How to change the console font?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program.
But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I 
don't know what that does.


Can anybody help me out here?

Hugo (Sid)

No hibernate.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

I always hibernate my system but since the last upgrade when I do 
"systemctl hibernate" I get:


Failed to hibernate system via logind: Sleep verb not supported

How do I get hibernate back?

Hugo(Sid)

Selecting text

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I usually select pieces of text on the screen running X with the mouse 
by pointing to it and then dragging to where the end is. The piece will 
turn blue. Then cntrl+c will copy the piece to the clipboard and cntrl+v 
will paste it.


I now have a strange situation that on one system running Stretch + Sid 
the piece of text does not turn color when selecting it.


Anybody know what to do in that case?

Hugo

Re: Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 01/14/2017 09:30 AM, solitone wrote:

On Saturday, January 14, 2017 9:15:11 AM CET Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

and on mine not!


Are you on stretch as well?

Davide




Sid.

Hugo

Re: Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 01/14/2017 09:21 AM, Bob Weber wrote:

This is the safe way to browse the web.  The flash plugin is apparently
disabled by default.  What you can do is make an exception for nbc.  Go
into settings/advanced and click on the button for "Content settings".
Scroll down to Flash. Click on "Manage exceptions" and enter
"[*.]nbc.com" without the quotes.  Make sure Allow is set and hit the
enter key.  This makes an exception for all of nbc so that things are
displayed correctly.  You should also check that you don't ad/malware
blocking extensions installed that might block content on nbc.  If so
make sure nbc is white listed there also.


Flash was blocked on all sites.
Thanks Bob!






*...Bob*
On 01/13/2017 09:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi

The Flash Player that comes with Google-Chrome has become more noisy
with newer versions of Google-Chrome.

In the beginning Flash just displayed the video.

Then it displayed the start symbol that you had to click in order for
the video to start.

Now it displays a puzzle piece with the message to right click the
puzzle piece and then select "Run the plug-in".

That works generally but it fails with NBC News pages. "Right-click to
run Adobe Flash Player" appears overlayed by a rotating circle
segment. but right-click never shows ythe option to run the plug-in.

Can anyone verify this and what is to be done?

Hugo

Re: Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 01/13/2017 11:30 PM, solitone wrote:

That's strange. On mine the video is displayed.

solitone@alan:~$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
  Installed: 55.0.2883.87-1
  Candidate: 55.0.2883.87-1
  Version table:
 *** 55.0.2883.87-1 500
500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status




and on mine not!

hugo@sdb5:/sda7/hda10/backup.files/fromhd/home/hugo$ apt-cache policy 
google-chrome-stable

+ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
  Installed: 55.0.2883.87-1
  Candidate: 55.0.2883.87-1
  Version table:
 *** 55.0.2883.87-1 500
500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 
Packages

100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Problem google-chrome Flash Player with http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi

The Flash Player that comes with Google-Chrome has become more noisy 
with newer versions of Google-Chrome.


In the beginning Flash just displayed the video.

Then it displayed the start symbol that you had to click in order for 
the video to start.


Now it displays a puzzle piece with the message to right click the 
puzzle piece and then select "Run the plug-in".


That works generally but it fails with NBC News pages. "Right-click to 
run Adobe Flash Player" appears overlayed by a rotating circle segment. 
but right-click never shows ythe option to run the plug-in.


Can anyone verify this and what is to be done?

Hugo

Re: How to change the name of a Debian .deb package?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 12/06/2016 02:11 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:48:17PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

I have changed the wmtemp package.
Now I need to change the version so that it can be distinguished from
its origin.
How do I do that?


Unpack the source, use the "dch" program (from devscripts) to add a new
entry to the debian/changelog file, and then rebuild the package using
dpkg-buildpackage (or whatever you have been using).



Thanks Greg, works like a charm!

Hugo

How to change the name of a Debian .deb package?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I have changed the wmtemp package.
Now I need to change the version so that it can be distinguished from 
its origin.

How do I do that?


Hugo

Re: Problems with hibernation - randomly cannot resume.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 11/17/2016 10:36 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> writes:


On 11/17/2016 02:23 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote:

Debian sid laptop.
Recently I upgraded some packages.
And I have problem with hibernation (to disk).
When I turned on it resumes, but immediately restart.
Unfortunately it is not always. Sometimes it resumes properly.
What should I check/test etc?
KJ



I get this only with kernel 4.7.0-1.amd4. Try switching to
4.6.0-1-amd64 or 4.8.0-1-amd64.

Hugo

Hm :)
--8<---cut here---start->8---
uname -a
Linux bambus 4.7.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Match.
I'll try.
KJ



If you run an updated Sid then 4.6.0-1-amd64  and 4.8.0-1-amd64 will 
still be around. Run with either of those and your problem will go away.


Hugo

Re: Problems with hibernation - randomly cannot resume.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 11/17/2016 02:23 AM, Kamil Jońca wrote:

Debian sid laptop.
Recently I upgraded some packages.
And I have problem with hibernation (to disk).
When I turned on it resumes, but immediately restart.
Unfortunately it is not always. Sometimes it resumes properly.
What should I check/test etc?
KJ



I get this only with kernel 4.7.0-1.amd4. Try switching to 4.6.0-1-amd64 
or 4.8.0-1-amd64.


Hugo

Wmtemp output wrong with kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi all.

Running Sid which recently went to kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64. But Wmtemp 
outout is wrong: both CPU and motherboard temps are 41.
Wmtemp is a WindowMaker dock applet that displays CPU and motherboard 
temps as they are gathered by Lm-sensors.


Lm-sensors has some programs, one of them the 'sensors' command which 
will show all the data that is currently gathered.

The following is the output of sensors with kernel 4.7.0-1-amd64:

<--->
atk0110-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
Vcore Voltage:   +1.28 V  (min =  +0.80 V, max =  +1.80 V)
3.3V Voltage:+3.26 V  (min =  +2.97 V, max =  +3.63 V)
5V Voltage:  +5.03 V  (min =  +4.50 V, max =  +5.50 V)
12V Voltage:+11.90 V  (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V)
CPU FAN Speed:  2860 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CHASSIS1 FAN Speed:0 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CHASSIS2 FAN Speed:0 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CPU Temperature: +34.0°C  (high = +60.0°C, crit = +75.0°C)
MB Temperature:  +27.0°C  (high = +45.0°C, crit = +75.0°C)

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:+25.1°C  (high = +70.0°C)
   (crit = +90.0°C, hyst = +88.0°C)

nouveau-pci-0400
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:+41.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
   (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +2.0°C)
   (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)

nouveau-pci-0500
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:+40.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
   (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +2.0°C)
   (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)
<--->

The following is the output of sensors with kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64:

<---> 


nouveau-pci-0400
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:+41.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
   (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +2.0°C)
   (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)

atk0110-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
Vcore Voltage:   +1.04 V  (min =  +0.80 V, max =  +1.80 V)
3.3V Voltage:+3.28 V  (min =  +2.97 V, max =  +3.63 V)
5V Voltage:  +5.00 V  (min =  +4.50 V, max =  +5.50 V)
12V Voltage:+11.90 V  (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V)
CPU FAN Speed:  2922 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CHASSIS1 FAN Speed:0 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CHASSIS2 FAN Speed:0 RPM  (min =  600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM)
CPU Temperature: +29.0°C  (high = +60.0°C, crit = +75.0°C)
MB Temperature:  +28.0°C  (high = +45.0°C, crit = +75.0°C)

nouveau-pci-0500
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:+40.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
   (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +2.0°C)
   (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:+18.5°C  (high = +70.0°C)
   (crit = +90.0°C, hyst = +88.0°C)
<--->

As can be seen, data is the same but the order is different. It appears 
that the output of nouveau-pci-0400 is used, while that of 
atk0110-acpi-0 should be.


Can anyone shed light on this?

Hugo

Re: change password prompt

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 09/19/2016 10:21 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:

On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:

I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding
something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file,
but at the moment I can not recall what/how I did it, but I'd like to do it
again.
Anyone?


sudoers(5) says that you should change 'passprompt_override' setting.

Reco


I'm trying, but failing to find an example of how to use that, like the
precise syntax to use.
The man page doesn't give any example, so it's not clear how to use it.


This line in /etc/sudoers works for me:

Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:"

Of course you should use visudo, not edit /etc/sudoers directly.



True. But I use mc, have done so for years and that seems to work. What 
am I endangering?


Hugo

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 08/11/2016 11:46 AM, Curt wrote:

On 2016-08-11, Reco  wrote:

Hi.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 03:55:56PM +, Curt wrote:


http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this-linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true

Calling all experts: cause for concern?


Debian stable is affected.

If you're relying on HTTP or FTP - you're screwed. If you prefer HTTPS
and SSH - it does not concern you.

To workaround the problem, use (/etc/sysctl.conf is preferred):

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit=9


Thank you very much for this.


To solve the problem you should wait until Debian-provided kernels gain
a backport for CVE-2016-5696.



And how will one know when to remove this patch? Or rather what effect 
will it have if it never is removed?


Hugo

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 08/12/2016 10:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:10:48PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for
Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User.

That works and I see all the posts.

But I cannot post.

The SMTP server is set up like:

Desciption: 
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
User Name: 
Authentication Method:Normal password
Connection security: SSL/TLS

What more has to be done for SSL/TLS, does anything need to be installed?


If you're using icedove ONLY for newsgroups (NNTP), then you don't need
to set up an SMTP account. SMTP is used to sending email, but NNTP is a
two-way protocol, allowing you to read AND post to newsgroups.

However, if you're reading your newsgroups through some other means
(it's possible to gateway newsgroups to a different protocol such as
IMAP or a web page, in which case, yes, you'd need an SMTP account to
semd messages back. This is how sites like Gmane work).



Thanks, Darac, that was not clear. I use icedove ONLY for newsgroups.

Hugo

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 08/11/2016 10:22 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

On 08/11/2016 10:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for
Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User.

That works and I see all the posts.

But I cannot post.

The SMTP server is set up like:

Desciption: 
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
User Name: 
Authentication Method:Normal password
Connection security: SSL/TLS

What more has to be done for SSL/TLS, does anything need to be installed?




That post worked.

But on reply I get a message:

Login to smtp.gmail.com failed, enter new password.

and it loops on that.




But Followup works! What's the difference between followup and reply?

Hugo

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

On 08/11/2016 10:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for
Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User.

That works and I see all the posts.

But I cannot post.

The SMTP server is set up like:

Desciption: 
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
User Name: 
Authentication Method:Normal password
Connection security: SSL/TLS

What more has to be done for SSL/TLS, does anything need to be installed?




That post worked.

But on reply I get a message:

Login to smtp.gmail.com failed, enter new password.

and it loops on that.

Hugo

cannot POST in Icedove

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi all,

I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for 
Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User.


That works and I see all the posts.

But I cannot post.

The SMTP server is set up like:

Desciption: 
Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
User Name: 
Authentication Method:Normal password
Connection security: SSL/TLS

What more has to be done for SSL/TLS, does anything need to be installed?

Hugo

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

Where does the google-chrome-beta store its temporary files? If it has any?

I'm happily using firefox in testing/sid. It uses the .mozilla profile folder in
my $HOME on an SSD and a mozilla directory for caching some files which via the
XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable is located in /tmp which in turn resides in 
RAM.



Google chrome uses a Default folder in the users .config folder for 
temporary files and settings.


Hugo

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:

On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 22:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Greetings everybody,

This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks
of 
500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB.


It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]".

The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the 
NVidia closed source driver but they dropped support for these cards
to 
Legacy-940.96, which has problems with the Sid level of the kernel
and 
the gcc compiler.
So I tried to purge the NVidia driver and install nouveau, but was 
unable to do so. So I did a new install which installed nouveau when
I 
installed xorg. It looks and behaves just the way NVidia used to.


I usually run on the HD502HJ disks but wanted to see how this new 
install would run on the SSD830, so I ran a copy of the new system
on 
that disk.


I run google-chrome-beta as browser and never have any problems on
the 
HD502HJ. But on the SSD830 I was getting lots of not responding 
applications that had to be killed and not responding plugin. It
made 
the system unusable.


The only difference between the 2 systems is the disk on which they
run.

I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful.
The 
moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French

speaker.

Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you
suggest?

Hugo.


Your reasoning is a bit hard to follow. If the only difference is the
SSD why do you suspect the graphics card at all?

What exactly is the problem, is it something that is specific to Google
Chrome?



I'm sorry for the faulty reasoning Sven. I do not suspect the graphics 
card, but have doubts about nouveau. This is the first time with nouveau 
on the SSD. I was there before, but with NVidia closed source drivers 
and I don't remember these sort of problems. But Felix has given a good 
idea to see whether nouveau is at fault.


I only use Google-Chrome and it sometimes puts up a screen when an 
application does not respond anymore and asks whether they should wait 
longer or kill it now. In this case I was getting those screens very 
frequently so that the browser was unusable. Also there were screens 
that the plugin had become unresponsive, should that be killed.


I never see those on the HD502HJ's.

Hugo

Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Felix Miata wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom composed on 2016-07-06 22:06 (UTC-0500):


This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks of
500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB.



It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]".

...

I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful. The
moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French 
speaker.



Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you suggest?


Firefox-esr 45.0.2 works for me in Jessie using a G98, but I'm not using 
either the nouveau or nvidia Xorg drivers. With neither installed, Xorg 
wants to automatically use the modeset driver, which in Sid is integral 
to the Xorg server. If your WM/DE doesn't depend on 3D support from the 
driver, you could try uninstalling the nouveau driver to rule it out as 
a cause of the errors.


That is a great idea. I had not thought of that. Thanks Felix.

Hugo

Problem w. browser when running on SSD

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Greetings everybody,

This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks of 
500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB.


It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]".

The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the 
NVidia closed source driver but they dropped support for these cards to 
Legacy-940.96, which has problems with the Sid level of the kernel and 
the gcc compiler.
So I tried to purge the NVidia driver and install nouveau, but was 
unable to do so. So I did a new install which installed nouveau when I 
installed xorg. It looks and behaves just the way NVidia used to.


I usually run on the HD502HJ disks but wanted to see how this new 
install would run on the SSD830, so I ran a copy of the new system on 
that disk.


I run google-chrome-beta as browser and never have any problems on the 
HD502HJ. But on the SSD830 I was getting lots of not responding 
applications that had to be killed and not responding plugin. It made 
the system unusable.


The only difference between the 2 systems is the disk on which they run.

I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful. The 
moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French speaker.


Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you suggest?

Hugo.

Re: Grub won't install

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Wednesday 18 May 2016 19:57:00 Marc Shapiro wrote:

On 05/17/2016 09:13 PM, J Mo wrote:

lilo is ultra-ancient. I don't even know if it works with modern kernels.

Lilo definitely still works with current kernels.  I started out using
lilo 17 or 18 years ago and I am still using it now under Jessie and
kernel vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64.


Can one still use grub-legacy with modern kernels?



Indeed. I run uptodate Sid with Super Grub Disk based on Grub 0.97-0s1 
on a USB key of 2G.


Hugo

Re: SID Update Feb 02

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Darac Marjal wrote:

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Stephen Allen wrote:

Good Morning:

Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the
issue.

After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't
play). So, what package would be relevant - this is media streams in
browser, both Google-Chrome and IceWeasel are affected as it seems
Gnome's native video player. VLC is working fine.

So, would that mean GStreamer?




I noticed that for quite a few days now a dist-upgrade to Sid will:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion

I haven't tried the dist-upgrade myself because of it.


Do either you or the OP own either a VIA Unichrome video card (which the 
openchrome driver supports) or a SiliconMotion Lynx or Cougar video card 
(which the siliconmotion driver supports)?


No.

graphics card:
   nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]
   nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]



If not, then the removal of drivers which don't apply to your system 
shouldn't affect you.




Thanks!


Hugo

Re: SID Update Feb 02

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Stephen Allen wrote:

Good Morning:

Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the
issue.

After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't
play). So, what package would be relevant - this is media streams in
browser, both Google-Chrome and IceWeasel are affected as it seems
Gnome's native video player. VLC is working fine.

So, would that mean GStreamer?




I noticed that for quite a few days now a dist-upgrade to Sid will:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion

I haven't tried the dist-upgrade myself because of it.

Hugo

Re: List of System Calls

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:04:39PM +0530, Akhil Krishnan S wrote:

Hi List.
Any command to get list all Syscalls in Linux with corresponding numbers?


This should get it all:

grep __NR /usr/include/$(dpkg-architecture -q DEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH)/asm/unistd*

Requires appropriate linux-headers and dpkg-dev installed.



Neat!

Hugo

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

David Niklas wrote:

Hello,
I forget who asked how to copy lines from their terminal (Alt-F0-9),
and I know how and thought I'd share. Use gpm. On my system it's shift
left-mouse to highlight and shift right-mouse to paste to your prompt.
you cant then echo the output to a file, pipe, or directly into a
command, etc.
Someday I'll bear-hug the hacker who made it.

Your welcome, David



Gpm is an essential supertool! I don't know what I would do without it...

Hugo

Wheezy Installer?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Where do I find the latest Wheezy installer now that Jessie has gone stable?
Thanks.

Hugo


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Re: What package contains the time daemon?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

John Hasler wrote:

The Wanderer writes:

The original question was What package contains the daemon that
updates the time from a central site?.



The ntp package contains such a daemon - indeed, until systemd, almost
certainly the primary such daemon.


The chrony package provides a time daemon that uses the NTP protocol and
interoperates with ntpd.  Note that NTP is a peer-to-peer protocol: the
daemon and client are the same thing.  BTW chrony and ntpd do not merely
set the time.  They synchronizes it with the stratum one servers using
sophisticated algorithms to account for noise and propagation delays.
Ntpdate is a simple program which merely fetches the time once from a
server and sets the system clock.


Well said...

Hugo


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Re: audio restore functionaility

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Monday 20 July 2015 18:04:33 Brian wrote:

On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 17:35:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Monday 20 July 2015 17:13:48 Brian wrote:

On Mon 20 Jul 2015 at 10:53:33 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:

On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote:

I'm new to Debian.

Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k.

Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package
manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed
it without ever having used it.

Now the audio does not work. Neither in the browser (iceweasel)
nor with VLC media player.

Is there a straight-forward restore function for the relevant
software?

William

Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package
(pulseaudio). However, I'd first recommend making sure the output
volume wasn't simply turned down.

If it wasn't, I'd then suspect that pocketsphinx didn't restore the
old settings when you removed it. Try running LC_ALL=C.

The solution to every audio problem is not purging pulseaudio. Have you
looked at the software in question? It depends on libc6 and three
libraries. Installing the package doesn't alter anything as there are
no maintainer scripts run. Purging it does not mute previosly unmuted
channels (as shown by alsamixer).

Installing pocketsphinx and now having non-working audio are unrelated.

It is possible, is it not, that pocketshinx mutes something by default
and hasn't unmuted it?

Only in the sense that it is possible there are fairies at the bottom
of my garden. :)


:-)


More seriously: the OP never ran the program. The installation-purging
cycle is easy enough for anyone to carry out and observe the effect on
the audio system. My test was on a machine without pulseaudio. The
result was negative.


Post hoc yet again not meaning propter hoc ;-)

But we don't really know much about what the OP did.  We haven't heard from 
him since his initial enquiry.


Lisi



Yet again...

Hugo


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Re: ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Sven Hartge wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote:


Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1.
I run the firewall via Firehol and use  'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE=ULOG'.
Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG.  That is
because ulogd2 failed with:



May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: Can't create ULOG handle
May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: error starting `ulog1'



When this dist-upgraded system is booted with kernel 3.16.0-4 ulogd2
starts correctly:



May 15 15:46:24 hdbb ulogd[27455]: building new pluginstance stack:
'ulog1:ULOG,base1:BASE,ip2str1:IP2STR,print1:PRINTPK



But I seem to be the first person that ran into this because I find no
references to this error. Is it because this kernel is new?


I would think so.

My guess is most people running ulogd run it on their firewall systems,
systems normally not running Sid.



Good point.

Hugo



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ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1.
I run the firewall via Firehol and use  'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE=ULOG'.
Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG.
That is because ulogd2 failed with:

May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: Can't create ULOG handle
May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: error starting `ulog1'

When this dist-upgraded system is booted with kernel 3.16.0-4 ulogd2 starts
correctly:

May 15 15:46:24 hdbb ulogd[27455]: building new pluginstance stack:
'ulog1:ULOG,base1:BASE,ip2str1:IP2STR,print1:PRINTPK

But I seem to be the first person that ran into this because I find no 
references to this error. Is it because this kernel is new?


Hugo


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Re: thank you debian developers, helpers, translators, contributors!

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

songbird wrote:

  Jessie is out!  that makes for a lot of time for
folks on the installer, release team, debuggers, 
documentors, etc.


  i appreciate and applaud each of you when i see
what is happening.

  every day your work is helpful to me and to 
others that i help.


  THANK YOU again,



Indeed!

Hugo


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Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Harry Putnam wrote:

Running jessie
Using an lxde desktop... for a long time now

(Note: for lack of a fuller vocabulary, the word icon is used to cover
a few different things below:)

(Attached at bottom is a screen grab showing what I'm talking about)


snip

Running uptodate sid with lxde.
I see none of the behaviour you are describing.

Hugo





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Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. 
Is there an alternative of a free dsn server?


Hugo




Thanks everybody. I switched to noip. Like Scott said, it works with 
ddclient.


Hugo.


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[OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. 
Is there an alternative of a free dsn server?


Hugo


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Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. 
Is there an alternative of a free dsn server?




I meant dnsdynamic of course...

Hugo



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Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Paul Scott wrote:

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:40:42AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November.
Is there an alternative of a free dsn server?


I meant dnsdynamic of course...


You give no description but from the name it seems pretty clear that you 
want a dynamic dns service.


I have been using dyndns.org from dyn.com for years.



But they are no longer free are they?

Hugo



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Re: the developers have spoken

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Wednesday 19 November 2014 14:11:18 songbird wrote:

 kudoes, much love, go jessie!


:-))  +1

Lisi

This was intended for the list, not to go off-list.  Sorry again, Songbird.  I 
need to press L for the Debian list, not click on reply.  And I don't 
remember to do it.  I'll plead old age, ;-)





How old?


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Re: the developers have spoken

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Wednesday 19 November 2014 16:49:13 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Wednesday 19 November 2014 14:11:18 songbird wrote:

 kudoes, much love, go jessie!


:-))  +1

Lisi

This was intended for the list, not to go off-list.  Sorry again,
Songbird.  I need to press L for the Debian list, not click on reply. 
And I don't remember to do it.  I'll plead old age, ;-)

How old?


72.  And yes, I know, many on this list are older.  But old age is an 
incontrovertible excuse for a poor memory. ;-)




75 here and I have a guest: Parkinson.

Hugo




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Re: OT (Sorta): Pepperflash Now Working on Wheezy 64-bit

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Patrick Bartek wrote:

Just got latest upgrade of Chrome Stable (38.0.2125.104-1) for my Wheezy
64-bit (Openbox WM only) directly from Google repo.  Pepperflash player
(15.0.0.189) now working.

And it only took a month and a half. ;-)

B




with libc6 from Jessie?

Hugo


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Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Philippe Clérié wrote:

On 09/27/2014 07:17 AM, lee wrote:

Hm, you don't use UPSs?


:-)

It's a long story. I'll make it short: I'm in Haiti. Grid power is an 
iffy proposition.


:-)

So we have to have heavy backups. That means generators and large 
inverters. There is always a slight delay when switching to batteries. 
Some computers are more sensitive to that delay than others, 
particularly when the batteries are nearing end of life.


My setup is not that critical and does not require the expense of a real 
UPS. Still, I did get 50 days uptime once on a ARM system. Typically 
it's 5 to 7 days.




Have you asked this question on their mailinglist? 
chrony-us...@chrony.tuxfamily.org


Hugo


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Re: How to write an init.d script which runs a perl program?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Andrei POPESCU wrote:

On Vi, 19 sep 14, 13:47:50, Thomas H. George wrote:

My system is Wheezy and I would like to add a script to init.d run a
simple perl program at startup.  
... 

Can someone give me a simple example script?


/etc/init.d/skeleton



Neat! Never knew that was around...

Hugo



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Re: Hibernate not working anymore

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Slavko wrote:

Ahoj,

Dňa Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:14:42 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org
napísal:


Hello

I used to have a working hibernation. But I upgraded RAM from 8G to
16G

So I also made a bigger swap partition for hibernation. Now I see the
disk activity when going to hibernation, when starting the laptop, it
tries to start on the hiberation data, however it fails and I get a
completely black screen.

What should I check ?


If you make new swap, then the UUID of the swap partition changed. Try
check the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and update the UUID here.




My UUID in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume does not show up anywhere 
when I issue 'blkid' and yet hibernate works just fine. How can that be?


Hugo


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Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hans wrote:
Hi folks, 

I managed to get an older version of skype (the multiarch debian package) 
getting connected to skype. As you might have noticed, the new version is 
pulseaudio needed /what a crap!) and the older version (4.2) inhibits to 
connect to the server.


So I found a simple solution:
- Install the 4.2 package.
- start a hexeditor and open the file /usr/bin/skype
- search for 4.2.0.11 and change this to 4.3.0.37
- save the file
- restart skype and 
- voila! It is now connecting to the server again!


No pulseaudio needed any more! Yeah!

Have fun!



Works like a charm! How in the world did you figure that out?

Hugo


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Re: Render lag/delay on Testing

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Jonas Lippuner wrote:

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi Debian users,

Ever since the xserver on Debian Testing was upgraded to 1.16 (and
after the issue with the lacking Nvidia driver was fixed), I've been
having rendering issues.

Sometimes (it randomly comes and goes), some windows or content of
windows experience a big delay (seconds) with being redrawn or updated
with new information. Often the window would just sit there unchanged
until I move the mouse a bit or resize the window to force it to
redraw. Other times, the effect of a keyboard command, say A, is not
shown until the next keyboard command, say B, but then the effect of A
is shown while the effect of B only becomes visible after yet another
command.

Here is a concrete example:

I open www.google.com in Iceweasel. I press F6 to highlight the text
in the address bar, but nothing appears to happen. If I now start
typing, I will actually type in the address bar, but the window did
not redraw to show that the address bar is highlighted. So the command
was correctly registered, but the window was not redrawn to show this.
If instead of typing something I press F6 again, then the focus moves
to the Google search box in the background (and if I now started
typing, I would type in the search box), but the window is now redrawn
showing the address bar highlighted, so the window is updated with the
previous state that is now no longer valid.

This is extremely annoying and I have not been able to determine
why/how this is happening or how to fix it. I was also not successful
at finding any info online about other people experiencing the same issue.

I have the xserver 1.16, the proprietary nvidia-driver 340.24 package,
xfce4 (4.10.1) and lightdm (1.10.1). I don't even know in which of
these packages the bug is...

Is anybody else experience such rendering problems or does anybody
have any idea what might be going on?




Well, I run Sid but the same xserver and nvidia-driver 340.24 from 
upstream and I notice none of those problems so I doubt it is those 2.


Hugo


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Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Floris wrote:
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:




snip

Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 
keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors 
attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will figure out 
how to make a 2-seater out of this. Meaning 2 users  logged on 
simultaneously. Surely you must set up a proper xorg.conf, how much 
should it contain? Have you actually tried this or is it your 
conclusion that systemd ought to do this?


Hugo



Three steps are necessary:

1 - Create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
Unfortunately, this step is always required for a Nvidia card, only 
the MatchSeat option has to be added.

(note, I don't have a xorg.conf file)

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
Section Device
Identifier Seat0
Driver nvidia
BusID  PCI:1:0:0
Option ProbeAllGpus FALSE
MatchSeat  seat0
EndSection


Section Device
Identifier Seat1
Driver nvidia
BusID  PCI:2:0:0
Option ProbeAllGpus FALSE
MatchSeat  seat1
EndSection

2 - Tag the Nvidia card for seat1 as a master-of-seat
This step is a litter harder. Since you have to figure out where your 
Nvidia card is. If your card has hdmi you can find the location by 
looking at the sound card.


$ loginctl seat-status seat0

...
  ├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1
  │ sound:card1 NVidia
...
The video part will be
/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.0

Write an udev rule
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/72-seat-1.rules
SUBSYSTEM==pci, 
DEVPATH==/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.0, TAG+=seat, 
TAG+=master-of-seat, ENV{ID_AUTOSEAT}=1, ENV{ID_SEAT}=seat1


reboot or use 'udevadm trigger' to apply the new rule

3 - Attach a mouse, keyboard and soundcard
Use loginctl seat-status seat0 to find your devices and move them to 
seat1 with

loginctl attach seat1 your device
If you use a usb-hub for the mouse and keyboard attach the hub, so 
every device you plug into the hub will attached to seat1


You can verify your setup with
$ loginctl seat-status seat1

seat1
Sessions: *c2
 Devices:
  ├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.0
  │ [MASTER] pci::02:00.0
  ├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1
  │ sound:card1 NVidia
  │ 
├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1/input14

  │ │ input:input14 HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3
  │ 
└─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1/input15

  │   input:input15 HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7
  ...

Finally,
Step 1 is always necessary for a Nvidia card. I don't know if the 
nvidia-xconfig program is able to add the MatchSeat option. Don't 
use the xorg.conf file, because only seat0 will use it. So the X 
server on seat1 will give you an error No device found


Maybe the Nvidia Maintainers will help us in the future with Step 2. I 
think it is possible that all Nvidia graphic devices get the 
master-of-seat tag. I will ask them.


Step 3 is always required for a multiseat setup. Unless you have a 
open source displaylink device.


succes,



Indeed, those 3 steps and we are running a 2-seater again! With Sid, 
LXDE and no DM but startx -- -seat seat1, etc.

Thanks to Floris and systemd!



Seat1 does not fare well from a hibernate/resume cycle, had to reboot 
this morning to get it going again...


Hugo


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Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Floris wrote:
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:29:50 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:




I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary?

Hugo


you need loginctl, so the answer is yes, you need systemd
 success,



Right. I found your bug 711351.

Hugo

 That bug is already solved. systemd version 44-11 doesn't had 
multiseat support. Luckily Debian testing/ sid has version 208. Also 
you need xserver 1.16. This version added the MatchSeat option to 
the xorg.d config file.

 success,



I noticed you use gdm3. How would you do it with startx?


Hugo



If you don't run gdm3 and gnome 3, I would advise you to stick with the 
old-fashion-way. Because today only Gnome 3/ gdm3 works nicely with 
systemd. Maybe KDE/ kdm does, but I'm not sure. In the past I used this 
site
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg_multiseat to set up a 
multiseat manualy.


success,



'startx -- -seat seat0' works just great.

Hugo


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Re: systemd fails to poweroff - A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

Debian sid

systemd currently fails to poweroff for me

XFCE (appears to) exit, the mouse point shows
for a while, then the kernel/ shutdown log appears.

The last message is:
A stop job is running for Session 2 of user me

Red asterisks (up to 3) appear to oscillate at left
edge in an ascii wait for me animation.

Requires hard powercycle to poweroff.

How might I debug this?



Right.  Debian Sid. 'halt' does not poweroff with systemd.

Hugo


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Re: [SUCCESS] Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Floris wrote:
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:




snip

Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 
keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors 
attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will figure out how 
to make a 2-seater out of this. Meaning 2 users  logged on 
simultaneously. Surely you must set up a proper xorg.conf, how much 
should it contain? Have you actually tried this or is it your 
conclusion that systemd ought to do this?


Hugo



Three steps are necessary:

1 - Create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
Unfortunately, this step is always required for a Nvidia card, only the 
MatchSeat option has to be added.

(note, I don't have a xorg.conf file)

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
Section Device
Identifier Seat0
Driver nvidia
BusID  PCI:1:0:0
Option ProbeAllGpus FALSE
MatchSeat  seat0
EndSection


Section Device
Identifier Seat1
Driver nvidia
BusID  PCI:2:0:0
Option ProbeAllGpus FALSE
MatchSeat  seat1
EndSection

2 - Tag the Nvidia card for seat1 as a master-of-seat
This step is a litter harder. Since you have to figure out where your 
Nvidia card is. If your card has hdmi you can find the location by 
looking at the sound card.


$ loginctl seat-status seat0

...
  ├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1
  │ sound:card1 NVidia
...
The video part will be
/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.0

Write an udev rule
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/72-seat-1.rules
SUBSYSTEM==pci, 
DEVPATH==/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.0, TAG+=seat, 
TAG+=master-of-seat, ENV{ID_AUTOSEAT}=1, ENV{ID_SEAT}=seat1


reboot or use 'udevadm trigger' to apply the new rule

3 - Attach a mouse, keyboard and soundcard
Use loginctl seat-status seat0 to find your devices and move them to 
seat1 with

loginctl attach seat1 your device
If you use a usb-hub for the mouse and keyboard attach the hub, so every 
device you plug into the hub will attached to seat1


You can verify your setup with
$ loginctl seat-status seat1

seat1
Sessions: *c2
 Devices:
  ├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.0
  │ [MASTER] pci::02:00.0
  ├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1
  │ sound:card1 NVidia
  │ 
├─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1/input14

  │ │ input:input14 HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3
  │ 
└─/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:05.0/:02:00.1/sound/card1/input15

  │   input:input15 HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7
  ...

Finally,
Step 1 is always necessary for a Nvidia card. I don't know if the 
nvidia-xconfig program is able to add the MatchSeat option. Don't use 
the xorg.conf file, because only seat0 will use it. So the X server on 
seat1 will give you an error No device found


Maybe the Nvidia Maintainers will help us in the future with Step 2. I 
think it is possible that all Nvidia graphic devices get the 
master-of-seat tag. I will ask them.


Step 3 is always required for a multiseat setup. Unless you have a open 
source displaylink device.


succes,



Indeed, those 3 steps and we are running a 2-seater again! With Sid, 
LXDE and no DM but startx -- -seat seat1, etc.

Thanks to Floris and systemd!

Hugo


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Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Floris wrote:

Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:16:58 +0200 schreef Floris jkflo...@dds.nl:

Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:




snip

Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 
keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors 
attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will figure out 
how to make a 2-seater out of this. Meaning 2 users  logged on 
simultaneously. Surely you must set up a proper xorg.conf, how much 
should it contain? Have you actually tried this or is it your 
conclusion that systemd ought to do this?


Hugo



Three steps are necessary:

1 - Create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
2 - Tag the Nvidia card for seat1 as a master-of-seat
3 - Attach a mouse, keyboard and soundcard


forgot to say
http://code.lexarcana.com/posts/simple-multiseat-setup-on-fedora-17.html
for some more information about a multiseat setup from our Fedora friends



'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the hardware 
lying around. Any further links are welcome. Thanks!


Hugo


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Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Floris wrote:

Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:16:58 +0200 schreef Floris jkflo...@dds.nl:

Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:00 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:




snip

Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 
keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors 
attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will figure out 
how to make a 2-seater out of this. Meaning 2 users  logged on 
simultaneously. Surely you must set up a proper xorg.conf, how much 
should it contain? Have you actually tried this or is it your 
conclusion that systemd ought to do this?


Hugo



Three steps are necessary:

1 - Create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
2 - Tag the Nvidia card for seat1 as a master-of-seat
3 - Attach a mouse, keyboard and soundcard


forgot to say
http://code.lexarcana.com/posts/simple-multiseat-setup-on-fedora-17.html
for some more information about a multiseat setup from our Fedora friends



'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the hardware 
lying around. Any further links are welcome. Thanks!




I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary?

Hugo


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Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Floris wrote:
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:49:38 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:


...
 'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the 
hardware lying around. Any further links are welcome. Thanks!




I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary?

Hugo


you need loginctl, so the answer is yes, you need systemd

success,



Right. I found your bug 711351.

Hugo


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Re: Setup a Nvidia multiseat

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Floris wrote:
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:02:42 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:



Floris wrote:
Op Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:49:38 +0200 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com:

 ...
 'Tis amazing. I am going to have to try this because I have the 
hardware lying around. Any further links are welcome. Thanks!




I forgot to ask: is systemd also necessary?

Hugo


you need loginctl, so the answer is yes, you need systemd
 success,



Right. I found your bug 711351.

Hugo



That bug is already solved. systemd version 44-11 doesn't had multiseat 
support. Luckily Debian testing/ sid has version 208. Also you need 
xserver 1.16. This version added the MatchSeat option to the xorg.d 
config file.


success,



I noticed you use gdm3. How would you do it with startx?


Hugo


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Re: clean up my system

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Floris wrote:

snip

It has a out-of-the-box working multi-seat. Yes, even with the 
nvidia module it is a no pain configuration. In other words two (or 
more) computers for one price.


snip

Could you elaborate? You mean that if you connect, lets say a ps/2 
keyboard and an USB keyboard, 2 Nvidia video cards with 2 monitors 
attached and 2 USB mice and I run systemd, then it will figure out how 
to make a 2-seater out of this. Meaning 2 users  logged on 
simultaneously. Surely you must set up a proper xorg.conf, how much 
should it contain? Have you actually tried this or is it your conclusion 
that systemd ought to do this?


Hugo



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Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

John Holland wrote:

working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701





That does not say how Netflix support was installed. With pipelight-multi?

And what is that google-chrome-unstable deb? Does that have a version 
number?


Hugo


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Re: 30 second wait kernel 3.14.12-1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Michael Biebl wrote:

Am 25.07.2014 04:44, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:


Anybody venture a guess as to what is happening? I have a 5 second
rootdelay specified in the kernel parameter list and this happens after
that. I get no messages during the wait.


If you edit /lib/udev/net.agent and change

do_everything  /dev/null 2 /dev/null 

to

( do_everything )  /dev/null 2 /dev/null 

is the delay gone?



as if by magic, delay gone...
how did you find out?

Hugo


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Re: 30 second wait kernel 3.14.12-1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Michael Biebl wrote:

Am 25.07.2014 16:27, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:

Michael Biebl wrote:

Am 25.07.2014 04:44, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:


Anybody venture a guess as to what is happening? I have a 5 second
rootdelay specified in the kernel parameter list and this happens after
that. I get no messages during the wait.

If you edit /lib/udev/net.agent and change

do_everything  /dev/null 2 /dev/null 

to

( do_everything )  /dev/null 2 /dev/null 

is the delay gone?


as if by magic, delay gone...
how did you find out?


The 30 second timeout is a udev internal timeout.
udevadm settle waits for that amount of time for all events to be processed.

Apparently, simply backgrounding the process via  is no longer
sufficient to make udev consider this event to be processed.
I suspect open file descriptors, but I still need to figure out all the
details. The subshell is only a workaround I quickly came up with.




Great job! Thanks!

Hugo


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30 second wait kernel 3.14.12-1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running Sid and sysvinit. With the recent kernel upgrade in Sid from 
3.14.10-1 to 3.14.12-1 there appeared a 30 second wait in the boot 
process. It shows up in kernel.log, like so:


...
Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [   11.363107] input: HDA NVidia Front Mic 
as /devices/pci:00/:00:07.0/sound/card0/input10
Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [   11.363743] input: HDA NVidia Rear Mic 
as /devices/pci:00/:00:07.0/sound/card0/input9
Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [   40.926711] Adding 19535004k swap on 
/dev/sdc8.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:19535004k
Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [   40.972160] EXT4-fs (sdc5): re-mounted. 
Opts: (null)
Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [   41.496744] EXT4-fs (sdc5): re-mounted. 
Opts: errors=remount-ro

Jul 24 21:02:30 hda5 kernel: [   41.977703] loop: module loaded
...

Anybody venture a guess as to what is happening? I have a 5 second 
rootdelay specified in the kernel parameter list and this happens after 
that. I get no messages during the wait.


Hugo


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Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On 6/13/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

I am giving up in despair and I'm going to install Firefox. :-(
Just too many sites won't talk to me.
Do I need to uninstall Iceweasel first or can I
have both?  TDE 3.5.13.2 on Wheezy 7.5.


I have taken to installing Google Chrome for people - it's too much
hassle to make everything work with IceWeasel that people expect.

My philosophy on this - if a computer is going to get dirty, might as
well go all in, and Google is the king at this point, so Chrome it is.
If it don't work with Chrome, it ain't gonna work on GNU/Linux at all.


Except if you want to run Netflix with pipelight. That you can't with 
Chrome but works fine with Iceweasel.


Hugo



As to your question - I have installed and run all three at the same
time (at least on other peoples' computers - for me, I just make the
sacrifices ongoingly, but I do understand that many people cannot
suffer this).

As a quick test, open a command line and run firefox - if it doesn't
exist, then installing firefox official _should_ be ok.




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Re: no plugins under Chrome

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Patrick Bartek wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2014, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

I have been trying to get pipelight to run under Sid and Chrome, in 
order to use Netflix, to no avail, when I stumbled upon this:

https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/249016

Which says in effect release 34 removed the complete NPAPI plugin 
interface, so its not possible to use any other plugins (besides the 
integrated PepperFlash one) anymore.


That's Cnrome v35 that's without the NPAPI, not v34.  You need to
read more carefully.  Downgrading to v34 is the fix.



v34 has the problem too, as per other bug mentioned in the report. I ran 
into tht when Sid upgraded to v34 on April 6 of this year.


Hugo



If you need plugins other than PepperFlash, forget Chrome. Too bad.


I just updated to v. 35 a week or so ago, and just noticed today that
VLC and its plugin don't work, but do work in Iceweasel. Wondered what
happened. Now I know.

B








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no plugins under Chrome

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I have been trying to get pipelight to run under Sid and Chrome, in 
order to use Netflix, to no avail, when I stumbled upon this:

https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/249016

Which says in effect release 34 removed the complete NPAPI plugin 
interface, so its not possible to use any other plugins (besides the 
integrated PepperFlash one) anymore.


If you need plugins other than PepperFlash, forget Chrome. Too bad.

Hugo


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Re: No suspend-to-disk with kde

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Filip wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:39:43 +0200
Hans hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:

Hi folks, 


I am looking for a problem in KDE.

Problem: I cannot suspend to disk in KDE from the menu. The button
exists, but has no effekt. 


Suspend-to-ram is working well in KDE.

On the other hand the commands hibernate-disk and hibernate-ram
as root are working well. 




In the big desktop environments, suspend and hibernate is triggered by
sending a request via dbus to upowerd.

You can simulate it on the command line with:

$ dbus-send --print-reply  --system \
--dest=org.freedesktop.UPower   \
/org/freedesktop/UPower\
org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate

UPower doesn't do the actual hibernate but in it's turn has to forward
the request to a backend, which could be pm-suspend (from pm-utils), or
systemd-logind, or maybe something else.

There is so many layers where things can go wrong. Those developers of
big bloated desktop environments sure like to make things ugly and
complex, when they could be simple and straightforward.




Indeed. Like 'acpitool -S'

Hugo


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Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 15:10 +, Curt wrote:

On 2014-05-12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:43:16 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com  
wrote:
I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but it  
has never been unpacked and has been sitting on the shelf all this time.  
How long can it be considered 'new'? Is it safe to use?
2 Years in the original packaging on a shelf, in averaged normal  
conditions = as new and reliable, as a brand spanking new HDD

A brand spanking new HDD could fail like an used, very old HDD.

Maybe he's got one of the greens that gets old fast (once very 8
seconds) if steps aren't taken.


Good point! I own a green WD drive. The OP should monitor the drive,
assumed it's a green drive, we can help him to take action.




It is not a green drive.

Hugo


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Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 15:10 +, Curt wrote:

On 2014-05-12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:43:16 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom 
hvw59...@care2.com  wrote:
I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but 
it  has never been unpacked and has been sitting on the shelf all 
this time.  How long can it be considered 'new'? Is it safe to use?
2 Years in the original packaging on a shelf, in averaged normal  
conditions = as new and reliable, as a brand spanking new HDD

A brand spanking new HDD could fail like an used, very old HDD.

Maybe he's got one of the greens that gets old fast (once very 8
seconds) if steps aren't taken.


Good point! I own a green WD drive. The OP should monitor the drive,
assumed it's a green drive, we can help him to take action.




It is not a green drive.



It is a WD5000AAKX Caviar Blue

Hugo


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[OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but it 
has never been unpacked and has been sitting on the shelf all this time. 
How long can it be considered 'new'? Is it safe to use?


Hugo


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Re: boot in console mode from grub2

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

François Patte wrote:

Bonjour,

I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in
graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want
to have a normal boot without X.

I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system.

Thank you.


from /etc/default/grub:

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

then run update-grub.

Hugo



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Re: Hibernate fails

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

Running the latest Sid on a PC. After hibernating for years it suddenly 
fails with these messages:


serial 00:08: disable failed
dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_freeze+0x0/0x10 returns -5
PM: Device 00:08 failed to freeze: error -5

How does one figure out what device 00:08 is and a return code of -5?

I hibernate by issuing 'acpitool -S' and those messages are in kern.log.



Happens only with the latest 3.14-1 kernel and I get around it by 
booting with 'pnpacpi=off'.


Hugo


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Hibernate fails

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running the latest Sid on a PC. After hibernating for years it suddenly 
fails with these messages:


serial 00:08: disable failed
dpm_run_callback(): pnp_bus_freeze+0x0/0x10 returns -5
PM: Device 00:08 failed to freeze: error -5

How does one figure out what device 00:08 is and a return code of -5?

I hibernate by issuing 'acpitool -S' and those messages are in kern.log.

Hugo


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Duplicate sources.list entry

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running Sid with the same sources.list for about a year now.

Suddenly when running 'apt-get update' I get:

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ 
stable/main amd64 Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ 
stable/main i386 Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

But my sources.list is:


deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ sid main

and there are no duplicate entries.

What's going on?

Hugo


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Re: Duplicate sources.list entry

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

John Hasler wrote:

Hugo writes:

But my sources.list is:




deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ sid main



and there are no duplicate entries.



What's going on?


You installed Chrome, thereby allowing Google to install stuff in the
/etc/apt/sources.list.d directory.  Whatever is there gets included with
the contents of sources.list.  You need to talk to Google about it.


that dir. had in it google-chrome-beta.list and google-chrome.list.
They both had:

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

So I removed google-chrome.list and the problem disappeared. But why did 
that show up now? Google changed that entry?


Hugo


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Re: Duplicate sources.list entry

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

John Hasler wrote:

Hugo writes:

But my sources.list is:




deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ sid main



and there are no duplicate entries.



What's going on?


You installed Chrome, thereby allowing Google to install stuff in the
/etc/apt/sources.list.d directory.  Whatever is there gets included with
the contents of sources.list.  You need to talk to Google about it.


that dir. had in it google-chrome-beta.list and google-chrome.list.
They both had:

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

So I removed google-chrome.list and the problem disappeared. But why did 
that show up now? Google changed that entry?


Yes. google-chrome-beta.list was added the last dist-upgrade on April 
13th causing the duplicate. Bad Google :-( Thanks, John.


Hugo


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Re: best way to backup USB stick (2)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

PaulNM wrote:

On 04/13/2014 10:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

So I got a script that backs up the USB stick to a file and restores a
(larger) USB stick from that file all using dd.  It is here:

http://paste.debian.net/93598



That's small enough that you should have included it in the email, in my
opinion.


the relevant parts are the backup:

dd conv=notrunc,noerror bs=4096 if=$usbDrive | gzip  $backupFilename

and the restore:

gzip -dc $backupFilename | dd of=$usbDrive

Makes perfect copy AFAICT, but it does not boot and the original USB
stick does. Completes w/o errors.

Can any dd expert tell me what I am doing wrong?


Actually, the really relevant part is the variable definitions.

Specifically: usbDrive=/dev/sde1

You're not backing up and restoring usb drives, you're backing up and
restoring a partition on usb drives.  The partition table and bootloader
aren't handled by your script.  No bootloader=no booting. :)

I'd suggest getting the whole device (/dev/sde) unless you're planning
to restore to a drive with other partitions you want to preserve.


Hugo




Another suggestion: Look into ddrescue (package name is gddrescue).
It's more flexible when dealing with drives that have problems.



Thanks.

Hugo


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best way to backup USB stick (2)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

So I got a script that backs up the USB stick to a file and restores a 
(larger) USB stick from that file all using dd.  It is here:


http://paste.debian.net/93598

the relevant parts are the backup:

dd conv=notrunc,noerror bs=4096 if=$usbDrive | gzip  $backupFilename

and the restore:

gzip -dc $backupFilename | dd of=$usbDrive

Makes perfect copy AFAICT, but it does not boot and the original USB 
stick does. Completes w/o errors.


Can any dd expert tell me what I am doing wrong?

Hugo


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Re: DynDNS no longer free.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Pascal Obry wrote:

Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days 
will no longer be gratis.

I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog.
Are there other free alternatives?


Sure: http://www.noip.com and http://www.dnsdynamic.org/

Using both, working fine.



I registered with dnsdynamic. How do you update the IP, with ddclient?
I seem to have trouble with the 'use' keyword in ddclient.conf, I have 
'use=if, if=web'

is that correct?



this tells how to handle ddclient with dnsdynamic.org:

http://blog.mivia.dk/free-dynamic-dns-for-raspberry-pi/

Hugo


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DynDNS no longer free.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will 
no longer be gratis.

I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog.
Are there other free alternatives?

Hugo


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Re: DynDNS no longer free.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Pascal Obry wrote:
Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : 
DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will 
no longer be gratis.

I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog.
Are there other free alternatives?


Sure: http://www.noip.com and http://www.dnsdynamic.org/

Using both, working fine.



Thanks Pascal!

Hugo


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Re: DynDNS no longer free.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Pascal Obry wrote:
Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : 
DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will 
no longer be gratis.

I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog.
Are there other free alternatives?


Sure: http://www.noip.com and http://www.dnsdynamic.org/

Using both, working fine.



I registered with dnsdynamic. How do you update the IP, with ddclient?
I seem to have trouble with the 'use' keyword in ddclient.conf, I have 
'use=if, if=web'

is that correct?

Hugo


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best way to backup USB stick

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I boot my PC from a USB stick with legacy grub.
I want to back that up to disk and then restore it to another USB stick 
that is of different size.

What's the best way?

Hugo


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Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Brian wrote:

On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as
blobs. How do I change that with console-setup?


Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are
you attempting to get accented characters? Also, please post the
keyboard file from /etc/default.



the blobs are diamond shapes

I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that has 
them, because I can see them in X.


# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL=pc105
XKBLAYOUT=us
#XKBVARIANT=
#XKBOPTIONS=
XKBVARIANT=intl
XKBOPTIONS=lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

BACKSPACE=guess



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Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Brian wrote:

On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:


I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that
has them, because I can see them in X.


Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and
paste the page at

   http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/accents.htm

into vim. 'file accents.txt' says 'UTF-8 Unicode text'

The file was transferred to a machine with the same console and keyboard
settings as you have. It displayed faithfully with less, vim and cat.

You might think of attaching the file to a mail you send to the list.


XKBMODEL=pc105
XKBLAYOUT=us
#XKBVARIANT=
#XKBOPTIONS=
XKBVARIANT=intl
XKBOPTIONS=lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp


What comes next probably has nothing to do with the issue: compose:rctrl
is said by 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' not to work in
Unicode Mode (console-setup has 'CHARMAP=UTF-8').




Thanks Brian.


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how to show accented characters on console (not X)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,
Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as 
blobs. How do I change that with console-setup?

The console-setup config has:

# CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON

# Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.

ACTIVE_CONSOLES=/dev/tty[1-6]

CHARMAP=UTF-8

CODESET=Lat15
FONTFACE=TerminusBold
FONTSIZE=8x16

VIDEOMODE=

# The following is an example how to use a braille font
# FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'

Hugo


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Netflix on Sid, no wine.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

A few days ago Google News carried this:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/

I tried it and it works as advertized, an easy installation and Netflix 
works.


IMO the latter is overrated: mostly old hat hu hum movies.

Hugo


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Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing 
the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command.



snip
I would install systemd and see what that would do.

Hugo


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USB keyboard: what driver(s)?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

I have a Bus 004 Device 002: ID 047b:0011 Silitek Corp. SK-1688U 
Keyboard that works perfectly.
But not with the mondorescue DVD. So I need to find out what modules are 
needed for that keyboard to function. How do I do that?

Thanks!

Hugo


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Re: USB keyboard: what driver(s)?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

I have a Bus 004 Device 002: ID 047b:0011 Silitek Corp. SK-1688U 
Keyboard that works perfectly.
But not with the mondorescue DVD. So I need to find out what modules are 
needed for that keyboard to function. How do I do that?

Thanks!



when I do a 'lsusb -t' I see for that device:

:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ohci-pci/6p, 12M
|__ Port 3: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, 
Driver=usbhid, 1.5M


So the modules needed are ohci-pci and usbhid. Is that right?

Hugo



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Re: [SOLVED] google-earth-stable: no imagery.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

Running uptodate Sid and google-earth-stable 7.1.1.1888-r0. I get 
political boundaries, roads, placenames, the weather but no imagery at 
all, just pure black.

I see a bunch of these messages:
ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.

This strikes a bell with someone? The installation with multiarch was 
uneventful.



see this:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/earth/GfZlpeFMg-Y

turn OFF 3Dview compression in tools options.

Hugo


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Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Rick Thomas wrote:

Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from
sudo aptitude install wordpress
on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress 
website on the same machine?

I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the stuff in 
examples/ but they are just hints, I think.

I've googled till I'm blue in the face, but all I find is people who insist on installing 
wordpress from the downloadable tarball at the wordpress development site and ignore the 
debian package entirely.  I'd much rather do things the Debian way.

Somebody must have done it, I would think -- or what's the point of having a 
Debian package in the first place?  If you have, can you share your recipe?



In 2004 I set up WP on this system using the upstream tarball, exactly 
because at that time I could not find step-by-step instructions using 
Debian.


Hugo


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Re:[SOLVED] k3b: no optical device found

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

Running current Sid.
k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical 
device.

Hal and udisks are installed.
The device is /dev/sr0 and wodim runs and finds it just fine.
User is part of cdrom group.
/dev/sr0 lists cdrom as its group.
listdevmapper is installed.

Anyone have a clue what might cause this?



per http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=260t=117063 you need to 
install udisks2. It used to be that k3b needed hal and udisks. Who knows 
why and how this changed in this upgrade. In any case installing udisks2 
solves the problem.


I don't think it correct that udisks2 does not show up in the 
dependencies of k3b. I do not run KDE but only install k3b, konsole and 
kwrite.


Am I the only one that runs it this way? Submitting the bugreport is 
left as an exercise for the student ;-)


Hugo


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Re: [SOLVED] k3b: no optical device found

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

Running current Sid.
k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical 
device.

...


per http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=260t=117063 you need to 
install udisks2. It used to be that k3b needed hal and udisks. Who knows 
why and how this changed in this upgrade. In any case installing udisks2 
solves the problem.



...
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730130

Hugo


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k3b: no optical device found

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running current Sid.
k3b always worked but since the last upgrade cannot find any optical device.
Hal and udisks are installed.
The device is /dev/sr0 and wodim runs and finds it just fine.
User is part of cdrom group.
/dev/sr0 lists cdrom as its group.
listdevmapper is installed.

Anyone have a clue what might cause this?

Hugo


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google-earth-stable: no imagery.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hi,

Running uptodate Sid and google-earth-stable 7.1.1.1888-r0. I get 
political boundaries, roads, placenames, the weather but no imagery at 
all, just pure black.

I see a bunch of these messages:
ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler.

This strikes a bell with someone? The installation with multiarch was 
uneventful.


Hugo


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Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Jesse Molina wrote:


Hi

I have a Debian unstable host which successfully boots from the 
linux-image-3.10-1-amd64 kernel package.  However, I recently installed 
the linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 kernel package, and it is unbootable.


When I boot from the linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 package kernel, the boot 
fails and drops me into the initramfs busybox.  The messge Gave up 
waiting for the root device. appears, along with ALERT! 
/dev/disk/by-uuid/bla-bla-bla-my-id-here does not exist..


The problem appears to be that udev is not creating /dev/disk/by-uuid/* 
and similar objects.  The only directory being created in /dev/disk is 
by-id.  Note that the mdadm arrays are being successfully assembled 
and I can see them if I cat /proc/mdstat.


the root= argument in grub is a UUID of a mdadm RAID1 array.  This 
host's boot part is a RAID1, and the root part is a RAID5.  This is 
standard PC desktop hardware with four disk drives upon which the md 
RAIDs are built.


The host has been dist-upgraded as of this time.

Advice appreciated.  Otherwise, I'll file a bug on it.


try 'rootdelay=5' (w/o quotes) as bootparam.

Hugo


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Re: dpkg segmentation fault

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:

I am helping a buddy with his Sid system.  He went several months
without upgrading.  Then recently tried to upgrade.  This resulted in
some problems.  Currently the system produces a segmentation fault
when trying to install packages.  For example:

  # dpkg-reconfigure debconf
  Segmentation fault

  # dpkg -i debconf_1.5.49_all.deb 
  (Reading database ... 387854 files and directories currently installed.)

  Preparing to replace debconf 1.5.49 (using debconf_1.5.49_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement debconf ...
  Setting up debconf (1.5.49) ...
  dpkg: error processing debconf (--install):
   subprocess installed post-installation script was killed by signal 
(Segmentation fault)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   debconf

Of course the segfault makes it difficult to make any forward progress
with dpkg.  dpkg is up to date Sid version 1.17.1.  But almost all
other packages are older revs from previous days of Sid.  I tried
downgrading dpkg to the version in Wheezy but the result was the same.

Thought before I did extreme things that I would ask here in case
someone already hit this in Sid sometime between a few months ago and
now?  If so what was the solution?


My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition
(dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch
of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on your
friend's machine, here is what I have on up-to-date Sid/amd64:

$ dpkg -l perl\* libperl\* | awk '/^ii/{print $2,$3}'
libperl4-corelibs-perl 0.003-1
libperl5.18 5.18.1-4
perl 5.18.1-4
perl-base 5.18.1-4
perl-doc 5.18.1-4
perl-modules 5.18.1-4
perl-tk 1:804.031-1+b1
perlmagick 8:6.7.7.10-6

Other than that, I can only say that I cannot recall having any problems
with my Sid system in recent months, even though upgrading all packages
that can be upgraded is how I start almost every day.



I get fewer Perl hits with an uptodate Sid:

hugo@hdbb:/sdc1$ dpkg -l perl\* libperl\* | awk '/^ii/{print $2,$3}'
+ dpkg -l 'perl*' 'libperl*'
+ awk '/^ii/{print $2,$3}'
libperl4-corelibs-perl 0.003-1
perl 5.18.1-4
perl-base 5.18.1-4
perl-modules 5.18.1-4

Hugo


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Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Georgi Naplatanov wrote:



On 09/30/2013 02:03 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Georgi Naplatanov wrote:

On 09/29/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Shane Johnson wrote:

I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else
has been having problems as well?

I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the
wheezy rescue disk.

I got it running in wheezy then went to jessie and while I was 
running
the 3.2 kernel from wheezy it booted fine.  Then I upgraded the 
kernel

to 3.10 in jessie and it says it can't find the volume goup.   I have
made sure that initrd is updated and grub is updated.  Not sure on
what the next step would be or if this is just a bug that I need to
wait for it to be resolved or if I need to submit a bug?

Thanks for your help.



add 'rootdelay=5'(w/o the quotes) to the boot parameters.


Is this a known problem for this kernel?


Yes, it's written in the release notes.


You have a link for that?

Hugo




http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#boot-timing 



It's for wheezy, I didn't see you have a problem with newer kernel.



That doesn't exactly cover the OP's case of LVM not being recognized by 
Debian kernel 3.10-2-amd64 and 3.10-3-amd64 as also addressed by

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707286
because dm-mod is not loaded in time. Rootdelay=3 in my own case solves 
that. And it seems specifically having to do with those Debian kernels. 
I.e. my own kernels of 3.10.7 etc. don't have the problem.


Hugo


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Re: DRBD protocol A understanding.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
just asking for understanding/learning, i have been using DRBD Protocol 
C for quite some time. however it is said that Protocol A, is for WAN.

and my question is why it is suitable for WAN.
as per my understanding with Protocol A. for example if my TCP buffer 
size is 1 MB.
it hold the data untill buffer reach the limit, then it sends all the 
data to WAN site and write it to the disk of remote node.

please correct me if i am wrong with my understanding.



snip
Try http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user with this 
question. Not a subject for the Debian user list.


Hugo


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Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Kent West wrote:

I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main


I'm running ...

westk@westek:~$ uname -a
Linux westek 3.10-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.11-1 (2013-09-10) x86_64 
GNU/Linux


When I try to install virtualbox (more specifically, virtualbox-dkms), 
it fails to compile the module, with this error:


Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.10-3-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/4.1.18/build/make.log for more information.


snip
I only have Sid in my sources.list and I run:
Linux hdbb 3.10-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.11-1 (2013-09-10) x86_64 
GNU/Linux

I installed virtualbox from the upstream .deb:
dpkg -i virtualbox-4.2_4.2.18-88780~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb
and it installed w/o a problem.
The virtualbox GUI is set to notify me when a new stable release is 
available and I download that. It did that on Sept.9 for 4.2.18.


Hugo


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Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Georgi Naplatanov wrote:

On 09/29/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Shane Johnson wrote:

I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else
has been having problems as well?

I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the
wheezy rescue disk.

I got it running in wheezy then went to jessie and while I was running
the 3.2 kernel from wheezy it booted fine.  Then I upgraded the kernel
to 3.10 in jessie and it says it can't find the volume goup.   I have
made sure that initrd is updated and grub is updated.  Not sure on
what the next step would be or if this is just a bug that I need to
wait for it to be resolved or if I need to submit a bug?

Thanks for your help.



add 'rootdelay=5'(w/o the quotes) to the boot parameters.


Is this a known problem for this kernel?


Yes, it's written in the release notes.


You have a link for that?

Hugo


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Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Shane Johnson wrote:

I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else
has been having problems as well?

I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the
wheezy rescue disk.

I got it running in wheezy then went to jessie and while I was running
the 3.2 kernel from wheezy it booted fine.  Then I upgraded the kernel
to 3.10 in jessie and it says it can't find the volume goup.   I have
made sure that initrd is updated and grub is updated.  Not sure on
what the next step would be or if this is just a bug that I need to
wait for it to be resolved or if I need to submit a bug?

Thanks for your help.



add 'rootdelay=5'(w/o the quotes) to the boot parameters.

Hugo


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Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Alex Mestiashvili wrote:

On 09/23/2013 10:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated 
problems]


I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the documentation.
Can't find it. Where should it have been put?

Only half of of the Windows programs I tested even began to work.
I'm assuming operator error until proven otherwise.

The first thing I found at https://winehq.org/ was a caution that 
official Squeeze package was far behind. Figured I should be reading 
documentation which matches what I installed ;/


Help please. TIA




Hi,
something like that gives you info about files in a package or packages

 dpkg -L `dpkg -l | awk '/wine/ {print $2}'`


substitute wine with the package name you need.



or you can point mc at the deb and that will also show you the contents 
of the package.


Hugo


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