I visited to 71th Tokyo Debian Benkyokai in last sunday (18th Dec,2010) (The words is 'Benkyokai' is a Japanese popular term, which means a meeting held by amatures who are interested in the specified topics.) The main topics in this meeti…

In sometime, my linux box (linux-2.6.32 in debian sid) fails to recognize LG L-05a. I find out a simple workaround and I will memorize this here. In usual case, when I insert this usb device, my linux box starts to scan ,and finally recogn…

I misunderstood and confused about rlimit of linux-box,so I will write about rlimit consulting the kernel source of linux-2.6.32. The rlimit of running process are shown in /proc//limits. The default values of rlimit are defined in linux-2…

I find the gkrellm show the wrong cpu temperature. It always displays between 10 and 20 [deg] C,however the ambient temperature is higher than 28[deg] C in my room! Finally I find k8temp module of linux-2.6.32(provided by debian sid) retur…

I mentioned before, using 'qemu32' cpu type is avoiding from hanging up opensolaris 0906 on KVM under Debian sid. However this workaround has the big side-effect,which is disabling almost all cpu feature. I found a more better workaround t…

I write how to debug hanging up opensolaris 0906 on KVM under Debian sid.Step 1. Get the source of opensolaris. mkdir opensolaris cd opensolaris sudo aptitude install mercurial hg clone http://bitbucket.org/mirror/onnv-gate # I prefer bitb…

I tried to analyze tcp packets captured by Net::Pcap from ppp link. I wrote a tiny analyzing packet program referenced the example program 'pcapdump' (which included in Net::Pcap),but the result is totally broken. Eventually I misunderstoo…

I upgrade my Debian box,and also install linux-image-2.6.32-5 and re-build the nvidia-kernel-driver. However after reboot, the nouveau driver is enable by default. This causes to prevent from next loading a proprietary nvidia-kernel-driver…

I mentioned before, OpenSolaris-0906 KVM guest hangs under linux-image-2.6.32-5 (32bit) with AMD athlon CPU. I found a workaround.Host OS envrionment I used is below, AMD Athlon 5600 CPU Memory 2GB Debian sid (sqeeze/sid) linux-image-2.6.3…

I'll show my memorandum about setting up serial console login of OpenSolaris-0906 for virsh console mode under KVM.Notice: This method IS NOT suitable for totally manipulate opensolaris via virsh console. This method only support to login …

This is my memorandum about checking hardware and device drivers under OpenSolaris-0906.1. What devices are available? Using prtconf , the result is shown like this, foo@opensolaris:~$prtconf system Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc Me…

In installing Fedora 13 beta under KVM, I met suddenly dying qemu imediately invoking virt-install.It is because libvirt append -no-reboot option to qemu in booting from cdrom image.The Fedora 13 beta install image causes reset immediately…

I met a trouble on installing Fedora 13 Beta using virt-install under debian sid (32bits). The trouble is that qemu died with no errors immediately after invoke virt-install.Consulting the source of libvirt-0.8.0, I found the log which are…

I successfully running opensolaris-0906 using KVM on debian sid (32bits) under AMD athlon processor.Some tips are shown, Using linux-imange-2.6.30 is good. Unfortunately using linux-image-2.6.32-4 and linux-image-2.6.32-5(evaluated in 2010…