You almost certainly lost
You almost certainly lost those packages during the period in which dmsetup conflicted with devicekit-disks, and GNOME started requiring devicekit-disks. Apt thus removed dmsetup to keep GNOME and...
View Articleit's a maintainer fail
http://bugs.debian.org/545032 perhaps? You'll have to thank a specific fellow DM, who seems to think that adding a conflict on a critical package like dmsetup is an acceptable workaround.
View Articledevicekit-disks
Hm, I don't use GNOME per se (just plain icewm) but I guess I have some GNOME libs installed due to some application dependencies. However, I have no "devicekit-disks" package installed right now, so...
View ArticleEncrypted USB thumb drives and (USB) hard disks using loop-AES
I feel that dm-crypt works faster, it is also secure and no way be compared by Loop-Aes.
View Articlenearly painless Debian unstable.
firstly a big thanks Uwe! info found in the last couple of years on your blog helped me break away from the influence of the Evil Empire for good.have you ever tried sidux? it's a relatively painless...
View Articleedit of my previous post.
edit of my previous post:sidux is using the 2.26.32 kernel now, which greatly improves hardware support... and no more xorg.config!
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I had shut down Ubuntu while it was doing an fsck on my Debian partition, and this interfered with Debian's own bootup checks and fsck. Odd indeed, linuxes interfereing with one another. Gave me a...
View Articleenergy talk radio
I booted into Ubuntu and did some updates I rebooted into Debian. Horror: fsck failed on root fs, cannot find superblock, read-only mode. I too could not find the superblock. Nice post!
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Thank you so mutch, You've saved my day! Denian rocks. Greetings from Germany and Russia!
View ArticleSame here
Hi, had the same problem with my Debian, so I changed it to Gentoo, lucky me that I made a full back up before the crash and formatting of my hdd.
View Articleradeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R300_cp.bin"
Last recently i've updates my sidux kernel, after a very long time. After that was impossible to switch into full screen mode in kaffeine. It seems that the radeon/R300_cp.bin was moved into...
View ArticleKfreebsd under QEMU
Thanks for a very helpful page.Some things have changed since it was written. Most are to do with the installer, so they are obvious, some other points1) Add -enable-kvm if your host CPU is the same as...
View ArticleWorks!
Thanks for your documentation. I needed to expand my partition for the same reason: I've dd'ed an old disk to a new disk.Step 1 worked for me on an extended partition. The fdisk's "p" command shows...
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Thanks for the great tutorial, using this to resize a bt4 installation on sdcard with a logical luks rootpartition before a primary /home took a little while but finally worked. Danke Uwe :)
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After a long frustrating evening of trying to figure out why my laptop wouldn't boot after a Debian upgrade, I finally stumbled on this blog post, and soon had the machine running again. Thanks for...
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