Avocent 100 KVM switch problems
I just purchased an Avocent Switchview 100-4 KVM+Audio switch. I have 2 Debian systems and 1 Windows 2000 system. Everything works fine except that the scroll lock key will not switch channels when connected to a Debian system but works fine when connected to the Windows system. Further, the NumLock light is reversed with the Debian systems and works correctly with the Windows system. Why the operating system should effect the switches operation is beyond my ken. I talked to the factory and they don't understand it either. I am using a Microsoft 4000, USB, Ergonomic keyboard and Microsoft USB laser mouse. Normally I wouldn't bother but the switch is buried under the computer table and is hard to control manually. Has anyone else had this problem and know of a fix. The SkrLk + SkrLk + End that is suggested on some of the web sites doesn't work. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50296373.5070...@verizon.net
Changing to digest form
Hi I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. Can I just re-subscribe to the digest form or do I have to unsubscribe from the standard for as well. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502e5788.5060...@verizon.net
Re: Changing to digest form
On 08/21/2012 11:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:51 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. If you want to post replies, I wouldn't do it :-/ Agreed strongly! Please do not post replies from a digest. Can I just re-subscribe to the digest form or do I have to unsubscribe from the standard for as well. You will have to unsusbscribe for one (normal) and then subscribe for the other (digest) but again, reconsider it... if you don't want to store messages in your hard disk you can use a newsreader and NNTP, no subscription nor local space needed. People using digests usually don't know how to reply using them and cause a lot of problems. Please don't be the source of problems. Using a digested mailing list is hard! You need special tools in order to burst the digest to read and reply to it. As Camaleón writes people that think they might want the digest form would be much better served by using the newsgroups. Or Gmane. Or other web archive reader. I use the mailing list interface. But to avoid the problems of a digest I will suggest Gmane as one of the less objectionable alternatives. Try this. Overview: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user Web page reader using frames and threads: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user Bob While my MUA is able to handle replies to digest correctly, digest anyway caused that much trouble, that I canceled it and subscribed to the normal mailing list again. YMMV, Ralf OK, OK I'm convinced. I'll stay with the normal list. I just needed to get used to the difference. I quit the digest because it broke for me. This form takes a little longer to go through but not significantly so. I hope that this is the correct way to reply. I don't want to clutter up Ralf's normal in box with debian messages. I notice that a few of the lists messages are showing up in mine. The filter doesn't catch them because they are directly from the sender instead of from debian lists. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5034fbcf.80...@verizon.net
Re: Changing to digest form
On 08/22/2012 02:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: OK, OK I'm convinced. I'll stay with the normal list. :-) I just needed to get used to the difference. I am so very used to seeing threaded message discussions that not having those would drive me crazy. I quit the digest because it broke for me. This form takes a little longer to go through but not significantly so. Are you using a threaded mailer? I can only guess that you are not. In which case you should try it. It makes reading the mailing list quite a pleasant experience. And let me note that message threading is not what Gmail and MS call conversations based upon subject. That is yet a different way of sorting messages. One that is lacking in my not so humble opinion. I'm using icedove. It does a good job of underlining or dropping down threads that are active. Any older threads, for which I have special interest , I just tag with a color. I found the out of order dates that are created a bit confusing at first but am now used to it. Gary R. I hope that this is the correct way to reply. I don't want to clutter up Ralf's normal in box with debian messages. It looks okay to me. I see no fault with it. I notice that a few of the lists messages are showing up in mine. The filter doesn't catch them because they are directly from the sender instead of from debian lists. Are you talking about people who CC the original sender of the message in addition to the mailing list? That is against the mailing list code of conduct which specifically says not to CC the sender too. It is a perpetual problem regardless. When that happens you get a direct copy along with the mailing list copy. And the extra discussion concerning it on the mailing list saying Please don't CC me as I read the mailing list already. For me it means that I need to verify that I got the message by the mailing list too (which always comes later so I usually ignore it for a while first) and that it wasn't a reply only to me. So I can't just ignore them. I have to spend effort to determine what is going on with the message and where it came from and how it got to me. What a pain! And usually from people asking for help. My editorial remark is that if people want help then the easiest thing is to make it easy to be helped and they will get more of it and of a higher quality too. I have come to the conclusion that humans are intrinsically bad at communication. Apparently it isn't common sense. Apparently it does actually require the person to put some effort into learning how to interact with others. I wonder if we will ever master it? Na. Probably not. File it as a wishlist bug and tag it as wontfix. :-) Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50365d5a.60...@verizon.net
Xsane error with Workforce 645 printer
Hi everyone Our old epson printer just threw a rod so we replace it with a new Epson Workforce 645 printer. Nice printer. I am trying to get the scanner to work with Xsane and keep getting the error Failed to start scanner:Error during device I/O The printer is setup as a stand alone network printer with a wifi connection. I am trying to scan multiple documents (auto feeder) in color and using the PDF to PC setting. All my linux boxes find the printer and seem to do standard print operations correctly. I'm using Debian Squeeze on this particular system. When setting the printer front panel for scanning the last step shows USB connection on the readout. Could the wifi connection be the problem? I am a little miffed that Epson has chosen to drop support for Windows 2000 from its driver for this model. Anyone know how to get around that. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504a2af4.50...@verizon.net
workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets
Earlier I was complaining about Xsine not working with this new printer but the main problem seems to be that the printer doesn't see any of the computers on the hardwired network. I am running Squeeze, Wheezy and Win2K on various systems on the hardwired part of the LAN. I have Samba installed on my linux systems along with winbind. Smbd, nmbd and winbind are running. When I try to scan from the printer to a network computer the printers list of where to send the scans shows a usb connection ( it is wireless to my Actiontec M1424MR router) and nothing else. I have an XP laptop that I connected wirelessly to the network. The printer found this and listed It properly. The rest of the network systems find the XP as well. In summary: 1. The 3 Linux machines, using Smb4K, and the Win2K machine , using My Network Neighborhood, find all of the computers both hardwired and wireless, 2. All of the Linux systems and the XP system can print to the printer. 3. The XP wireless using my network neighborhood, finds none of the hardwired computers. 4. The printer, in scan mode, finds the XP machine and nothing else. 5. The printer scans correctly to the wireless XP machine. In Epson's infinite wisdom they do not supply a driver for Win2K and older systems any more. Because of this and their attitude when they hear Linux, I would not buy this printer under some circumstances. It's too bad because the printer seems to be a good unit. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. I suspect that the Samba setup is the problem but have no idea what to do to fix it. I use Swat with Samba. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504e2b42.2000...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets
On 09/11/2012 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-09-11 a las 09:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (please, reply to the list) Sorry. I'll be more careful in the future. On 09/11/2012 07:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:42 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Earlier I was complaining about Xsine not working with this new printer but the main problem seems to be that the printer doesn't see any of the computers on the hardwired network. (...) I already gave you some hints about this, did you try them? I went through the info you gave me and have installed the epson-inkjet-printer-201106w_1.0.1-1lsb3.2_i386.deb driver file. I also have Xsane installed. I still get Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O errors. My XP handles the scanner fine. I don't know where that deb file comes from but it looks for the printer not the scanner. Anyway, did you read the mentioned forum post? I read the posts. The deb file came directly from Epson. It was listed as the driver for the Workforce 645 printer. I assume that the scanner driver should be included. Maybe not? I am concentrating on the scanners inability to find the hardwired (LInux) computers because this is an obvious problem that must be fixed. This problem shows up when one tries to use the printers control panel to scan and then send the PDF files to a particular computer on the net. Again, this works with my wireless XP but none of the hardwired computers. I am assuming that it is a Samba setup problem. And I already gave you some hints (yes, also for this :-P): http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg00472.html Greetings, 1. I checked the router. The instructions say that the router is setup to allow wireless printing. In addition, my XP wireless works fine for print and scan. It also shows up on the scan control console. 2. I ran the network connection test from the scan console. I shows everything OK. 3. I will run the ethernet test asap. I am having severe back pain at present and really don't want to crawl around under the computer table. I'll see if I can't patch it from the top. I'lll be back with this. 4. All printing from all computers ( Win2k accepted) works fine. I haven’t checked the fax functions yet. The ink level indicator never seems to work but not worth fooling with. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504f934a.5010...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets
OK. Lets start over. Configuration: 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP wireless. All with fixed IP addresses. 3. 645 now hardwired to router. Fixed IP address set in router and 645. 4. Router - Actiontec M1424-WR plus Cisco extention switch (Lan to Lan connection). I have locked in most of the IP addresses for my usual hardware but still have the capability to use DHCP for new stuff. Software 1. XP loaded with Epson drivers and Epson Event Manager from CD supplied with 645. 2. Linux machines: 2.1 A mix of Debian Squeeze and Wheezy systems. 2.2 Samba and Cups installed (and configured?). 2.3 iscan_2.29.1-5-usb0.1.ltd1.7_i386.deb and iscan-dat_1.17.0-2_all.deb installed with dpkg. 2.4 Xsane, sane and gimp installed Performance: All computers with the exception of the Win2k print to the printer. All of the print functions seem to work. The exception being the ink level indicators that don't show on the Linux machines. Remote FAX not checked. I don't care. The copier works fine. The scan control from the XP works fine. Problems: 1.1. When attempting to scan a document from Linux, Xsane produces the error: Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O. At this point, the document is run through the scanner but no scan is produced. 1.2. When Xsane is purged from the system and sane's scanadf or scanimage is used, I get the error: Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanners's status. This same error occurs if iscan is run through gimp. The scanners control panel reads: Communication Error. Check the printer connection and try again. 2.1 The 645 still can't see any of the Linux systems on the consoles readout when the Scan to PC mode is chosen. I can probably live with this but an office of any size would be seriously inconvenienced. I think this problem may be caused by Epson's Event Manager software. I found at least one instance on the net where someone was complaining about the quirky nature of this piece on drech. Editorial: The Event Manager seems to be designed to freeze Linux/Unix out of the market and to rid the user base of older Microsoft products. If I were a real suspicious person I would see Microsofts hand in this. Of course if that's true then Epson's management is a bunch of idiots. Microsofts own management says that they loose about 20% of sales to piracy, 10% to Linux and about 5% to Apple. That means that Epson is throwing away about 10% of their business in this Workforce line by poor support. Stupid. Request: Help me get Xsane or its equal to work . Any light shed on the console listing problem might be icing on the cake but would be appreciated. Sincerely Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5050ed11.30...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets (SOLVED SORT OF)
On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:14:09 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: OK. Lets start over. Configuration: 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP wireless. All with fixed IP addresses. 3. 645 now hardwired to router. Fixed IP address set in router and 645. 4. Router - Actiontec M1424-WR plus Cisco extention switch (Lan to Lan connection). I have locked in most of the IP addresses for my usual hardware but still have the capability to use DHCP for new stuff. Perfect. Software 1. XP loaded with Epson drivers and Epson Event Manager from CD supplied with 645. 2. Linux machines: 2.1 A mix of Debian Squeeze and Wheezy systems. 2.2 Samba and Cups installed (and configured?). 2.3 iscan_2.29.1-5-usb0.1.ltd1.7_i386.deb and iscan- dat_1.17.0-2_all.deb installed with dpkg. 2.4 Xsane, sane and gimp installed According to the Epson FAQ, you have now the right packages installed: http://download.ebz.epson.net/faq/linux/faq_ls_2.html (note that you may also want to install the network and image processing plugins) Performance: All computers with the exception of the Win2k print to the printer. All of the print functions seem to work. The exception being the ink level indicators that don't show on the Linux machines. Remote FAX not checked. I don't care. The copier works fine. The scan control from the XP works fine. Okay, so printing form Debian works, you only miss the information to get the ink levels, right? Epson provides a manual for the printer and a list of Linux FAQS, maybe you can find something of interest there: http://download.ebz.epson.net/man/linux/escp.html http://download.ebz.epson.net/faq/linux/ Sadly, Epson explicitely says that they do not support the linux software (sigh). Problems: 1.1. When attempting to scan a document from Linux, Xsane produces the error: Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O. At this point, the document is run through the scanner but no scan is produced. Does your Xsane version support this device? In addition, if Epson has a dedicated tool for this, e.g., iscan to obtain the images from the scanner, try with it. 1.2. When Xsane is purged from the system and sane's scanadf or scanimage is used, I get the error: Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanners's status. This same error occurs if iscan is run through gimp. The scanners control panel reads: Communication Error. Check the printer connection and try again. Run iscan from command line and as root user to discard a problem with the permissions. Also, as you have connected the AIO using an ethernet cable, the corresponding network plugin package may be needed so the device can be properly detected by your system. 2.1 The 645 still can't see any of the Linux systems on the consoles readout when the Scan to PC mode is chosen. I can probably live with this but an office of any size would be seriously inconvenienced. I think this problem may be caused by Epson's Event Manager software. I found at least one instance on the net where someone was complaining about the quirky nature of this piece on drech. This can be the same problem that you experience when you try to communicate with the AIO scanner from Debian and get a communication error. Installing the network plugin could also help with this :-? Editorial: The Event Manager seems to be designed to freeze Linux/Unix out of the market and to rid the user base of older Microsoft products. If I were a real suspicious person I would see Microsofts hand in this. Of course if that's true then Epson's management is a bunch of idiots. Microsofts own management says that they loose about 20% of sales to piracy, 10% to Linux and about 5% to Apple. That means that Epson is throwing away about 10% of their business in this Workforce line by poor support. Stupid. Next time, instead giving your money to Epson that shows no interest in Linux, consider twice another alternatives (HP has a nice job here ;-) ) Greetings, I gave up. I took the Epson back an traded it in for an HP Office Jet Pro 8600. I've had minimal trouble installing the thing on both Linux and XP systems. Everything works. I still can't get the Win2K system to work. Does anyone know where you can get print drivers for this. I have the HP 8600 and my XP laptop connected wireless to the router. All other systems are etherneted. The Win2K system can't seem to find the printer. Thank you all for your support. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5052be9e.3080...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets (SOLVED SORT OF)
On 09/14/2012 09:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:20:30 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Next time, instead giving your money to Epson that shows no interest in Linux, consider twice another alternatives (HP has a nice job here ;-) ) I gave up. I took the Epson back an traded it in for an HP Office Jet Pro 8600. Ouch... I didn't want to sound that contundent O:-) But you know what? Well done. That's the only way Epson (or any other manufacturer that claims not supporting Linux) will learn the lesson. I've had minimal trouble installing the thing on both Linux and XP systems. Everything works. I still can't get the Win2K system to work. Does anyone know where you can get print drivers for this. I have the HP 8600 and my XP laptop connected wireless to the router. All other systems are etherneted. The Win2K system can't seem to find the printer. Gary... Windows 2000 is now unsupported by Microsoft and hardware manufacturers do not usually provide drivers for Windows versions that have reached their Live Cycle. Actually, I found a driver for the Win2K system on the HP web site. It works for printing which is all I really want for that machine. But (as always :-P) Google provides a hint you can try: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-Networking-and-Wireless/i-need-an-hp-officejet-pro-8600-printer-driver-for-win2000/td-p/1836087 Thank you all for your support. You're welcome. Greteings, The last post for this subject. Be advised that the Officejet Pro 8600 works great and was easy to set up on all of my systems. I had to download a linux driver from HP's web site but it was easy to find and easy to install. Two glitches. The paper feed won't work with Staples Photo paper. It works with Epson and HP paper fine. Doing the droop test over the edge of a table showed that the Saples paper is about twice as stiff as the others. There is a spring loaded deflector in the paper path that is supposed to deflect the paper upward as it comes out of the tray. The stiffer paper won't make the bend. The other problem has to do with network recognition and is probably a Samba problem. I'm starting a new thread for that one. See you all and thanks. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50555768.8060...@verizon.net
Film scanner software / hardware.
After review a gazillion scanners I have concluded that the Plustek OpticFilm 7400 is my best choice for my needs and my budget. Unfortunately, they don't support Linux. Vuescan doesn't support this Plustek scanner. Does anyone know of a software solution to this problem or know of a scanner for less than about $250 that has 48 bit color, will *actually* resolve better than 3000dpi, has dust removal, has a Dmax = 3.6. and has multiple scan capability to improve contrast. I just finished a disastrous round with all in one printer and don't want to get into another one with film scanners. Any help would be appreciated. Gary R. PS : 1. The HP Workforce Pro 8600 with downloaded files from HP works great. 2. The package gscan2pdf has some minor bugs but is a fantastic PDF generator. 3. Stay away from Epson.
Using Debian icedove to automatically send mail
Is there any way to setup Icedove to automatically send out a monthly message. System: Debian Sqeeze KDE Desktop Icedove mail client I have tried to setup Exim several times with no success. I don't want to go there. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/506cb41f.9030...@verizon.net
Adding user to dual boot laptop
I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. I can log her in as an su user with no problem. When I re-boot the system and the splash screen comes up (KDE4), I can enter her name and password but the system rejects the pass word. I've checked everything about 3 times and can find nothing wrong. I would guess that I have missed some niggally detail. The Windows XP side works fine. Any ideas? Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5074b8ea.9070...@verizon.net
Fwd: Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop
Original Message From: - Tue Oct 09 19:43:56 2012 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: 5074e0eb.6080...@verizon.net Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:43:55 -0700 From: Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120726 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com Subject:Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop References: CALDXikqHt=hdF1yZv11-5m88gJfd8MaoYe85J6p5ykziAhY=j...@mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: CALDXikqHt=hdF1yZv11-5m88gJfd8MaoYe85J6p5ykziAhY=j...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/09/2012 07:11 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:53:14 -0700 Gary writes: I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. I can log her in as an su user with no problem. When I re-boot the system and the splash screen comes up (KDE4), I can enter her name and password but the system rejects the pass word. I've checked everything about 3 times and can find nothing wrong. I would guess that I have missed some niggally detail. The Windows XP side works fine. Any ideas? Gary, I found this thread by someone who has as similar problem as yourself. Perhaps it may help. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=45579 Regards wally Thanks for the reply. I read the reference but no joy. My login problem is happening at the kdm level before the OS is even started (I think). How does one activate /deactivate the initial login screen. I know this is possible. I think I set this up when I initially installed Debian from the iso network installation disk. I probably prompted me through the process at the time. I have since completely forgotten what I did at the time. I think I need to re configure kdm somehow. Gary R.
Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop
On 10/09/2012 04:53 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. I can log her in as an su user with no problem. When I re-boot the system and the splash screen comes up (KDE4), I can enter her name and password but the system rejects the pass word. I've checked everything about 3 times and can find nothing wrong. I would guess that I have missed some niggally detail. The Windows XP side works fine. Any ideas? Gary R. Thanks for all of the suggestions. Still no fix. In answer to all of your questions: 1. The most telling would be the suggestion to hit Ctl+Alt+F1 to get the cmd line and try logging in. The log in worked fine with my wife's user name and password. 2. My wife's uid is 1001 so no problem here. 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. 4. Dpkg-reconfigure kdm pauses for a few seconds and returns to the cmd prompt. 5. We are going to be traveling and I don't want to remove the password protection from the computer. There is a Systems Setting - Advanced - Login Manager window that has possibilities but I haven't been able to figure out how to start the application as root. Most of the functions are grayed out. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5075c48b.1070...@verizon.net
Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop
On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. How about user home directory and other user file permissions (which shouldn't belong to root)? That has been checked out and is all OK. The alt F2 to kdesu did allow me to open the system settings as root but didn't help the problem. I have another single boot system running squeeze that works just fine. I wonder if there is something unique about the Toshiba Qosmio or the dual boot factor; although I can't imagine what. If anyone has any further suggestions between now and sunday evening I would like to hear them. After that , I'll be off the air for about 3 weeks. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50774bcd.20...@verizon.net
Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop
On 10/12/2012 09:34 AM, Joe wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:03:04 + (UTC) Curtcu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-10-11, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. How about user home directory and other user file permissions (which shouldn't belong to root)? That has been checked out and is all OK. The alt F2 to kdesu did allow Have you told us the tool with which you created the new user? It's not clear to me the canonical way of doing it, actually, googling around. But appears to be (as root): adduser wife On Debian, yes. It calls useradd, which is available in most/all Linuxes. After which you must add the new user to the appropriate groups (or is that done automatically)? It does add quite a few, but not necessarily all of interest. I believe it does add the audio group, failure of which is the cause of some problems with lack of sound. Exactly what is does is configurable. Actually, I used adduser and then manually checked the entries in passwd, shadow and group. I made some minor adjustments to the entries. I have done this before and had no problem. The process is fairly straight forward. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/507907f8.9030...@verizon.net
Clobbered digest volumes
I am pasting in a sample of what I am receiving from you. This problem has been around for about a month. I have no idea what is going on. I use Icedove on a Debian Squeeze system and a verizon.net provider. Any help will be appreciated. Gary R. Message as received: ForwardedMessage.eml debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2012 : Issue 1339 Today's Topics: Unidentified subject! [ ] Unidentified subject! [ ] Unidentified subject! [ ] ForwardedMessage.eml Subject: Unidentified subject! On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch with actual code changes, but at least a design that could be used to generate code changes) Sigh! If I get some time, I'll see if I can work up a patch... Rick : No, score=-10.9 required=4.0 tests=FOURLA,LDOSUBSCRIBER, LDO_WHITELIST,MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8,T_DKIM_INVALID,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 X-Original-To:lists-debian-u...@bendel.debian.org Delivered-To:lists-debian-u...@bendel.debian.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85DD2E5 forlists-debian-u...@bendel.debian.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:57:04 + (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.debian.org with policy bank en-ht X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.99 tagged_above=-1 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8=0.02, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=ham Received: from bendel.debian.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lists.debian.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 2525) with ESMTP id aw2Rfw4jrbVh forlists-debian-u...@bendel.debian.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:56:59 + (UTC) X-policyd-weight: using cached result; rate: -8.1 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com [74.115.168.62]) by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59232E3 fordebian-user@lists.debian.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:56:59 + (UTC) Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4964CC50E fordebian-user@lists.debian.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:56:56 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=message-id :from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version:subject:date:references; s=sasl; bh=aRBXDfOColBMwb EYllMs5FLuFCw=; b=XKFBH1GXPOOCChxdF3pG833retKmuIqakwx2wFZ5m1UNel gdELMnUU4rhK9QmZFfcdY0XIN8GQiVnt13m+NJFXNWFYm61oqxnH3lmIX9YuIEo0 pMgXVrbOo+v5tiOzZ/X3q0w/6XDI5BqeZtpoKsKAgUaNB+11tJcc1kRdw+q/g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=message-id:from :to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version:subject:date:references; q=dns; s=sasl; b=qfTyrmxF imGOmWLsDecOVn2qAS4uY16dueOqu6QwD9stvNlIfde2ygafmyS90S4DxlG2ADKc U+FJ2Nr/kPO2SlytPs2DgNAzBnA71PpNXqeV65L1XsvePqm8qYbILehnS60bnwYK rlRgXElGoyGVxBdFezkGRj4pbnC4+RUOCBg= Received: from b-pb-sasl-sd. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42846C50D fordebian-user@lists.debian.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:56:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bigal.rcthomas.org (unknown [66.235.25.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C1CD1C50C for debian-user@lists.debian.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:56:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id:8d241824-75a6-4a2c-8770-eeaa16239...@pobox.com From: Rick Thomasrbtho...@pobox.com To: debian-user List Debiandebian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To:69beecb8-1ba9-4dee-82ad-8652c4485...@pobox.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: [SOLVED] Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:56:54 -0700 References:4fd1da63.1030...@pobox.com jqtbfc$gke$1...@dough.gmane.org 2bb95cf3-e70a-4f64-995d-d5ff6645e...@pobox.com jqv8l5$tv3$5...@dough.gmane.org b8a05aa3-5828-4167-b2ed-b5b9b8b74...@pobox.com jr89m8$u1l$1...@dough.gmane.org 1e79e52e-877c-414e-a4a5-a6cc07226...@pobox.com jra7ot$d94$7...@dough.gmane.org 69beecb8-1ba9-4dee-82ad-8652c4485...@pobox.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1802F28A-B65B-11E1-ADF7-FA6787E41631-02150157!b-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-Rc-Virus: 2007-09-13_01 X-Rc-Spam: 2008-11-04_01 Resent-Message-ID:TWu8GEFpMXB.A.l4H.YIk2PB@bendel
Clobbered digest volumes (more info)
Looking closer at the problem, (see Clobbered digest volumes in Volume 2012 #1342) I find that I occasionally receive a correct message. The returns of my own are correct and some others. The bad messages all have the header information after the text and trigger the error message: Error: msgHdr.folder is null Source File: chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js Line: 2696 The ones received correctly have the header / text in the correct order and don't generate the error. It appears that icedove can't find the header information if it is in the reverse order. Duh!!. So the question is why am I receiving messages with the order flipped??? I also note that the full (expanded) header is alway printed in both cases even though icedove header switch is set to normal. Help Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fdb866c.3030...@verizon.net
BackupPC restore problem
Hi all I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work for me. The instructions for creating a tar file at the command line are beyond my ken. It might work if you could get BackupPC_tarCreate to actually run, find the proper security setup for it and figure out where to put the tar file. I gave up. Thanks in advance Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a403b7.1060...@verizon.net
Re: BackupPC restore problem
On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you mean by trashed? Have you run any hardware diagnostics on the trashed drive, such as those by the drive manufacturer? For example: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Are you trying to use the trashed drive? David The /bin directory appears to have been corrupted somehow. With Knoppix I could gain access to all of the other data but was unable to access /bin. I don't know why this happened and that worries me. I tested everything during reformatting and installation and found nothing wrong with the drive. I'm not too worried because I have a complete backup system. Of course I am having trouble with the restore. The data's all there on the backup disk but BackupPC only restored the directories and none of the data. I am trying to create a tar file and manually transfer the data across but am having similar problems. The documentation for manually manipulating BackupPC is obtuse to say the least. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a520e8.5080...@verizon.net
SD card formatting problem
I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df command shows the card has 32GB. I thought that vfat was only good to 4 GB but the card came formatted to vfat. Any suggestions? Can the card be formatted to ext3? Would that help? Is the card the problem? I am using a SanDisk USB card reader, model SDDR-113 which is supposed to handle 32GB cards. Debian Squeeze and Wheezy systems gave same results. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a7e727@verizon.net
Can;t fix doc-base installation problem
Hi everyone:
I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems to
be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've
tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no joy.
Below is a typical example:
root@mycomputer:/home/gary# aptitude purge doc-base
The following packages will be REMOVED:
doc-base{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 504 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 297009 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-base ...
cannot find install-docs on path
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while
processing:
doc-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
root@mycomputer:/home/gary#
I have tried cleaning and reloading the archives. That didn't help. The
whole dpkg process seems to be hung up at this point. If I try to
process any other packages, the installation process always returns to
some variation of the above. The package seems to be partially
installed. The C flag is set in aptitude. A not configured error is
sometime displayed. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Gary R.
Re: SD card formatting problem (SOLVED)
On 11/17/2012 02:47 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote: I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df command shows the card has 32GB. I thought that vfat was only good to 4 GB but the card came formatted to vfat. Any suggestions? Can the card be formatted to ext3? Would that help? Is the card the problem? I am using a SanDisk USB card reader, model SDDR-113 which is supposed to handle 32GB cards. Debian Squeeze and Wheezy systems gave same results. Gary R. Limitations of vfat file system, also does not archive file attributes. afaik, you can format with any file system. If compatabiltiy between a Windows box is not the issue I would use anything else. I have used ext2 for this, no journal. Thanks for the help. I reformatted to ext3 and the whole 32 GB is now available. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50abcbcf.90...@verizon.net
Re: Netflix on Debian Linux
On 11/20/2012 11:13 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Hi Guys, Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not work nor give support to linux. It requires Silverlight, which Microsoft never ported to Linux. Silverlight requires Dot Net, and while Mono works really well, it can't (yet), as far as I know, support Silverlight, even under Wine. There is a project called Moonlight that was trying to create a Mono and Linux counterpart, but I think it has stalled. Microsoft is deemphasizing Silverlight in favor of HTML 5 and Javascript, so a lot of the motivation for it is gone. Anyway, Moonlight can't run Netflix. After calling the call center and get the news, I just canceled it, very frustrated. Today, a friend sent me this link: http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-here.html Anyone knows about this? Anyone tried it on debian somehow? Is it possible? Any thoughts? Thanks! Beco It works. I have done so. However, It was not ideal. Installing Silverlight in Wine was painful, and Firefox runs not well for me under Wine. Javascript, in particular, is very slow, and requires much patience. Other than Netflix, I can't think of a good reason to ever want to use it instead of native iceweasel. I'm sure that it will run in Virtualbox, but who wants to install Windows on their Linux box? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/002701cdc753$308d9310$91a8b930$@allums.com I've been using my dual boot laptop for Netfix for some time and am not completely satisfied with the results. My suggestion is to buy a Visio Blue Ray player that has a builtin receiver for netflx and several other sources for about $150. I think you will need a wifi connection to make it work. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50abdc28.7050...@verizon.net
Re: Netflix on Debian Linux
On 11/20/2012 02:33 PM, Beco wrote: Hi Ralf, yes I agree: using software that is not stable sucks. I won't try this fix and bang my head to have some version of wine and silverlight to work. Nah... Thanks Gary D., for the link. I see your point, and I was angry when I discovered they didn't bother to give linux a chance. Hugo, funny. :) Gary R., is this what you're talking about: http://store.vizio.com/blu-ray-players.html As I see, you don't need a computer for it to work. Is that so? Just plug it on TV and internet? Or do you use it with a computer somehow? Hi Beco No computer needed. The Vizio box does it all. There are probably other manufacturers but I think Vizio usually gives you more bang for your buck. I've found there products to work well and be reliable. They are also mostly made in Irvine California, a few miles down the road from where I live. It gives a whole new meaning to the term - factory return. If your not in the US then another brand may be better for you. Gary R. Hi Aaron. Yes, I want (nobody really needs netflix), but it's probably best to stick with Debian. Why people tend to suggest you leave? So non-gentle :( But regarding VM, thanks. I've tried that, and it works fine. I need VM to help students when they insist in use other systems... I wish everyone uses Debian. Well, we can't win always, can we? Mark, your answer was the most intriguing. So, if they are moving to HTML5, we can expect it to work on Linux in the future, can't we? That sounds promising. Do you have any link to a Roku box. Never heard of it. I have a desktop station in my room I use to play movies with Kaffeine. I don't like to watch movies on laptop. Small screen, and to expensive to diminish its useful life that way. Cheers, Beco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ac12c0.9050...@verizon.net
Re: Guide / Tools
On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list of the most common commands that you use I already know of the docs like debian-handbook debian-kernel-handbook debian-refernce apt-common And yes most of the manpages What i really want are real life uses everyday ie.. do you use a lot of dpkg commands do you use a lot of apt or aptitude commands everday Also .. in your experience what are good handy tools we should have and learn that are a must to be able to navigate / use Debian still for me: mc (in a text VT) Hugo This whole thread points out a major problem with using Linux. There is no comprehensive, cross referenced, command dictionary anywhere. I have a C programming reference that was written by Kernegian and Ritchy way back when, which referenced the C commands by function, that I used to live by. We need something like this for the Linux / Unix community. I think a properly architectured WIKI would be a wonderful idea. Unfortunately I don't feel I have the knowledge necessary to start one. As an example, if I look up 'System Maintenance' I should get a sub list of Aptitude, dpkg, apt-get etc, with a quick blurb on each. A newbe could then make a choice of which package the wish to try. I've been using Debian linux for over 15 years and am still finding commands that are useful. The worst part is that I am loosing commands at about the same rate because of only occasional use. It is really frustrating when you know there is a command that you used 2 years ago that is exactly what you need but can't remember its name. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ad37cc.1070...@verizon.net
Re: Can;t fix doc-base installation problem
On 11/20/2012 10:49 AM, Gary Roach wrote:
Hi everyone:
I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems
to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base.
I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no
joy. Below is a typical example:
root@mycomputer:/home/gary# aptitude purge doc-base
The following packages will be REMOVED:
doc-base{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 504 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 297009 files and directories currently
installed.)
Removing doc-base ...
cannot find install-docs on path
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered
while processing:
doc-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
root@mycomputer:/home/gary#
I have tried cleaning and reloading the archives. That didn't help.
The whole dpkg process seems to be hung up at this point. If I try to
process any other packages, the installation process always returns to
some variation of the above. The package seems to be partially
installed. The C flag is set in aptitude. A not configured error is
sometime displayed. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Gary R.
Since there has been no reply to my query, I am including more
information in hopes that someone will have an idea how to fix this
problem. I am completely stumped. This is a Debian Squeeze system using
KDE. When trying to fix the problem, I got the following:
root@mycomputer:/var/log# dpkg -C
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to
problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be
retried using
dpkg --configure package or the configure menu option in dselect:
doc-base utilities to manage online documentation
root@mycomputer:/var/log# dpkg --configure doc-base
Setting up doc-base (0.9.5) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.postinst: 45: install-docs: not found
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
doc-base
root@mycomputer:/var/log# dpkg-query -s doc-base
Package: doc-base
Status: purge ok half-configured
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 492
Maintainer: Robert Luberda rob...@debian.org
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9.5
Config-Version: 0.9.5
Depends: perl, libuuid-perl, dpkg (= 1.14.17), libmldbm-perl
Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter4,
rarian-compat
Conflicts: dhelp ( 0.6.7), dwww ( 1.10.13~)
Conffiles:
/etc/doc-base/documents/README efd9c153645bd3e0653eb5b0fbeda91f
Description: utilities to manage online documentation
This package contains utilities to manage documentation installed on
a Debian system. It generates a database of document metadata, which
other packages such as dwww, dhelp, doc-central, and rarian-compat
can use to provide a catalog of available documentation.
.
For additional information see the Debian doc-base Manual included in
this package.
root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude purge doc-base
The following packages will be REMOVED:
doc-base{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 504 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 297009 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-base ...
cannot find install-docs on path
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while
processing:
doc-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
doc-base
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove
and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Setting up doc-base (0.9.5) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.postinst: 45: install-docs: not found
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 127
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while
processing
Re: Can't fix doc-base installation problem (DONE)
On 11/22/2012 03:46 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base It seems that some files are missing (install-docs?) but I can't determine what they are or where they are. Some help, plese. Install-docs belongs to package doc-base. Doc-base can't be re-installed, because it isn't currently installed. What happens when you run aptitude install doc-base? If that doesn't work, you could try Osamu's advice. Cheers, Tom Sorry to have bothered all of you and appreciate your effort. I'm trying to restore a system from cold iron and am having difficulty with Backuppc's restore functions. I started comparing files with another (supposedly identical) system and found all sorts of discrepancies. I'm re-formatting and re-installing everything again. Thanks for your efforts. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ae749d.2020...@verizon.net
Re: Guide / Tools
On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list of the most common commands that you use I already know of the docs like debian-handbook debian-kernel-handbook debian-refernce apt-common And yes most of the manpages What i really want are real life uses everyday ie.. do you use a lot of dpkg commands do you use a lot of apt or aptitude commands everday Also .. in your experience what are good handy tools we should have and learn that are a must to be able to navigate / use Debian still for me: mc (in a text VT) Hugo I sent this before but it never showed up on the list. So: This whole thread points out a major problem with using Linux. There is no comprehensive, cross referenced, command dictionary anywhere. I have a C programming reference that was written by Kernegian and Ritchy way back when, which referenced the C commands by function, that I used to live by. We need something like this for the Linux / Unix community. I think a properly architectured WIKI would be a wonderful idea. Unfortunately I don't feel I have the knowledge necessary to start one. As an example, if I look up 'System Maintenance' I should get a sub list of Aptitude, dpkg, apt-get etc, with a quick blurb on each. A newbe could then make a choice of which package the wish to try. I've been using Debian linux for over 15 years and am still finding commands that are useful. The worst part is that I am loosing commands at about the same rate because of only occasional use. It is really frustrating when you know there is a command that you used 2 years ago that is exactly what you need but can't remember its name. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ad37cc.1070...@verizon.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ae7547.8030...@verizon.net
Re: screensaver recommendation
On 11/23/2012 10:52 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjalmailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I wish to have a screensaver. Thanks ahead for recommendation. Below are some background info.: lightdm install lightdm-gtk-greeter install xfce4 install xfce4-panel install xfce4-session install xfce4-settingsinstall xscreensaver doesn't work for me cause it won't recognize the password due to I use the dovrak layout. To me, seems the reboot is the only resort. You may be pleased to hear that this has been reported as bugs #644534 and #683257. In future, you may try switching to a virtual console and running xscreensaver-command -display :0 -exit (though you may need to fiddle with xset permissions, YMMV). Alternatively, just restarting lightdm should work, too. There are lighter options than xscreensaver, :-) Such as xautolock + xtrlock, or xautolock + any other light locker... -- Javier. Screen savers are pretty but with the advent of LCD / Plasma screens they are no longer needed. To really save your monitor you need to put it in standby as soon as possible. The old CRT type monitors needed something to constantly change the image on the screen to keep the electron beam from burning a permanent pattern onto the CRT face. The new technologies don't have this problem but do have a wear and tear problem with the back lighting system. So turn off the lighting if you want to save your monitor. Then again, screen savers are interesting art work. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50afd1cc.2070...@verizon.net
Restore problems with backuppc and apache
I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no data. The files on the backup system have all of the data and look OK. Several other people with similar setups have tried the exact same commands (GUI) and have not had this problem. I started thinking that all of the GUI information runs through Apache2 so I turned logging up to debug on apache and made another attempt at creating a tar file. Lo and behold, I got the following error message in the Apache error log: [Date stuff] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Out of memory! referrer: http//backupsystem/backuppc/index.cgi I then opened a systems monitor program, re-ran things again and watched the system ram max out and then the swap file start filling up. When the swap file got to about 1.2GB the process quit. The swap file is set to 2 GB so I am not sure what is going on here. If the problem is with my Apache setup it might explain why no one else is having the problem. I looked at all of the other pertinent log files but found no other entries. Specifically, the syslog and kern.log did not show OOM kernel shutdown. Communicates between computers is being handled by rsyncd. Can this be a problem if the tar file is being created on the same computer where the backup data is stored. Any ideas? Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50aff154.8070...@verizon.net
Restore problems with backuppc and apache
I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no data. The files on the backup system have all of the data and look OK. Several other people with similar setups have tried the exact same commands (GUI) and have not had this problem. I started thinking that all of the GUI information runs through Apache2 so I turned logging up to debug on apache and made another attempt at creating a tar file. Lo and behold, I got the following error message in the Apache error log: [Date stuff] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Out of memory! referrer: http//backupsystem/backuppc/index.cgi I then opened a systems monitor program, re-ran things again and watched the system ram max out and then the swap file start filling up. When the swap file got to about 1.2GB the process quit. The swap file is set to 2 GB so I am not sure what is going on here. If the problem is with my Apache setup it might explain why no one else is having the problem. I looked at all of the other pertinent log files but found no other entries. Specifically, the syslog and kern.log did not show OOM kernel shutdown. Communicates between computers is being handled by rsyncd. Can this be a problem if the tar file is being created on the same computer where the backup data is stored. I have found indications that rsync can choke on too may files. This transfer has a lot of files. Any ideas? Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b00393.6080...@verizon.net
Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop
On 11/24/2012 05:06 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:02:42AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/24/12, Andrei POPESCUandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 23 nov 12, 07:25:29, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. I s Why? I've had good experiences with both, IBM Thinkpads (had an a21m that lasted forever, ran Debian, #!, PeppermintOS, and PCLinuxOS on it, all perfectly), and Dells (currently have an old d420 I purchased on ebay for like $120, running crunchbang, which is essentially debian+openbox, works flawlessly). ./tony I've only owned one laptop so my experience is somewhat limited. But I think you need to as some of the following questions: 1. Are you a gamer or more of a normal user or a media freek. 2. How portable must the unit be. 3. How long must it run on batteries. 4. How much are you willing to pay. 5. Do you do graphics - need a lot of screen real-estate. I own a Qosmio G25-av315. It weighs about 9.5 lbs and gets about 1 hr on the batteries. It's more of a portable computer than a laptop. For this I get an 18 inch screen, all kinds of media capability, two 60GB hard drives and a raft of compatibility headaches. I set the system up as a dual boot with Debian Linux on one disk and Windows XP on the other. The Debian side has never been completely functional - but adaquate for my needs. The XP side is fully functional but is fast becoming a problem. There seems to be no upgrade path to Windows 8. This last problem is going to get worse the more complicated the laptop. This Qosmio has a TV receiver (never used) and dolby sound system. Trying to find linux drivers for some of this stuff means that firmware has to be swapped out in the fly. Not a good situation. My advise. By only what you absolutely need. Forget the bells and whistles unless you really have a specific need. Simple is cheaper and probably more useful. Unless you need this within the next 6-12 months you might consider waiting to see what happens with bigger ePaper screens. I want a tablet but won't buy until I find one with a ePaper screen. The battery life goes up by a factor of 10 or more and the screen is readable at very obtuse angles and in direct sun light. i hope this helps Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b0fefd.6000...@verizon.net
Re: Printer brand recommendations
On 11/26/2012 07:10 AM, Curt Howland wrote: 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, Curt- I have an HP Officejet Pro 8600 that I like a lot. HP supports linux. Epson doesn't. If you uses Sqeeze you can download the drivers from HP. If you use Wheezy the drivers are include with Cups. The HP ink is relatively inexpensive and the printer is really fast. It's a 4 in one which is nice. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b40a3b.90...@verizon.net
Messed up root
I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root password doesn't work any more. I have a new Knoppix CD and a new Debian network install CD. Can I use either of these to edit the passwd file and correct the problem. If so, how. Thanks in advance Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b40cb1.8060...@verizon.net
Re: Kobo or Kindle
On 11/30/2012 05:46 AM, Johann Spies wrote: On 29 November 2012 15:36, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com mailto:kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Dear fellows, I have a Kobo and I like it pretty well. One issue I do have is that browsing through a large collection of books is a real pain. You can sort by title or author, but that is it, no support for a folder structure or similar. The Kobo software work well on wine, I think they are supposed to put out a Linux native version at some point (it uses QT4). For Kobo you only need to install their software, not Adobe, though Adobe works ok in Wine as well. Have you tried using Calibre? I did not need any Kindle software on my Debian computer to manage my Kindle. Calibre does it all for me. Kobo at least is pretty terrible for PDFs. Slow, badly sized text, no reflow...Fundamentally PDF is not a good format for ebooks. I don:t know if the experience is better on a Kindle or similar. Same on Kindle except when you format pdf for A6 pages. I had some success converting pdf's to mobi format - escpecially when it was created with latex with hyperref. I think Calibre first try to convert it to html and then to epub or mobi or whatever format you prefer. Can't help with the remote stuff. Maybe Kindle's wispernet would be useful? I have a Kindle Touch. I do not use whispernet, but my local home wifi-network and it works very nicely. I can even send documents by email to the Kindle or even from my Macbook' s Desktop using Amazon's Send to Kindle software. And then you can choose to which Kindle you want to send it. I and my wife have both Kindles registered on the same account at Amazon. Then I also have a software Kindle on my mobile phone and on my macbook. I can use Send-to-Kindle to send a file to all of them. I find it surprising that people are recommending tablets and phones... IMHO phone are next to useless for any serious amount of book reading, they are just too small, and the tablets have the battery life issue. That is what is great about an ereader, you charge it like once a week tops. I charge my Kindle once about once in a month or month and a half. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3) The whole DRM issue is a bad joke. I heard that France outlawed them. If you load a copy of Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) and Calibre (both freeware) on to your system and properly set up the software, the DRM is automatically stripped off the document on download and Calibre reformats to any reader you want to use. The instructions are easy to find on the internet. I am not a believer in pirating but there is a limit as to how much screwing over the consumer in this country can tolerate before everyone doesn't care any more. I'm still tinkering around with the whole DRM issue and still have a lot to learn. I do know that DRM's are a pain in the posterior for the customer and do absolutely nothing for copy right protection. My latest fiasco was today when I tried to download a book from my local library. One book I couldn't get because the copy was already loaned out (Yes it was an eBook.) This is unbelievable. I downloaded the other book into my computer directly. That doesn't work. I had to load through ADE. This sent it directly to Calibre which I suspect stripped off all protection. I am supposed to have the book for a week at which point it is supposed to go poof. I'll be interested to see if this happens. I think that you can probably keep a copy of all of your books in Calibre, copy them to disk and tell the suppliers to go to hell. Oner last thing. In defense of Amazon and Barnes and Noble, most of this garbage is coming from the publishers. With the present business model, the publisher sells the book to the distributor who is required to sell be book at the price the publisher dictates. The seller gets 30% of the sale. The US and several European governments are suing several publishing groups (read monopolies) over this practice. I guess the publishers need the money to pay bloated salaries to their top executives and line the pockets of their stock holders. Too bad we don't have capitalism in this country. I died with the Civil War. Gary R.
Re: Messed up root (SOLVED)
On 11/27/2012 04:05 AM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: Take a live CD with same architecture as your currently machine. D chroot is one solution ... i think you need to do that from knoppix live cd if the architecture is the same as your machine ; knoppix is i386 so If your machine is i386 or amd64 with mutiarch will work boot the live cd open a terminal as root create the partiontable on /mnt directory of the live Cd for instance / partion as /mnt and home partition as /mnt/home and etc. now mount the devices of your HDD to /mnt/ i.e. for / partion mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ alright , as we go now ... chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash and now is on your debian and you can change the owner to root ... chown -hR root /etc On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:43:29PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root password doesn't work any more. I have a new Knoppix CD and a new Debian network install CD. Can I use either of these to edit the passwd file and correct the problem. If so, how. Thanks in advance Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b40cb1.8060...@verizon.net I thank everyone for the help. I loaded a live copy of Knoppix into the system. It did most of the work form me. The hard drive automatically loaded. I logged in as root, opened the passwd file with Knoppix's copy of nano, made the corrections, rebooted the system with the Knoppix disk removed and was home free. Thank you all Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b96111.5020...@verizon.net
Apt-get hangup
I just had to do a major restore on one of my systems and am having trouble with updates. Openoffice.org seems to be the biggest problem. There is a whole bunch of partially configured packages and I can't seem to do any of the aptitude, apt-get, dpkg-reconfigure or apt-cache functions. A example of the terminal output is pasted below. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 18 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up openoffice.org-core (1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8) ... /usr/lib/ure/bin/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libstlport_gcc.so.4.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/ure/bin/regcomp.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstlport_gcc.so.4.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-core (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-uno: python-uno depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing python-uno (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-emailmerge: openoffice.org-emailmerge depends on python-uno; however: Package python-uno is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-emailmerge (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up doc-base (0.9.5) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.postinst: 45: install-docs: not found dpkg: error processing doc-base (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Setting up menu (2.1.44) ... chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/update-menus': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing menu (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-base-core: openoffice.org-base-core depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-base-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-writer: openoffice.org-writer depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-writer depends on openoffice.org-base-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-base-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-calc: openoffice.org-calc depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-calc depends on openoffice.org-base-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-base-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-calc (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-draw: openoffice.org-draw depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-draw (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-impress: openoffice.org-impress depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-impress depends on openoffice.org-draw (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-draw is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-impress (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-math: openoffice.org-math depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-math (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-base: openoffice.org-base depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-base depends on
Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze
On 12/11/2012 07:50 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Mark Panenmark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am replying to all, not used to sitting in the dark with the light of the notebook to type only, Out here in the sticks there are always power failures when it rains. I normally use pop, not used to gmail., the mobo is two years old a midrange board with SATA 6 and USB 3.0, an ASUS, I also thought it was the Ocean air and humidity but my other ASUS mobo has no hassles. I have enough lightining protection to protect I dpn't know what and always unplug before storm, I think I was naughty when I fist received the board and overclocked it from 2.8 to 3.8 even though the temps where fine ans I have a fantastic Zalman aftercooler. devede ran quite stable a sdid prime sorry for the s[peeling my UPS is about to go flat Well, that was rather rambling, but to me is sounds like there is a fault in your motherboard. My guess is the heat from your hairdryer (how did you figure that out anyway?!) either dries out some bit that overly sensitive to moisture, or causes thermal expansion of some part that does not make enough contact otherwise... although in the second case, it should be more about ambient temperature, not about if there was a rain storm. Two years old, huh? So the warranty is.probably well over. I would say just get a new Mobo. Cheers, Kelly Clowers Hi Mark, The first thing I would do is run a post check on the motherboard. If you are lucky your board has a built in post card. If not, you will have to buy one. They are nice to have around for such things. In case you are not familiar with post cards they have a numeric readout that ratchets up through the motherboards post process. The final number displayed can be looked up in a table that will tell you where and probably why the process failed. I would advise researching the post process on the net. If yours is built in ( like my intel i5-750 board) then instructions will be in your board manual. Intermittant problems are a bitch. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c75e5e.8050...@verizon.net
Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)
On 12/06/2012 11:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I just had to do a major restore on one of my systems and am having trouble with updates. What happened? And what did you do when you say you did a major restore? Setting up openoffice.org-core (1:3.2.1-11+squeeze8) ... /usr/lib/ure/bin/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libstlport_gcc.so.4.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/ure/bin/regcomp.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstlport_gcc.so.4.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Look at that error message more closely. It is concerning on a couple of different levels. It is trying to open libstlport_gcc.so.4.6 but it fails. Start there. Why isn't that library available? (But why is it looking for that library at all?) $ ldd -d -r /usr/lib/ure/bin/javaldx linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7c39f000) libuno_sal.so.3 = /usr/lib/ure/bin/../lib/libuno_sal.so.3 (0x7f979b384000) libjvmfwk.so.3 = /usr/lib/ure/bin/../lib/libjvmfwk.so.3 (0x7f979b168000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7f979ae42000) ... The lines will go on and on for that program. Do they all resolve? Any errors? If so then what are the reasons for those errors? But why is it looking for libstlport_gcc? It isn't one of the libraries used by that program. $ ldd -d -r /usr/lib/ure/bin/javaldx | grep libstlport_gcc ...nothing... I can only guess that your restore was not completely successful. Bob Sorry about the mis-routing of the first message. The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've got is all I'm going to get. Things have changed since I started this thread. I found a really good missive at: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Repairing_apt-get_database that got me through the problem. The only package that couldn't be fixed was openoffice.org-filter-binfilter. This package is not essential. I purged this one and now have a clean system. I do have a major problem with KDE desktop icons now but that needs further investigation an maybe a topic for another thread. Thanks for the help Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c7624e.5080...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze
On 12/11/2012 09:10 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: The first thing I would do is run a post check on the motherboard. If you are lucky your board has a built in post card Uh, what? I would not call that luck, I would call that I paid big money for real server-class equipment. I have never seen a post board come with consumer-class equipment.Maybe nowadays the really high-end enthusiast space has such things? Anyway, why do you need one? If the POST is coming up with anything it will beep a post code. Sure, it is more annoying to decipher than looking at a display, but you don't have to buy anything... And anyway it sounds like this MB never gets to post. Cheers, Kelly Clowers Well my board is an Intel DP55KG that I paid about $180 for. Not cheap but not that expensive. There is a big difference between beep codes and numeric readouts. The numerics can give very detailed information as to the source of the problem. I will be willing to bet that the board got through some of the post steps even though nothing noticeable happened. Of course all of this is somewhat academic if his board doesn't have a built in post card. It's cheaper to just buy another motherboard. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c7914d.8020...@verizon.net
KDE kickoff launcher problem
Hi again (still?): Debian Squeeze system. After hammering down all of the problems caused by my abortive restore operation, I am left with problems with the KDE Kickoff launcher. Some of my software packages work fine with either the kickoff launcher or with desktop icons. Others won't work with either. I have tried reinstalling the programs and reinstalling KDE. Neither helped. Some of the major programs like Openoffice and Iceweasel will not work at all. I have run out of things to try. I don't understand KDE under the hood well enough to solve this one. All help will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c794bd.8020...@verizon.net
Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)
On 12/12/2012 01:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've got is all I'm going to get. Ouch. Sorry to hear. But good to hear that things have moved forward for you. Things have changed since I started this thread. I found a really good missive at: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Repairing_apt-get_database Interesting. I almost agree with some of that. :-) that got me through the problem. The only package that couldn't be fixed was openoffice.org-filter-binfilter. This package is not essential. I purged this one and now have a clean system. And of course you can always re-install anything you want too. It seems to me that you must have tried to backup restore the system part of your system. I am not opposing that in principal but in practice I don't usually try to do it that way. For next time let me suggest an alternative way to recover. Instead I try to make sure I backup all of the locally created data (such as /home and /usr/local) and all of the local configuration (such as /etc and /var/backups) and then when I restore I actually install a new image from scratch. Then onto the new image I restore the data (/home) and then move to the more difficult part of restoring the system installed components. I will merge in the accounts from the old /etc/passwd and group files and then re-install all of the packages that were installed previously. Record of those is kept in /var/backups and I have written about how to get the list of installed packages from there before. Install the list. Restore the previous configuration from the old /etc. Restart and eventually reboot to the restored system. It isn't trivial but it isn't too difficult either. It works. I do have a major problem with KDE desktop icons now but that needs further investigation an maybe a topic for another thread. If it is a failed restore issue then what I would try to do is to determine what package includes those icons, purge that package, re-install that package. Or perhaps hit it with a larger club by purging all of kde, verifying that everything related has been removed, and then re-installing all of kde. If something didn't restore correctly then giving that package a fresh install should make it good again. Good luck! Bob Thanks Bob You just answered my next question. I'm going to give your suggestions a lot of thought as soon as I get the last of the bugs out. I did try removal and re installation and it didn't help. I'm not sure that I did a good job of stripping out all of the old data though. I' m going to try again. Backuppc is a bit picky about sym-links. I think that this is at the route of most of my problems. Rsync needs to have a -D switch set before it will transmit them properly. Of course I didn't find this out until after I got in trouble. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50c8e6ef.2030...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze
On 12/16/2012 07:50 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2012 8:02 PM, Mark Panen wrote: The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards really why should he be? Are all IT personal hardware fundies as well? I started late in the IT business with a totally different previous vocation, and can do all except put a CPU mobo and cooler together, anyway lets not carry on with this. I agree with the comment. The suggestions are a way the OP might be able to fix a failing MB. To do this successfully, experience is soldering multi-layer boards is almost a must. It doesn't matter whether YOU can do it or not. You're not the OP. BTW - I also started late in the IT business (full time in 1977, though I was programming 10 years before that) - my experience before that was all electronics. Multilayer boards are no fun. Well it's nice to know that i'm not the only old duffer around. I started in 1959. I set up a solder school for the navy some years back for board repair personnel and the thought of working on a multilayer board scares me to death. If you are careful, some superficial work can be done but that's it. Troubleshooting is a nightmare as well. I guess i'm back to suggesting the use of a post board. The cost less than $10 these days. They really do give you a lot of information about the cause of the problem. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50d0a3d0.4000...@verizon.net
Combining Icedove data
Hi all; I am trying to combine the information from my laptop version of Icedove into the icedove copy on my home PC. I have the import / export addon installed on the PC copy. Both files presently reside at /etc/.icedove/x.default on the PC. I am presently using Debian Wheezy and Icedove 10,0,11. The e7...default directory is presently being used by icedove. I wish to fold in the data from the 7m.default directory that was originally on the laptop. I can follow the process from Tools - Import/Export Tools - Import Mbox File but what to do next alludes me. I don't have a file, I have a directory that contains a ton of information. Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e89ad0.3020...@verizon.net
Re: Combining Icedove data
On 01/05/2013 03:45 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/05/13 13:27, Gary Roach wrote: I am trying to combine the information from my laptop version of Icedove into the icedove copy on my home PC. Inside Icedove, I keep my e-mail messages in local folders named after my username and year (for backup and archiving purposes): dpchrist-2011 dpchrist-2012 dpchrist-2013 etc. Using a file manager or shell and looking around under ~/.icedove, I see one folder and two files with matching basenames: $ ls -d .icedove/yopoi36c.default/Mail/Local\ Folders/dpchrist* .icedove/yopoi36c.default/Mail/Local Folders/dpchrist-2013 .icedove/yopoi36c.default/Mail/Local Folders/dpchrist-2013.msf .icedove/yopoi36c.default/Mail/Local Folders/dpchrist-2013.sbd snip In this case, yopoi36c.default is my active Icedove profile directory. I've found that if I simply copy those folders and files to another machine and start Icedove, the corresponding Icedove folders will automagically appear, Icedove will index the contents, and everything works. Thankfully, the Icedove developers understand and do a good job with data forward/ backward compatibility/ migration. :-) HTH, David Hi David Unfortunately, I have two of the .default directories that need to be combined into one. I thought that the Import/Export tools would do this but the instructions I can find have me thoroughly confused. A web search turned up all kinds of methods to sync various packages but not this case. I can't believe that there is not a straight forward way to do this since the problem will arise any time one takes a laptop on the road. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e9f363.7080...@verizon.net
Re: Combining Icedove data
On 01/06/2013 05:03 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/06/13 13:57, Gary Roach wrote: Unfortunately, I have two of the .default directories that need to be combined into one. Have you tried the file system copy and paste method I outlined? Did it work? If it didn't work or doesn't meet your needs, please clarify. David I didn't try copy and paste because there must be a ton of files, sub directories and the sub-sub directories none of them easily readable. To accurately cut an paste would be a nightmare. As an example, the following files and directories are under the .icedove/e7yi94cf.default directory: abook-1.mabdownloads.sqlite mailViews.datsecmod.db abook.mab *extensions* mimeTypes.rdf session.json addons.sqliteextensions.ini panacea.dat signons.sqlite blocklist.xml extensions.rdf permissions.sqlite *startupCache* *Cache* extensions.sqlite persdict.dat training.dat cert8.dbfolderTree.json places.sqlite traits.dat chromeappsstore.sqlite global-messages-db.sqlite places.sqlite-shm urlclassifier3.sqlite compatibility.ini history.mab places.sqlite-wal urlclassifier.pset compreg.dat key3.db pluginreg.dat virtualFolders.dat content-prefs.sqlitelocalstore.rdf prefs.js webappsstore.sqlite cookies.sqlite lock search.json xpti.dat directoryTree.json *Mail* search.sqlite The directories are in bold face. Under the Mail directory are the following directories: *incoming.verizon-1.net incoming.verizon.net Local Folders smart mailboxes* Under the incoming.verizon-1.net directory (as an example) are the following files: Drafts filterlog.html Inbox.msf popstate.dat Sent.msf Trash.msf Drafts.msf Inbox msgFilterRules.dat Sent Trash I need some kind of a tool to merge the messages and it needs to be programmed by someone that knows a lot more about the innards if Icedove than I do. I would assume that the Import / Export tools should do this but it is not intuitively obvious how to use them. If someone knows how to use the Import tools I could really use their help. Gary R.
icedove's auxiliary functions not working.
Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove and couldn't fine anything wrong. Iceweasel works fine. Any suggestions. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f1c351.3080...@verizon.net
Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working. (Solved)
On 01/12/2013 01:30 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Gary Roachgaryro...@verizon.net wrote: Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove and couldn't fine anything wrong. Iceweasel works fine. Any suggestions. In icedove, go to Edit -- Preferences -- Attachments and check the content types and subsequent actions to make sure you have Iceweasel selected in the appropriate places. Thank you. That fixed the problems. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f1d9e6.8070...@verizon.net
Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working.
On 01/12/2013 12:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove and couldn't fine anything wrong. Iceweasel works fine. Any suggestions. Gary R Sorry the first message has the wrong return address. Please use the gary719 address. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f1cea6.6010...@verizon.net
Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system
Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the other drive and used Grub as the boot loader. This setup worked fine. I recently upgraded to Debian Wheezy using the latest iso net install disk. Since then the system boots to the Grub operating system selection screen. If I select Debian, the computer starts, loads grub, shuts down and restarts over and over again. I managed to get back into the Windows XP side by completely reloading the XP OS from the factory disks. As long as I select the XP system things work fine. As soon as I try the Debian system the looping starts again. I tried to reload the Debian side from the iso disk but the end results are the same. Any suggestions will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5106dc4b.9030...@verizon.net
Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system
On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:07 -0800 Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the other drive and used Grub as the boot loader. This setup worked fine. I recently upgraded to Debian Wheezy using the latest iso net install disk. Since then the system boots to the Grub operating system selection screen. If I select Debian, the computer starts, loads grub, shuts down and restarts over and over again. I managed to get back into the Windows XP side by completely reloading the XP OS from the factory disks. As long as I select the XP system things work fine. As soon as I try the Debian system the looping starts again. I tried to reload the Debian side from the iso disk but the end results are the same. Any suggestions will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R. Did you run update-grub? How do I run update-grub when I can't access Linux Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/510707f5.4060...@verizon.net
dxsamples contains no samples
I am trying to use Opendx in squeeze. For some reason aptitude install dxsamples only loads the following in the /usr/share/doc/dxsamples directory: changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright No sample programs are included. Anyone know whats wrong. There should be a large group of sample programs in this directory. I have done a locate on dxsamples and this directory is the only one that show up. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1ca702.6040...@verizon.net
Bug reporting
I've been using Debian for years and still can't seem to submit a bug report successfully. One of the main problems is that I have no mail server active on my system. I use Icedove. I have tried to setup exim several times and have always given up in disgust. The instructions for reporting by normal email are way to complicated for easy understanding. The examples given include copies of the world. I need something straight forward and relatively simple. Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f29b0dd.7080...@verizon.net
Backup System
I have 3 computer running on Debian Squeeze. One has an unused hard drive that I wish to use as a backup disk for all 3 computers. Is there a simple way to do this that can be completely automated. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2b4a62.8030...@verizon.net
Backup System part deux
Thanks for all of the help last time . I installed Backupninja easily. After getting it running I realized that it didn't quite do what I wanted. I was looking for a package that could be installed in the server with little need for additional programs to be installed on each machine. So, after some searching, I switched to Backuppc. Now Backuppc will do what I want but it needs to run first. To cut to the chase I have (I think) the config.pl file set to backup /home, /etc, and /var with a couple of exclusions. As the debian readme file suggested, I pasted the supplied script into the Apache2 config file. This seems to be working OK. I then moved the /var/lib/backuppc files to my spare hard drive '/backupdisk' and did a soft link from /var/lib to /backupdisk/backuppc. I then did the following root/.../etc# service backuppc start Starting backuppc...2012-02-09 17:17:05 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /backupdisk/pc and /backupdisk/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full. Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting... I searched for an answer and found dozens, all different and mostly old. The either made no sense or didn't work. Specifically- all of my disks on all of my machines are ext3 file systems. Changing the permissions to 755 on all of the files didn't work. The path's involved look like: /var/lib/backuppc - /backupdisk/backuppc /backupdisk/backuppc/ cpool, pc etc. I am running Debian Squeeze on all systems I am using rsync and have ssh installed on all systems. All of the systems communicate with each other over ssh My backup server is running two GB size disks. Backuppc is running on one disk and using the other for the backup data. Any ideas of how to fix this problem will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R PS: For the average user the documentation for this package sucks. The detail included may be exactly what the developer needs but is really rough sledding for the average user. This seems to be a very common problem in the Linux world and is the main reason that Linux is still relegated to the number three spot way behind Windows and Mackintosh. I spent 40 year in industry and was a tech writer for many of those years. My last 5 years was as a developer of medium size database systems for use by real dummies. So I speak with some authority. Every program that is for general use must have one of two things. Either a GUI that can be used without any special training by your wife/girlfriend/secretary without asking _any_ questions or documentation that passes the same test. This is the criteria that I always used and it works. I would love to rewrite some of this stuff but am not nearly conversant enough with the nitty gritty programming details.
Font intensity on desktop
Hi I have two systems running Debian Squeeze and have essentially the same setup. I am running an ATI Radeon HD 5450 on my main system which has good readable print on both the desktop icons and on the bottom panel. My other system (older) is running an ATI Radeon RV250 and has lousy readability for everything on the desktop. I have gone through the system setup and made sure that both systems are identical. I'm running 1280x1024 at 60Hz refresh rate on both systems. I use the KDE desktop. The newer system is running an Intel board with an i5-750 4 processor CPU. The older system is running an Pentium III (Coppermine). Strangely enough the print on the monitor (Bash) is good on both systems but the window surround is nearly unreadable on the old system. Any ideas as to how this problem can be corrected will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f552547.4090...@verizon.net
vsftp problems
Hi Setting up vsftp should be a snap. Just follow the howto. Right. With listen=YES in the .conf file and try to ftp the server from another system on my network, I get: On the server: root@x2:/etc# service vsftpd start Started FTP server: vsftpd Note: ps xaf doesn't show vsftpd to be running On the client root@xx1:/etc# ftp xx2 Connected to xx2.home. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp with listen=NO an attempt to restart on the server resulted in the following: root@/x2: /etc# service vsftpd restart Stopping FTP server: No /usr/bin/vsftpd found running. None killed. vsftpd. /etc/vsftpd.conf: listen disabled - service will not start. In short neither inet.d start or standalone start seems to work. *The .conf file is right out of the documentation. * These are both Debian Squeeze systems that are up to date. Help will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R
Re: Re: vsftp problems
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: Try running /usr/sbin/vsftpd by hand (as root) from a session on your server. Does it print any diagnostic output? OK. Now I have 3 machines that are setup identically. The vsftpd.conf files have the following settings: Listen=YES #Listen_IPV6 Anonymous=YES #Local_enabled=YES #Write_enabled=YES One of the machines starts fine with 'service vsftpd start' . The other two don't. When I try to start with /usr/sbin/vsftpd, the good machine hangs up. The other two come back with: 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket I've checked all the file permissions and everything else I can think of and have found nothing different between the systems. Two of the systems are exact down to the hardware. If I ftp the good machine from one of the others I get: Connected to .home. 220 (vsFTPd 2.3.2) Name (:root): gary 530 This FTP server is anonymous only. Login failed. ftp The 'gary' is my reply. I am about to throw in the towel on this unless someone can come up with an answer. Very frunstrated. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f629c6e.9040...@verizon.net
Re: Re: vsftp problems
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On 16/03/12 01:50, Gary Roach wrote: 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket Are you attempting to start it by hand as root? If so, can you try lsof -ni:21? It looks like something else has bound to your port 21. Good suggestion, On both bad systems, I get COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME inetd 1946 root8u IPv4 130958 0t0 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) The good machine shows that vsftpd is attached to the port. I'm not sure how to correct this but it is definitely a step in the right direction. Gary R,. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f65005f.3040...@verizon.net
Re: vsftp problems
On 03/18/2012 08:11 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Gary, OK. Now I have 3 machines that are setup identically. The vsftpd.conf files have the following settings: Listen=YES #Listen_IPV6 Anonymous=YES #Local_enabled=YES #Write_enabled=YES Setting Local_enabled=YES will allow you to log in. The configuration above allows only anonymous retrieval. It won't allow you to log in or to put a file. One of the machines starts fine with 'service vsftpd start' . That's the machine running ftp as a standalone daemon. The other two don't. They are running the daemon via inetd. The daemon process will exist only briefly when demanded. When I try to start with /usr/sbin/vsftpd, the good machine hangs up. The other two come back with: 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket The conventional way to start the standalone daemon is /etc/init.d/vsftpd start; but as you found, this won't work when the port is already allocated for ftp usage via inetd. I've checked all the file permissions and everything else I can think of and have found nothing different between the systems. Two of the systems are exact down to the hardware. Yes, everything is working just as it should. If I ftp the good machine from one of the others I get: Connected to .home. 220 (vsFTPd 2.3.2) Name (:root): gary 530 This FTP server is anonymous only. Login failed. ftp That is because the default configuration is Local_enabled=NO. Login is not allowed. The terminology is poor and Login_enabled would seem better to me. In any case, Local_enabled means that the ftp daemon should refer to the local /etc/passwd for authentication. This what you want. I am about to throw in the towel on this unless someone can come up with an answer. Very frunstrated. I mentioned inetd in the previous reply. Reading this is advisable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd From: Sven Hoexters...@timegate.de Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:49:46 +0100 There are at least two options. ;) 1) Stop inetd all together if you don't run any services through inetd (or xinetd). To what purpose? There is no harm in letting inetd run vsftpd. 2) Or just edit /etc/inetd.conf (or a file in /etc/xinet.d/ if you run xinetd) to let it not listen on port 21. If standalone ftp is preferred. For most small scale usage, ftp under inetd will be more efficient. The system has other work besides standing by for an FTP connection. Regards,... Peter E. OK here is the latest. I have listen=YES on all machines. I have Local_enabled=YES on all machines. I read the wiki on inetd. I also turned off the ftp listen in inetd.conf. According to the wiki I should now be able to start vsftpd by typing in /usr/sbin/vsftpd. This hangs up on machine 1 and doesn't start the process. I get a 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket error on machines 2 and 3. Using service vsftpd start on all of the machines starts a standalone process on machine 1 but nothing on the other two. I can ftp to machine 1 and log in successfully from machines 2 and 3 but get 421 Server not available --- errors from machines 2 and 3 when login is attempted. I have checked the inetd.conf and vsftpd.conf files on each machine and they are identical. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f669715.7000...@verizon.net
Re: vsftp problems (SOLVED)
Well, isn't this embarrassing. Nowhere does it say that you may have to reboot your systems after installation of vsftpd. When I found that a script for vsftpd had been installed in the rc*.d files I decided to see what would happen if I rebooted the system. This fixed the problems on every one of the machines. All are running in inet,d mode - I don't care what the documentation says about my setup being standalone. I think that there needs to be some documentation changes but I am not sure what. A rewrite of the vsftpd.conf files explanations would be a big help. I thank you all for your help and patience. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f675d78.3050...@verizon.net
icedove password problem
I had to change the password on my verizon email account. Now verizon email refuses to accept email I send to one of my accounts because the password Icedove is sending is wrong. How do I go about fixing this. Preferences - Security - Saved Passwords displays the passwords for my other account and my incoming password for the troublesome account but none for outgoing. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f70ef25.4080...@verizon.net
Re: Re: icedove password problem (Solved)
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:35:17 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I had to change the password on my verizon email account. Now verizon email refuses to accept email I send to one of my accounts because the password Icedove is sending is wrong. How do I go about fixing this. Preferences - Security - Saved Passwords displays the passwords for my other account and my incoming password for the troublesome account but none for outgoing. You can try to: 1/ Add a new smtp outgoing account with the new password. 2/ Edit the current settings for the account that handles the old password to force a password reset. Greetings, Thank you all for your help. The suggestion I liked best was to use the addon editor. Alas it doesn't want to work with my 3.0.11 (Squeeze) version of Icedove. So, to sum up for posterity: Edit - Preferences - Security - Passwords - Saved Passwords Then select the smtp account and hit remove. Then; Edit - Account Settings Select the account in question. Where it says Outgoing Server, from the drop down' select the one *not* marked as default. ( I'm not sure why this is needed but things didn't work with the default set.) Select Server Settings for the account in question. Turn *OFF* Use secure authentication. (Here again I don't know why this is needed but didn't work with it on.) Now download your email and assign the new password when asked. I hope this helps someone else. Gary R.
ATA/IDE hard drive problem
I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. If the BOIS ATA/IDE Configuration is set to Extended, the bios finds my CDROM drive but not the hard drive. If the configuration is set to Legacy the bios finds the hard drive but not my CDROM drive. The hard drive is on IDE -1 as master (or stand alone, makes no difference) and the CDROM is on IDE-2 as master. Swapping cables didn't help. The two units are mounted too far apart to make one master and the other slave on the same IDE port. I've run out of ideas. Anyone else have any? Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f80d094.3050...@verizon.net
Re: Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. If the BOIS ATA/IDE Configuration is set to Extended, the bios finds my CDROM drive but not the hard drive. If the configuration is set to Legacy the bios finds the hard drive but not my CDROM drive. Strange. What was the BIOS setting for the hard drive when you installed? The hard drive is on IDE -1 as master (or stand alone, makes no difference) and the CDROM is on IDE-2 as master. That makes sense, and it's how I would configure it. snipped I've run out of ideas. Anyone else have any? Yes - but lets see how your drive is setup first. Please post the output of:- # parted -l or if you don't have parted installed:- # fdisk -l Gary R Kind regards There seems to be some confusion here. I still have win2k on the machine. Linux commands won't work. I think what I am going to do is change the ATA/IDE Configuration to Enhanced, put the linux installation disk in the CDROM drive and hope that it boots. One of the respondents pointed out that Linux doesn't depend on the bios settings to find the boot drive. I hope that is true. I may end up with a boat anchor. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f81b157.2050...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. (...) A quick Google search points to a known problem for that board: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0hl=en#hl=encomplete=0site=webhpq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootoq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootaq=faqi=aql=gs_l=serp.3...2893l5210l0l5434l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.pfwc.bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osbfp=43704773c80105b2biw=1280bih=888 For example: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/intel-d865perl-wont-boot-sometimes-25259.html I would contact Intel tech support and ask them for a fix to this. Greetings, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f825714.9040...@verizon.net
Re: Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. (...) A quick Google search points to a known problem for that board: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0hl=en#hl=encomplete=0site=webhpq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootoq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootaq=faqi=aql=gs_l=serp.3...2893l5210l0l5434l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.pfwc.bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osbfp=43704773c80105b2biw=1280bih=888 For example: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/intel-d865perl-wont-boot-sometimes-25259.html I would contact Intel tech support and ask them for a fix to this. I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked. Since I don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with it. I'm tired of fooling with the problem. Gary R. Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If not, you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it with an external USB case. Greetings, Yes, the cd unit is visible within the OS. Everything is working fine. I installed an additional drive on the same IDE port as a slave. With ATA/IDE Configure set to Legacy the bios recognizes both drives but not the CDROM. Just as before. Once booted, everything works fine. Bye Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f84c9de.3030...@verizon.net
What files to backup
I have three standard Debian Squeeze systems and am setting up Backuppc to backup to an extra hard drive I have on one of the systems. I plan on backing up the following directories: /etc /home /var/www (An Apache server resides on one of the systems) Is there anything else that should be included. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f84cb56.9040...@verizon.net
Iceweasel mess with this mailing list
I'm not sure where the problem lies, but all of the mail I am receiving from this mailing list is coming in as attachments to attachments to a blank email. This mailing list is different than the others to which I subcribe in that after the index all of the messages are attachments. All my other lists are working fine but have the messages included in the body of the original email. Any ideas? Gary R, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f98256f.7090...@verizon.net
Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list (Solved)
Sorry about the Iceweasel. Yes I meant Icedove. I was mucking around with the settings and ran across Display Attachments Inline under the View menu. I checked it and the problem went away. I'm not sure why this should make such a difference but it does. The package now works as it should. The main index shows in the normal window and the individual messages show in the bottom window as attachments. Before the email looked like attachments to attachments. Gary R, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f985b48.2080...@verizon.net
Second acount on iceweasel
I have this iceweasel account (debian machine) for technical stuff and another acount (thunderbird) on a win2k machine for my normal email. I want to transfer the win2k account to this machine. How do I do that without getting the two accounts intermingled. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d24a0c1.1000...@verizon.net
Two email accounts
I am trying to consolidate most of my applications onto a new machine. I have two separate email accounts, one for technical stuff and one for general email. I wish to have these two accounts on the same machine but completely separated. I'm running squeeze on an i5-750 system with kde desktop and icedove. What is the best way to do this. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5c5b3d.3040...@verizon.net
Cups - software cant find
Hi I have a 3 computer, plus linksys switch, home network. Two of the computers run Win2K and one uses Debian Linux. One of the Win2K systems is acting as my print server. I use Samba on the Debian box to tie everything together. The network works fine. The CUPS installation on the Debian box prints test pages to the Win2k based HP 940C fine. Not one single piece of software on the Debian box can find CUPS. http://localhost:631 works fine. Gimp cant find CUPS Openoffice cant find CUPS Iceape web browser cant find CUPS Gnome CUPS Manager cant find CUPS Some of these comeback with an error message and some just print to never never land. I've found a confusing assortment of answers on the web for other versions of Linux, none of which seem to apply to my problem, but no fix. Any one got an idea GLR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mapping version number to version name
Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi all, Happy New Year! I know I can get my Debian's version number in /etc/debian_version file. But how I map this to its name (Sarge, Potato, Woody)? Thank you Happy New Year to You too. There is a list of releases with numbers at http://www.debian.org/releases/ but the list stops at 3. something. Im using testing and my release # is 4.0 . I hope this helps some. GLR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS - application software cant find CUPS
Hi (Originally CUPS - software cant find) This is a re-issue of the same problem. I had no takers on the first round and am still having serious problems. I have tried everything in the debian mini HOWTO to no avail. I have a 3 computer, plus linksys switch, home network. Two of the computers run Win2K and one uses Debian Linux (kernel 2.6.18 and Etch). One of the Win2K systems is acting as my print server. I use Samba on the Debian box to tie everything together. The network works fine. The CUPS installation on the Debian box prints test pages to the Win2k based HP 940C fine. Not one single piece of application software on the Debian box can find CUPS. http://localhost:631 works fine. Gimp cant find CUPS Openoffice cant find CUPS Iceape web browser cant find CUPS Gnome CUPS Manager cant find CUPS Some of these comeback with an error message and some just print to never never land. lpstat and such commands return an unable to connect to server error. ps xaf indicates that Cupsd is running. I've found a confusing assortment of answers on the web for other versions of Linux, none of which seem to apply to my problem, but no fix. Any one got an idea. Help!!! GLR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS - application software cant find CUPS
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:29:33PM +, Gary Roach wrote: HP 940C fine. Not one single piece of application software on the Debian box can find CUPS. Do you have the cups-bsd package installed on your Debian box? Regards, -Roberto Thanks for the reply. Good question. I did a locate on cupsys-dsd. The return showed the package dpkg files an archive entry and the usual doc entry but no indication that the program, it self, was installed. Shouldnt there be something in the /etc or /etc/rcX files. I did an apt-get reinstall but it didn't change anything. Where should the actual program reside? I don't think it is installing. Any guesses as to why? Thank again and Happy New Year. GLR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP
Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. exacting Schooolgirls doinng splendiferous suckiing. susan 12/30/2006 2:00PM and YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS OF $15.5MMike Dana Will 01/02/2007 4:30AM Im not exactly a prude but it does clutter up the group. The advertising just drives me crazy. GLR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Transfering iceweasel bookmark files to new system
Hi; I am replacing my oldest 1GHZ box with a new 2.65 x 4 GHz box. Both are running Debian Squeeze. How do I transfer the iceweasel setup from the one computer to the other and combine the bookmarks from the two units. As an aside, is there any way to determine the purpose of all of the files (and their location) that Debian installs with a package. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c475a80.9000...@verizon.net
Re:Tranfering iceweasel bookmark filest to new system (SOLVED)
Thank you one and all for the help especially Kelly Clowers' missive. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4876ce.9060...@verizon.net
Intel P55 chip set sound missing
Another installation problem for my new DP55KG motherboard with an i5-750 4 core cpu. No Sound!. The chipset is the P55 set and supports AC-97 and HDA protocols. I used the latest Debian Squeeze Network Installation Disk. Neither the onboard jacks or the front panel jacks work. I've checked the system tray audio setting and the intel HDA mixer settings and the generic settings. Everything seems to be OK. Anyone have a clue as to why the sound doesn't work. This is one of two problems with my Linux installation on this motherboard. The onboard 82578DC Lan chipset doesn't work either. I solved this one by adding an above board NIC. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c489e1d.8040...@verizon.net
Re: Intel P55 chip set sound missing (SOLVED)
Sorry. The PCM Control was off. I missed it. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c48a40b.7020...@verizon.net
KDE Desktop Themes
I have 2 identical Debian Linux setups, one on an old system and the other on a brand new system. The desktop themes for the new system are listed as: Air Aya Blend Elegance Heron Oxygen Silicon Slim Glow The old system only lists: Air Air for notebooks Oxygen. I have tried every way I know to correct this difference (I like Elegance) to no avail. Any suggestions as to why some of the themes might be missing. All of the files seem to be the same version on both systems. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c4e0c2d.30...@verizon.net
Software to handle bits and pieces of information.
Hi; I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe a note on the proton boron fusion reaction energy . I may never use it but would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I need a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I hope this makes some sense. Any suggestions. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c59adcf.20...@verizon.net
Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.
Thanks for all of the responses. I thought that since they were so wide ranging that a condensed list might be helpful to others. Obviously I'm not the only one with the problem. In no particular order: Run own (private, locked-down) Mediawiki installation - this allows access where ever you are. Kjots but prefers the zim program (personal wiki). Zim outstanding especially in conjuction with iceowl. (2 hits) Kontact good choice but needs tool to search inside all that information. Unsure what tools available in KDE4. Akonadi+strigi+nepomuk might do the job. Tomboy used for this very purpose. Use text files in a directory system with discriptive names. Use a script program to search for hard to find stuff. Gnote for keeping notes and Orage for scheduling tasks/events. Email notes to self. You can search the email files. Again thanks everyone. Seems I have a little research to do here. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5afc3a.5090...@verizon.net
Samba Difficultidw
I have a mix of Win2K and Debian Linux computers. My cable router/switch is acting as a DHCP server and a DNS server for my internal 19.168.1. network. My new computer Lzit1 is acting as a smbd, nmbd and winbind server. My Lzit2 is acting as a samba client. Wzit3 and Wzit4 also exist. When trying to change the file attributes of Lzit2 from Lzit1 I get: Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol smb. When trying to delete files from Lzit2 via Lzit1 I get: The file or folder smb://Lzit2 does not exist Now I can see the files in Dolphin and can open, change attributes and delete some. Others. I get the above errors. I can't seem to get a consistent pattern of behavior. Directories seem to be more likely to cause trouble. My Samba config files are: Lzit1 server: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from UNKNOWN (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2010/08/12 12:50:12 [global] server string = %h server obey pam restrictions = Yes pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . unix password sync = Yes syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 printcap name = cups add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -A %u %g delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -R %u %g add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /ver/lib/nobody %u logon script = scripts\logon.bat logon drive = M: logon home = \\%N\%U\profile domain logons = Yes os level = 255 preferred master = Auto domain master = Yes dns proxy = No wins support = Yes panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d idmap uid = 15000-2 idmap gid = 15000-2 [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0600 directory security mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.138.1. browseable = No browsable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes browseable = No browsable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = root, gary [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon admin users = root, gary guest ok = Yes browseable = No browsable = No [Profiles] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0600 directory security mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.138.1. browseable = No browsable = No available = No [GaryHome] comment = Garys samba share path = /home/gary [epson] comment = Epson Color Stylus RX680 path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes printer name = epson Lzit2 client:
Re: Samba Difficultidw
Sorry about the truncated message: I hit the wrong button. The rest of the information is Lzit2 samba config: Samba config file created using SWAT # from UNKNOWN (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2010/08/12 12:53:04 [global] server string = %h file server security = DOMAIN pam password change = Yes unix password sync = Yes log level = 2 syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 printcap name = cups disable spoolss = Yes show add printer wizard = No add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null -g machines '%u' os level = 65 local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no idmap uid = 15000-2 idmap gid = 15000-2 winbind use default domain = Yes hosts allow = 192.168.1. [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 browseable = No browsable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 printable = Yes use client driver = Yes browseable = No browsable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers guest ok = Yes hosts allow = [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon/ browseable = No browsable = No [gary] comment = Garys Samba Share hdb path = /hdb/gary read only = No [diane] comment = Dianes Samba Share path = /hdb/diane read only = No [GaryHome] comment = Garys Samba share hda path = /home/gary read only = No [epson] comment = Epson Color Stylus RX680 path = /var/spool/samba read only = No create mask = 0700 hosts allow = printable = Yes printer name = epson I am thoroughly confused. Can any one help. Thanks Gary R. On 08/12/2010 01:08 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a mix of Win2K and Debian Linux computers. My cable router/switch is acting as a DHCP server and a DNS server for my internal 19.168.1. network. My new computer Lzit1 is acting as a smbd, nmbd and winbind server. My Lzit2 is acting as a samba client. Wzit3 and Wzit4 also exist. When trying to change the file attributes of Lzit2 from Lzit1 I get: Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol smb. When trying to delete files from Lzit2 via Lzit1 I get: The file or folder smb://Lzit2 does not exist Now I can see the files in Dolphin and can open, change attributes and delete some. Others. I get the above errors. I can't seem to get a consistent pattern of behavior. Directories seem to be more likely to cause trouble. My Samba config files are: Lzit1 server: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from UNKNOWN (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2010/08/12 12:50:12 [global] server string = %h server obey pam restrictions = Yes pam password change = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . unix password sync = Yes syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 printcap name = cups add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -A %u %g delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/groupmod -R %u %g add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /ver/lib/nobody %u logon script = scripts\logon.bat logon drive = M: logon home = \\%N\%U\profile domain logons = Yes os level = 255 preferred master = Auto domain master = Yes dns proxy = No wins support = Yes panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d idmap uid = 15000-2 idmap gid = 15000-2 [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask = 0600 directory security mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.138.1. browseable = No browsable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0600 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes browseable = No browsable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = root, gary [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon admin users = root, gary guest ok = Yes browseable = No browsable = No [Profiles] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S read only = No create mask
Re: Samba Difficultidw
Hi: Thanks for the replies. First hdb/ is an extra drive that is being used for backup files and is not usually accessed. The permissions are the same as /home/gary. Second Camaleon's ? comments about samba have made me re-evaluate my approach to the network transparancy problem. I have taken a second look at Dolphin. It seems to have characteristics that will handle most of the things that I wish to accomplish. I need a little more tinker time to be sure. If I can figure out how to run applications using remote files, I think I will have all that I need. Gary R. 08/13/2010 09:16 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Re: Samba Difficultidw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c659423.50...@verizon.net
Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.
Hi; I have been doing all of my color printing on my Win2K system directly attached to an Epson stylus photo RX680 printer. All is well. I just installed a new computer on my office network that runs on linux. I am using Samba and Cups+gutenprint v5.2.5 with the Win2K/Epson printer as my network printer. For text printing everything works fine. I decided to shift my color work to the new computer (at least 10x faster than any other computer on the net) and was shocked when I printed a NFTA label (those diamond shaped labels you see on hazardous material containers) when the red came out peach and the blue came out purple. The same file printed on the Win2K system is fine. All linux systems are running the latest Squeeze software and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010. Testing shows that switching between CYMK and RGB makes no difference. Pure magenta, yellow and cyan print correctly. The ligh colors red, yellow and blue print correctly but none of the other colors on the color selector are correct. I don't think tweeking color balance is going to help this problem. There is too great an error. Thanks for any help you may offer. Gary R -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c7008fe.6060...@verizon.net
Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.
Thanks for the return. The RX680 is listed as one the printers in the Cups setup program. Here is the file you requested. # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.4 # Written by cupsd # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING Printer epson Info Epson Stylus Photo RX680 Location Here MakeModel Epson Stylus Photo RX680 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.5 DeviceURI smb://gary:xxx...@workgroup/ctech/epson State Idle StateTime 1279057966 Type 8425500 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 100 rastertogutenprint.5.2 Filter application/vnd.cups-command 33 commandtoepson Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer /Printer I may post this on the gimp-print-devel mailing list as Roger Leigh suggested. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c7043ca.6050...@verizon.net
Mailing list protocol
Hi; This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should really be done. I searched for about a half hour on google and on the debian site and still have questions. Specifically: If I reply to debian-user@lists.debian.org , how does my reply get included with the correct snippets of other messages. Or is this my responsibility to cut and paste relevent sections. Though in danger on creating an email food fight, I still need to know whether my reply goes on the top or bottom of the text. I seem to be cleaning up a lot of computer loose ends recently. This is one of them. Thanks Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c754a51.2070...@verizon.net
Re: Installing mysqldump
On 08/09/2013 08:05 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mate-screensaver : Depends: mate-screensaver-common (= 1.6.0-1) but it is not going to be installed mysql-client-5.5 : Depends: libdbi-perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: libdbd-mysql-perl (= 1.2202) but it is not going to be installed apt-get install mysql-core-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mate-screensaver : Depends: mate-screensaver-common (= 1.6.0-1) but it is not going to be installed mysql-server-core-5.5 : Depends: libaio1 (= 0.3.93) but it is not going to be installed === TIA Ethan Ethan; I find no Debian listing for mysqldump but do find one for mydumper which, I think, is what you are really looking for. As for as the rest, try apt-get install mysql-client and/or mysql-server. These are wrappers that will install the latest versions. Check the Debian Packages page on their web site. I don't see mysql-core-5.5 listed. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52051b3c.4080...@verizon.net
Kate plugins
Hi all, I need to install Python and Django plugins for Kate. I downloaded a file from the KDE git repository. It installed a directory tree of files in my home directory. I transfered the directory tree (Kate-plugins) to usr/share/apps as suggested in the documentation.The plugin list in Kate has not changed from its default values.I'm using Debian Wheezy. Can anyone help. Confused Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52164639.7060...@verizon.net
Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade
On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. Now, when I run alsamixergui: lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui I get an error box saying: alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: invalid argument No pulseaudia is installed. I get the same problem on a fresh install of Wheezy on my husband's box. on-board sound on my box: chipset Intel Z77 Express chipset root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# lshw | grep snd configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0 I have no idea where to look. I have googled the error message, and get a lot of hits. It is obviously a common error, but I could see no solutions that seemed to fit my situation. Probably couldn't see the wood for the trees. :-( Two people had succeeded by purging everything Alsa related and installing Alsa from upstream, though one of them had to run snddevices after every boot. Hardly satisfactory, especially on my husband's box. Any suggestions, please? Ought I to purge and install from upstream? In general, I prefer to stick to Debian versions. Thanks for any help, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201309131458.27255.lisi.re...@gmail.com I ran into an alsa issue awhile back and solved it by altering the conf file. May or may not be of any help. I wrote it up here http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=9t=409 I hope I am not hyjacking this thread but, while my problem seems to be somewhat different, it still started with a wheezy upgrade that killed my sound system. I don't think that any one has identified the root cause of this problem and are kind of using a shot gun approach to the problem solving. So let me get as specific as I can. Running as root 'service alsa-utils restart' produced the following return: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Home directory /root not ours.'...Home directory /root not ours Can anyone explain this error message and suggest a fix. I hope my above statement doesn't insult anyone. I know a lot of effort has gone into this thread. But my observation still stands. I'm finding references to this problem all over google but no reasonable solutions. I can't believe that there are more than one or two actual problems here. Programs just don't usually break in multiple ways all at the same time. Gary R
Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade
On 09/21/2013 02:39 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'Home directory /root not ours.'...Home directory /root not ours Can anyone explain this error message and suggest a fix. Hmm, that looks like some sort of permissions problem. For starters, what does ls -ld /var/lib/alsa ls -ld /root give you? Maybe someone else has a better idea on where to start searching, or even exactly what the problem is. Greg In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I use /root for a ebook editor and nothing else. Gary R
Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade
On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than root. Try this: chown root.root /root and try starting alsa again. Greg Greg You were correct. I'm not sure why root got marked gary:gary but that stopped Alsa from being restarted. I still don't have sound so I'll be back as soon a I can find something concrete wrong. Thanks Gary R
Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade
On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than root. Try this: chown root.root /root and try starting alsa again. Greg Greg You were correct. I'm not sure why root got marked gary:gary but that stopped Alsa from being restarted. I still don't have sound so I'll be back as soon a I can find something concrete wrong. Thanks Gary R Further investigation showed that pulseaudio wasn't running either. Attempts to restart failed. From the Ubantu Forum (Temujin April 25, 2011) I reset the pulseaudio configuration with: dpkg --purge --force-depends pulseaudio sudo apt-get install pulseaudio I then had to manually start pulseaudio with service pulseaudio start. This worked but still no sound. I started VLC player and with tools preferences audio pointed it to pulseaudio for its output device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Audio Visualizations picked the VU meters. These showed that I was receiving a signal. I then started the PulseAudio Volume Meter and found that I was also getting a signal out of pulseaudio. I still don't have any sound. I'll be back Gary R.
Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade
On 09/23/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than root. Try this: chown root.root /root and try starting alsa again. Greg Greg You were correct. I'm not sure why root got marked gary:gary but that stopped Alsa from being restarted. I still don't have sound so I'll be back as soon a I can find something concrete wrong. Thanks Gary R Further investigation showed that pulseaudio wasn't running either. Attempts to restart failed. From the Ubantu Forum (Temujin April 25, 2011) I reset the pulseaudio configuration with: dpkg --purge --force-depends pulseaudio sudo apt-get install pulseaudio I then had to manually start pulseaudio with service pulseaudio start. This worked but still no sound. I started VLC player and with tools preferences audio pointed it to pulseaudio for its output device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Audio Visualizations picked the VU meters. These showed that I was receiving a signal. I then started the PulseAudio Volume Meter and found that I was also getting a signal out of pulseaudio. I still don't have any sound. I'll be back Gary R. And last but not least, I found the speaker / amplifier sound cable plugged into the wrong jack on my KVM switch. Everything now works. Thanks to all Gary R.
Debian setup for python django development
Hi all, I have been trying to set up a python, django, mysql development project and am really confused. All of the documentation seems to ignore the apt-get installation methods used by ebian and its derivatives. Does pip install the same as Aptitude ( I don't think so). If I use virtualenvwrapper, how does this fit with the normal debian (wheezy) installation. I also need git which just confuses the situation even more. The documentation centers on Windoz and Mac and ignores the automation of the Debian installation. If this is off topic please point me in the right direction. Any help with straightening out my brain in this areal will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/526e9afe.6030...@verizon.net
