Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

[Curt Howland]

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On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and
> "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those
> directories.

Found /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, changed to "enable=False", no change.

Found $/.config/user-dirs.dirs, commented out the ones I didn't want, 
no change. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs reverted to original on 
logout/login.

Changed all the pointers in $/.config/user-dirs.dirs to "Desktop" so 
that no other directory would be created, success. Deleted 
directories stay deleted. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs not reverting 
to original form on logout/login.

What an immense waste of time. I can understand having the directories 
created once, when the user is created. This automatic regeneration 
is utterly pointless and annoying.

Sorry to bother y'all with this.

Curt-




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Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

[Curt Howland]

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Good evening. Did a fresh install of Bookworm, installing desktop with 
XFCE.

I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and "Videos", 
but every time I delete them something recreates those directories.

I can't find where these are set to be created, and re-re-re created.

Is there a way to turn this off? 

Curt-

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Re: removing file??

[Curt Howland]

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> dpkg: error processing archive 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-dev_20.03-3.1+
> b1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite '/usr/include/codeblocks/Alignment.h', which 
is 
> also in pac
> kage codeblocks-headers 20.03
> dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-dev_20.03-3.1+b1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This can occur when you have upgraded a Debian system from one major 
version to another "in place", that is, without wiping and 
reinstalling.

Once you've gotten it to the point where this is the only error left, 
you can fix it by using a sledgehammer:

# 
dpkg -i --force-overwrite 
/var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-dev_20.03-3.1+b1_amd64.deb

What this does is tell the Debian package installer to do the 
overwrite. When dpkg is run as an "automatic" process it won't do it 
because such a conflict can cause serious problems if it occurs 
within a Debian version, but not _between_ Debian versions.

Or when I was running Sid for several years.

Then run your usual package manager process again to finish anything 
this error was preventing.

In my experience this kind of thing has only happened _between_ Debian 
major versions, and as such forcing the overwrite has not caused any 
problems that I could discern.

That it happens so rarely and only in such extreme circumstances is a 
testament to the quality of the Debian package maintainers and their 
attention to detail.

Curt-

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(Solved) Re: Systemd start that won't stop

[Curt Howland]

>  wrote:
> Just like the scanner in "Knight Rider", I see the picture.

Yes.

> What is the output of the following command?
>
> $ sudo systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait

Unfortunately, since I went above-and-beyond before saving the text, I
don't have the output, only that it didn't say anything about what was
hanging it up, only that it was "waiting".

> It is supposed to be some sort of graphical boot screen.  I just
> tried it on my Buster machine, but the only notable difference
> that appeared. was that now I have asterisks when typing in the
> passphrase of my ciphered drive.  I'm not even certain this is
> related.

Yes, indeed. I went into dselect and removed Plymouth and its library,
no dependencies were noted except its library.

Upon reboot, the ciphered drive login had no asterisks, and it was
80x24 screen resolution. The boot sequence this time did not look like
RedHat with the green success indicators, in fact there were hardly
any boot messages on tty1 at all. This is different.

However, the boot was successful and the console is working perfectly
now. No more tty1 dead.

Problem solved.

Many thanks.

Curt-

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

[Curt Howland]

On 8/9/19, Curt Howland  wrote:
> Hi. New Buster install.
> [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h
> 54m 38s / no limit)

Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as
seen during shutdown when something won't politely die.

Only two things look interesting to me under "list units::
# systemctl list-units
getty@tty1.serviceloaded inactive
dead  start Getty on tty1
plymouth-quit-wait.serviceloaded activating
start start Hold until boot process f

Since tty1 would be the console, it makes sense that it would be dead.
I have no idea what a "plymouth" is.

dmesg showed nothing that looked wrong.

There is no problem with partition space.

Curt-

Systemd start that won't stop

[Curt Howland]

Hi. New Buster install.

While X11 is working just fine, the console is unusable, due to a
startup message that never stops:

[ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h
54m 38s / no limit)

This goes on until the laptop is shut down.

How do I find the errant process? The start-up messages fly by, but I
don't see any failures, or any indication of what process it is that
won't stop starting.

Curt-

Re: Buster install

[Curt Howland]

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On Saturday 13 July 2019, Ansgar Burchardt was heard to say:

|   The first difference is probably the most user visible one. Doing
|   plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -' 
is
|   strongly recommended to always get a newly set up environment 
similar
|   to a normal login.

Well, that's a remarkably stupid thing to change.

Thank you, I will alias it because that's impossibly stupid.


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Re: Buster install

[Curt Howland]

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On Saturday 13 July 2019, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> Just installed Buster.
>
> I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in
> root's path by default?

Ok, the problem is /etc/profile is not being run when the "su" command 
is used. If I log in as root, the path is set just fine.




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Buster install

[Curt Howland]

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Just installed Buster.

I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in root's 
path by default?



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Re: IPv4 v IPv6

[Curt Howland]

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On Monday 17 June 2019, Gene Heskett  was heard 
to say:

> How is that resolved, by unroutable address blocks such 
> as 192.168.xx.xx is now?

Yes, IPv6 does have such allocations. The first 64bits is network 
block, then the last 64bits are your local machine.

fc00:: is the non-routed network. RFC1918 equiv.

fe80:: is the link-local address which is not routed at all, it is 
used solely between your device and the router. Personally, I would 
have combined these two, but when IPv6 was being built they didn't 
ask me.

Your device will always have an address built of its MAC address, with 
FF FE in the middle of it, for every network block including link 
local, like this:

# ifconfig
enp1s0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
inet 192.168.85.86  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 
192.168.85.255
inet6 fe80::beae:c5ff:fe66:ec70  prefixlen 64  scopeid 
0x20
inet6 2691:178d:8d80:efd:f92f:91cf:1240:640d  prefixlen 64  
scopeid 0x0
inet6 2691:178d:8d80:efd:beae:c5ff:fe66:ec70  prefixlen 64  
scopeid 0x0
ether bc:ae:c5:66:ec:70  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

These show the three entries which should always exist. The first is 
the link-local address built from the MAC. Second, the allocated 
network from my ISP, with a randomized local address for security 
purposes.

The third entry is the global network address and the local MAC based 
address. Someone realized broadcasting your MAC address is not 
particularly secure, so the randomized interface address has become 
the norm. This third address is what you would put in your hosts 
file.

> how do the other machines on my local net, advertise their presence 
> to the other machines on my local net. So I can still ssh -Y 
> vna.coyote.den for instance, if I can ever make ssh work to a 
> win-10-home edition box.    

You do so by either making a static fc00:: entry, or by knowing your 
global network you can then just splice on the MAC local address 
since the MAC local doesn't change.

Unfortunately, because DHCP6 is really dynamic, and my ISP changes the 
network blocks every once in a while, having the global network 
entries and MAC local addresses in the hosts file has been a complete 
waste of time.

Having fc00::MAC as a non-routed local RFC1918 default would have been 
so much easier, but no, IPv6 was not designed by network 
engineers. It was designed by old AT phone engineers who were 
pissed they were being put out of a job by competition, and wanted to 
curse the world with increased complexity where none was needed.






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Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

[Curt Howland]

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One of the things I do with an SSD is turn down "swappiness" to a 
minimum.

In /etc/sysctl.d/custom.conf

I put the following lines:

vm.swappiness = 0
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 40
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10
vm.dirty_ratio = 40

There are also a bunch of networking defaults for IPv4 and v6 for 
security and simplicity, but this is about SSD wear and swap space. A 
swap partition that is simply never written to never wears out.

I also put in ramdisk options for /tmp in /etc/fstab in order to 
reduce disk writes.

Curt-

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SOLVED Re: Missing libGL.so.1 from ldconfig

[Curt Howland]

Good questions:

The Wanderer  wibbled:
>
> At a first guess: what's the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf?

$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

> what snippets do you have there, and what directories they point to?

$ dir /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  38 Jan 16  2017 fakeroot-x86_64-linux-gnu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 Jan 14 05:39 i386-linux-gnu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  44 Mar 20  2016 libc.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  92 Jan 16  2016 trinitylibs.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  68 May 28  2017 x86_64-linux-gnu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  56 Jun 15  2017 zz_i386-biarch-compat.conf

> In particular, do any of them point to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ ?

$ cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
/etc/ld.so.conf.d
$ grep i386 *
i386-linux-gnu.conf:/lib/i386-linux-gnu
i386-linux-gnu.conf:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

> (Also, have you checked that directory to confirm that libGL.so.1 is
actually present there?)

No, its not.

$ dir /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 13  2015
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.1

# find /usr -name libGL.so.1
./lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
./lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

# ls -al lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 21  2017
lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0

So why would "mesa-diverted" be here, and nothing pointing to it? Let
me try adding the mesa-diverted directory to the ld.so.conf.d and see
what happens.

# cat local.conf
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu
# ldconfig
# ldconfig -p | grep libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

Thank you that worked. Now why on one system and not another, both
Debian stable, that is the great mystery.

Curt-

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Missing libGL.so.1 from ldconfig

[Curt Howland]

Ok. Having some difficulty getting GL to work.

Stable, up to date. Running Wine32, the package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
is installed, but no matter what I do I keep getting

# ldconfig -p | grep libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

On a different system, where I did nothing at all beyond install
Wine32, the libraries are there just fine:

# ldconfig -p | grep libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

I've tried "ldconfig", I've tried putting "/usr/lib32" in
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf

I've even tried "dpkg-reconfigure libgl1-mesa-glx:i386" just to see if
the install script needed to get kicked, nothing worked.

Any ideas?

Curt-

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Wacom tablet not recognized in Debian 8

[Curt Howland]

Debian Stable, fully updated this evening.

Just got a Wacom tablet and it's not working at all.

[  203.144771] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  203.297507] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=056a, idProduct=033b
[  203.297518] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  203.297524] usb 1-1: Product: Intuos PS
[  203.297529] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Wacom Co.,Ltd.

but...

# xsetwacom --list devices

returns nothing.

I have the obvious Wacom drivers:

ii  libwacom-common   0.8-1
all  Wacom model feature query library (common files)
ii  libwacom2:amd64   0.8-1
amd64Wacom model feature query library
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom  0.26.0+20140918-1
amd64

and clearly xsetwacom exists as a binary.

Any ideas? The device just isn't being seen, it seems.

Curt-


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Re: mount MTP phone

[Curt Howland]

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I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different 
phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, 
nada.


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Re: Jessie, problem compiling kernel 4.3

[Curt Howland]

I spoke too soon, someone in the ubuntu forums had the same problem,
installed libssl-dev and it worked.

Sorry to trouble y'all.

Curt-

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote:
> So, there I was, doing a compile of the new kernel, 4.3
>
> I get the following interesting error:
>
> ===
> scripts/extract-cert.c:21:25: fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file
> or directory
>  #include 
>  ^
> compilation terminated.
> ===
>
> I'm accustomed to getting compile time errors that "You have no
> certs!", this is the first time this has failed. (4.2.5 compiled just
> fine, for example)
>
> Searching has turned nothing up, am I the only person having this problem?
>
> Curt-
>
>
> --
> The secret of happiness is freedom,
> and the secret of freedom is courage.
> - Thucydides



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Jessie, problem compiling kernel 4.3

[Curt Howland]

So, there I was, doing a compile of the new kernel, 4.3

I get the following interesting error:

===
scripts/extract-cert.c:21:25: fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file
or directory
 #include 
 ^
compilation terminated.
===

I'm accustomed to getting compile time errors that "You have no
certs!", this is the first time this has failed. (4.2.5 compiled just
fine, for example)

Searching has turned nothing up, am I the only person having this problem?

Curt-


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up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

[Curt Howland]

Hi.

I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the
upgrade to Jessie, with systemd, I cannot stop it from starting on
boot, and once running I cannot stop it.

The only way to turn the tunnel off is to uninstall OpenVPN, and then
reinstall it the next time I want to use it.

So, any hints as to what command to issue to stop the damned systemd
that's running OpenVPN?

# /etc/init.d/openvpn stop
[ ok ] Stopping openvpn (via systemctl): openvpn.service.

This does not work. The tunnel remains up.

Curt-


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Re: up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

[Curt Howland]

Nevermind, I found that I had renamed the init.d script but systemd
doesn't use it, so it was not sending the correctly named command to
systemd to shut it off.

# systemctl# listed running services
# systemctl stop openvpn.service   # service stopped.

If I start it by hand with the init script, then using the init script
to stop it works.

I beg Debian-user's pardon for this systemd waste of time.

Curt-

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:
 Hi.

 I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the
 upgrade to Jessie, with systemd, I cannot stop it from starting on
 boot, and once running I cannot stop it.

 The only way to turn the tunnel off is to uninstall OpenVPN, and then
 reinstall it the next time I want to use it.

 So, any hints as to what command to issue to stop the damned systemd
 that's running OpenVPN?

 # /etc/init.d/openvpn stop
 [ ok ] Stopping openvpn (via systemctl): openvpn.service.

 This does not work. The tunnel remains up.

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Debian Stable, 3.14.15 kernel, Web cam and Google Hangouts

[Curt Howland]

Debian Stable, latest mainline kernel and firmware. As recommended
elsewhere, verified that libv4l is installed:

# dpkg -l | grep v4l
ii  libv4l-0:amd64  0.8.8-3
amd64Collection of video4linux support libraries

I bought a webcam, and when I plug it in I get the following:

[ 1674.480146] usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 3
[ 1677.454756] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[ 1678.416461] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1e4e, idProduct=0110
[ 1678.416476] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 1678.416484] usb 3-2: Product: USB2.0 Camera
[ 1678.416491] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Etron Technology, Inc.

The Google Hangouts plug-in installed, and it seems to run, except it
has no video nor does it detect any video.

Suggestions?

Curt-

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exFat permissions

[Curt Howland]

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Hi. Up-to-date Stable.

I have exfat-fuse and exfat-utils installed, and while exFat seems to 
work just fine, there is an issue with the permissions that I don't 
know how to track down.

I formatted the same thumb drive in Fat32 and exFat, and the 
automounter is giving them DIFFERENT permissions:

With Fat32:
$ dir /media/disk/
total 4
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 curt root 2 Sep  2 09:58 Testing

With exFat:
$ dir /media/disk/
total 32
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Sep  2 10:03 Testing

All FAT devices, thumb drives, SD cards, etc, all mount with the 
presently logged in user as user, which has worked this way for 
years. I know that FAT has no user/group permissions attributes in 
the file system itself, so the user/group is being set by fuse and 
automount.

Only exFat has the user as root, as well as the group as root.

My searching for exfat in /lib/udev and /etc/udev has been fruitless, 
any suggestions?

Curt-

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Iceweasel run-lock stuck

[Curt Howland]

Dear Debianistas,

Up to date Wheezy, I can't start Iceweasel. Every time I try it gives
an error, Iceseasel is already running and not responding. Stop the
existing session or reboot.

Trouble is, there isn't any running Iceweasel, and I just started the machine.

Logging in as another user, Iceweasel works just fine.

At this point, I assume that the run-lock file has been stuck on,
and when started Iceweasel sees this lock file and quits.

I did find . -name *lock* -print but there was no file that looked
anything like an Iceweasel, Firefox, or Mozilla, lock file.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

[Curt Howland]

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On Saturday 11 May 2013, Kailash Kalyani was heard to say:
 Hi Curt,

Good morning.

 Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why
 they're used with most media.

As I said, I don't mean media where transaction times are critical or 
anything like that. I mean USB devices, thumb drives and external 
drives, which are already slow as molasses.

 As I understand it you're wondering 
 if it is possible to disable write caching in Windows? The answer
 to that is yes.

Thank you for the pointer, I'll pass it on to a friend who uses 
Windows.

My question was much more general than just Windows.

The problem of pulling a removable drive without unmounting it first 
is a general problem. Caching that isn't immediately written out to 
the drive appears to me to be asking for trouble.

 From Kernel 2.6 onwards udev (http://wiki.debian.org/udev) is the
 dynamic device manager. But despite searching for a while I've not
 figured out how to control the rules for mounting the devices.

Thank you for taking your time to investigate. It is interesting, and 
I will look at udeb myself as well.

 However, fstab entry sync or async controls what happens:
 http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Indeed. Removable drives not being in /etc/fstab is one of the 
particulars that may make it possible to have caching on for static 
drives, and off for removable. H...

 Sincerely,
 Kailash

Peace,

Curt-

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Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

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Dear Debian Users,

I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have 
scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing 
to unmount or eject before removing them.

Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because there isn't 
an eject feature, but through ignorance or accident.

This happens, I am told, because of unwritten buffers which are 
emptied only when the device is unmounted or ejected.

Why?

Removable media are already a class unto themselves, so why aren't 
they marked something like sync immediately? It's not like a USB 
drive is being used as multiple fast file accesses, benefiting from 
buffering in RAM. These are repositories, places where whole files 
are written or read and then the media removed.

It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say sync 
immediately or do not buffer, so that when the drive was inactive 
it could be yanked without danger of corruption.

Any suggestions?

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Re: Scratchy sound with debian wheezy on ASUS A73B series

[Curt Howland]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Vincent Hobe=EFka
vincent.hobe...@gmail.comwrote:
 I am completely lost. Can anyone give me some hints regarding this please?

Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
 Well, good to know I'm not the only one.

I thought it was just flash audio, but Pandora gets the little pops
constantly as well. No, it's not just you. It's a recent change, too.

And it's not just the kernel, I have the problem when running kernel
3.8.3 and 3.8.5, which are certainly not Debian standard yet.

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[SOLVED] Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

[Curt Howland]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:
 =
 Uninstalling modules from DKMS
 Attempting to install using DKMS

 Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.8/source -
  /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.8

 DKMS: add completed.
 Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
 Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
 Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=directory and run Make again.  Stop.
 =

First, thank you to the people who mentioned the pointers in /lib/modules/xxx

Both pointers were not needed. Placing this pointer:

# dir /lib/modules/3.6.5/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20 Mar 13 18:12 build - /usr/src/linux-3.6.5

was all it took. So with this pointer to the generic kernel source
tree, DKMS built the VB kernel driver without complaint.

The proprietary NVIDIA driver also now works with DKMS, which did not
work with DKMS previously, but did build and install itself just fine.
So I guess the NVIDIA installer knows to look for /usr/src/linux-xxx
which would explain why I didn't know I had this problem previously.

An additional note: I built the 3.8.2 kernel this morning with the
following command:

$ make -j 4 KDEB_PKGVERSION=1.0 deb-pkg

Which creates the packages in /usr/src

linux-headers-3.8.2_1.0_i386.deb
linux-image-3.8.2_1.0_i386.deb

After installing the linux-image-3.8.2 package, /lib/modules/3.8.2 did
NOT have any symbolic links.

When I installed the linux-headers-3.8.2 package, /lib/modules/3.8.2
had this link in it:

build - /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.2

and DKMS worked.

So there it is. The symbolic link can point to either the full kernel
source tree, or just the header package, and it works.

Many thanks, the Debian-User mailing list is again a remarkable source
of knowledge. I am glad to be a participant in this community.

Curt-
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Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

[Curt Howland]

Good evening. Up-to-date Sid, 32 bit.

I've been trying to install VirtualBox, both from the Sid main
archives and the Oracle
virtualbox-4.2_4.2.8-83876~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb package.

Both give the same error, that the kernel module cannot be built
because the kernel source tree cannot be found.

I'm running a self-compiled 3.6.5, and /usr/src/linux-3.6.5 exists.

How do I tell DKMS that the source for linux kernel 3.6.5 is
/usr/src/linux-3.6.5/ ?

The /var/log/vboxinstall.log says,

=
Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.8/source -
 /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.8

DKMS: add completed.
Failed to install using DKMS, attempting to install without
Makefile:181: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current
Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=directory and run Make again.  Stop.
=

I've tried to set KERN_DIR=/usr/src/linux-3.6.5 and it doesn't seem
to be making it into whatever DKMS is using for its build since it
gives the same error every time.

Has anyone else solved this?

Curt-


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Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

[Curt Howland]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling j...@aenertia.net wrote:
 Just out of curiosity why are you not using KVM? It is better, faster,
 and integrated with the kernel. virt-manager is more than capable tool
 for provisioning VM's.

Because I have no experience with it. One must have a place to begin
with any new project.

Also, VB was crashing my system quite reliably last time I had it
installed, and I just got a new CPU. Since I assume VB was accessing
some damaged part of my old CPU, I wanted to try VB before and after
the CPU swap to get a before/and/after comparison.

I will look for a KVM tutorial, thank you for the suggestion.

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Printer brand recommendations

[Curt Howland]

Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works
fine but something in Debian has changed.

It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so
ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and
speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't be read in a
print of a Google Map.

I thought it was just driver confusion at first, but this has been
happening on multiple systems, across more than one reinstall.

Yet when I use Windows, it works perfectly.

It's bad enough and obviously not going to get fixed, that I would
like suggestions for a replacement printer/scanner.

Epsom? Cannon? What brand do people use that works well with xsane and CUPS?

Thank you,

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Re: Printer brand recommendations

[Curt Howland]

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debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org was heard to say:
 Re: Printer brand recommendations

Dear Debian User,

The problem was that the default printer driver for the HP PSC2210 is 
not the HPLIP driver at all.

When I changed the printer driver from HP Cups+Gutenprint v5.2.9, 
which is the default upon CUPS detecting this printer, and instead 
specified the driver hpcups 3.12.6, the printing cleared up to its 
former excellence.

I'm also going to try hpijs 3.12.6 but I doubt it will be any 
better, as the ugliness of the Gutenprint driver has been cleaned up.

Thank you, Gary Roach, for the suggestion that lead to this discovery.

Peace, all, and excellent holidays.

Curt-

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Re: sid is not for newbies.

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Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
 If the OP needs a
 reliable system and not new software, drivers etc., I would 
recommend
 Debian Stable. If you need new software, drivers etc. I recommend
 Debian Testing.

Nonono, not testing. Testing goes through epic fluctuations, things 
stay broken for months, etc.

Seriously, I've found Sid to be far more stable than many other 
distributions stable releases.

I agree that Sid is not for newbies for a first Linux, but it's 
hardly the land-mind-ridden DMZ at which folks hint. Anyone with any 
experience who wants to get to know their system intimately is well 
served by running Sid. And when Sid is dull? Arch, or maybe LFS. :^)

Yes, sometimes things do break. The change from Xfree86 to Xorg was 
not nice, libc5 to libc6 wasn't fun, but those are punctuations in an 
otherwise relatively smooth narrative.

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32bit binaries on 64bit system?

[Curt Howland]

Dear Debian-user, newly installed AMD64 Squeeze.

I've decided to try installing Debian in 64bit for the first time, and 
restoring my home files has exposed a 32bit legacy.

wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

So I installed all the ia32libs, but the error is occurring. Clearly 
the ELF class ELFCLASS32 is not being recognized as having 
libraries available.

This is one small binary, but if I can get ELFCLASS32 recognized for 
one little binary, then it will be available for any others, too.

Suggestions? My Google-fu reveals answers for particular applications, 
but nothing which makes it system-wide.

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Re: [solved] Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

[curt . howland]

 On Tue 17 Jul 2012 at 10:13:10 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 gt; It was not clear to me that a Debian installation via businesscard 
 requires an
 gt; internet connection _during_ the installation:

On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:40:01 AM UTC-4, Brian wrote:
 It does not look to be possible:
 
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ

It used to work with the businesscard, if you go back to Woody. However, at 
this time the business card install procedure will fail if a network connection 
is not specified.

Which is too bad, I used to use the business card and no network connection in 
order to put a skeleton install in place, and then upgrade directly to Sid for 
a minimum of cruft.

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Sid, kernel 3.2.0.3 Removable media not working

[Curt Howland]

Dear Debian User,

I updated three Sid systems this morning, two laptops and a desktop,
stupidly removing kernel 3.2.0.2 from two of them before testing all
functionality. What I'm seeing is that with kernel 3.2.0.2 removable
media like CDs, USB thumb drives, etc, mount just fine, but when
booted into 3.2.0.3 mounts stop.

The devices are recognized, USB sdg1 vfat etc messages are all
correct, but automount does not occur, and when I try to mount/view
the device using the xfce icon for removable media, an error pops up,
Permissions failure.

Is anyone else seeing this problem?

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Email headers in the digest

[Curt Howland]

Dear Debian-User,

Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest,
and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone
else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which
consist mostly of the expanded headers of every piece of mail?

And no longer are the subjects of the included posts seen at the top
of the digest, so I can't even tell what is supposed to be in it.

It's gotten so difficult to read the email that I don't even know if
this problem has been raised. And hope as I might that it was a
temporary phenomenon, it has not ceased.

If this is a known problem, I don't want to bug the list administrators with it.

So like the VW van in the movie Cars, Please tell me I'm not the
only one seeing this?

And, if you reply, please send a copy to me off-list as well, since
otherwise I will likely miss it.

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Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

[Curt Howland]

Please forgive the direct reply, I get the Debian-User list digest,
and any reply I make will break the thread anyway.

Like you, I enjoy a minimalist install, at least at first. Let me
give you my experiences with the various Debian install styles.

It used to be that the Business-card and Net-install images would do a
base install without a network connection, creating a truly minimal
Linux installation. I would then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include
one or two repositories, add dselect by hand (apt-get update;
apt-get install dselect) which is the old, minimalist, non-graphical
package dependency manager, and start the process of choosing the
applications I wanted.

The last time I tried, the Net-install would still do a base
installation without a network connection, but the BBC would not.

Expert mode using any of the Debian install images will allow you to
select whether or not to install a graphical desktop. Don't worry,
expert mode is very straightforward, following the defaults is all
that the less interactive setup processes do. I recommend people try
expert to learn the steps required in setting up a basic system.

Be aware that the Debian installer does not collect all information
first and then do the work, it will prompt for steps as required. So,
it seems to take longer but you get far greater control than with more
automated/automatic installers.

If what you want is a minimal install to start, don't worry about what
is on the install disk. Just tell the installer to only build a Base
System, and that is what you will get. I know I'm a dinosaur for
still using dselect as my package manager tool, but do give it a try.
Oh, and search in dselect is started with \, and next is /,
+ to add the highlighted package, _ to purge it. Those are the
keys I use most.

When you're ready for the big package sets like Xwindow, Lxde, etc,
there are meta-packages with names like KDE-all that will do the
heavy lifting for you.

I think you will find that even with what seem to be extra packages
on the install disks, for the most part very little cruft gets
installed. Unlike some other distributions *cough*Ubuntu*cough* the
Debian install disks do not automatically build an entire system for
you unless you ask it to. So even using DVD#1, you can say base
system and a basic system is all you'll get.

I like DVD#1, and had a great time playing with it when making up this
blog post, Linux's Killer Feature: Flexibility

http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/02/linuxs-killer-feature-flexibility.html

Peace, and do experiment a bit. The worst thing that can happen with a
botched install is to reinstall, which is not all that much work after
all.

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Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

[Curt Howland]

Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote:
 No, the businesscard image has never contained the Debian
 base system; it has always required a network connection to
 download and install Debian.

Please go find a Woody Business Card image and try it.

Business Card images since Woody all refuse to continue unless they
can get a network connection to the repositories. Woody's did not, and
would provide an exceptionally minimalist environment. It wasn't
(drum-roll please) The Debian Base System, but it was a working
Linux install.

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Re: Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

[Curt Howland]

It was written:
 Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
 for giving example hostnames.  This avoids linking to other sites that do
 exist (domain.com) or are not work safe (xxx.com) unintentionally.

I often use MPAA.org or RIAA.org so that the spammers have something
nice and juicy to chew on.

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Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

[Curt Howland]

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david.goodeno...@btconnect.com was heard to say:
 On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Curt Howland wrote:
   What doesn't make sense is _why_. There is only one ethernet 
  interface in this machine. Why is UDEV renumbering them _at_all_?
 
  Curt-

 I had the same thing, and I think it is because a bug in the script
 that processes network udev events was fixed.  I forget the bug
 number, but there was a trailing \ missing from a line.

Ok. Yes, I know my mailer breaks thread references, but that's because 
I get the digest. It's also why I am careful to fix the subject 
lines.

Here's the answer to the problem:

UDEV rules are never removed, only added. The fact that I have plugged 
USB wireless interfaces into this system has incremented the file 
70-persistent-net.rules up to eth2 behind my back. 

I had a motherboard failure a month ago, and when I put in the new 
motherboard I was not surprised that the new ethernet port (since I 
kept the same system drive, no reinstall) was given a new ethernet 
number, eth3.

The bug which Mr. Goodenough mentions above, for a short time, 
reverted my interface to eth0. Not knowing this was a bug, I figured 
the system had simply defaulted back to 0, that what I have learned 
are called persistent rules had removed themselves. Woopie, fine by 
me.

But, when the bug was fixed and UDEV started working again, the same 
entry was still in 70-persistent-net.rules to make it eth3.

Ok. I can live with it. I guess it's better than the good old days 
when one's ethernet ports, if there were more than one in the 
machine, would sometimes swap places. Ah, those were exciting times, 
with real incentive never to reboot!

Running Debian Sid means never saying one is bored.

Thank you to all who replied, it's been a learning experience.

Curt-


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Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

[Curt Howland]

Dear Debianistas,

I'm aware of _what_ UDEV is doing, that is, renumbering my ethernet
ports to prevent conflicts. Yeah. There's only one, but it's getting
renumbered eth3.

Trouble is, it wasn't renumbered yesterday. Just today. And a week ago.

About a week ago, UDEV decided to let eth0 remain eth0, which was
nice, but I had to change /etc/network/interfaces because it had
previously decided that eth0 should be eth3, and had been doing that
since I installed it two years ago.

Yes, I'm running Unstable, so it's the UDEV updates that are doing
this. That makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is _why_. There is only one ethernet interface
in this machine. Why is UDEV renumbering them _at_all_?

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Re: New computer planned

[Curt Howland]

Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
 So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only
 downstairs from me, to build me a computer with hardware 3d
 acceleration, solid-state drive, 8Gb RAM. What else should I ask for and
 what works with Linux?

Sian,

Two years ago I did the same thing. Quad-core 3GHz AMD Phenom2, 4G of
1600DDR3 RAM, etc.

Everything on my ASRock and Asus motherboards has worked perfectly
with Linux. In that regard, I don't think you have anything to worry
about.

The only thing I did for Linux compatibility was to not get on-board
graphics. I bought an Nvidia-based graphics card that was not
bleeding edge, even though it's got 3D acceleration. The card has
it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thing,
and it drives 3D games perfectly well using the Nvidia supplied
graphics driver.

It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work
perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay
purely open-source.

I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2
sockets for keyboards. I have tried wireless keyboards, and they have
not been 100% reliable for me.

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Up to date Sid, Compile error, Linux 3.0

[Curt Howland]

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Hi. I also got this error with the 3.0-rc, but I thought it might get 
fixed.

Up to date Sid, the 2.6.x kernels compiled fine.


/usr/bin/make -j4 EXTRAVERSION=-random0.1  ARCH=i386 \
 -C Documentation/lguest
make: *** Documentation/lguest: No such file or directory.  Stop.

I did a search for this error, and found an old reference to zlib-dev 
not being installed, but it is installed.

Anyone else getting this?

Curt-

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Re: Compile error in Linux 3.0

[Curt Howland]

 Selecting config option 'Make CPU Idle calls when idle' cures the problem.

 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/8/170
 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/9/679
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/14/324

Thank you for the pointers and suggestion.

The compile failed on Documentation/lguest, so I'm just going to
forget about it for a while.

Thanks again,

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Re: Compile error in Linux 3.0

[Curt Howland]

 Is anyone else getting this error?
=20
   Building modules, stage 2.
   MODPOST 2571 modules
 ERROR: pm_idle [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
 ERROR: default_idle [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
 WARNING: modpost: Found 14 section mismatch(es).
 To see full details build your kernel with:
 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=3Dy'
 make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
 make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.0-rc3'
 make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
=20
 The compile then exits.

 Have you tried.. following the 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=3Dy' com=
 mand
 as suggested?

No, because I was wondering if anyone else got the error.

So far, it's just me. That means I'll wait for the full release.

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Compile error in Linux 3.0

[Curt Howland]

Is anyone else getting this error?

  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 2571 modules
ERROR: pm_idle [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
ERROR: default_idle [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
WARNING: modpost: Found 14 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.0-rc3'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

The compile then exits.

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Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

[Curt Howland]

I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often
after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to
simlinks.

If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it.

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So much for Skype.

[Curt Howland]

So Skype has been bought by Microsoft.

I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh
well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is
shaking his head with the inevitability of it all.

This aught to re-ignite the effort to develop the alternatives.

And if it doesn't, that will say more than any success could.

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Problems with USB

[Curt Howland]

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Hi.

Just upgraded my mobo to an ASRock M3A770DE, after the last mobo sound 
system was burned out by microphone feedback.

Well, I'm having serious USB problems. I have a Lexar card reader that 
has worked perfectly well for years, and it has always been 
recognized right away. When I plug it in,

[  817.158069] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[  848.198073] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[  879.174080] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[  910.150073] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[  941.126071] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[  960.503099] INFO: task blkid:2791 blocked for more than 120 
seconds.
[  960.503108] echo 0  /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs 
disables this message.
[  960.503115] blkid   D  0  2791   2748 
0x
[  960.503127]  f220b0c0 0082     
c10219b0 c1436340
[  960.503140]  f220b260 c1436340 3385 f700c2e0 f220b260 f220b264 
c1436340 f220b0c0
[  960.503152]  c1436340 0001  000939bf 000939bf  
 c109082c
[  960.503163] Call Trace:
[  960.503179]  [c10219b0] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xec/0x108
[  960.503191]  [c109082c] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1d/0x23
[  960.503200]  [c10219b0] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xec/0x108
[  960.503209]  [c1021807] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x57/0x6c
[  960.503218]  [c1092c12] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x3d5/0x576
[  960.503229]  [c128f5a6] ? __mutex_lock_common+0xe9/0x13a
[  960.503237]  [c128f606] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf/0x11
[  960.503245]  [c128f697] ? mutex_lock+0x17/0x24
[  960.503253]  [c128f697] ? mutex_lock+0x17/0x24
[  960.503261]  [c10e2f5d] ? __blkdev_get+0x6a/0x2b4
[  960.503268]  [c10e] ? blkdev_get+0x18c/0x25f
[  960.503277]  [c1113d80] ? fsnotify_perm+0x4f/0x5a
[  960.503283]  [c10e2939] ? bd_acquire+0x20/0x8f
[  960.503292]  [c10c0afa] ? __dentry_open+0x136/0x211
[  960.503301]  [c10c0c6f] ? nameidata_to_filp+0x3a/0x45
[  960.503308]  [c10e3406] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0x5e
[  960.503315]  [c10ca37b] ? finish_open+0x76/0x10f
[  960.503322]  [c10cbbd9] ? do_filp_open+0x171/0x4ef
[  960.503331]  [c1292c54] ? do_page_fault+0x345/0x361
[  960.503338]  [c1292c41] ? do_page_fault+0x332/0x361
[  960.503345]  [c10d3336] ? alloc_fd+0x4f/0xb1
[  960.503353]  [c10c08e9] ? do_sys_open+0x41/0xbd
[  960.503361]  [c10c09a9] ? sys_open+0x1e/0x23
[  960.503369]  [c100309f] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[  972.102074] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[  972.218844] sd 7:0:0:2: [sdd] Asking for cache data failed
[  972.218855] sd 7:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1003.142068] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[ 1034.118072] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[ 1065.158068] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[ 1080.503090] INFO: task blkid:2791 blocked for more than 120 
seconds.
[ 1080.503099] echo 0  /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs 
disables this message.
[ 1080.503106] blkid   D  0  2791  1 
0x
[ 1080.503117]  f220b0c0 0082     
c10219b0 c1436340
[ 1080.503131]  f220b260 c1436340 3385 f700c2e0 f220b260 f220b264 
c1436340 f220b0c0
[ 1080.503142]  c1436340 0001  000939bf 000939bf  
 c109082c
[ 1080.503154] Call Trace:
[ 1080.503170]  [c10219b0] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xec/0x108
[ 1080.503183]  [c109082c] ? zone_watermark_ok+0x1d/0x23
[ 1080.503192]  [c10219b0] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xec/0x108
[ 1080.503201]  [c1021807] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x57/0x6c
[ 1080.503210]  [c1092c12] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x3d5/0x576
[ 1080.503220]  [c128f5a6] ? __mutex_lock_common+0xe9/0x13a
[ 1080.503229]  [c128f606] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf/0x11
[ 1080.503237]  [c128f697] ? mutex_lock+0x17/0x24
[ 1080.503244]  [c128f697] ? mutex_lock+0x17/0x24
[ 1080.503252]  [c10e2f5d] ? __blkdev_get+0x6a/0x2b4
[ 1080.503260]  [c10e] ? blkdev_get+0x18c/0x25f
[ 1080.503269]  [c1113d80] ? fsnotify_perm+0x4f/0x5a
[ 1080.503275]  [c10e2939] ? bd_acquire+0x20/0x8f
[ 1080.503284]  [c10c0afa] ? __dentry_open+0x136/0x211
[ 1080.503293]  [c10c0c6f] ? nameidata_to_filp+0x3a/0x45
[ 1080.503299]  [c10e3406] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0x5e
[ 1080.503307]  [c10ca37b] ? finish_open+0x76/0x10f
[ 1080.503314]  [c10cbbd9] ? do_filp_open+0x171/0x4ef
[ 1080.503322]  [c1292c54] ? do_page_fault+0x345/0x361
[ 1080.503329]  [c1292c41] ? do_page_fault+0x332/0x361
[ 1080.503337]  [c10d3336] ? alloc_fd+0x4f/0xb1
[ 1080.503345]  [c10c08e9] ? do_sys_open+0x41/0xbd
[ 1080.503353]  [c10c09a9] ? sys_open+0x1e/0x23
[ 1080.503361]  [c100309f] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[ 1096.134073] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and 
address 3
[ 1127.110057] usb 2-1: reset high speed USB 

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

[Curt Howland]

 From: Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr
 Because, without realizing it, people are usually their own worst =20
 enemy. Short-sightedness rules.

One of the reasons democracy is such an awful form of government.

It works in a voluntary organization, and the Debian project
demonstrates that admirably.

 Agreed, =20
 a slightly obese and retarded one, but a child nonetheless. And can a =20
 mother not love her child -- even if it's an enfant terrible gone =20
 slightly astray?

Many who try Ubuntu later learn about Debian who would otherwise not
know of it. That and sending bug-fixes upstream, I believe fulfills
all the requirements a parent could reasonably demand.

Now if Unity would work under VirtualBox, I could give it a good going
over. But NoooOOOooo

Curt-
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re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

[Curt Howland]

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 I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN.

Don't use dd if its a mounted file system.

scp will work, but you have to be careful about thing like symlinks 
which scp WILL FOLLOW, and which can increase disk space use.

 scp -r / root@178.63.65.136:/

Two reasons this won't work.

1) most of the time, root login through ssh is blocked.

2) copying to / will overwrite the existing, running, system.

Much better, if you have the disk space on the receiving machine, is 
to make a directory under your normal user, 
like /home/dotan/Laptop, and do something like this, AS ROOT:

# scp -r / dotan@178.63.65.136:Laptop

and then the entire laptop file system will be available to recover at 
will.

But in general, it's necessary to back up only /etc and /home. These 
are where settings and user data are stored, and rebuilding the whole 
system it can be better to build the system anew, then just recover 
the user data and any needed custom settings from /etc.

 What is the canonical way of doing this?

Canonical runs Ubuntu, you need to ask that question in the Ubuntu 
forums. This is the Debian user list, and while Ubuntu gets their 
software packages mostly from Debian, they have their own issues with 
versions and custom packages.

But this is a more generic kind of question, so don't worry about 
that.

 Thanks!

You're very welcome, and I hope your problems work out successfully.

Curt-



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Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

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On Thursday 24 February 2011, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk
 That's Canonical with a capital C. This is canonical with a lower
 case C.

Having never heard the word used in a computer context except in 
reference to Canonical/Ubuntu, I plead simple error.

Good thing he didn't say concatenate, I likely would have associated 
it with cat food.

Curt-

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Middle button copy/paste

[Curt Howland]

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After updating Sid yesterday, middle button paste isn't working.

One of the most handy and wonderful features of UNIX is just ... gone.

I edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to EmulateThreeButtonMouse yes, which 
is the only place I could find such a setting, but it didn't make any 
difference. (yes, I restarted X after making the change)

Is anyone else having the problem, or is there a fix I missed in the 
datastream?

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Re: Middle button copy/paste

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On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Radhakrishna Bhat was heard to say:
 Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for
 middle button paste to work.

That was the first thing I checked, as well as its configuration to 
see if there was any setting there.

Console mousing and highlight-paste is working fine, and gpm is 
installed and running.

# ps aux | grep gpm
root  1619  0.0  0.0   1956   388 ?Ss   07:29   
0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t exps2

Funny thing, dpkg-reconfigure doesn't work for gpm any more. Something 
has changed...

# dpkg-reconfigure gpm
This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
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Re: system beep after upgrade to squeeze

[Curt Howland]

The only answer I could find was to put this line into my
.bash_profile and .bashrc files:

setterm -blength 0

That solved the problem without actually solving anything. How the
latest kernels get around not even having the hardware pcspkr module
loaded baffles me.

Easy enough to fix on a tower, just pull the jumper off the mobo. But
with a laptop, that's not possible.

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Re: XFCE and debian menu?

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On Friday 11 February 2011, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org was heard to 
say:
 I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox,
 and I just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu.
  Does anybody know how to add that menu into the XFCE menu?  I did
 some web searching and found some hints that it can be done, but
 nothing about how to do it.

I'm certainly with Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk to make sure 
that menu is installed, but I just did an install of Squeeze to 
show the flexibility of the Debian installation,

http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/02/linuxs-killer-feature-flexibility.html

...and I didn't notice any problem. There WAS a problem some months 
ago with Xfce having changed their menu style and not loading the 
Debian menu lists, but that seems to have been corrected.

I have heard that Xfce 4.8 goes back to the old way of loading menus, 
which worked just fine in Debian previously.

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Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

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On Monday 07 February 2011, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard 
to say:
 The problem is that the drivers got uploaded but were automatically
 rejected, see
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/02/msg00360.html for more
 information.

 I'm afraid this won't be dissolved for some days.

 Sven

This has happened many times in the 16 years I've been running Debian. 
A stable release means lots of upheaval for a while.

Indeed, the best thing for us mere users is to wait a week or so, then 
check again to see if things are resolved.

One more reason NEVER to do automatic package updating. Always sanity 
check what apt wants to do, BEFORE it does it.

Curt-

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Re: Squeeze. After Trinity istall no boot background picture

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On Saturday 05 February 2011, mark.goldsht...@gmail.com was heard to 
say:
 Years before I've used to be a KDE 3 user. KDE 4 experiments are
 not in my favorites, so after couple of years with Debian GNOME
 (Lenny mostly), I have decided to check out Trinity Project.
 Well, have no intention to point a finger on somebody or something
 alike but TP seems to be far from that clean and working DE I do
 remember as KDE 3.

You might appreciate this discussion on LXer.com:

http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/31333/

So far, that's the only review of Trinity-DE that I've seen.

Curt-

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Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

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=
 I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be 
worth
 a try in the event I'd look for an optical backup solution.

Thanks, will check whether my drive supports them.
=

Here's one way to find out:

=
$ dmesg | grep -i dvd
[4.391488] ata6.00: ATAPI: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A, 1.02, max 
UDMA/66
[4.398498] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROMOptiarc  DVD RW 
AD-7170A  1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[5.065253] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw 
xa/form2 cdda tray
=

One thing that tripped me up when I first used DVD-RAM is that it is 
unbelievably SLOW. When I thought the system was done writing, it 
really needed another couple of HOURS to finish. Really.

Also, don't buy cheap. For all their 20 year archive design, I've 
had files lost on three different DVD-RAM disks, something I never 
had with regular DVD-R.

Curt-

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[SOLVED] Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

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Dear Debian-user,

And the answer is, It doesn't do that. It's a failure of the USB 
connected UPS, which I guess means that's just the way it is.

Thank you for all the help and advice, may your power never spike,

Curt-


Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote:
===
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/apcupsd-usb.
6.3 Creating the UPS Powerdown Script

 Normally, the last thing that needs to happen before the system
 shuts down is to power off the UPS.  Unfortunately, one of the 
known
 limitations of apcupsd interfacing to a USB UPS is that the
 --killpower option to apcupsd doesn't work, which means that it 
is
 not possible to power off a USB UPS.  Although the apcupsd
 documentation states that the UPS should shut itself down one to 
two
 minutes after the system, I did not observe this in my testing.  
In
 my case, the UPS continued to supply power to the computer until 
the
 batteries drained to a critically low level.  Of course, this 
wasn't
 a problem because the system had already been shut down.
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Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

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On Monday 31 January 2011, ow...@netptc.net was heard to say:
 Curt

 Here is the config file.  HTL
 Larry

Larry,

I'm sorry but I don't see any difference in the settings between yours 
and mine.

I guess I'll have to take it to the apcupsd forums. Thanks for your 
help.

Here's mine, so you can see for yourself.

Curt-


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## apcupsd.conf v1.1 ##
# 
#  for apcupsd release 3.14.8 (16 January 2010) - debian
#
# apcupsd POSIX config file

#
# = General configuration parameters 
#

# UPSNAME xxx
#   Use this to give your UPS a name in log files and such. This
#   is particulary useful if you have multiple UPSes. This does not
#   set the EEPROM. It should be 8 characters or less.
#UPSNAME

# UPSCABLE cable
#   Defines the type of cable connecting the UPS to your computer.
#
#   Possible generic choices for cable are:
# simple, smart, ether, usb
#
#   Or a specific cable model number may be used:
# 940-0119A, 940-0127A, 940-0128A, 940-0020B,
# 940-0020C, 940-0023A, 940-0024B, 940-0024C,
# 940-1524C, 940-0024G, 940-0095A, 940-0095B,
# 940-0095C, M-04-02-2000
#
UPSCABLE usb

# To get apcupsd to work, in addition to defining the cable
# above, you must also define a UPSTYPE, which corresponds to
# the type of UPS you have (see the Description for more details).
# You must also specify a DEVICE, sometimes referred to as a port.
# For USB UPSes, please leave the DEVICE directive blank. For
# other UPS types, you must specify an appropriate port or address.
#
# UPSTYPE   DEVICE   Description
# apcsmart  /dev/tty**   Newer serial character device, appropriate for 
#SmartUPS models using a serial cable (not USB).
#
# usb   BLANK  Most new UPSes are USB. A blank DEVICE
#setting enables autodetection, which is
#the best choice for most installations.
#
# net   hostname:portNetwork link to a master apcupsd through apcupsd's 
#Network Information Server. This is used if the
#UPS powering your computer is connected to a 
#different computer for monitoring.
#
# snmp  hostname:port:vendor:community
#SNMP network link to an SNMP-enabled UPS device.
#Hostname is the ip address or hostname of the UPS 
#on the network. Vendor can be can be APC or 
#APC_NOTRAP. APC_NOTRAP will disable SNMP trap 
#catching; you usually want APC. Port is usually 
#161. Community is usually private.
#
# netsnmp   hostname:port:vendor:community
#OBSOLETE
#Same as SNMP above but requires use of the 
#net-snmp library. Unless you have a specific need
#for this old driver, you should use 'snmp' instead.
#
# dumb  /dev/tty**   Old serial character device for use with 
#simple-signaling UPSes.
#
# pcnet ipaddr:username:passphrase
#PowerChute Network Shutdown protocol which can be 
#used as an alternative to SNMP with the AP9617 
#family of smart slot cards.ipaddr is the IP 
#address of the UPS mgmtcard. username and 
#passphrase are the credentials for which the card 
#has been configured.
#
UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE

# POLLTIME int
#   Interval (in seconds) at which apcupsd polls the UPS for status. This
#   setting applies both to directly-attached UPSes (UPSTYPE apcsmart, usb, 
#   dumb) and networked UPSes (UPSTYPE net, snmp). Lowering this setting
#   will improve apcupsd's responsiveness to certain events at the cost of
#   higher CPU utilization. The default of 60 is appropriate for most
#   situations.
POLLTIME 60

# LOCKFILE path to lockfile
#   Path for device lock file. Not used on Win32.
LOCKFILE /var/lock

# SCRIPTDIR path to script directory
#   Directory in which apccontrol and event scripts are located.
SCRIPTDIR /etc/apcupsd

# PWRFAILDIR path to powerfail directory
#   Directory in which to write the powerfail flag file. This file
#   is created when apcupsd initiates a system shutdown and is
#   checked in the OS halt scripts to determine if a killpower
#   (turning off UPS output power) is required.
PWRFAILDIR /etc/apcupsd

# NOLOGINDIR path to nologin directory
#   Directory in which to write the nologin file. The existence
#   of this flag file tells the OS to disallow new logins.
NOLOGINDIR /etc


#
#  Configuration parameters used during power failures ==
#

# The ONBATTERYDELAY 

APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

[Curt Howland]

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Hi. First, this is on up-to-date Sid.

I bought an APC ES-550 battery backup from Office Depot, since the 
power in this thrice-damned mud hole is the worst of any place I've 
ever lived, and that includes the brown-outs of California after 
2000.

Anyway, it almost works perfectly. The unit physically works just 
fine, the apcupsd is (as far as I can tell) configured correctly, it 
shuts down the system I have on it in good order, but the shutdown 
command to the UPS itself never completes. The UPS doesn't 
deactivate, so the monitor I have plugged into it will totally drain 
the battery if power fails and I'm not around to push the on-off 
button myself.

Does anyone else have this model, is there any special configuration 
you did to make it work?

Curt-



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Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

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On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com was heard 
to say:
 Data stored in cookies is not what I understand for sensitive.
 What kind of information do you think are cookies managing?

Maybe this would be enlightening:

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

FTA:
It's extremely common for websites to protect your password by 
encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites 
to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) 
vulnerable. HTTP session hijacking (sometimes called sidejacking) 
is when an attacker gets a hold of a user's cookie, allowing them to 
do anything the user can do on a particular website. On an open 
wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, 
making these attacks extremely easy.

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Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

[Curt Howland]

Mr. Johnson, good morning.

 Anyway, I just learned that in the next Ubuntu, they are adopting the
 Unity Desktop. I did some checking on that and I totally hate it.

I understand completely. I've had the same reaction to KDE4.

 Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?

Yes. Although the default in Debian is the GNOME desktop, the Debian
developers go to great lengths to make running any desktop environment
or window manger that is packaged for Debian as seamless as possible.

The GDM (and KDM for that matter) login screens have a menu list of
all installed window managers and desktop environments from which to
choose. This allows for easy changes of desktop, so you can use which
ever one strikes your fancy, or just leave last selected to use the
one you're accustomed to.

Debian install CD#1 comes in three flavors, GNOME (generic), KDE and
XFCE (specified), you would have to be careful to download the
specific one you wanted if you don't want GNOME.

Debian DVD#1, bootable-business-card and net-install disk images have
the option (under advanced) to install either the full KDE, GNOME or
XFCE package suites right from the start.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/

Scroll to the bottom of the above directory to see the other install
images. This is for Squeeze, the about to be declared completely
stable.

 1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too?  (please say no)

Even if the Debian Developers were to make such a decision in several
years, the one and only time that would be an issue is if you didn't
know about it and chose the generic CD#1 with which to do an install.

It is a simple matter in aptitude, dselect or whatever your package
manager of choice, to simply install the desktop of your choice, and
choose it when you log in.

 2. How can I make a transition to Debian from Ubuntu?  So I need to
 change my apt repositories and then do what else?

Maybe someone else has answered this question. Not knowing exactly
what the Ubuntu developers do that is different than Debian, I
personally wouldn't risk it without having done a full backup of my
data anyway in case it went bad and a reinstall was called for.

 3. If I make this change Ubuntu - Debian, will I end up back in
 Nvidia Hell where the OS updates frequently break the
 commercial/proprietary video drivers?

In my personal experience, I have only had that happen once in many
years of using the Nvidia proprietary driver: three days ago. One of
the simlinks was altered. Re-running the Nvidia proprietary installer
solved the problem, with nothing more difficult than stopping X,
running the binary, and logging back in.

HOWEVER, I run Unstable, by choice. Sid breaks all his toys, so I
expect to have problems like this once in a while. I fully expect that
if you chose to run Debian Stable, you wouldn't see that kind of
trouble.

I fully expect you will have no problems running Debian, whatever way
you choose to do so. The benefits of self-organizing anarchy.

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Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

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On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say:
 Curt Howland wrote:
  Is there a
  reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some
  other fsck-able format?

 Have you thought about a simple log-structured filesystem? 

 Rick

Which would you suggest?

As an aside, I threw away that particular disk, and simply took a new 
one out and used that.

It's amazing that there is no udffsck in the Debian udfutils package.

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Fun with DVD-RAM

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Hi.

Having fun with DVD-RAM. Well, no, it's not fun.

Disk errors. Lost files. It's also mind-bendingly SLOW! But slow would 
be something I'd put up with, if it weren't for the disk errors.

Obviously, I bought bad disks. Oh well, I've only lost a few old 
photographs and one unimportant backup file from 2001, however 
DVD-RAM was touted to me as archival quality. Blah.

This was an interesting error during my efforts:

=
# fsck /dev/sr0
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
fsck: fsck.udf: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.udf for /dev/sr0
=

Is there a way to do a file system check on a UDF disk?

Next, while I realize that UDF spreads the writes around and makes 
the disks last longer, I am using them for long-term archive rather 
than something like a daily backup. Is there a reason anyone can 
think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some other fsck-able 
format? (I know not to use a journaling file system, because of the 
myriad rewrites of the journal itself)

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Re: Google Earth error?

[Curt Howland]

Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote,
 aptitude install lib32nss-mdns lsb

Thank you! That solved half the problem.

lib32nss-mdns is not availble in Sid. Is there a misspelling? I did a
few searches for variations, but didn't see anything.

lsb did install, and googleearth did launch and give me the splash
scree, but then objected to being run with the neoveau driver, and
then crashed.

=
$ googleearth
Google Earth has caught signal 11.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but Google Earth has crashed.
 This is a bug in the program, and should never happen under normal
 circumstances. A bug report and debugging data have been written
 to this text file:

/home/curt/.googleearth/crashlogs/crashlog-4cfbb28b.txt

Please include this file if you submit a bug report to Google.
=

That crash report is simply a list of libraries, Strace from glibc:
that I figure are not interesting to anyone on Debian-User.

I will try installing the nvidia driver and post my results.

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Google Earth error?

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Hi. Up-to-date Sid.

In fact, because of a power failure on Tuesday that somehow scrambled
something to do with X, this is on a freshly installed and up to date
Sid.

Installed googleearth-package, ran make-googleearth-package, came back
with unrecognized version like it usually does, so I ran
make-googleearth-package --force and it seemed to work.

Installed the resulting DEB, sudo dpkg -i
googleearth_6.0.0.1735+0.5.7-1_i386.deb

But,

=
$ googleearth
/usr/bin/googleearth: 14: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: not found
=

But...

=
$ dir /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5452 Nov 23 21:49 /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin
=

and...

=
$ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin
bash: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: No such file or directory
=

Any suggestions?

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Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity

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On Monday 20 September 2010, Arthur Machlas was heard to say:
 My guess is you need to build the header at least, and perhaps the
 source. It depends on how you're building the modules I suppose. In
 any case, you'll have to run either
 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 kernel_headers
 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 kernel_image

Ok, I did build the headers as a package, and installed it, so now 
there's a /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.36-rc4-curt1.0/ and the same 
error comes up:

/var/log/vbox-install.log
Makefile:170: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.36-rc4) does not 
match the current kernel (version 2.6.36-rc4-curt1.0). Stop.

Anyway, thank you for the suggestion, I'm sorry it didn't work. I'll 
take it up at the VirtualBox forum, in case anyone else has had the 
same difficulty.

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Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

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On Sunday 19 September 2010, Eric Viseur eric.vis...@gmail.com was 
heard to say:
 Must agree with Dotan.
 OOo 3.2 was a big step forward to a really efficient MSOffice
 alternative and should really be used instead of older versions
 when possible.

When OOo and Iceweasel began to really show their age in Lenny, I 
removed them and installed OOo and Firefox from the upstream, because 
those really are the two applications that benefit most being up to 
date.

I agree, OOo 3.x is doing very, very well indeed. May the Oracle be 
kind in its stewardship

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Mainline kernel source curiosity

[Curt Howland]

Hi. Up to date Squeeze, compiling the latest 2.6.36-rc4 kernel.

Last time the problem was compiling the kernel at all, which is
working just fine now thank you Debian-User.

fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 --initrd kernel_image

creates the .deb file just fine, it installs fine, but when I run it
and try to get the VirtualBox and Nvidia drivers to compile, this is
what I get:

from vbox-installer.log

==
Makefile:170: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.36-rc4) does not
match the current kernel (version 2.6.36-rc4-curt1.0).  Stop.
==

The thing is, there is no such error with 2.6.35.4-curt1.0, nor when
it was 35-rc4-curt1.0.

So why would it be choking on the custom extension now? I used
_exactly_ the same compile command, listed above.


from /var/log/nvidia-installer.log

===
In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
from include/linux/sched.h:54,
from include/linux/utsname.h:35,
from /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv-linu
   x.h:27,
from /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv.c:13
   :
   include/linux/bitops.h: In function ‘hweight_long’:
   include/linux/bitops.h:49: warning: signed and unsigned type in conditional
   expression
   In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.36-rc4/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess
   .h:571,
from include/linux/poll.h:14,
from /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv-linu
   x.h:84,
from /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv.c:13
   :
   /usr/src/linux-2.6.36-rc4/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h: In function ‘
   copy_from_user’:
   /usr/src/linux-2.6.36-rc4/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:209: warning: co
   mparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions
   /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv.c: At top level:
   /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv.c:426: error: unknown fiel
   d ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer
   /tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv.c:426: warning: initializa
   tion from incompatible pointer type
   make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel/nv.o] Error 1
   make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz2500/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.53/kernel] Error
   2
   make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
   NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
   nvidia.ko failed to build!
   make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
   make: *** [module] Error 2
- Error.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
==

Which I guess means I have to wait for Nvidia to fix a signed vs
unsigned change in the kernel source.

Can folks suggest if it would be worth while reporting this to Nvidia?

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On Monday 20 September 2010, Arthur Machlas was heard to say:
 And install the debs. Alternatively, build both just to be safe
 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 kernel_headers
 kernel_image

Very interesting. Any idea why building the headers was not needed 
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LXDE and removable media

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Hi. As a fugitive from KDE3, I'm trying out different desktops to find 
one to use going forward.

I've recently been playing with LXDE, and when plugging in a USB SD, 
it launched a notification and opened with the file manager just 
fine.

What I could not find was any icon for the media, or such, to 
graphically eject. So I used the always-working command line 
to umount /dev/sdb1.

Is there a removable media thingie for LXDE that somehow didn't get 
installed or maybe isn't being started?

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Re: LXDE and removable media

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On Sunday 22 August 2010, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com 
was heard to say:
 On Du, 22 aug 10, 12:49:09, Curt Howland wrote:
  What I could not find was any icon for the media, or such, to
  graphically eject. So I used the always-working command line
  to umount /dev/sdb1.

 Right-click on the respective icon in the left panel of the file
 manager.

Ok, inside the file manager. Thank you.

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wget question

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Hi.

I've wanted to do one thing with wget that just seems like it should 
be easy, but I haven't been able to get a combination of recurse 
and level that will do it.

All I want to do is download all the files in a specific directory.

The directories are viewable, for example,

http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/

But wget http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/ just gets the index.html 
file, wget http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/* returns an error, and 
the one time I put -r for recursion, it started downloading 
everything in the http://media.mises.org/mp3/ directory!

Does anyone have a trick? Using Konqueror and click-and-dragging every 
single file is a long, boring task that wears out my mouse.

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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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On Monday 26 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to 
say:
 You need to install the fakeroot package to build Debian packages
 as an ordinary user.  In Squeeze, dpkg-dev recommends fakeroot for
 that reason.

Well, that solves that question. I thought the fakeroot package was 
for that extra bit of security, because I had it confused 
with chroot and that whole jail thing.

Got it! I'll try again on my main system (the Lenny one) again today 
with all the advice given. I think it will work this time! And this 
may be the first time I didn't get advice from Ron Johnson. :^)

Peace, may your aim never waver,

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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to 
say:
  Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix
  this, at least, it used to.

 This only works if you use kernel-package to build the kernel.  The
 generic way is to use make -j4.

Excellent advice to the novice.

 There is no need to ever build the kernel as root.

Strangely enough, I wasn't. Not quite _that_ novice I guess. :^)

Now on to something new: Build failure! Who'd'a thought? I changed 
back to single-concurrency just to make sure that it wasn't 
related, make clean, then tried again with the same result.

Any suggestions?

==
$ make-kpkg --revision=curt0.1 kernel_image 
{scrolled so many as I'm sure you know... Then,}
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6'
/usr/bin/make -j1   ARCH=i386 \
 -C Documentation/lguest
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/Documentation/lguest'
cc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include 
-I../../arch/x86/include -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
lguest.c   -o lguest
lguest.c:21:25: error: sys/eventfd.h: No such file or directory
lguest.c: In function ‘create_thread’:
lguest.c:1026: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘eventfd’
make[1]: *** [lguest] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/Documentation/lguest'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Rares Aioanei was heard to say:
 If you are certain that the kernel tree isn't missing some files,
 then this is a situation for bugzilla.kernel.org . :)

As certain as I can be, having been careful not to delete anything.

Just make menuconfig then make-kpkg...

Golly, I feel so ... awed! Li'l ol' me? Post to kernel.org? 

Gee wilikers.

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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Rares Aioanei was heard to say:
 If you are certain that the kernel tree isn't missing some files,
 then this is a situation for bugzilla.kernel.org . :)

Well, no, it must be just me. I pulled down and tried the 2.6.34.1 
mainline kernel and received an almost identical error, but the 
same sys/eventfd.h line:

===
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.34.1'
/usr/bin/make -j4   ARCH=i386 \
 -C Documentation/lguest
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.34.1/Documentation/lguest'
cc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include 
-I../../arch/x86/include -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
lguest.c   -o lguest
lguest.c:21:25: error: sys/eventfd.h: No such file or directory
lguest.c: In function ‘create_thread’:
lguest.c:1026: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘eventfd’
make[1]: *** [lguest] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.34.1/Documentation/lguest'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
===

I wonder if the problem is from using make-kpkg somehow

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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to 
say:
 Not really.  The libc6-dev package is too old, lacking sys/eventfd.

Got it. I will give up with this machine. I don't want to upgrade to 
Squeeze due to preferring KDE3.

Curt-

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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might
find interesting.

All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than
root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the end of
the make-kpkg kernel_image process. I did the compile as root
successfully after seeing this error the first time, just to see if it
was user related, and the compile completed successfully.

In fact, I'm running 2.6.35-rc6 right now, no problems.

But I erased the directory and un-tarred the generic kernel source
again just to be sure, and received the same permission error again.
I'm just not sure if this is a debian make-kpkg error or not...

Here's the error and ls -a of the directories I think its referring to:

=
echo done  debian/stamp/build/kernel
/usr/bin/make -f ./debian/rules
debian/stamp/binary/pre-linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6'
== making target
debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02 [new prereqs:
]==
This is kernel package version 12.036.
rm -f -r .//usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02
.//usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02.deb
install -p -d -o root -g root  -m  755
/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/postinst.d
/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/preinst.d
\

/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/postrm.d
/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/prerm.d
install: cannot change owner and permissions of
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/postinst.d':
Operation not permitted
install: cannot change owner and permissions of
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/preinst.d':
Operation not permitted
install: cannot change owner and permissions of
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/postrm.d':
Operation not permitted
install: cannot change owner and permissions of
`/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/prerm.d':
Operation not permitted
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6'
make: *** [kernel_image] Error 2

$ dir 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/
total 16
drwx-- 2 curt curt 4096 Jul 25 21:12 postinst.d
drwx-- 2 curt curt 4096 Jul 25 21:12 postrm.d
drwx-- 2 curt curt 4096 Jul 25 21:12 preinst.d
drwx-- 2 curt curt 4096 Jul 25 21:12 prerm.d

$ dir /usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 6 curt curt 4096 Jul 25 21:12 kernel
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Trouble compiling generic kernel

[Curt Howland]

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Hi. Lenny, up to date with security and backports.

I pulled down 2.6.35-rc6.tar.bz2 from kernel.org, and would like to 
try compiling it to see what's Coming Soon To A Disto Near Me.

Its been about 9 years since the last time I compiled a kernel, but 
I'm having trouble I didn't have then. For some reason, none of 
the make things that I've used in the past are working now:

===
$ make xconfig
  CHECK   qt
*
* Unable to find the QT3 installation. Please make sure that
* the QT3 development package is correctly installed and
* either install pkg-config or set the QTDIR environment
* variable to the correct location.
*
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck', 
needed by `scripts/kconfig/qconf.o'.  Stop.
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
===
===
$ make menuconfig
 *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
 *** required header files.
 *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
 ***
 *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
 ***
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
===
===
$ make gconfig
*
* Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that
* the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed...
* You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0.
*
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/kconfig/.tmp_gtkcheck', 
needed by `scripts/kconfig/gconf.o'.  Stop.
make: *** [gconfig] Error 2
===

make config did work, but working through everything in text is 
enough to make a sane person INSANE.

I was surprised with the failure of menuconfig, since I have all of 
ncurses installed and the ncurses-devel suggestion isn't a Debian 
package name anyway.

Suggestions?

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Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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On Saturday 24 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to 
say:
  Suggestions?

 Install libncurses5-dev and use make menuconfig or make nconfig
 (the latter is new in 2.6.35).

Got it, and it works fine. Thank you.

Not compiling often (as you can tell), I note that the compile is 
using only one cpu of 4 at a time. I'm sure there is a parallel 
compilation tweak somewhere.

If it is easy, fine. If not, then forget about it, I'm not in any 
rush.

Curt-

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Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

[Curt Howland]

One point on the NetInstall and BusinessCard images, they do NOT work
unless connected to the 'Net.

Up through Woody, those images would install a minimal system. But not
now, they error when there is no 'Net connection and will not continue
the install.

So for non-networked installs, CD#1of Gnome, KDE or Xfce flavors are a
minimum. Make it easy on yourself and get a DVD#1.


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Problem removing nvidia-glx

[Curt Howland]

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Hi.

I used to have an nvidia graphics card in my machine, I removed it 
when I found the AMD/ATI drivers, and am now using the onboard video.

Well, I installed the AMD driver before removing the nvidia drivers, 
and when trying to remove the nvidia-glx package I get the following 
error:

==
Removing nvidia-glx ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/libGL.so': No such file or directory
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2' with
  different file `/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa', not allowed
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-glx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
==

This is preventing every other function, stopping updating and such.

I have the idea that I could _delete_ the file /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 
and run the remove, but I don't know what problems that might cause.

Suggestions, before I do something I am going to regret?

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DVD-Ram

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Hi. I have been interested in trying DVD-RAM due to its 30 year 
shelf-life and supposed ease of use of just being mounted like a 
regular disk without having to use CD or DVD writing software.

Anyway, I believe the DVD drive handles DVD-RAM, and this is the 
message I get in the kern.log:

[10357.909024] UDF-fs: No anchor found
[10357.909032] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[10359.847262] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

When I look in K3b's media information, it correctly identifies a 
DVD-RAM 4.3GB with nothing written to it.

But it won't mount, and I am going to assume that it's because there 
is no file system. Do I need to partition/format like a HD, or use 
K3b and format like a DVD-RW?

Or, sad to say, is the above error indicative of a drive that can't 
handle DVD-RAM?
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[SOLVED]Re: DVD-Ram

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On Wednesday 12 May 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say:
 Anyway, I believe the DVD drive handles DVD-RAM, and this is the
 message I get in the kern.log:

 [10357.909024] UDF-fs: No anchor found
 [10357.909032] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
 [10359.847262] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

Ok, to continue the saga and change the question, I found the 
following:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/how-can-i-format-a-dvd-ram-501752/

where it is suggested to simply format (and partition, I have assumed) 
the disk in ext2 using the standard tools.

So I did. fdisk for one partition of type 83, then

mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/hdc

which seemed to work just fine.

However, when I put the disk in, the following again came up:

[14455.902724] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[14455.902732] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[14455.997756] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[14456.246923] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[14456.246930] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[14456.341842] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

Looking in /etc/fstab, I see:

/dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0

which may very well be why there are UDF errors and why ext2 won't 
mount. Let's try putting auto in there...

/dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   autouser,noauto 0   0

And it worked.

# df
Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/hdc   4402628 11284   4167674   1% /media/cdrom0

Adding a file, deleting, both worked just fine treating it as a 
regular disk.

My apologies for bothering the list with something already pretty well 
answered, but my searches had not turned up the information I needed 
when I did the searches the first two times.

I'll also try UDF to see if it's readable on Winders, since who knows 
wtf I'll be needing to mount backups on in several years. I've lost 
too many pictures that were stored on floppies already.

Thank you for your time,

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Just finished Squeeze XFCE install, no Debian menu

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Hi. Just finished a fresh Squeeze install, xfce as the main manager.

Well, I've used xfce before, along with lots of others in Debian 
because it's so bloody easy to have more than one. There has always 
been a Debian entry in the main xfce menu, that led to everything 
and everything that's installed.

But this time I don't see one.

If I have to add it myself, where is the root of the Debian generic 
menu tree?

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Re: Resources for learning Linux

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On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com was heard 
to say:
 I would like to do a little
 reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of
 the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the
 things that might be taught in a university-linux/UNIX course.

Install Sid (Debian Unstable) and maintain it over the course of a few 
years.

Debian administration, one random problem at a time. :^)

That's how I did it.

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Continuous wifi errors

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Dear Debianistas,

I get the following messages continuously, via dmesg:

[10438.440147] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[10453.293891] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[10741.016287] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[10755.142445] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[11337.978637] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[11353.674135] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[11576.083088] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble 
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)

This happened with D-Link, Netgear and Linksys access points, so I 
don't even know where to start. It very much interferes with network 
speed due to what looks like constant renegotiation. And yes, it gets 
worse with heavier traffic.

Suggestions?

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GUI for IPv6

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Hi.

I recently (finally!) got an IPv6-functional router, and now IPv6 is 
native.

Two systems are utilizing IPv6 through configuration 
of /etc/network/interfaces, but on others WICD does not support IPv6. 
Yet.

Anyway, WICD is the only networking GUI I've used that worked for me, 
but is there another that handles IPv6?

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Re: mpg123 won't play

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As of March 8th,

Outstanding bugs -- Grave functionality bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
  1) #572920  libltdl3: Security update breaks mpg123

...the comment is, It works in testing and unstable, I'll see about 
fixing it in stable.

We await with great anticipation.

I wonder if the same fault is what caused Audacious to stop working 
for me at the same time? Hm.

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Re: mpg123 does not play

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On Saturday 13 March 2010, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net was 
heard to say:
  $ strace mpg123 
[snip]
  chdir(/usr/lib/mpg123)= 0
  open(/lib/output_alsa.la, O_RDONLY)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or 
  directory)

 This is odd-looking.

 $ apt-file search output_alsa.la
 mpg123: /usr/lib/mpg123/output_alsa.la

I agree. More so, because...

# apt-file search output_alsa.la
mpg123: /usr/lib/mpg123/output_alsa.la
~
# cd /usr/lib/mpg123/
/usr/lib/mpg123
# dir
total 96
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  858 2008-09-07 21:18 output_alsa.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8784 2008-09-07 21:18 output_alsa.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  874 2008-09-07 21:18 output_arts.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3364 2008-09-07 21:18 output_arts.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  823 2008-09-07 21:18 output_dummy.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2824 2008-09-07 21:18 output_dummy.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  889 2008-09-07 21:18 output_esd.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4544 2008-09-07 21:18 output_esd.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  856 2008-09-07 21:18 output_jack.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9756 2008-09-07 21:18 output_jack.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  817 2008-09-07 21:18 output_nas.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8184 2008-09-07 21:18 output_nas.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  809 2008-09-07 21:18 output_oss.la
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6000 2008-09-07 21:18 output_oss.so
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  846 2008-09-07 21:18 output_pulse.la
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Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

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On Saturday 13 March 2010, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com was 
heard to say:
 On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
   http://www.hyperwords.net/
  
   it doesn't like iceweasel..
 
  Sure it does.  Me using it is QED.

 when I click on the download, it said I had to install firefox,
 chrome, or... something else..
 now, it DID install just fine on my separate firefox 3.6 install..
 I had to install firefox 3.6, because iceweasel 3.0.6 was acting
 really, R E A L L Y slow...
 ii  iceweasel                                               3.0.6-3
  

 I thought I remember an issue with libgconf, but maybe that was for
 something else..
 ii  libgconf2-4                                            
 2.22.0-1  

The prior version of Hyperwords installs just fine with Iceweasel 
3.0.6, I just put it in myself.

Interesting. Even looks useful.

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Re: mpg123 does not play

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On Friday 12 March 2010, Martin adsrtg-ml...@yahoo.com.au was heard 
to say:
 On Lenny installed from DVD set mpg123 will not play an
 mp3 music. It complains as follow:

 $ mpg123 Aerodrom-Digni\ me\ visoko.mp3
 [module.c:110] error: Failed to open module alsa: file not found

Martin, the same thing happened to me. At the same time, Audacious 
failed and nothing would make that work either. I get the same error 
messages you do.

Something changed and messed up these two packages. After a while I 
gave up, thinking it was just me, on two different Lenny systems.

Well, at least now I know it's not just me.

No, Ron, standard Debian packages. Yes, tried 
uninstalling/purging/reinstalling. Several times, both systems. No 
good.

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Re: mpg123 does not play

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On Friday 12 March 2010, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net was heard 
to say:
 strace?

$ strace mpg123 
Downloads/2008-10-05_041_thanks_for_the_inflationary_depression.mp3
execve(/usr/bin/mpg123, 
[mpg123, Downloads/2008-10-05_041_thanks_...], [/* 31 vars */]) = 
0
brk(0)  = 0x8066000
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0xb7f26000
access(/etc/ld.so.preload, R_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY)  = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118884, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 118884, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f08000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/usr/lib/libltdl.so.3, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, 
\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\22\0\0004\0\0\0\240..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24200, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 27168, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 
0) = 0xb7f01000
mmap2(0xb7f07000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x5) = 0xb7f07000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\n\0\0004\0\0\0H..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9680, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 12412, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 
0) = 0xb7efd000
mmap2(0xb7eff000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xb7eff000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/usr/lib/libmpg123.so.0, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 
\0\0004\0\0\0\224..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=472700, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0xb7efc000
mmap2(NULL, 541664, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 
0) = 0xb7e77000
mmap2(0xb7ea9000, 274432, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x31) = 0xb7ea9000
mmap2(0xb7eec000, 62432, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7eec000
mprotect(0xbfffd000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC|
PROT_GROWSDOWN) = 0
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177elf\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\...@4\0\0004\0\0\0p..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=149328, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 151680, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 
0) = 0xb7e51000
mmap2(0xb7e75000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x23) = 0xb7e75000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, 
\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260e\1\0004\0\0\0\4..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1413540, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1418864, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 
3, 0) = 0xb7cf6000
mmap2(0xb7e4b000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x155) = 0xb7e4b000
mmap2(0xb7e4e000, 9840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e4e000
close(3)= 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0xb7cf5000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 - 6, base_addr:0xb7cf56b0, 
limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, 
limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb7e4b000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
mprotect(0xb7e77000, 204800, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0xb7e77000, 204800, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
munmap(0xb7f08000, 118884)  = 0
brk(0)  = 0x8066000
brk(0x8087000)  = 0x8087000
getcwd(/home/curt..., 50) = 11
open(/usr/lib/mpg123, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|
O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
close(3)= 0
chdir(/usr/lib/mpg123)= 0
open(/lib/output_alsa.la, O_RDONLY)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/usr/lib/output_alsa.la, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open(/lib/i486-linux-gnu/output_alsa.la, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
open(/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/output_alsa.la, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or 

Re: Installing Debian

[Curt Howland]

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On 2010-03-08 15:32, ahpurdy wrote:
 I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian.  I 
 wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian 
into 
 it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian.  This would be a 
good 
 way to learn Debian I think. Is this possible or would XP reject it?

I can suggest running VirtualBox if you have some spare space, and 
install Debian on that.

In fact, running a LiveCD as a mounted .ISO CD/DVD image in VirtualBox 
is as fast as running it as an installed OS. Very very nice way to 
try out Linux without installing it, without even installing it in 
VirtualBox!

So download a LiveCD, like http://www.elivecd.org/ and don't even 
write the CD. Wahoo!

Curt-

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(Solved) Re: Squeeze, Java script in Iceweasel

[Curt Howland]

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On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Chance Platt was heard to say:
 /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf

Many thanks, that did solve the problem.

I had noticed that the error log from the Jigzone applet had net 
written all over it, but when I tried the Are you running Java? at 
Java.com the error log didn't have so much net in it, so I hadn't 
seen a pattern.

Oh well, that's why I'm not a programmer.

Thanks again to all who helped,

Curt-

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Squeeze, Java script in Iceweasel

[Curt Howland]

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Good evening, all. Just putting together a Squeeze laptop (network 
hardware needs very recent kernel) and I simply cannot get Java to 
run in Iceweasel (or Konqueror, but I expect that).

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

And Jigzone.com

Java (and Jigzone) works on Lenny, I went through Squeeze and 
installed every sun-java6 package, and the Java Plug-in Control 
Panel is up and says it's working just fine, Iceweasel reports that 
the Java plug-in 1.6.0_16 is available and enabled in the plug-in 
list.

Any suggestions?

Curt-

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x.509 gpgsm and kmail

[Curt Howland]

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Hi, Debian Users.

A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using X.509, 
rather than OpenPGP which I normally use.

Apparently, gpgsm is used for X.509, and shows up in kmail so I figure 
the capabilities are there.

Google is useful, but all I found were problems. gpgsm-gencert.sh is 
supposedly the method to use to make a key, but the documentation is 
so sparse as to make it impossible for someone that doesn't already 
know how to use it. The documentation on GnuPG.org is merely the man 
pages.

Would someone have a pointer to a real example for generating a key, 
or at least decent instructions?

Curt-

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Re: x.509 gpgsm and kmail

[Curt Howland]

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On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say:
 Hi, Debian Users.

 A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using
 X.509, rather than OpenPGP which I normally use.

Ok, to continue the discussion, it turns out that (DN) 
means Distinguished Names the _best_ description of Distinguished 
Names that I found was Microsoft's:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366101(VS.85).aspx

And once I'd put in CN=Curt Howland the keygen process worked. One 
of the problems is that the --list-keys display doesn't use the 
term Name (DN) anywhere, so there's no way to know what field is 
being referred to in the keygen question.

Next step is importing and using the key, but what a mess. The 
original PGP was easier to use than this, maybe because it wasn't 
written by people who already know what they're doing.

Second System Syndrome.

Curt-

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