Re: Help - /usr not mounting!

[Peter Tynan]

2008/4/23 Peter Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm currently operating from a live CD as my /usr partition is
>  refusing to mount at boot.

more info

# fsck.jfs -v /dev/hda5
fsck.jfs version 1.1.10, 19-Oct-2005
processing started: 4/23/2008 6.39.46
Using default parameter: -p
The current device is:  /dev/hda5
Open(...READ/WRITE EXCLUSIVE...) returned rc = 0
Primary superblock is valid.
The type of file system for the device is JFS.
Block size in bytes:  4096
Filesystem size in blocks:  1833410
**Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log
LOGREDO:  Allocating for ReDoPage:  (d) 4096 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for NoDoFile:  (d) 4096 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for BMap:  (d) 28224 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for IMap:  (d) 18464 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for IMap:  (d) 2048 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for IMap:  (d) 2048 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for IMap:  (d) 2048 bytes
LOGREDO:  Allocating for IMap:  (d) 2048 bytes
ujfs_rw_diskblocks: read 0 of 4096 bytes at offset 1428656128
LOGREDO:  Error in volume (d) 0.
LOGREDO:  I/O error attempting to read block 0x055279.
LOGREDO:  bread() Read block (0x055279) failed.
LOGREDO:   updatePage: bread failed (1).  (rc = (d) 1)
LOGREDO:   doAfter: updatePage failed.  (logaddr = 0x019b73f4, rc = (d) 242)
LOGREDO:  Invalid RedoPage record at 0x019b73f4.
logredo failed (rc=-242).  fsck continuing.
**Phase 1 - Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and  Directory Entries
ujfs_rw_diskblocks: read 4096 of 16384 bytes at offset 1428652032
Unrecoverable error reading M from /dev/hda5.  CANNOT CONTINUE.
Fatal error (-10015,30) accessing the filesystem (1,1428652032,16384,0).
processing terminated:  4/23/2008 6:40:21  with return code: -10015
exit code: 8.



Peter


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Mike Bird]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 16:33:28 paragasu wrote:
> >Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition
> >formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or
> >similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions
> >in fdisk.
>
> i am happy if i could just that. i did fdisk about 10 times for now.
> everytime
> i do it. the same error scrolling across my screen after i hit the write
> command in
> fdisk.

You're going to have to provide some specifics.  What drive on what
controller?  What are the drive's capacity specs (C/H/S)?  What command
did you use to start fdisk?  What commands did you issue within fdisk?
In particular, did you create a new partition table?

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Help - /usr not mounting!

[Peter Tynan]

I'm currently operating from a live CD as my /usr partition is
refusing to mount at boot.

fsck is not working - output below.

# fsck -r /dev/hda5
fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
fsck.jfs version 1.1.10, 19-Oct-2005
processing started: 4/23/2008 6.10.34
The current device is:  /dev/hda5
Block size in bytes:  4096
Filesystem size in blocks:  1833410
**Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log
ujfs_rw_diskblocks: read 0 of 4096 bytes at offset 1428656128
logredo failed (rc=-242).  fsck continuing.
**Phase 1 - Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and  Directory Entries
ujfs_rw_diskblocks: read 4096 of 16384 bytes at offset 1428652032
Unrecoverable error reading M from /dev/hda5.  CANNOT CONTINUE.
fsck.jfs /dev/hda5 failed (status 0x8). Run manually!

the -a and -p options give the same output.


Peter


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[Solved!]Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

[Jonathan Kaye]

NN_il_Confusionario wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>> sudo update-initramfs -u
> 
> I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools
> (I build my initrd, when it is needed, with yaird to avoid like a plague
> putting udev in the initrd. Well, I also do not use sudo but one of its
> many equivalents).
> 
> I hope that in the process you really learned something useful, since
> from a pratical point of view simply disconnecting the ide cable from
> hdb (when the pc is off) would have been the same as hdb=none, only much
> faster ...
> 
I followed that steps I posted earlier and, YES! no Debian does not probe
hdb. Bootup in under a minute (instead of more than 15 minutes).
Thanks to everyone for proving once again that the Debian list is
AWESOME! :-)
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Problem to turn DMA on

[Rafael Fontenelle]

Hi all.

I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21.
It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is
not working.

The command I run and its output are:

# hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

Did someone get this message before or know to solve it?

Thanks,

Rafael

Re: External IP

[Rafael Fontenelle]

2008/4/23, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Rafael asked for source..
>
> So my stroke of genius follows...
>
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php
>  print ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])
> ?>
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Thanks for the info, genius ;-)

Cheers,

Rafael

hearse package broken

[Jude DaShiell]

I have a few bones files from playing nethack by now and installed the 
hearse package.  I played those games as a system user not as root. 
Whenever I run hearse as a user I get told that user token file 
/etc/nethack/hearse.user-token file exists but cannot be read permission 
denied.  However when I run hearse as root, I'm told no bones files exist.




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Re: External IP

[Rich Healey]

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Rafael asked for source..

So my stroke of genius follows...


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Re: External IP

[Rich Healey]

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Lee Glidewell wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
>> I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you
>> want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could
>> probably use 'curl'.
> I have this feeling that my last response to this thread never made it 
> through 
> or something. ;)
> 
> curl *definitely* works with shell scripts, and like I pointed out, 
> www.whatismyip.org (not .com) is specifically designed for tools such as 
> curl. Running that URL as the argument for curl will return only the current 
> machine's public IP address, with no extra formatting or HTML messiness. 
> Thus, it is the ideal way of getting this output cleanly. It can even be used 
> as input, e.g.:
> nmap $(curl www.whatismyip.org)
> 
> Lee
> 
> 

My site is now back up.

http://www.psychotik.info/ip.php

Was lazy, did it in php.
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Re: External IP

[Lee Glidewell]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
> I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you
> want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could
> probably use 'curl'.
I have this feeling that my last response to this thread never made it through 
or something. ;)

curl *definitely* works with shell scripts, and like I pointed out, 
www.whatismyip.org (not .com) is specifically designed for tools such as 
curl. Running that URL as the argument for curl will return only the current 
machine's public IP address, with no extra formatting or HTML messiness. 
Thus, it is the ideal way of getting this output cleanly. It can even be used 
as input, e.g.:
nmap $(curl www.whatismyip.org)

Lee


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Mark Allums]

Bob McGowan wrote:

I have Maxtor IDE drives and Maxtor makes (or made, I got this some time 
ago) a DOS based utility to do low level formats.  Your disk vendor 
probably has something similar available.


The Maxtor utilities will prep a drive, for those who can't be bothered 
to use the native utilities for an OS, but I quite doubt that an IDE was 
truly low-level formatted by it.  The drive platters of modern drives 
are low-level formatted before they are even assembled into a working 
hard disk.  They contain "embedded servo" information, which can't be 
written by the read/write heads even if one wanted to.  Attempting to 
low-level format an IDE drive would only succeed in permanently 
destroying the drive.


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Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

[Jonathan Kaye]

NN_il_Confusionario wrote:


> 
> I hope that in the process you really learned something useful, since
> from a pratical point of view simply disconnecting the ide cable from
> hdb (when the pc is off) would have been the same as hdb=none, only much
> faster ...
> 
You are quite right. Physical disconnection would be quicker but I'd like to
try the software solution.
Thanks for all your help.
Cheers,
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Re: External IP

[Rafael Fontenelle]

2008/4/23, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:40 -0400
> Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected
> > > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.
> >
> >   I use "www.whatsmyip.org",  I have NAT at home, and the
> > "far side" of my DSL modem is a private class-A address
> > (10.0.something.something), so it's useful to have a utility
> > that cuts through the crap.
> >
> >   Of course, it does require that you have a working
> > web browser.  If you (or I) were clever, we'd probably
> > do some tricky tracert thing.
>
>
> ddclient can parse html to read your external IP address from your
> router's status page.  I don't know if there's a clean way to use that
> functionality independently of ddclient itself.
>
>
> > Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Celejar
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I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you
want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could
probably use 'curl'.

1- If you don't have curl, you would have to install it:

[sudo] apt-get install curl

2- Get one of these sites that return your external IP (You know no site
like this? just google "what is my IP", without quotes) and create a shell
command. See my example:

$ curl http://www.ip-adress.com/ | grep "My IP: "

Test it and then you put it in a shell script and you're done. :)

Cheers,

Rafael

re: emacspeak with erc on debian

[Jude DaShiell]

I'm surprised anyone is able to use emacs let alone emacspeak on anything 
later than the sarge distribution of debian given my own experiences. 
I'm happy for whoever can manage to do this though.  Things to try. 
First install ircII on your system and get out and connected to a known 
irc address and make sure you can hear incoming messages.  This is 
important since you need a proved connection to point erc at with all 
necessary and correct login credentials in place.  Once done, I suggest 
trying two alternate start up procedures for emacspeak.  First is to run 
emacspeak from the command line with whatever switches you normally feed 
it.  Then try to run erc and connect to the known good irc channel and see 
if incoming messages get spoken.  If not, try a second approach.  At the 
command line run emacs -nw which will turn off any use of xwindows or 
attempt to use xwindows.  Next mx-emacspeak and get that going.  Next 
mx-erc and get that going.  Then go to the known good irc channel and see 
what can be heard if anything in terms of incoming messages.  In C, 
there's a cprintf() function which when used screen readers don't get any 
printing sent them.  It's the printf() function in C that gets proper 
screen writing done though.  I don't know if lisp equivalents exist though 
they may so this could be part of your problem too, the erc package was 
built with the wrong screen writing commands.




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Re: External IP

[Celejar]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:40 -0400
Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected
> > to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.
> 
>   I use "www.whatsmyip.org",  I have NAT at home, and the
> "far side" of my DSL modem is a private class-A address
> (10.0.something.something), so it's useful to have a utility
> that cuts through the crap.
>   
>   Of course, it does require that you have a working
> web browser.  If you (or I) were clever, we'd probably
> do some tricky tracert thing.

ddclient can parse html to read your external IP address from your
router's status page.  I don't know if there's a clean way to use that
functionality independently of ddclient itself.

> Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Gnome workspaces?

[Ron Johnson]

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> How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces?

Workspace Switcher 2.20.3 allows me to have up to36 spaces.

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Re: NC problem

[Martin S]

Martin S skrev:
I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. 
Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection 
(no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I 
have another disk I swap with on assignments).

Anything I should try to get the install working?

I tried changing the cabling, but I still get the same problem. My 
thought was that it might be some small problem with the NIC port which 
Windows handles but not Linux.


Martin S


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Laptop Power Management and 2.6.24+

[Leo L. Schwab]

My apologies for the saga appearing below, but I'm starting to get
confused about where Debian is going vis a vis power management for laptops,
and hoped to beg some advice.

I currently have 'laptop-mode-tools', 'acpi-support', and
'hibernate' installed, which have served me well in the past.  I selected
them because:
- 'laptop-mode-tools' appears to be the best maintained tool for
  flipping in and out of power saving modes when the mains are
  unplugged;
- 'hibernate' has facilities for stopping and restarting services
  and unloading/reloading kernel modules that don't behave well.
  'acpi-support' recently grew something similar to this, but from
  reading the scripts, it looked like 'acpi-support' and 'hibernate'
  could have a fight over who does what, and it wasn't clear who
  would or should win.  So I stuck with 'hibernate';
- I don't, as a rule, use GNOME or KDE, and prefer all the little
  daemons running around to be universal and work no matter which
  window manager (*cough*WindowMaker*cough*) I happen to be using,
  including none at all.

Anyhoo, I recently grabbed 2.6.24 and compiled my own copy.  I
always grovel through almost the entire config space, and found this
somewhat imperious declaration for ACPI_PROC_EVENT:


  A user-space daemon, acpi, typically read /proc/acpi/event
  and handled all ACPI sub-system generated events.

  These events are now delivered to user-space via
  either the input layer, or as netlink events.

  This build option enables the old code for legacy
  user-space implementation.  After some time, this will
  be moved under CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS, and then deleted.

  Say Y here to retain the old behaviour.  Say N if your
  user-space is newer than kernel 2.6.23 (September 2007).


I keep my userspace pretty much pegged to 'unstable', which seems to
me to be newer than September 2007.  Yet when I turned on
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS, things started breaking.

'acpid' won't run at all, since /proc/acpi/event no longer exists.
Okay, fair enough, except that this causes 'laptop-mode-tools' to do
essentially nothing, since ACPI events are no longer generated to drive it,
and it doesn't appear to have grown support for the input layer or netlink
events.

After some Googling around, it seems there's a movement afoot to
have all power-related stuff go through dbus.  The only thing I've located
so far that handles this is 'gnome-power-manager', which seems to lack the
flexibility of 'acpi-support' and 'laptop-mode-tools', and it seems
(unconfirmed) to demand an X server be running.

I can turn CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS back on in the meantime, I suppose,
but I was wondering where things were headed with this.  Are there any
"generic" daemons out there using the new event facilities that serve as a
reasonable replacement for 'laptop-mode-tools' and/or 'acpi-support', and
which work without X running?

Thanks in advance.

Schwab


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Re: External IP

[Daniel Ngu]

On 2008-04-23, Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote:
>
>   I use "www.whatsmyip.org",

Thanks, tried the URL and it worked. ifconfig on the other hand showed
my internal IP rather.

Regards,

Daniel


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Re: Strange window problem

[Damon L. Chesser]

Frank McCormick wrote:

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Frank wrote:


For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up
seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with
no cursor inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I
use IceWm and unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out!
  
  

There is an xapp that you can run, then click on a screen (or x-app) and
it will tell you the source of the app.  That is the good news, the bad
news is I can't remember what it is:  perhaps xtrace?



  I think it's xwininfo you're thinking about - I'm waiting for this
mysterious window to re-appear. Too bad I don't know how to make it happen!


Thanks

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Re: Strange window problem

[Frank McCormick]

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"Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Frank wrote:
> > For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up
> > seemingly at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with
> > no cursor inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I
> > use IceWm and unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out!
> >   
> There is an xapp that you can run, then click on a screen (or x-app) and
> it will tell you the source of the app.  That is the good news, the bad
> news is I can't remember what it is:  perhaps xtrace?

  I think it's xwininfo you're thinking about - I'm waiting for this
mysterious window to re-appear. Too bad I don't know how to make it happen!


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Re: External IP

[Andrew Reid]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:39, Daniel Ngu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected
> to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.

  I use "www.whatsmyip.org",  I have NAT at home, and the
"far side" of my DSL modem is a private class-A address
(10.0.something.something), so it's useful to have a utility
that cuts through the crap.
  
  Of course, it does require that you have a working
web browser.  If you (or I) were clever, we'd probably
do some tricky tracert thing.

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Re: External IP

[Steve Witt]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Daniel Ngu wrote:


Hi,

How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected
to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.



How do you connect? Is your computer connected directly to your ISP 
connection? Assuming it is Linux box then:


  /sbin/ifconfig

will show the IP addresses assigned to your network interfaces.

If you are connecting through a router of some sort (like the Linksys, 
Netgear, etc) routers, then you'll have to connect to it and see what 
address it got.




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External IP

[Daniel Ngu]

Hi,

How do I find out what's the dynamic IP I get when connected
to my ISP? I'm not broadband BTW.

Thanks.

Regards,

Daniel


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Dave Sherohman]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800
> paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed
> > or my hard disk is really dying?
> 
> It could be either.  The command you typed effectively formatted the
> disk.

Minor correction...  Any command which directly writes to a disk's
device file and writes something other than a valid file system
effectively de-formats[1] the disk.  Re-formatting provides a usable (if
empty) filesystem.  De-formatting provides an unusable disk, at least
until it is re-formatted.


[1]  I would say "unformat", but that term has been widely used to mean
something other than "cause the disk to no longer be formatted".

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Re: Gnome workspaces?

[Depo Catcher]

Also, how do you make it 'reload' your windows and placement on login?

In KDE, if you logout and then log back in; it automatically brings up 
your windows and in the order and placements in which you had them.


Thanks!

Depo Catcher wrote:


How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces?





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Gnome workspaces?

[Depo Catcher]

How do you get more then 8 Gnome workspaces?


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu]

>Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition
>formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or
>similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions
>in fdisk.
i am happy if i could just that. i did fdisk about 10 times for now.
everytime
i do it. the same error scrolling across my screen after i hit the write
command in
fdisk.

Re: Strange window problem

[Damon L. Chesser]

Frank wrote:

For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly
at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor
inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and
unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out!

I'd appreciate any tips on tracking this thing down.

Frank

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There is an xapp that you can run, then click on a screen (or x-app) and
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news is I can't remember what it is:  perhaps xtrace?

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Re: Strange window problem

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> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200
> > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up
> > > try htop or pstree or many other similar tools
> >   As far as I can see neither show anything unususal,
> 
> If *really* you can identify all processes as shown by, say, htop in
> tree mode run by root, and you are sure than none of them gives the
> unusual window, then either your box has been hacked or you have found a
> big bug (in htop or the kernel), or the process is really run by another
> host and only connects to your X server (but then you should see the
> connection with netstat, either directly as tcp connection, or as a tcp
> ssh connection plus a unix socket). Also note that the xkill man page
> suggests at the end xwininfo

  I will have to wait now until I get the window back - I killed it and
rebooted earlier. I'm not sure what creates it so I'll have to wait.

But all your suggestions seem to be good ones



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Re: Burning Audio CD

[Daniel Ngu]

On 2008-04-22, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  To burn wav to cd:
>>
>>  wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav
>
> I've always added -audio -pad when I burn CD's from wav files. Or, I
> just burn them in k3b, which works. But of course you wanted a command
> line solution.
>
> Your media might not be rated for speeds of 1, which is quite slow.
> What you might try is to use a speed factor of 1/2 your CD burner's
> rated top speed (if it's like 24, use -speed 12). See if that helps.
>
>>  Daniel
>
>

Thanks David, will give that a try.

Daniel


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Re: removed root directory files

[Damon L. Chesser]

Abraham Chaffin wrote:

I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*"  I was root when I executed this command.
Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine 
and was really just a backup so nothing was lost.

Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless.

Thanks for your help and I'll be using "rm *" from now on.



On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Sharninder wrote:

A simple rm should not have removed user commands which are in
other directories. There must be something else wrong. In any
case if you really have lost the binaries there is not much
that you can do at this point.


One possible scenario is that something "clever" was done, like
aliasing "rm" to "rm -r".

But yes, if you managed to recursively delete your root directory
tree then a restore from backup / rebuild is on the cards.


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If it makes you feel better, I once needed to make a swap file, so I  
mkswap /  


It works!  It will make your / into swap.  Then as you close apps, you 
will not be able to open them back up, or call new ones.  Root!  Respect it.


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Re: xscreensaver

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:36:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd &
> pam-ldap).  Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver
> I get 
> 
> permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive
> 
> not sure where to look for this, xscreensaver seems to be the only app
> having problems
> 
> 
> I can 
> getent passwd alex
> getent passwd
> getent groups
> id
> id alex
> 
> but I have just realised I can't
> getent shadow 
> getent shadow alex
> 
> i see nothing,
> 
> but I can 
> sudo getent shadow 
> 
> I presume that is normal
> 
> 

I turned on xscreensaver verbose flag and found this

pam_conversation (...) ==> PAM_SUCCESS
xscreensaver: 06:43:16: pam_conversation (TEXT_INFO="Permissions on
the password database may be too restrictive.") .


this is in my common-auth

auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix2.so
auth required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
auth required pam_permit.so

I have added some debugging 

with 
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix2.so debug


and I have this in my logs now
Apr 23 06:54:58 hufpuf xscreensaver: pam_unix2(xscreensaver:auth):
pam_sm_authenticate() called
Apr 23 06:54:58 hufpuf xscreensaver: pam_unix2(xscreensaver:auth):
username=[alex]
Apr 23 06:54:59 hufpuf xscreensaver: pam_unix2(xscreensaver:auth): wrong
password, return PAM_AUTH_ERR
Apr 23 06:55:00 hufpuf xscreensaver: pam_unix2(xscreensaver:setcred):
pam_sm_setcred() called
Apr 23 06:55:00 hufpuf xscreensaver: pam_unix2(xscreensaver:setcred):
username=[alex]
Apr 23 06:55:00 hufpuf xscreensaver: pam_unix2(xscreensaver:setcred):
pam_sm_setcred: PAM_SUCCESS

Not sure who to report a bug against

Alex



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Re: removed root directory files

[Abraham Chaffin]

I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*"  I was root when I executed this command.
Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and
was really just a backup so nothing was lost.
Not sure what it deleted but it rendered the os useless.

Thanks for your help and I'll be using "rm *" from now on.



On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Sharninder wrote:
>
> > A simple rm should not have removed user commands which are in other
> > directories. There must be something else wrong. In any case if you really
> > have lost the binaries there is not much that you can do at this point.
> >
>
> One possible scenario is that something "clever" was done, like aliasing
> "rm" to "rm -r".
>
> But yes, if you managed to recursively delete your root directory tree
> then a restore from backup / rebuild is on the cards.
>
>
> George.
>
>
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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Mike Bird]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:17:08 paragasu wrote:
> After browsing through that hard disk. i know there is nothing i want there
> and i want to format
> it. And trying to experiment with command (i did mention it) i
> type %cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 (all local hard disk shown as /sda*, sdb*
> in my system)
> and suddenly any read  write to the disk produce error. if you want to see
> how the error look
> like i did attach the photos of the screen i took just few minutes ago.

So you ran "cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1" as root and you think that may have
something to do with the errors you're now seeing on "/dev/sda2"?

Since you've written that there's no information you need on those hard
drives, I suggest you start seriously testing all your hard drives and
determine exactly where the hardware problem is before trying to install
an O/S.  If you're absolutely certain that there's no data on the drives
then you can use fdisk on each drive and create a new partition table,
just in case insane partitition parameters are causing the errors.

Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition
formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or
similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions
in fdisk.

If you're having difficulty with Puppy Linux you might want to ask the
Puppy Linux people as Puppy Linux is not Debian based.  IIRC it's a unique
distro with a slightly Slack flavor.  This is a Debian list.

Good luck,

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Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hello,

I want to call a script after I plugged my USB scanner. I use udev for this by 
adding a rule

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/udev/rules.d$ cat z_local.rules
SYSFS{idVendor}=="1606", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0010", MODE="0664", 
GROUP="scanner", NAME="umax%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/umax1220u start", 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/udev/rules.d$

This calls then the umax1220u script:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin$ cat umax1220u
#!/bin/sh
set -vx
# example for a DEVICE: /proc/bus/usb/001/004

  echo umax1220u $DEVICE $* >> /tmp/usb.log
  export >> /tmp/usb.log
  ACTION=$1

#  if [ -z $DEVICE ]; then exit 0; fi

  case $ACTION in
  start)
  echo "UMAX 1220u scanner added"
  #DEV=umax1220u:libusb:`echo $DEVICE|cut -d / -f 5`:`echo $DEVICE|
cut -d / -f 6`
  DEV=`scanimage -L|cut -f 2 -d \\\`|cut -f1 -d \'`
  echo started: $DEV >> /tmp/usb.log
  # example for a DEV umax1220u:libusb:001:006
  (sleep 20 
&& /usr/bin/scanimage --lamp-off --device=$DEV --dont-scan) &
  ;;
  stop)
  echo "UMAX 1220u scanner removed"
  ;;
  esac
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin$

When I plug my scanner with this config, it seems an infinite number of 
umax1220u scripts are started in a sequence (i.e. not in parallel, when one 
is completed the next one starts).

Initial analysis shows that scanimage causes in syslog

Apr 22 22:07:48 blackbox kernel: ppdev0: registered pardevice
Apr 22 22:07:48 blackbox kernel: ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Apr 22 22:07:50 blackbox kernel: ppdev0: registered pardevice
Apr 22 22:07:50 blackbox kernel: ppdev0: unregistered pardevice

This might then kick off another umax1220u via udev (?). An this would then 
loop.

Does anybody know how I could get rid of this event?

Does anybody know a better way to get the script started which switches the 
scanner lamp off?

Thanks,
Rainer

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Re: Problems with SATA and Mondo

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:33:48PM +0200, Joan Carles Pineda wrote:
> installed the official debian package mondo 2.20-1.1 from 
> ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable
> I have the same problem with the 2 SATA disks (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb) and 
> I can't to access to them.
> I don't have any problem with PATA disc (/dev/hda).

can this be related with the open bug

Linkname: #380703 - mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an 
IDE. - Debian Bug report logs
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380703

or some other bug in the database?

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Re: Which backup package?

[Peter Teunissen]

On 22-apr-2008, at 1:17, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:

Greetings;

It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my  
systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just  
for backup & restore (Debian/lenny)


I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any  
suggestions, recommendations?




I'm in a similar situation and I'm very happy with my initial results  
using rdiff-backup. It's simple and efficient if you'll be making  
backups to disk. It can do push as well as pull backups and do ssh if  
needed. I'm setting it up to do daily incremental backups and will do  
complete backups form the 'current' rdiffbackup directory to tape. It  
might even work with rsync.net, haven't had the time to test that yet  
though.



Peter


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xscreensaver

[Alex Samad]

Hi

I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd &
pam-ldap).  Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver
I get 

permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive

not sure where to look for this, xscreensaver seems to be the only app
having problems


I can 
getent passwd alex
getent passwd
getent groups
id
id alex

but I have just realised I can't
getent shadow 
getent shadow alex

i see nothing,

but I can 
sudo getent shadow 

I presume that is normal



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Re: pdf plugin

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03:31PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in
> > there. it opens the new tab  but then starts a new window for xpdf
> > 
> > this is the relevant line
> > 
> > repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
> 
> Can you change it to:
> 
>   repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf "$file"
> 
> and see if that makes a difference?

big difference, it still created another window for xpdf, but this time
nothing was in that windows (xpdf did not show any text)


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Problems with SATA and Mondo

[Joan Carles Pineda]

Hello,
sorry for this post but I don't find any valid information to solve my 
problem.


I have installed a Debian Etch on an AMD64 computer.
The system has three hard disc: 1 PATA and 2 SATA.
With the 2 SATA disc I have build RAID 1 with "mdadm" and mounted LVM 
partitions on RAID 1 arrays.

The system runs very fine.
I want an efective system backup and I want to use Mondo Rescue. I have 
installed the official debian package mondo 2.20-1.1 from 
ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable


I generate the ISO image apparently well and after burn it to DVD.
I boot well from DVD until "boot:" prompt.
Here I choose "expert" and the system takes approximately 5 minutes to 
arrive to BusyBox Built-in shell promt. During this time the system try 
to access to hard discs (leds on) and in the display appears many 
messages like this:


ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0XBF2 bmdma 0xD400 irq 5
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0XB72 bmdma 0xD408 irq 5
scsi0: sata_nv
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0exec)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0exec)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0exec)
ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
scsi1: sata_nv
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xC000 irq 11
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xC008 irq 11
scsi2: sata_nv
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
irq5: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

When I arrive to the BusyBox Built-in shell promt and i try to execute 
commands like "fdisk -s /dev/sda" or like "sfdisk -d /dev/sda", the 
system ask "Unable to open /dev/sda/".
I have the same problem with the 2 SATA disks (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb) and 
I can't to access to them.

I don't have any problem with PATA disc (/dev/hda).

What can I do ?
Somebody has any idea ?

I thank any information.

Thanks a lot,
Joan Carles.

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Re: Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic

[NN_il_Confusionario]

> * From: "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link
> I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with 
> every program.

only the packages which execute ldconfig in they installation scripts
(so packages which contain a library)

> Anybody know how to fix this and get the symlinks back like they are supposed 
> to be?

since on my etch partition

   grep /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnutls13.list:/usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.13.0.9
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnutls13.list:/usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.13

on that partition I would reinstall the libgnutls13 package.

On my sarge partition,

   grep /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnutls11.list:/usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11.1.16
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnutls11.list:/usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11

so there the package would be libgnutls11.

Adapt the method to your case.


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Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> sudo update-initramfs -u

I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools
(I build my initrd, when it is needed, with yaird to avoid like a plague
putting udev in the initrd. Well, I also do not use sudo but one of its
many equivalents).

I hope that in the process you really learned something useful, since
from a pratical point of view simply disconnecting the ide cable from
hdb (when the pc is off) would have been the same as hdb=none, only much
faster ...

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Re: NC problem

[Damon L. Chesser]

Martin S wrote:
I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. 
Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection 
(no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I 
have another disk I swap with on assignments).

Anything I should try to get the install working?

Martin S


Do you mean the NIC is not seen while installing, or do you mean the NIC 
is not working after you have the system installed?


If the latter, what is the NIC?

lspci -v

will give you the listing of all the hardware the kernel knows about.  
If we know that, we can then find out what driver you may need.  What is 
the model of the laptop, someone else might have done the leg work all 
ready.  Google Fujitsu MODEL Linux.


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NC problem

[Martin S]

I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. 
Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no 
DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have 
another disk I swap with on assignments).

Anything I should try to get the install working?

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Re: Strange window problem

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:57:08 +0200
> NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up
> > try htop or pstree or many other similar tools
>   As far as I can see neither show anything unususal,

If *really* you can identify all processes as shown by, say, htop in
tree mode run by root, and you are sure than none of them gives the
unusual window, then either your box has been hacked or you have found a
big bug (in htop or the kernel), or the process is really run by another
host and only connects to your X server (but then you should see the
connection with netstat, either directly as tcp connection, or as a tcp
ssh connection plus a unix socket). Also note that the xkill man page
suggests at the end xwininfo

So I would double ckeck. Closing all not indispensable processes might
help, as also using tree mode (the window should be in the tree of
processes after the Xserver process, and the parent processes might give
an idea of which process spawned the window process. Unless the window
has been orphaned)

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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-04-22 18:13 +0200, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it.
>>  Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing.
>
> Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0
> bytes long.

That's because the shell opens the file with the O_TRUNC flag.  If you
try the same with a device file, nothing happens because O_TRUNC is
ignored then.  See open(2).

> I'm not going to test what it does to my hard drive, of
> course. ;-)

If you still have a floppy drive, you can test with that, this is what I
did.

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Re: preseed.cfg surprise

[Joey Hess]

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has  
> lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation.  
> Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual  
> installation choices made?  The instructions I followed are in the debian 
> installation manual for i386 computers.

The installation manual contains (and links to) an example preseed.cfg
file that you can copy, modify, and use. This is often a better approach
than generating one with debconf-get-selections, since the example file
is more minimal, omitting things like error messages, and also includes some
helpful comments.

You can clean up the preseed.cfg you generated if you prefer. If you
delete the answer to a question that is asked during the install, the
install won't be fully noninteractive. Deleting parts of the file
shouldn't lead to any other problems.

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Re: Sound Problems

[Gerard Hooton]

I made the suggested changes to the /etc/modprobe.d/sound
And every thing now works.
Thanks...


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On Tue, April 22, 2008 2:39 pm, Jasper wrote:
> Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:
>
>
>>
>> Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so
>> I can't unplug the USB camera
>> The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this:
>>
>>
>> ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0
>>
>>
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0
>
> alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1
>
> I am not at all sure here.
>
>
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Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

[Jonathan Kaye]

NN_il_Confusionario wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>> >> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro
>> >> hdb=noprobe
>> I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot up
>> routine paid absolutely no attention. The same problem persists. Is there
>> any other place I could tell the bootup routine to ignore hdb?
> 

> See also
> 
>Linkname: Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: ide0=noprobe, hda=noprobe, hda=none
>ignored?
> URL:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/1645.html
> 
Hi NN,
Again, thanks so much for your patience and knowledge. I'm learning a lot
this way.

The above link you sent seems to be exactly what I need! I've followed the
steps.
1) check if you have ide_core loaded as module:
Yes, I do.
 lsmod | grep ide_core
ide_core  108292  4 ide_cd,ide_disk,via82cxxx,generic
2) Check if you have an initrd in /boot:
Yes, I do.
ls /boot/initrd*`uname -r`
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
3) Check if you use /etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/modprobe.d
I use /etc/modprobe.d
ls -ld /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-19 09:07 /etc/modprobe.d

4) So if I understand things correctly, to stop my system from probing hdb I
should execute the following command:
echo 'options ide_core options="hdb=noprobe"' >/etc/modprobe.d/noprobe
 
This will create a file, noprobe in my /etc/modprobe.d folder.

Then I execute
sudo update-initramfs -u

5) I'll skip this step

After that I just reboot and as they say "enjoy the no probing".
6) reboot

Does all this seem correct?
Thanks again.
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Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I'm trying to install the atheros drivers onto a desktop machine, and 
I've been told the version in stable has a bug in it.

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:32 +0100, James Allsopp wrote:


> Hi,
> I'm trying to build the following packages:
> madwifi-source_1%3a0.9.2+r1842.20061207-2etch2_all.deb
> madwifi-tools_1%3a0.9.2+dfsg-1_i386.deb



   That's very old.  The current version of MadWifi is 0.9.4.




> CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath/if_ath.o
> In file included from :1:
> /usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath/../include/compat.h:60:1: error: "__packed" 
> redefined



   This is fixed in version 0.9.4.

I've tried using apt-get -t testing install madwifi-tools (or something 
like that, I'm not actually at that computer at the moment) and it tells 
me that I've already got the latest package.I've tried this also with 
unstable.


I've tried following the manual install instructions but these don't 
work and one branch of the instructions tells me I need kernel sources 
install, but when I try apt-get install kernel-source it can't find the 
package.

If anyone's got any advice I would be very grateful.
Jim


n Wednesday 09 April 2008 17:44:49 James Allsopp wrote:


> Hi,
> Just been following the instructions to install the madwifi driver, but
> it doesn't compile on the final step. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> I'm very new to debian, but experienced with Linux. If anyone needs more
> information, please ask!
>
> I've tried modprobing the ath_pci driver after this, on the chance that
> it's been built, but it hadn't. It's a clean install, so there shouldn't
> be any major cruft on the system.
>
> Details below,
> Thanks Jim
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install madwifi-source # apt-get install madwifi-tools
> # m-a prepare
> # m-a a-i madwifi
>
> mexican:~# cat  /var/cache/modass/madwifi-source*buildlog*
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean
> /usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/madwifi clean \
>KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/build
> KERNELRELEASE=2.6.21-2-686
> KERNELCONF=/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/build/.config ATH_RATE=ath_rate/sample
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
> for i in ./ath ./ath_hal ath_rate/sample ./net80211; do \
>/usr/bin/make -C $i clean; \
>done
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c .*.cmd
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c uudecode .*.cmd
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_rate/sample'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_rate/sample'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/net80211'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/net80211'
> /usr/bin/make -C ./tools  clean
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/tools'
> rm -f athstats 80211stats athkey athchans athctrl athdebug 80211debug
> wlanconfig core a.out
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/tools'
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> rm -f *.symvers svnversion.h
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
> /usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules kdist_clean kdist_config binary-modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean
> /usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/madwifi clean \
>KERNELPATH=/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/build
> KERNELRELEASE=2.6.21-2-686
> KERNELCONF=/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/build/.config ATH_RATE=ath_rate/sample
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
> for i in ./ath ./ath_hal ath_rate/sample ./net80211; do \
>/usr/bin/make -C $i clean; \
>done
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c .*.cmd
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c uudecode .*.cmd
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_rate/sample'
> rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
> rm -f .depend .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
> rm -rf .tmp_versions
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_rate/sample'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/net80211'
> rm -f *~

Re: Aptitude Abnormality

[Jack Schneider]

Thanks, for the reply.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:34:05 +0200 (CEST)
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jack Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 
> >  Minor problem... I thinks 8-)
> >  Just noted an error/warning during an install, as follows:
> >"database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load"
> >  Install completed OK.
> > 
> >  My Sys_Info: Debian "Lenny"
> >  Linux Speeduke 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008
> >  x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > 
> >  What does it mean?  Besides the obvious..-- 
> 
> It looks like a non-fatal warning from apt-listchanges.
> 
> >  Is it serious? 
> 
> What's apt-listchanges do when you install something, or does this
> happen on every install?
> 

Yes,this seems to happen on every install
> >  How do I fix? 
> >  What's needed?
> 
> Can't help there, sorry.  Does /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db exist?
> 
> 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ du -h  /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db
12K /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db

So the file seems to be there...

What next coach?
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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Mike Bird]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:32:38 paragasu wrote:
> i don't know what technical explanation behind this but i just found out,
> my hard disk  die after i run this command.  the hard disk cannot be
> recognized
> by udev (i am using sysresccd) and the hard disk produce error media error,
> IO error, and many cryptic character i don't really like to see.

Hard disks don't produce characters, cryptic or otherwise.  What command
did you run that produced cryptic characters from your hard disk?

First you said you did "/dev/null >/dev/sdb1".  Then you said that you
did "$cat /dev/null >/dev/sdb1".  Unless you've seriously messed with
permissions or made yourself a member of the disk group then neither of
these would have any effect.

You want to tell us now that you did "#cat /dev/null >/dev/sdb1"?

You want to tell us why?

You want to tell us what state your drive was in before you did this?

You want to tell us why what /dev/sda is and what /dev/sdb is and
the content of your /etc/fstab?

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Re: Howto for ADempiere ERP under Debian Etch released

[Henry Gunter]

I would be very interested in an English translation.
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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu]

Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0

> bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does to my hard drive, of
> course. ;-)
>

i don't know what technical explanation behind this but i just found out,
my hard disk  die after i run this command.  the hard disk cannot be
recognized
by udev (i am using sysresccd) and the hard disk produce error media error,
IO error, and many cryptic character i don't really like to see.

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Bob McGowan]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it.
 Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing.


Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0
bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does to my hard drive, of
course. ;-)

- Jordi G. H.




The issue is not with cat or /dev/null, it's what the shell does when it 
sees '>':  open the file, for writing, start at offset 0 (or, truncate 
the file).


The null device is defined as something that, when read, will 
immediately return an EOF condition, so nothing is read.  So, with a cat 
of the null device, nothing read, nothing written.


But, the system has opened the destination "file", in this case a 
device, and done whatever the device driver is coded to do for this case.


I expect, to be able to get the disk back into a usable state, you will 
need to find a low level formatting tool and rebuild it from scratch.


I have Maxtor IDE drives and Maxtor makes (or made, I got this some time 
ago) a DOS based utility to do low level formats.  Your disk vendor 
probably has something similar available.


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Re: 1024 cylinder limit.

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard.
> during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of
> diskspace
> regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard.
> It this limit also true in debian?

Linux does not use the BIOS to access the disks, so it can use the
full capacity of the disk. However, it might be necessary for the boot
partition to be in the first 2GB of the disk.


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 22/04/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it.
>  Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing.

Hm at least catting /dev/null to a full file makes the file now be 0
bytes long. I'm not going to test what it does to my hard drive, of
course. ;-)

- Jordi G. H.


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Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic link

[Dennis G. Wicks]

Greetings;

Well, locales is installed and working, I guess. Now I 
am getting screens full of messages like


	> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a 
symbolic link


I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to 
repeat, but not with every program.


Anybody know how to fix this and get the symlinks back 
like they are supposed to be?


TIA again!
Dennis


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Re: Strange window problem

[Frank McCormick]

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> >For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up
> 
> try htop or pstree or many other similar tools


  As far as I can see neither show anything unususal, How can I find out
what process owns the window ?



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1024 cylinder limit.

[paragasu]

i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard.
during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of
diskspace
regardless of disk size (eg: 20GB) i attach to the motherboard.
It this limit also true in debian?

Re: Strange window problem

[NN_il_Confusionario]

> * From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up

try htop or pstree or many other similar tools


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emacspeak with erc on debian

[lenny]

I am trying to get emacspeak work together with erc. I want all
the incoming messages to be spoken out, but can't get it working.
Google shows me that this is a debian specific thing, but the
solutions I found for it did not work so far.

I am trying this on a Debian sid system, but do use lenny and etch
also.

Thanks for any help


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Re: Which backup package?

[Brian McKee]

On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:


It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my  
systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just  
for backup & restore (Debian/lenny)


I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any  
suggestions, recommendations?




If they are all linux boxes, and you aren't hung up on backing up to  
tape,  I like rsnapshot 


It uses just perl, rsync and hard links.  Works well for small setups  
because the backups aren't munged or filed or tar'd up - restore is  
just a matter of moving files back.   Backing up to disk makes for  
easy access, and you can back that up to an external drive or over  
the internet for offsite copies.


That in combination with mondorescue (mentioned elsewhere in this  
thread) for bare metal recovery has served me well.  (lots of lightly  
used linux desktops in various locations)


Doesn't work with Windows or Mac very well though...

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Re: badblock can not be detected

[Brian McKee]

On 22-Apr-08, at 6:06 AM, Adrian Levi wrote:

On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

Oh dear, that's quite a bad news.
 that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard  
drive reset, and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I  
reformatted the hard drive, then copy my data in again, it worked.  
but after some days, it starts to tell me about read error again.

 so, this means the hard drive has died, right?


Install smartmontools and interrogate the smart data on the drive, if
it reports a reallocated sector count and it keeps growing you know
your drive is on it's way out. A static reallocated sector count
doesn't necessarily mean your drive is bad but if that count keeps
growing it's not a good sign.


Note that I don't believe smartmontools will work thru the USB  
interface - you'll have to use the native SATA or ATA interface (e.g.  
install it in a tower)


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Strange window problem

[Frank]

For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly
at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor
inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and
unless I kill it before logging out I can't log out!

I'd appreciate any tips on tracking this thing down.

Frank

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Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

[Brian McKee]

On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad:

so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the
emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I
would then like to press  and have the text  
replaced by

[snip]

[snippage]

map  di[snip]

[snippage]

You make a selection in vim, i.e. press Shift+v, then go down a few
lines, and then press the shortcut, which will delete the selection  
(d),
go into insert mode (i) and put in your text and then leave insert  
mode

again ().

[snippage]

You'll have to play around a bit to see how you want things when you
don't select full lines.


Wouldn't 'c' be better than 'di' ?

Brian



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Re: is it possible to have clamd go to 90% of cpu ???

[George Borisov]

Michael Habashy wrote:

how do you switch to the volatile version /


1 - Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main 
contrib non-free


2 - Import the archive signing key:

http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc

3 - edit the /etc/apt/preferences file to include:

Package: *
Pin: release a=etch
Pin-Priority: 1001

4 - aptitude update

5 - Install/upgrade packages as normal

That should be it.


HTH,

George.


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-04-22 16:05 +0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>   thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test
>>
>> >   ls -lha /tmp/test
>> >
>> >  Perhaps an EOF was written
>>
>> opps.. a correction.
>> what i did was $cat  /dev/null >  /dev/sdb1
>> i forgot to include the cat command :(
>
> Then you zeroed the disk. As others said, hope you have a backup.

No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it.
Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing.

Sven


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-04-22 15:45 +0200, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800
> paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed
>> or my hard disk is really dying?
>
> It could be either.  The command you typed effectively formatted the
> disk.

I don't think so.

> /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux equivalent of a black
> hole.  If you send the output of /dev/null to a file (which is exactly
> what you have done) with a single chevron (>), it will overwrite
> anything that exists in that file (in this case the entire contents of
> your disk).

Only true for an ordinary file and because it's the shell that truncates
the file before the redirection.  Since you cannot read anything from
/dev/null, catting it to device files is harmless.  It's a different
story with /dev/zero instead of /dev/null ...

>  If you use a double chevron (>>) you will append the
> contents of /dev/null to the end of the file (in this case, your disk).

But because you append nothing, that's actually a no-op.

Sven


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test
>
> >   ls -lha /tmp/test
> >
> >  Perhaps an EOF was written
>
> opps.. a correction.
> what i did was $cat  /dev/null >  /dev/sdb1
> i forgot to include the cat command :(

Then you zeroed the disk. As others said, hope you have a backup.


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[George Borisov]

paragasu wrote:

opps.. a correction.
what i did was $cat  /dev/null >  /dev/sdb1
i forgot to include the cat command :(


I think that would also result in an EOF being written to the target file.


George.


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[George Borisov]

paragasu wrote:

well, i am sorry if this question look so stupid. but yes, i mean it.
but i don't mind if you laugh or think it is a joke anyway


Sorry but I assumed that if you knew about /dev/null and the use of ">" 
that you would also expect to break something if you redirected stuff 
directly to the disk device.


So I thought you were having a boring day at work and decided to crack a 
joke. ;-)



George.


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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu]

  thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test

>   ls -lha /tmp/test
>
>  Perhaps an EOF was written


opps.. a correction.
what i did was $cat  /dev/null >  /dev/sdb1
i forgot to include the cat command :(

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu]

> It could be either.  The command you typed effectively formatted the
> disk.
>
> /dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux equivalent of a black
> hole.  If you send the output of /dev/null to a file (which is exactly
> what you have done) with a single chevron (>), it will overwrite
> anything that exists in that file (in this case the entire contents of
> your disk).  If you use a double chevron (>>) you will append the
> contents of /dev/null to the end of the file (in this case, your disk).
>
> All I can say is "I hope you took a backup..."
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Matt
>

well, is that so simple to format the hardisk? format is ok as long as it
doesn't render
my hard disk useless.

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Nelson Castillo]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer.
>  > one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and  /dev/sdb2(SWAP)
>  > i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently,
>  > i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my
>  >  computer few times. i have message saying media failure or disk I/O error.
>
>  What exactly did you run?
>
>  /dev/null is not executable, so you cannot run it and redirect the
>  output somewhere else.

The problem is that the file is opened before the commands are executed.
Try:

  thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test
  ls -lha /tmp/test

  Perhaps an EOF was written?

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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800
paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed
> or my hard disk is really dying?

It could be either.  The command you typed effectively formatted the
disk.

/dev/null contains no data. It is the Linux equivalent of a black
hole.  If you send the output of /dev/null to a file (which is exactly
what you have done) with a single chevron (>), it will overwrite
anything that exists in that file (in this case the entire contents of
your disk).  If you use a double chevron (>>) you will append the
contents of /dev/null to the end of the file (in this case, your disk).

All I can say is "I hope you took a backup..."

Kind regards,

Matt
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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu]

Is this a serious question?

> George.


well, i am sorry if this question look so stupid. but yes, i mean it.
but i don't mind if you laugh or think it is a joke anyway

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer.
> one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and  /dev/sdb2(SWAP)
> i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently,
> i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my
>  computer few times. i have message saying media failure or disk I/O error.

What exactly did you run?

/dev/null is not executable, so you cannot run it and redirect the
output somewhere else.


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Re: Burning Audio CD

[David Fox]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  To burn wav to cd:
>
>  wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav

I've always added -audio -pad when I burn CD's from wav files. Or, I
just burn them in k3b, which works. But of course you wanted a command
line solution.

Your media might not be rated for speeds of 1, which is quite slow.
What you might try is to use a speed factor of 1/2 your CD burner's
rated top speed (if it's like 24, use -speed 12). See if that helps.

>  Daniel


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Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

[Cybe R. Wizard]

"Alexandru Popa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  said:
> It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for
> debconf

configure-debian

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Re: Sound Problems

[Jasper]

Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:

> 
> Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so
> I can't unplug the USB camera 
> The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this:
> 
> ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound
> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> options snd-via82xx index=0
> 
> 

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-via82xx index=0

alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1
  
I am not at all sure here.

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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[George Borisov]

paragasu wrote:

well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer.
one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and  /dev/sdb2(SWAP)
i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently,
i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my
computer few times. i have message saying media failure or disk I/O error.

now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed or
my hard disk is really dying?


Is this a serious question?


George.


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/dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu]

well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer.
one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and  /dev/sdb2(SWAP)
i run the command /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 and suddently,
i cannot cannot read or mount my /dev/sdb1 anymore even after i restart my
computer few times. i have message saying media failure or disk I/O error.

now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed or
my hard disk is really dying?

Re: locale problems

[Dennis G. Wicks]

s. keeling wrote the following on 04/21/2008 08:29 PM:

Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

 I keep getting these message while running aptitude.
 Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't 
 find anything.



perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").


This a FAQ.  As root:

  dpkg-reconfigure locales

Enable whatever you expect to use.  Google "locale perl
site:lists.debian.org" might help (but I didn't look too closely).


Thanks, but as usual, it isn't that easy! "locales" is 
broken, can't install, remove or purge it. Dependencies 
that are virtual packages, and a bunch of other sh.. 
but now that I know what the desired action is I'll 
keep banging away at it until I can do it.



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Burning Audio CD

[Daniel Ngu]

Hi,

I need advice on burning audio cd using command line.
Here's what I use:

To rip cd to wav:

icedax dev=/dev/hdd -vall cddb=0 -B -Owav

To burn wav to cd:

wodim dev=/dev/hdd speed=1 -v -dao -useinfo -text *.wav

However, the issue I'm having is that for the burned audio CD,
I always noticed that some of the tracks have a couple of odd
random static noise among them if not worst. What is the cause
of these issues?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: Sound Problems

[Gerard Hooton]

Right now I don't have physical access to the machine so
I can't unplug the USB camera 
The /etc/modprobe.d/sound look like this:

ed:~# more /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-via82xx index=0
ed:~#


On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:03 +, Jasper wrote:
> Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:
> 
> > 
> > before running alsaconf:
> > ==
> > ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
> >  0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera
> >   Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at
> > usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed
> > ===
> > 
> > After running alsaconf:
> > 
> > ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
> >  0 [V8237  ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
> >   VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0xee00, irq 22
> 
> To me it seems the usb-camera is in the way.
> Do you have the same problem if you boot without the camera plugged in?
> There are ways to give all 'cards' a fixed order, whether they are plugged in 
> or
> not. Afaik it is done in /etc/modprobe.d/sound .
> 
> --Jasper.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Sound Problems

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:13 +0100, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot?
> After booting the system I have  no sound, I the run alsaconf
> and everything works.
> 
> //Ger
> 

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/03/msg02378.html

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Re: Sound Problems

[Jasper]

Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:

> 
> before running alsaconf:
> ==
> ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera
>   Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at
> usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed
> ===
> 
> After running alsaconf:
> 
> ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [V8237  ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
>   VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0xee00, irq 22

To me it seems the usb-camera is in the way.
Do you have the same problem if you boot without the camera plugged in?
There are ways to give all 'cards' a fixed order, whether they are plugged in or
not. Afaik it is done in /etc/modprobe.d/sound .

--Jasper.



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Re: Sound Problems

[Gerard Hooton]

before running alsaconf:
==
ed:~# fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio )
ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Camera ]: USB-Audio - Logitech EyeToy USB Camera
  Sony Corporation Logitech EyeToy USB Camera at
usb-:00:10.1-2, full speed
ed:~# lsmod | grep snd
snd_via82xx34600  0 
gameport   20496  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec118616  1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus6912  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_mpu401_uart13568  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_dummy   8580  0 
snd_usb_audio  97440  0 
snd_pcm_oss47392  0 
snd_mixer_oss  21760  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss38272  0 
snd_pcm87688  4
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 15760  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_usb_lib22656  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_midi   13376  0 
snd_seq_midi_event 12544  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq59392  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi30752  3 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer  29064  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 13076  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep  14856  1 snd_usb_audio
snd68040  15
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_dummy,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_pcm,snd_usb_lib,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
soundcore  13216  1 snd


===


After running alsaconf:


ed:~# alsaconf
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec
snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-dummy snd-usb-audio snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-oss snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-usb-lib snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd-seq-device
snd-hwdep.
Building card database...


Loading driver...
Setting default volumes...


===

 Now ALSA is ready to use.
 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

 Have a lot of fun!
ed:~# 
ed:~# fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio )
ed:~# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [V8237  ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
  VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0xee00, irq 22
ed:~# lsmod | grep snd
snd_via82xx34600  0 
gameport   20496  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec118616  1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus6912  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss47392  0 
snd_mixer_oss  21760  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm87688  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 15760  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart13568  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_dummy   8580  0 
snd_seq_oss38272  0 
snd_seq_midi   13376  0 
snd_rawmidi30752  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 12544  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq59392  6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer  29064  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 13076  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd68040  12
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore  13216  1 snd












On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:35 +, Jasper wrote:
> Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:
> 
> > 
> >  fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) 
> > This returns nothing.
> > 
> > //Ger
> > 
> reasoning backwards, I would try ( before running alsaconf ):
> 
> $( find /dev -group audio )
> 
> to see if the sounddevices are created
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards
> 
> to see if your card is recognised
> 
> lsmod | grep snd
> 
> to see if the module is loaded ( assuming it is not compiled-in )
> 
> --Jasper.
> 
> 
> 
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Enterprise Centre,
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Cork.

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Re: Sound Problems

[Jasper]

Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:

> 
>  fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) 
> This returns nothing.
> 
> //Ger
> 
reasoning backwards, I would try ( before running alsaconf ):

$( find /dev -group audio )

to see if the sounddevices are created

cat /proc/asound/cards

to see if your card is recognised

lsmod | grep snd

to see if the module is loaded ( assuming it is not compiled-in )

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Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

[Robert Walter]

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> debconf severity selected) and lists them, eventually with some tips
> about what this pachage is about. If one selects a package from the list
> and presses "Reconfigure", the tool lanches dpkg-reconfigure with the
> selected pachage in a regular way.
>  

configure-debian do this task quite well. It just lacks some further
information about the packages.

> I think this tool is easy to implement and increase drastically the
> popularity of the Debian operating system.
>  

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Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:16:35AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> >> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe
> I tried both hdb=noprobe and hdb=none but the boot up
> routine paid absolutely no attention. The same problem persists. Is there
> any other place I could tell the bootup routine to ignore hdb?

Besides the already proposed /etc/fstab (but you said that you already
checked), you could furter develop Ron Johnson's suggestion by manually
check the scripts in /etc/init.d/ (or even everything started by
/etc/inittab )

The fact that you error message explicilty uses hdb1 suggests for a 

grep -r hdb1 /etc/
grep -r hdb /etc/
grep -r hd /etc/init.d/
grep -r partitions /etc/init.d/ # is someting parsing /proc/partitions ?
grep -r fdisk /etc/init.d/ # is someting parsing fdisk -l ?
less /etc/rc.local

and so on (for example, one possibility is the hdparm script. Other
possibilities incude scripts for lvm, cryptsetup, software raid, ...)

Also, the surrounding messages (after and before the hdb1 error messages)
can help to understand at which point of the boot process the error happens, 
and so to undertsnd which files you need to change

Returning to the hdb=noprobe and hdb=none options for the kernel: they
do their job when the ide support is builtin in the kernel. But if such
a support is modular (and then loaded by the initrd, since you say that
root=/dev/hda1) then you should pass these options not to the kernel,
but to the modprobe / insmod command which, inside the initrd, loads the
ide module (and in particolar, you should rebuild the initrd). As
suggested by the link, Documentation/ide.txt (and
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) inside kernel sources (or debian
pakages for linux-doc-2.6.*) has more details (in this momen I am not
able to surely locate the name of the module, but I suspect ide-core).

See also

   Linkname: Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: ide0=noprobe, hda=noprobe, hda=none 
ignored?
URL: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/1645.html

found with

 hdb=none - Google Search
 http://www.google.com/search?q=hdb%3Dnone&num=100

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Re: is it possible to have clamd go to 90% of cpu ???

[Michael Habashy]

how do you switch to the volatile version /
thanks
mjh

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Gilles Mocellin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Monday 21 April 2008 19:54:16 Hose, vous avez écrit :
>
>
> > On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Michael Habashy wrote:
>  > > I am running clamd for the first time.
>  > > I see that in top the number of cpu % is very high for clamd.
>  > > Is this normal ?
>  > > thanks
>  > > mjh
>  >
>  > When it first starts up and loads the virus sigs, I've seen it go over
>  > 90% almost the all the time.
>  >
>  > hose
>
>  I have switched to the volatile version (0.92) to solve that problem.
>

RE: bits/news from the users of Debian?

[Alexandru Popa]

Hello,

After I read this
post
I decided to share one idea with you. It seems to be related to *debconf*.

The Debian operating system is known for lack of nice-looking all-in-one
configuration tool. Instead, it has the best existing package-level debconf.
All you need is to type:

*# dpkg-reconfigure *

This helps in majority of cases. But it isn't efficient if you are a Debian
newbee or doesn't know the packege name you want to reconfigure. The
solution:

*# dpkg-reconfigure -a*

isn't efficient for these cases.

It would be nice to write a simple text/gui based front-end for debconf that
scans all installed and configurable pachages (taking track on the debconf
severity selected) and lists them, eventually with some tips about what this
pachage is about. If one selects a package from the list and presses
"Reconfigure", the tool lanches dpkg-reconfigure with the selected pachage
in a regular way.

I think this tool is easy to implement and increase drastically the
popularity of the Debian operating system.

Best regards,
Alexandru

Re: Sound Problems

[Gerard Hooton]

 fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio ) 
This returns nothing.

//Ger




On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:20 +, Jasper wrote:
> fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio )
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Re: Sound Problems

[Jasper]

Gerard Hooton  ucc.ie> writes:

> 
> Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot?
> After booting the system I have  no sound, I the run alsaconf
> and everything works.
> 
>
> >  fuser -v $( find /dev -group audio )
>
run this command in a terminal before you run alsaconf and post its output.

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Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

[Jochen Schulz]

Jonathan Kaye:
> 
> Thanks for the link. Just to be sure I understand, in my /boot/grub/menu.lst
> file I have this:
> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> I should change this line to
> kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe
> 
> Is this the correct place for the boot option?

Generally yes, but when using packaged kernels you should edit the line
beginning with '# kopt' (yes, it's commented out) and run 'update-grub'
afterwards. That way all boot entries are generated automatically with
all the options you defined.

J.
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Re: preseed.cfg surprise

[Ron Johnson]

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On 04/22/08 05:25, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has
> lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation.
> Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual
> installation choices made?  The instructions I followed are in the
> debian installation manual for i386 computers.

What the heck is preseed.cfg?

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