date:20120928

On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote:
 The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename
 the IA64 port to Itanium and rename the AMD64 port to something like
 AMDINTL64.

Something wrong with 'x86_64'?


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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote:
 On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote:
  The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename
  the IA64 port to Itanium and rename the AMD64 port to something like
  AMDINTL64.
 
 Something wrong with 'x86_64'?

FWIW I never noticed a difference between CONFIG_MK8 yes and not set for
real-time kernels. This x86_64 vs amd64 thingy does confuse newbies, but
after a while everybody understands why there are those name. i368? What
is it for? I only know 80386, never heard about 80368 ;). There are
enough explanations available regarding to the names. Changing names
only will cause more confusion.

Regards,
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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell

Could it be a missing swap partition is slowing down drive access?  I 
don't know if you were connected to the internet when you did this run, 
but if so, you might disconnect from the internet and run fdisk -l again 
and compare speeds.  It could be fdisk is checking for remote disks as 
well but I don't know that for sure.  hth.



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KDevelop Problem

2012-09-28 Thread Pietro Paolini

Hello,

I would like use KDevelop for browse souce code using the CTAGS, since now I 
had just use vi but now I need a GUI tools, my PC is running a Debian 6.0.5 32 
bit with GNOME.

My problem is that when I import a new project I can select the folder 
correctly but after that I see KDevelop bar working and after program simply 
show me nothing, no file directory tree no source, nothing!

Maybe someone can help me ?

Many Thanks,
Pietro .

Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

2012-09-28 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason

Hi!

I have a Wacom Intuos 2 Graphic Tablet connected through USB. When I
wake up the system after it's been in suspend-mode, the Wacom doesn't
work. According to Gimp it's still connected and checking with with
xinput gives me:

$ xinput --list --short
⎡ Virtual core pointer  id=2[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointerid=4[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel id=10   [slave
pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3[master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard   id=5[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button  id=6[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button  id=7[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech Logitech USB Keyboardid=8[slave  keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech Logitech USB Keyboardid=9[slave  keyboard (3)]

But still the tablet doesn't react to the pointer at all, the only way
I can get it going again is by rebooting the system.
This happens in all of my Debian computers, Wheezy and Squeese (also
some Ubuntu derivatives I've tested).

Can someone enlighten me on this? Surely there must be a way to get
this going without rebooting? A command or something?

Cheers,
/Helgi Örn


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Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Siard

Celejar:
 lee:
  Celejar:
   If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the
   content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)?
  
  You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have
  an URL to try it with.
 
 I'm pretty sure wget doesn't handle such urls.

There is a package named 'mimms' that is designed to download streams
using the MMS protocol.


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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen

Hi

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
 $ date; fdisk -l; date
 Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012
 
 Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
 Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 Disk identifier: 0x00052568
 
Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/sda1  633908614419543041c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
 /dev/sda2390861457814015919527007+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
 /dev/sda378140160   23442047978140160   83  Linux
 /dev/sda4   234420480   488396799   1269881605  Extended
 /dev/sda5   234420543   3534259504728+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
 /dev/sda6   353430063   372981104 9775521c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
 /dev/sda7   372981168   392516144 9767488+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
 /dev/sda8   392516208   43157015919526976   83  Linux
 /dev/sda9   431570223   441353744 4891761   83  Linux
 /dev/sda10  441353808   446253569 2449881   83  Linux
 /dev/sda11  446253633   44981 1783183+  83  Linux
 /dev/sda12  449822720   48839679919287040   83  Linux
 Thu Sep 27 22:48:59 UTC 2012

So... fdisk -l took 38 seconds - which is a bit much.

Question: How long does fdisk -l /dev/sda take?  (note: specifying
/dev/sda explicitly, rather than fdisk figure it out)

If this is a lot shorter, then your problem may be related to how
fdisk chooses a default device to look at, and the contents of
/proc/partitions becomes interesting...

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Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov:
 Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I
 thought.
 System boots and works fine.

Ok, good.

Would be interesting to know what the error was.

In case you spare any free time, I´d look in the shell script update-grub 
or grub-mkconfig for the occurence of a part of the error message and look 
whats going on there.

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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

 Failing boot sector?
 Some other sector it has to read is failing?
 Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools):
~
 I don't know exactly which of your questions/suggestions running:
~
 smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i sector|realloc
~
 relates to, but it didn't report any error message. Without grep I got:
~
$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl 5.43 2012-05-01 r3539 [i686-linux-3.3.7] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   115   082   006Pre-fail
Always   -   96695847
  3 Spin_Up_Time0x0003   096   095   000Pre-fail
Always   -   0
  4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032   100   100   020Old_age
Always   -   365
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036Pre-fail
Always   -   0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f   075   060   030Pre-fail
Always   -   17316569764
  9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   097   097   000Old_age
Always   -   2678
 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0013   100   100   097Pre-fail
Always   -   0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   100   100   020Old_age
Always   -   395
187 Reported_Uncorrect  0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   059   045   045Old_age
Always   In_the_past 41 (Min/Max 40/41)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022   041   055   000Old_age
Always   -   41 (0 23 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   078   057   000Old_age
Always   -   102323103
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age
Always   -   0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000Old_age
Offline  -   0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x003e   200   200   000Old_age
Always   -   0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x   100   253   000Old_age
Offline  -   0
202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs  0x0032   100   253   000Old_age
Always   -   0

$

 Because your disk is sleeping?
~
 That I think may be the reason why. I did notice and check that it
always seems to happen after suspending my box, even if you unmount
all drives before, but what I don't get is that may people would be
complaining about that same problem. I have seem people complaining
all the time about hardware-related issues with suspending a box, but
not such delays and I always thought when you awaken your box after
suspending it, it should go to its initial state. Is there a way to
awaken all harddrive/partitions you are using?
~
 Could it be a missing swap partition is slowing down drive access?
~
$ cat /proc/swaps
FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
/dev/zram0  partition   1942352 0   0
~
 I don't know if you were connected to the internet
~
 I wasn't, but I have notice weird things happening when I am and, of
course, my work horse box I don't connect to the Internet at all
~
 So... fdisk -l took 38 seconds - which is a bit much.
~
 Yep! Exactly 38 seconds!?!
~
$ date; fdisk -l; date
Fri Sep 28 07:13:45 UTC 2012

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00052568

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1  633908614419543041c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2390861457814015919527007+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda378140160   23442047978140160   83  Linux
/dev/sda4   234420480   488396799   1269881605  Extended
/dev/sda5   234420543   3534259504728+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda6   353430063   372981104 9775521c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda7   372981168   392516144 9767488+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda8   392516208   43157015919526976   83  Linux
/dev/sda9   431570223   441353744 4891761   83  Linux
/dev/sda10  441353808   446253569 2449881   83  Linux
/dev/sda11  446253633   44981 1783183+  83  Linux
/dev/sda12  449822720   48839679919287040   83  Linux
Fri Sep 28 07:14:23 UTC 2012
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ date; fdisk -l; date
Fri Sep 28 07:14:41 UTC 2012

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-28 Thread Valery Mamonov

2012/9/28 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de

 Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov:
  Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I
  thought.
  System boots and works fine.

 Ok, good.

 Would be interesting to know what the error was.

 In case you spare any free time, I´d look in the shell script update-grub
 or grub-mkconfig for the occurence of a part of the error message and look
 whats going on there.

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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
 On 9/27/2012 10:07 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
  Tony Baldwin:
  On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 
wrote:
  I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used
  google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'.
  
  Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit
  processor, or an AMD64?
 
  
 
  No, it isn't. And I am sure this exact misconception has already been
  resolved in this very thread.
 
 Yes, it was, very early, by yours truly.
 
 The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename
 the IA64 port to Itanium and rename the AMD64 port to something like
 AMDINTL64.
 
 The conventions Debian uses are based on the microarchitecture names,
 which back in the day worked fine and were self explanatory:  i386,
 IA64, 680x0, MIPS, ALPHA, SPARC, PPC, etc.
 
 But when AMD released the x86-64 architecture in 2002, and Intel copied
 it, creating two 64 bit chip families from Intel, the old naming
 convention fell apart, as many laypeople can't make sense of it.

AMDINTL64 seems to long for me.

I think x86-64 would make some sense. SUSE for examples uses it.

Or even pc32 and pc64, since that is the classical PC platform.

But then why other workstations on Alpha, SPARC base should not be called 
PCs as well.

So maybe: x86-64 and x86-32. ;)

Similar thing with PowerPC. powerpc-32, powerpc-64?

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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
 On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote:
  On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote:
   The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to
   rename the IA64 port to Itanium and rename the AMD64 port to
   something like AMDINTL64.
  
  Something wrong with 'x86_64'?
 
 FWIW I never noticed a difference between CONFIG_MK8 yes and not set
 for real-time kernels. This x86_64 vs amd64 thingy does confuse
 newbies, but after a while everybody understands why there are those
 name. i368? What is it for? I only know 80386, never heard about 80368
 ;). There are enough explanations available regarding to the names.
 Changing names only will cause more confusion.

Hmmm, the thing is named i386, huh?

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Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Stephan Seitz:
 Hi!
 
 System: Debian Squeeze
 
 After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs.
 One belongs to the package and is installed in /etc/cron.daily. It
 calls apticron without options.
 The other one is created by the postinst script in /etc/cron.d with
 a random start time. It calls apticron with the -cron option which
 creates a status file in /var, so that apticron only runs once a day.
 
 Since the first cronjob calls apticron without an option, apticron will
 run twice a day. Does anyone know the reason for this behaviour?

Maybe not.

Does apticron -cron yield a full apticron run or just update that status 
file?

Anything in /usr/share/doc/apticron/README.Debian.gz?

I use cronapt.

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Elegant solution for network-dependent cifs/smb mounting?

2012-09-28 Thread Johannes Graumann

Hi,

I am looking for a debian- (and optimally kde-) compatible solution that 
would allow me to mount cifs/smb network drives ONLY if on the network where 
they are expected to exist.

I there was a solution that would upon attempted access to adrive
a) check whether on the right network
b) check whether the corresponding server is up
c) if not b) was able to WakeOnLan the server - and wait for/monitor its 
sucessful boot
d) mount the drive

That would be the perfect solution ...

Thanks for any pointers.

Sincerely, Joh



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Re: Elegant solution for network-dependent cifs/smb mounting?

2012-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:45:26PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I am looking for a debian- (and optimally kde-) compatible solution that 
 would allow me to mount cifs/smb network drives ONLY if on the network where 
 they are expected to exist.
 
 I there was a solution that would upon attempted access to adrive
 a) check whether on the right network
 b) check whether the corresponding server is up
 c) if not b) was able to WakeOnLan the server - and wait for/monitor its 
 sucessful boot
 d) mount the drive
 
 That would be the perfect solution ...

Perhaps have a look at whereami. That is a set of scripts that fire when
you connect to a network. It can identify which network you're on (for
example, you got a DHCP response and it was in the range x.x.x.x to
x.x.x.y). I'm fairly certain there are tests for can I reach server
Foo?, and it wouldn't be too hard to add can I etherwake server Foo?.



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Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

2012-09-28 Thread Stephan Seitz


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Stephan Seitz:
Since the first cronjob calls apticron without an option, apticron 
will run twice a day. Does anyone know the reason for this behaviour?

Maybe not.
Does apticron -cron yield a full apticron run or just update that status
file?


No, it’s a full run. From the manpage:

The --cron option is only meant to be used when invoked by cron/anacron 
in order to run no more than once a day.



Anything in /usr/share/doc/apticron/README.Debian.gz?


Nope, nothing.


I use cronapt.


cron-apt? I didn’t find anything in its configuration, so that it would 
send the changelog as well.


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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?


On 28/09/12 11:30, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:

Hi

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:

$ date; fdisk -l; date
Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00052568

Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1  633908614419543041c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2390861457814015919527007+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda378140160   23442047978140160   83  Linux
/dev/sda4   234420480   488396799   1269881605  Extended
/dev/sda5   234420543   3534259504728+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda6   353430063   372981104 9775521c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda7   372981168   392516144 9767488+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda8   392516208   43157015919526976   83  Linux
/dev/sda9   431570223   441353744 4891761   83  Linux
/dev/sda10  441353808   446253569 2449881   83  Linux
/dev/sda11  446253633   44981 1783183+  83  Linux
/dev/sda12  449822720   48839679919287040   83  Linux
Thu Sep 27 22:48:59 UTC 2012


So... fdisk -l took 38 seconds - which is a bit much.

Question: How long does fdisk -l /dev/sda take?  (note: specifying
/dev/sda explicitly, rather than fdisk figure it out)

If this is a lot shorter, then your problem may be related to how
fdisk chooses a default device to look at, and the contents of
/proc/partitions becomes interesting...

Hope this help


Also, try using time fdisk -l. The time command gives a slightly 
better idea of where the time is being spent that just using date before 
and after.


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Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Celejar

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:24:12 +0200
Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote:

 Celejar:
  lee:
   Celejar:
If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the
content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)?
   
   You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have
   an URL to try it with.
  
  I'm pretty sure wget doesn't handle such urls.
 
 There is a package named 'mimms' that is designed to download streams
 using the MMS protocol.

Thanks - I usually just use vlc, which works well.

Celejar


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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?


On 28/09/12 12:27, Albretch Mueller wrote:

Failing boot sector?
Some other sector it has to read is failing?
Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools):

~
  I don't know exactly which of your questions/suggestions running:
~
  smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i sector|realloc
~
  relates to, but it didn't report any error message. Without grep I got:
~
$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl 5.43 2012-05-01 r3539 [i686-linux-3.3.7] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   115   082   006Pre-fail
Always   -   96695847


Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very low.


   7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f   075   060   030Pre-fail
Always   -   17316569764


That is also seriously bad.


   9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   097   097   000Old_age
Always   -   2678


Is this a fairly new disk? Only 2678 hours use.


195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   078   057   000Old_age
Always   -   102323103


It looks like many errors have been recovered using ECC, so you probably 
wouldn't have noticed those.


It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of your 
disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not.


Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data 
over asap.


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aptitude interpretation of dialog

2012-09-28 Thread james gray

after the initial dialog received from #aptitude safe-upgrade there was at
the end.

the following :


Need to get O B of archives. After unpacking O B will be used.


after that dialog, the command line was handed back


Question: what is O B.



I am working with the Debian Net Install 6.0 Squeeze. No GUI.

Thank you

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Jon Dowland

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote:
 It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of
 your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not.
 
 Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data
 over asap.

YES to backup, but it's worth changing your SATA cable before investing
in a new disk, or at least ensuring your current one is seated properly.
Try to measure the *rate* that Hardware_ECC_Recovered is increasing over
a set period of time, check/replace cable, measure again.


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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-28 Thread Jon Dowland

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:35:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
 Maybe we could start some kind of petition for Itanium and
 AMDINTL64.  I think these tell everyone at a glance what they need to
 know when selecting a port, and would completely eliminate the confusion.

Itanium will probably disappear as a supported release architecture sooner than
it would take to convince enough people it was worth renaming.


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Re: aptitude interpretation of dialog

2012-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:49:29AM -0700, james gray wrote:
after the initial dialog received from #aptitude safe-upgrade there was at
the end.�
 
the following :
 
Need to get O B of archives. After unpacking O B will be used.
 
after that dialog, the command line was handed back�
 
Question: what is O B.

Zero bytes. In other words, nothing needed to be downloaded and, after
installation (of nothing), no extra space would be needed.

This either means there are no new packages, or that you've already
downloaded the packages and the new packages won't take up any extra
space on your drive.



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Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-28 Thread Tom H

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote:
 Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov:

 Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I
 thought.
 System boots and works fine.

 Ok, good.

 Would be interesting to know what the error was.

 In case you spare any free time, I´d look in the shell script update-grub
 or grub-mkconfig for the occurence of a part of the error message and look
 whats going on there.

(FYI, update-grub just calls grub-mkconfig)

I've just looked at Debian's grub2 source and there's a Debian
grub-mkconfig patch, mkconfig_mid_upgrade.patch:

Description: Bail out if trying to run grub-mkconfig during upgrade to 2.00
 Since files in /etc/grub.d/ are conffiles, they are not put in place until
 grub-common is configured, meaning that they may be out of sync with the
 parts of grub-mkconfig that reside in /usr/. In GRUB 1.99,
 /etc/grub.d/00_header contained a reference to ${GRUB_PREFIX}/video.lst.
 This and other code from 1.99 breaks with 2.00's grub-mkconfig. Deferring
 this to when grub-PLATFORM.postinst eventually runs is safe and avoids this
 problem.
Author: Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2012-09-13

Index: b/util/grub-mkconfig.in
===
--- a/util/grub-mkconfig.in
+++ b/util/grub-mkconfig.in
@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@
 esac
 done

+if fgrep -qs '${GRUB_PREFIX}/video.lst' ${grub_mkconfig_dir}/00_header; then
+  echo GRUB = 2.00 has been unpacked but not yet configured. 2
+  echo grub-mkconfig will not work until the upgrade is complete. 2
+  echo It should run later as part of configuring the new GRUB packages. 2
+  exit 0
+fi
+
 if [ x$EUID = x ] ; then
   EUID=`id -u`
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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread lee

Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com writes:

 Because your disk is sleeping?
 ~
  That I think may be the reason why. I did notice and check that it
 always seems to happen after suspending my box, even if you unmount
 all drives before, but what I don't get is that may people would be
 complaining about that same problem. I have seem people complaining
 all the time about hardware-related issues with suspending a box, but
 not such delays and I always thought when you awaken your box after
 suspending it, it should go to its initial state.

It should go back to where you suspended or hibernated it, and it
doesn't.  If your disk is sleeping because its power management decided
to turn it off, it can take a while for it to wake up.  It might be a
good idea to check the power management settings with something like
hdparm.

 Is there a way to awaken all harddrive/partitions you are using?

fdisk -l seems to do that.  However, it's difficult to reasonably put to
sleep a disk which has partitions on it that are mounted, and it's very
questionable if it's reasonable to do so (unless it's an SSD maybe, if
those can be put to sleep at all).


How much money and energy do you actually save by putting disks to sleep
when you consider the possibility of increased wear and perhaps having
to replace them sooner than would otherwise be necessary?  Are there any
good studies aimed to answer this question?


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Re: Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

2012-09-28 Thread lee

Helgi Örn Helgason sacredea...@gmail.com writes:

 Can someone enlighten me on this? Surely there must be a way to get
 this going without rebooting? A command or something?

Unplug it before suspend and plug it back in after waking up, or unplug
it and plug it back in after waking up?  Or don't suspend ...


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Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

2012-09-28 Thread Stephan Seitz


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:

System: Debian Squeeze
After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs.


This is fixed in Testing as I have noticed. The package apticron doesn’t 
ship a file in /etc/cron.daily anymore but only creates one in 
/etc/cron.d.


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Fwd: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze

2012-09-28 Thread Filipe Freire

Hi
resending as it did not seem to reach the list.  Sorry if this was not the
case.-
Filipe

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From: Filipe Freire freire...@gmail.com
Date: 27 September 2012 12:42
Subject: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze
To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org


Dear All!

I am having problems getting a stable mount of an extern FREECOM HD on
debian squeeze.

Sometimes it mounts and by running
# blkid -o list -c /dev/null

get

/dev/sdb1  vfatFREECOM HDD /media/FREECOM HDD 13EC-4051

but it often umounts while copying files and can not mount it again.  Tried
placing the line in fstab

UUID=13EC-4051  /media/Ext-HD vfat defaults,auto,exec,users,rw 0 0

but get

mount: special device UUID=13EC-4051 does not exist

also /dev/sdb1 is gone.

Any missing mod that I should look for?

Any ideas are welcome.

Thank you in advance,
Filipe


PS what should be a relevant part from running dmesg is:

[  193.043620] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[  194.046020] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Freecom  Hard Drive XS
 1.00 PQ
: 0 ANSI: 4
[  194.046736] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  194.047446] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00
TB/1.
81 TiB)
[  194.053731] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  194.053734] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
[  194.060095] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  194.060099] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  194.073837] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  194.073840] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  194.090570]  sdb: sdb1
[  194.105295] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  194.105298] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  194.105300] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[  195.430432] FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[  291.152427] usb 4-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 7
[  291.152801] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
[  291.152803] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT
driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  291.152806] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 03 20 f0 7f 00 00 f0
00
[  291.152811] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 52490367
[  291.152830] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
[  291.152831] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT
driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  291.152833] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 03 20 f1 6f 00 00 10
00
[  291.152837] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 52490607
[  291.275859] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[  291.347612] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  291.523504] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  291.699237] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd
[  291.771127] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  291.946866] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  292.122578] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci_hcd
[  292.529829] usb 4-1.1: device not accepting address 10, error -32
[  292.601888] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[  293.009116] usb 4-1.1: device not accepting address 11, error -32
[  293.009290] hub 4-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[  299.624267] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556096) failed
[  299.624271] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556097) failed
[  299.624274] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556098) failed
[  299.624276] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556099) failed
[  299.624278] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556100) failed
...

[  299.624403] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556158) failed
[  299.624405] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556159) failed
[  347.480149] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[  347.552040] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  347.72] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  347.903515] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 13 using ehci_hcd
[  347.975405] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  348.151145] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

 I just backed up all the data
~
 Yet, it seems something else may be (also?) somehow relating to those
delays. Since I start knoppix 7.0.2 as:
~
 knoppix no3d fromhd=/dev/sda9
~
 could these issues/problems relate to the fact that /dev/sda9 is
mounted read-only and knoppix keeps it to itself throughout its
running time?
~
 See bellow the fdisk -l timings when I run knoppix from the dvd
~
 lbrtchx

// __ fdisk -l

$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:26 UTC 2012
real 0m0.014s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:28 UTC 2012
real 0m0.012s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:29 UTC 2012
real 0m0.012s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:29 UTC 2012
real 0m0.013s

// __ fdisk -l /dev/sda

$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l /dev/sda) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:35 UTC 2012
real 0m0.002s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l /dev/sda) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:36 UTC 2012
real 0m0.002s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l /dev/sda) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:37 UTC 2012
real 0m0.002s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l /dev/sda) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:20:38 UTC 2012
real 0m0.002s


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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?


On 28/09/12 13:52, Jon Dowland wrote:

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote:

It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of
your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not.

Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data
over asap.


YES to backup, but it's worth changing your SATA cable before investing
in a new disk, or at least ensuring your current one is seated properly.
Try to measure the *rate* that Hardware_ECC_Recovered is increasing over
a set period of time, check/replace cable, measure again.



Good points, which I did think of *after* I'd posted my comment.

Good catch. :-)

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RE: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

Good morning,  When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is 
happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f 
to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it 
possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh?  Thanks, Craig



What I am trying to do is monitor logs on a remote system. I have the log 
entries going
to the log files as well as VT2. If I ssh into the machine and tail -f the 
system log,
it quits updating when the log is rotated. So I figured if I could watch the 
second
console in real time I would be able to see the same thing without interruption 
when
the log file rotates. Is this possible? Is there a better way to do it?


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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

 in a box in which I use the fromhd stanza using a disk which smartclt
reports as being fine the results before and after suspending are the
same
~
 this is what the dying disk reports
~
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:52:58 UTC 2012
real 0m0.191s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:52:59 UTC 2012
real 0m0.055s
$ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 21 | grep real`; echo $X
Fri Sep 28 10:53:00 UTC 2012
real 0m0.052s
~
 it then stabilize around 0.050s
~
 For the good ones time consistently reports 0.003s
~
 the thing is (for more than one reason) I use a crappy box to go online
~
 Also, any comprehensive documentation regarding hd's health?
smartctl's is OK to get by, but you are telling me about logs I don't
know about and I would like to know more about the physics of it
~
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Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

2012-09-28 Thread Darac Marjal

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
 Good morning,  When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is 
 happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail 
 -f to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is 
 it possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh?  Thanks, Craig

Try the vtgrab package.



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Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?



On Friday, September 28, 2012 10:29, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk 
said:

 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
 Good morning,  When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is
 happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail 
 -f
 to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it
 possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh?  Thanks, Craig
 
 Try the vtgrab package.
 
 
Bingo! Thank you so much. I didn't even think of a vnc like console solution.
I was focused on ssh. Your reply is much appreciated.


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Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?


On 28/09/12 16:20, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:

Good morning,  When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is 
happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f 
to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it 
possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh?  Thanks, Craig



What I am trying to do is monitor logs on a remote system. I have the log 
entries going
to the log files as well as VT2. If I ssh into the machine and tail -f the 
system log,
it quits updating when the log is rotated. So I figured if I could watch the 
second
console in real time I would be able to see the same thing without interruption 
when
the log file rotates. Is this possible? Is there a better way to do it?


Try tail --follow=mylogfile, this will followed the currently named 
mylogfile even if the old file is renamed and a new one opened, rather 
than following the old file which -f does.


Also the -F option will do similar, but won't fail if the file is 
inaccessible for a while.


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Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

2012-09-28 Thread shawn wilson

On Sep 28, 2012 11:30 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:

 On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote:
  Good morning,  When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what
is happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using
tail -f to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever
update. Is it possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh?  Thanks,
Craig

 Try the vtgrab package.



That would work. However I think you could also have logrotate use a socket
for logging (at least -ng). What you might really want to look into is
splunk or graylog2 (or the other solutions I can never remember).

Also, socat is another solution for playing with device io. I don't believe
dealing with vt is the right solution however. Also keep in mind none of
these solutions will encrypt the stream - use stunnel or similar here.

Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

2012-09-28 Thread Jacek Politowski

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:

After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs.

This is fixed in Testing as I have noticed. The package apticron
doesn’t ship a file in /etc/cron.daily anymore but only creates one
in /etc/cron.d.

See bug #587597 for more information.


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Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

 Try tail --follow=mylogfile, this will followed the currently named
 mylogfile even if the old file is renamed and a new one opened, rather
 than following the old file which -f does.
 

smack to the forehead
I used to know that. Sadly, I even looked at the man page yesterday
before posting and still missed that. Thanks for jogging my brain. It
obviously needed it.

FWIW, I will be setting up a log server in the near future, but we need
this production machine now, and I've got a couple of other priorities,
so I just have an xterm open for monitoring it's logs in real time so I
can start to understand what is normal and what is not for now. The log
server will negate this step.

Thanks!


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Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

 That would work. However I think you could also have logrotate use a socket
 for logging (at least -ng). What you might really want to look into is
 splunk or graylog2 (or the other solutions I can never remember).
 
 Also, socat is another solution for playing with device io. I don't believe
 dealing with vt is the right solution however. Also keep in mind none of
 these solutions will encrypt the stream - use stunnel or similar here.
 

Thanks for the ideas, and the heads up. I'll test my various new options this
afternoon and decide what will work in the interim until I get the log server
set up, probably next week or the week after.


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Re: No shutdown after processor change

2012-09-28 Thread Artifex Maximus

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
On 9/26/2012 11:14 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Selim T. Erdogan
se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote:
Artifex Maximus, 18.09.2012:
Did you make any software updates to the system? I have a pretty old
computer that is using wheezy and as I updated debian within the past
weeks it went back and forth between turning off properly and stalling
with system halted on the screen. I don't remember which one it's
been doing most recently.

No I did not upgrade my system that time. Since then I do several
times but with the same result. The problem probably somewhere else
because if I am in the BIOS and press power button the system (CPU)
stops/freeze but the screen remains on and have to switch off with
power button on PSU. Later the system does not always detect the HDDs
at system start which is scaring. So I bought a new ASUS G41 board and
a new PSU. Hope that works. Actually I do not have time for build the
new system so there will be no new info till Friday. Might I first
will try to change only the CPU back to E5200 and see the errors gone
or still there. If gone the problem is clearly CPU related.

Sorry for being late for the game. In nearly all cases this behavior is
a result of a new processor and an old BIOS whose code was not written
for the new processor. Simply flashing the system with the latest BIOS
usually fixes such issues. I don't see that mentioned above. Before
installing the new Asus board, I suggest putting the E5200 back in.
Confirm everything works as it did before relating to power switch,
device detection, etc. If it works, flash with the latest BIOS. Reboot
and verify new BIOS is working. If so, power down and install the
E8400. The problems should be gone.

Thanks for your answer. I already installed my new board and
everything is fine. I tried E5200 and old motherboard lives again. So
my old board clearly not handle E8400. So bad. My new motherboard
handle E8400 and knows VT which is great.

I might be able to give you definitive information but you didn't state
your current mobo make/model. This problem is likely documented in the
errata, along with the solution, which is likely upgrade to BIOS
version x.xx.xxx or later.

It's a Fujitsu-Siemens G31T-M2 manufactured by ECS but no such board
on ECS site. I flashed the last BIOS some years ago as BIOS is from
2008 and no success. Fujitsu support wrote an email that Linux and
E8400 is not supported by them.

Bye,
a

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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:23:59 AM Dom wrote:
 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   115   082   006Pre-fail
  
  Always   -   96695847
 
 Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very
 low.


Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts large values in these 
fields. Cause me a few moments' consternation the first time I saw it on my 
own drives


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Re: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze

2012-09-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton


Hi,

On 27/09/12 12:42, Filipe Freire wrote:

Dear All!

I am having problems getting a stable mount of an extern FREECOM HD on
debian squeeze.

Sometimes it mounts and by running
# blkid -o list -c /dev/null

get

/dev/sdb1  vfatFREECOM HDD /media/FREECOM HDD 13EC-4051

but it often umounts while copying files and can not mount it again.  Tried
placing the line in fstab

UUID=13EC-4051  /media/Ext-HD vfat defaults,auto,exec,users,rw 0 0

but get

mount: special device UUID=13EC-4051 does not exist

also /dev/sdb1 is gone.

Any missing mod that I should look for?

Any ideas are welcome.

Thank you in advance,
Filipe


PS what should be a relevant part from running dmesg is:

[  193.043620] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[  194.046020] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Freecom  Hard Drive XS
  1.00 PQ
: 0 ANSI: 4
[  194.046736] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  194.047446] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks:
(2.00 TB/1.
81 TiB)
[  194.053731] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  194.053734] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
[  194.060095] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  194.060099] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  194.073837] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  194.073840] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  194.090570]  sdb: sdb1
[  194.105295] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  194.105298] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  194.105300] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[  195.430432] FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for
FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[  291.152427] usb 4-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 7
[  291.152801] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
[  291.152803] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT
driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  291.152806] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 03 20 f0 7f 00 00
f0 00
[  291.152811] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 52490367
[  291.152830] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
[  291.152831] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT
driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  291.152833] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 03 20 f1 6f 00 00
10 00
[  291.152837] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 52490607
[  291.275859] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
[  291.347612] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  291.523504] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  291.699237] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd
[  291.771127] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  291.946866] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  292.122578] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci_hcd
[  292.529829] usb 4-1.1: device not accepting address 10, error -32
[  292.601888] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[  293.009116] usb 4-1.1: device not accepting address 11, error -32
[  293.009290] hub 4-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
[  299.624267] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556096) failed
[  299.624271] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556097) failed
[  299.624274] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556098) failed
[  299.624276] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556099) failed
[  299.624278] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556100) failed
...

[  299.624403] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556158) failed
[  299.624405] FAT-fs (sdb1): Directory bread(block 138556159) failed
[  347.480149] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[  347.552040] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  347.72] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  347.903515] usb 4-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 13 using ehci_hcd
[  347.975405] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  348.151145] usb 4-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32


There seem to be quite a bit of error messages, googling the error 
there's a guy claiming that it's actually a hardware problem related to 
consumption...


http://paulphilippov.com/articles/how_to_fix_device_not_accepting_address_error

Lorenzo


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Server upgrade to wheezy failed

2012-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom

My server upgrade from squeeze to wheezy just failed.  But I'm not 
panicking, I can still dual-boot into a back-up squeeze partition, and 
squeeze still works perfectly.

I just upgraded my server from squeeze to wheezy.  Lots of packages 
failed to upgrade because of dependency problems.  Now it's normal to 
have a few like this in a testing system, as packages leak through from 
sid, so I wasn't too worried about this -- normally just wait a few days 
and the missing dependencies show up.

But enough are missing that wheezy is not really usable.

It fails to recognise any network interfaces.  It used to recognise an 
eth0, an eth1, and a ppp0, but now ifconfig reports nothing.  Of course, 
this might not even be the fault of the missing packages.  Maybe udev is 
wrong.  Yes, I started the upgrade with the kernel and udev.  They should 
match.

I'm not sure where to start looking.

apt-get dist-upgrade just reports a lot of unresolved dependencies.  I'm 
not clear what to do next.  apt-get suggests using apt-get -f install.  
But which packages do I do this to?  Or do I misunderstand? 

And with the net down, even if I figure out what to uninstall (aptitude 
has over 200 candidates for this) there's probably little hope of having 
apt-get download further packages normally.  But if I can figure out what 
to remove, I may well be able to install some that have already been 
downloaded during the dist-upgrade.

Yes, I did use script to log everything.  But the complete output is 
rather lengthy.

I append the messages apt-get dist-upgrade now gives me.  Are any of 
these likely the cause of my problems?  They don't look like trouble to 
me, but what do I know?

-- hendrik

april:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 alacarte : Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0 but it is not installed
Depends: gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 but it is not installed
Depends: gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 but it is not installed
 brasero : Depends: libbrasero-media3-1 (= 3.4.1-3) but it is not 
installed
   Depends: libnautilus-extension1a (= 2.91) but it is not 
installed
   Depends: libtotem-plparser17 (= 2.32) but 2.30.3-1 is 
installed
   Depends: libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 (= 0.10.0) but it is not 
installed
 emacs23 : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installed
 gconf2 : Depends: gconf-service (= 3.2.5-1+build1) but it is not 
installed
 gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (= 2.8.2) but 2.6.10-1+squeeze3 is installed
Depends: gimp-data (= 2.8.2) but 2.6.10-1+squeeze3 is installed
Depends: libbabl-0.1-0 (= 0.1.10) but it is not installed
Depends: libgegl-0.2-0 (= 0.2.0) but it is not installed
Depends: libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 (= 1.5.1) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libpoppler-glib8 (= 0.18) but it is not installed
Depends: libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (= 1.3.10) but it is not installed
 gnome-control-center : Depends: libcanberra-gtk3-0 (= 0.25) but it is 
not installed
Depends: libcheese-gtk21 (= 3.4.0) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libcheese3 (= 3.0.1) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 (= 1.10.0) but it is 
not installed
Depends: libcogl-pango0 (= 1.7.4) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libcogl9 (= 1.7.4) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libgnome-bluetooth10 (= 3.4.0) but it 
is not installed
Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-2 (= 3.2.0) but it 
is not installed
Depends: libgnome-menu-3-0 (= 3.2.0.1) but it is 
not installed
Depends: libgnomekbd7 (= 2.91.91) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libgoa-1.0-0 (= 3.1.1) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libjson-glib-1.0-0 (= 0.12.0) but it is 
not installed
Depends: libnm-glib4 (= 0.8.998) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libnm-gtk0 (= 0.9.1.95) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libnm-util2 (= 0.8.998) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libnotify4 (= 0.7.3) but it is not 
installed
Depends: libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 0.99) but 
0.96-4+squeeze2 is installed
Depends: libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (= 0.99.1) but 
0.9.21-3+squeeze1 is installed
Depends: libpulse0 (= 0.99.1) but 0.9.21-3
+squeeze1 is installed
Depends: libsocialweb-client2 (= 0.25.3) but it 
is not installed
Depends: libwacom2 (= 0.3) but it is not 
installed
Depends: accountsservice but it is not installed
Depends: apg but it is not installed

GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-28 Thread Artifex Maximus

Hello!

I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the
following partition structure:

sda1 - XP
sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition)
sda3 - swap

The GRUB is on the sda2 partition not in the MBR. That's why sda2 is
the boot partition. If I set sda1 as boot partition XP runs. I just do
not want to disturb original MBR loader code.

I clone my system to a new bigger HDD using Clonezilla 2 for Linux. At
start GRUB loader only writes GRUB on the screen and nothing else
happen. If I set sda1 as boot XP load and works fine. I've tried to
reinstall grub under RIPLinux x86_64 with mount sda2 and chroot but no
success. update-grub displays no error but no success. The Linux
filesystem including /boot folder and grub is there. Most likely there
is some missing piece which is not part of filesystem therefore
clonezilla misses that part.

My question is what is the recommended way of reinstall GRUB after
cloning in such situation? Why update-grub does not works? Might try
to copy with dd and resize later?

Bye,
a


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Re: Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

2012-09-28 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason

On 28 September 2012 15:26, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
 Helgi Örn Helgason sacredea...@gmail.com writes:

 Can someone enlighten me on this? Surely there must be a way to get
 this going without rebooting? A command or something?

 Unplug it before suspend and plug it back in after waking up, or unplug
 it and plug it back in after waking up?  Or don't suspend ...

Unplugging/replugging has never helped.
If not suspending had been an option then I wouldn't have asked for help.


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Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote:

 Greetings,
 
 I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to
 catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers.

This isn't what you asked for at all, but you might consider the BLISS 
classification instead.  It's more modern, and its classification guides 
are legitimately available for free download.  Some are scanned PDFs, 
others are available as source code (XML, I believe).

They've learned a lot about the structure of classification systems since 
LC was set up.

It's used by a number of libraries in England, I believe.

-- hendrik


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Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-28 Thread John Hasler

Hendrik Boom writes:
 It's more modern, and its classification guides are legitimately
 available for free download.

What about LCC is not in the public domain?

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/
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command isn't working in crontab

2012-09-28 Thread Tomas Hulata

Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can 
someone explain me why?


23 58  * * *   rootcd /some_path/;mkdir CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv 
./CAM1/*.* ./CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/;mkdir CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv 
./CAM2/*.* ./CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/


I want to move files from /some_path/CAM1 directory to directory called 
CAM1-'today date' and the  same for /some_path/CAM2 directory


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Re: command isn't working in crontab

On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote:
 Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can
 someone explain me why?
 
 23 58  * * *   rootcd /some_path/;mkdir CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv
 ./CAM1/*.* ./CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/;mkdir CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv
 ./CAM2/*.* ./CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/
 
 I want to move files from /some_path/CAM1 directory to directory called
 CAM1-'today date' and the  same for /some_path/CAM2 directory

Perhaps cron doesn't know how to run those commands. Try:
23 58  * * *   root/bin/bash -c cd /some_path/;mkdir \CAM1-$(date +%d.
%m.%Y)\;mv ./CAM1/*.* ./\CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)\/;mkdir \CAM2-$(date +%d.
%m.%Y)\;mv ./CAM2/*.* ./\CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)\/


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Re: command isn't working in crontab

2012-09-28 Thread Tomas Hulata

double quotes are OK but % is not, it is special character in crontab , 
I have found it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron


On 29.09.2012 02:05, Neal Murphy wrote:

On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote:

Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can
someone explain me why?

23 58  * * *   rootcd /some_path/;mkdir CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv
./CAM1/*.* ./CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/;mkdir CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv
./CAM2/*.* ./CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/

I want to move files from /some_path/CAM1 directory to directory called
CAM1-'today date' and the  same for /some_path/CAM2 directory

Perhaps cron doesn't know how to run those commands. Try:
23 58  * * *   root/bin/bash -c cd /some_path/;mkdir \CAM1-$(date +%d.
%m.%Y)\;mv ./CAM1/*.* ./\CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)\/;mkdir \CAM2-$(date +%d.
%m.%Y)\;mv ./CAM2/*.* ./\CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)\/





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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   115   082   006Pre-fail
  
   Always   -   96695847
 
  Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very
  low.

 Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts large values in these
 fields. Cause me a few moments' consternation the first time I saw it on my
 own drives
~
 Indeed! Something spooky may be going on. After taking the drive
out in order to back it up, I have run fdisk -l with no disk and
sometimes with a pen drive inserted and these bellow are the results I
got.
~
 Don't you find all of this downright weird?
~
 I don't believe in ghosts ;-) What do you think I could do to
troubleshoot this further?
~
 lbrtchx
~

$ time fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes
39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *806415638527 7815232c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

real0m38.106s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

$ mount /media/sda1

$ time fdisk -l
konqueror(2828)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should
not have a 'lib' prefix: libkhtmlpart.so
konqueror(2828)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library
/usr/lib/kde4/khtml_kget.so does not offer a qt_plugin_instance
function.

Disk /dev/sda: 8006 MB, 8006926336 bytes
39 heads, 39 sectors/track, 10281 cylinders, total 15638528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *806415638527 7815232c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

real0m38.107s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

$ sudo umount /media/sda1

$ time fdisk -l

real0m38.314s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

$ _DT=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`; dmesg  dmesg_${_DT}.log

$ date; time fdisk -l; date
Fri Sep 28 20:51:09 UTC 2012

real0m38.097s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
Fri Sep 28 20:51:47 UTC 2012

$ _DT=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`; dmesg  dmesg_${_DT}.log

$ ls -l dmesg_*.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 15493 Sep 28 20:50 dmesg_20120928205055.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 15490 Sep 28 20:51 dmesg_20120928205157.log

$ wc -l dmesg_*.log
  298 dmesg_20120928205055.log
  299 dmesg_20120928205157.log
  597 total

$ diff dmesg_20120928205055.log dmesg_20120928205157.log
1c1
 090] ehci_hcd :00:13.2: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
---
 PI
298a299
 [26607.877660] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
$

$ cat dmesg_20120928205055.log
090] ehci_hcd :00:13.2: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
[ 4008.172988] ohci_hcd :00:13.1: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
[ 4008.173025] ohci_hcd :00:13.0: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI
[ 4008.173066] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 13.416 msecs
[ 4008.173239] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[ 4008.173322] PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[ 4008.173361] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 4008.173361] ACPI: Low-level resume complete
[ 4008.173361] PM: Restoring platform NVS memory
[ 4008.173361] ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S3
[ 4008.173361] ohci_hcd :00:13.0: wake-up capability disabled by ACPI
[ 4008.173361] ohci_hcd :00:13.1: wake-up capability disabled by ACPI
[ 4008.173361] ehci_hcd :00:13.2: wake-up capability disabled by ACPI
[ 4008.173361] PM: early resume of devices complete after 0.718 msecs
[ 4008.176363]  pci:00: wake-up capability disabled by ACPI
[ 4008.176442] radeon :01:00.0: f529d800 unpin not necessary
[ 4008.178326] serial 00:08: activated
[ 4008.178771] parport_pc 00:09: activated
[ 4008.189307] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[ 4008.201519] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0004).
[ 4008.201531] radeon :01:00.0: WB enabled
[ 4008.201534] [drm] fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x1000
and cpu addr 0xff885000
[ 4008.201621] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x10001000
[ 4008.201651] [drm] ring test succeeded in 7 usecs
[ 4008.201667] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[ 4008.496304] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 4008.496352] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 4008.600352] ata3.00: ACPI cmd ef/03:0c:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES)
filtered out
[ 4008.600356] ata3.00: ACPI cmd ef/03:42:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES)
filtered out
[ 4008.600360] ata3.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE
LOCK) filtered out
[ 4008.606911] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 4013.233591] psmouse serio1: hgpk: ID: 10 00 64
[ 4015.679626]
[ 4015.679628] floppy driver state
[ 4015.679629] ---
[ 4015.679637] now=1114704 last interrupt=1109734 diff=4970 last
called handler=recal_interrupt
[ 4015.679639]

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:58:47 PM Albretch Mueller wrote:
   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   115   082   006Pre-fail

Always   -   96695847
   
   Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very
   low.
  
  Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts large values in
  these fields. Cause me a few moments' consternation the first time I saw
  it on my own drives
 
 ~
  Indeed! Something spooky may be going on. After taking the drive
 out in order to back it up, I have run fdisk -l with no disk and
 sometimes with a pen drive inserted and these bellow are the results I
 got.
 ~
  Don't you find all of this downright weird?

Not yet.

 ~
  I don't believe in ghosts ;-) What do you think I could do to
 troubleshoot this further?

Have you tried fdisk -l /dev/sda? I think you did, to no avail. It might be 
searching some other drive or type of drive first that is slow to respond.

Check the drive's power state:
  hdparm -C /dev/sda

How about:
  tail -f /var/log/messages  # In a separate window
  time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=1
  time fdisk -l /dev/sda
to see if the drive is dozing.

Or (from hdparm's man page:  Disable  the  automatic power-saving
function of certain Seagate drives...):
  hdparm -Z /dev/sda


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Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?