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| Things I Have Done: | Linux Toys, Junk |
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![[Helicopter above Pitt St]](http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/pleb_blossom/pics/5-3930.jpg)
The Army has been practicing running two helicopters up Pitt St. this afternoon. So far they have done about half a dozen laps, down from Circular Quay to about Town Hall where they do some maneuver that I can't quite see out of my window before looping back North over the Domain. They seem to take about a 15-30 minute rest between each lap. Not sure where they go during this time. Perhaps up to Palm Beach. Or perhaps they drop in for scones with the PM at Kirribilli House. In any case, I'm glad that they are keeping themselves busy and giving the office workers something to peer at our of their windows.
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:19:55 +1000
![[Firefox error message]](http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/pleb_blossom/pics/firefox.png)
Am I the only person who invokes firefox -P profile and expects it to work even if firefox is already running?
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:12:27 +1000
Sometimes when you live in a foreign country interesting things happen. For Chiz, yesterday was one of those days.
Before, during and after dinner she was complaining of not feeling very well due to a sore stomache. She was wondering if perhaps she was coming down with a cold - there is at least one going around. On the short walk home from dinner she asked me what the sasuage like things below ones stomache are called, as they hurt too. I let her know that intestines was the word that she was after.
When we got home she showed me the elite new tea that she had been drinking on recommendation from a friend. Four or five cups since she started the day before...
![[Clearing Intestines to Reduce Weight Tea]](http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/pleb_blossom/pics/5-3919-crop1.jpg)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:56:52 +1000
![[Sunset at Tokoriki in Fiji]](http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/pleb_blossom/pics/2007-10-03-125520.0_1024.jpg)
Some time back in 2006 I sifted through many mailing list posts and pulled together all the patches to kexec-tools that were floating about. I subsequently put these in a git tree and released them as kexec-tools-testing.
As time went on, kexec-tools-testing ended up having releases about every 3 months or so, and became the focus for development of kexec-tools.
It has become a bit silly to call this code kexec-tools-testing, as it is the main development branch. The name only seems to serve to confuse people and perhaps scare some people off.
Along with the latest release of the code I have renamed the tree kexec-tools. So don't be confused any longer!
More about how to get kexec-tools
here
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:04:38 +1000
![[Gaku with a Baseball Bat]](http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/pleb_blossom/pics/2-4133.jpg)
Last Friday morning I had the joy of Jackhammers [1] not to long after waking up. This Friday I had the joy of not being able to log into X on my desktop machine.
I fairly quickly narrowed this down to some fairly bogus permissions on /dev/null, /dev/zero and likely many others. And I fairly quickly started to suspect udev. To cut a long story short, after much fussing about I narrowed the problem down to the presence of /etc/udev/rules.d/65_dmsetup.rules by comparing things with a working system.
After that, I found that this is Debian Bug #491107in dmsetup 2:1.02.27-2. The bug report describes the problem as well as I could, I experienced both the permissions and the no booting variants in the course of my journey :-)
From: Modestas Vainius
To: Debian Bug Tracking System
Subject: something in dmsetup.rules renders udev useless
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:06:02 +0300
I'm reporting this as critical because it rendered my systems unbootable. When /etc/udev/rules.d/65_dmsetup.rules is present, udev stops functioning properly (various anomalies can be seen like wrong permissions on /dev/null etc.). If, unfortunately, initramfs image is regenerated and that rules gets included, system becomes unbootable due to "Waiting for root file system". Actually, even if udev daemon is started in this case, it simply sits there and won't coldplug a single device. Moving this file away resolves the problem. I reproduced this problem on both my computers with 2.6.26-trunk-amd64, 2.6.25-2-amd64 and a few other kernels (which had initramfs regenerated).
Lessons learnt:
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:45:45 +1000