command will be something like

mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.18-version-arch -k 2.6.18-version-arch=20

be sure to move the other one aside first. and since you're using
lilo, make sure you aer aware of what your symlinks are and so forth.=20

A

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