problem: SATA performance drop down
Hi all, It's a Tyan S2925 with single AMDx2 4800+, 4xWD2500YS, 4x1G DDR2 box. Running etch 2.6.18-4-amd64, soft raid5 and soft raid 1. It's serving web request for static files and nfs export its storage to other boxes. One day its performance dropped down suddenly and loadavg was going up to 200~400. I used hddtemp to check the temperature. sda sdb is normal and hddtemp returned immediately but when hddtemp was checking it stalled for 3-5 seconds and reported they don't seem to have a sensor. -___-b I also found the following log Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: ata3: soft resetting port Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: ata3: EH complete Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: SCSI device sdc: 490232639 512-byte hdwr sectors (250999 MB) Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Jul 3 15:00:22 jupiter kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: ata4: soft resetting port Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: ata4: EH complete Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: SCSI device sdd: 490232639 512-byte hdwr sectors (250999 MB) Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Jul 3 15:00:23 jupiter kernel: SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back the time matches so I think hddtemp triggered this. And there are some more logs: Jul 3 15:12:22 jupiter kernel: ata3.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100 Jul 3 15:12:28 jupiter kernel: ata3: soft resetting port Jul 3 15:12:29 jupiter kernel: ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Jul 3 15:12:29 jupiter kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Jul 3 15:12:29 jupiter kernel: ata3: EH complete Jul 3 15:12:29 jupiter kernel: SCSI device sdc: 490232639 512-byte hdwr sectors (250999 MB) Jul 3 15:12:29 jupiter kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Jul 3 15:12:29 jupiter kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back I googled for this and found there is an updated firmware for WDYS series. So I upgrade all hd firmware, flash the bios of motherboard. After cold boot, the situation stills, here is the hdparm output: jupiter:~# hdparm -t /dev/sd[a-d] /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 3.17 seconds = 5.05 MB/sec /dev/sdb: Timing buffered disk reads: 56 MB in 3.07 seconds = 18.24 MB/sec /dev/sdc: Timing buffered disk reads: 34 MB in 3.19 seconds = 10.65 MB/sec /dev/sdd: Timing buffered disk reads: 54 MB in 3.21 seconds = 16.83 MB/sec Crying could any one help? any hints? jupiter:~# lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a3) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) 00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2) 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3) 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI - Xabre Graphics Inc Volari Z7 # dmesg Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/md1 ro ) Linux version 2.6.18-4-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Fri May 4 00:37:33 UTC 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000e - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - d7fd (usable) BIOS-e820: d7fd - d7fde000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: d7fde000 - d80
Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues
Mike Robinson wrote: > My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've > recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an > AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install > the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so well, so I > tried to back it out...but I'm still seeing messages for it during boot > time. > > But first things first...here's the first error message I see during boot: > > kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST, don't try to register things > with the same name in the same directory. > [] kobject_add+0x146/0x16c > [] class_device_add+0x9d/0x3b2 > [] kobject_get+0xf/0x13 > [] class_device_create+0x79/0x99 > [] oss_init+0xac/0x12a [sound] > [] sys_init_module+0x1732/0x18b5 > [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > > > Here's a link to my entire dmesg output: > >http://robinsonhome.org/dmesg.txt > > I'm new to kernel upgrades so any ideas explaining the error messages is > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks for the help, > Mike Hi Mike, FWIW, I have the same chip, AMD64 Athlon 3200+. I use the K8 kernel image when running a 64bit kernel but I have always used a 686 kernel image for 32 bit so I use 2.6.18-4-686 and not 2.6.18-4-k7. The description of the K7 kernel is: "2.6.18 on 32bit AMD Duron/Athlon/AthlonXP machines." but you are using a 64bit chip (albeit in 32bit mode). Maybe trying the 2.6.18-4-686 linux-image package will solve your problems. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not change Screen Resolution
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:05:19PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > Hi, > I was using 1280x768. But after a reboot, my scrren > changed to 640x480. Then, I went to Desktop | > preference | Screen Resolution and tried to change the > resolution back. But the drop down box did not work. > The entry just stayed blue and did not show the rest > of selections for the screen resolution. I was not > able to change it back. > Any idea? How about sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and ensuring that the resolution(s) you desired are checked in the debconf configs? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new > trick, the "why/why-not" command: > > $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins > i kde-extras Recommends digikam > p digikamConflicts digikamimageplugins > > This is really useful to figure out what is going on with complicated > dependency issues. It is currently only available to Sid users, though > (aptitude version 0.4.5.3 or higher). You should also be able to get this info from the install Y/n prompt by typing "w ". The resolver prompt doesn't have this feature yet because it should probably produce slightly different information. You can thank this list for the feature, I got the idea when I noticed that something like 99% of the questions people have about apt(itude) are of the form "WTF is this package being installed/removed/not installed?" Because of how complicated the dependency tree is, it can be hard to "see" what's happening, but the algorithm you need to compute the answer is pretty trivial. [0] Daniel [0] I'm lying, this is only true if you want the sort of answer "why" produces, but those answers are REALLY EASY to calculate!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?
hi, gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i currently manage from amarok (1.4.6). everything is fine except that, with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up about 20 percent of my music collection. When i put the ipod on 'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the least. i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music but audiobooks (whatever that really means). does anyone know how to do this? if it can be done from amarok that's great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required. thanks very much, as always! matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:34:16PM -0400, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > >>When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove > >>these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off > >>upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer > >>versions of packages): > >>dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1] > >>libssp0 > > > > Looks to me like dbus-1-utils has been folded into the dbus package. > >libssp0 is only available in experimental -- it's been removed from > >stable and testing. Probably it's obsolete and not needed any more? > > > > Daniel > > > > > > Thanks everyone. I have proceeded with upgrading dbus. Hopefully nothing > will go amiss (main concerns are auto-mounting removable devices). I should add that my conclusions regarding dbus-1-utils are based on the fact that dbus conflicts/provides/replaces it, which means that it's the upgrade path for dbus-1-utils. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing SMIL File
On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:38, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia > > format I think. > > Have you tried xine? Do you have the win32 codecs installed? > > Also, please don't hijack threads. > > Regards, > > -Roberto Yes I have those installed. I am going to try Helix-player when I get a chance. I was warned about "thread jacking" already. I never knew what it was until then. It was not intentional. Thank you, Sam
Re: Playing SMIL File
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia > format I think. > Have you tried xine? Do you have the win32 codecs installed? Also, please don't hijack threads. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: after a reboot it's gone! was Re: installing a font for VT
excuse me for posting too much as someone said it was simply /etc/console-tool/config that i should have edited thanx --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i thought i got it but > when i go back with re-boot > it's gone... > > --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thanx to those who replyed! > > don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some > > reply > > when searching the www > > > > did a: > > consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz > > and now my VT looks a bit cool > > tested a lot of those in > > /usr/share/consolefonts > > but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one > > > 2g--- > http://micro.ispretty.com > > -- > Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar > http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2g--- http://micro.ispretty.com -- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
after a reboot it's gone! was Re: installing a font for VT
i thought i got it but when i go back with re-boot it's gone... --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanx to those who replyed! > don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some > reply > when searching the www > > did a: > consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz > and now my VT looks a bit cool > tested a lot of those in > /usr/share/consolefonts > but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one 2g--- http://micro.ispretty.com -- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?
To verify data on your dvd you can also use star and readcd: http://www.linuxconfig.org/Create_and_burn_ISO_images_with_mkisofs_%26_cdrecord#Verify_data hope this helps On 7/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to do > may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn my > data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content into a hard > disk I got I/O errors and some directories could not be copied. > > The problem disappeared when I changed the DVD with a brand new one, but now I > feel not sure: how can I know when my actual backup DVD should in case be > damaged as well? Is there any tool for that? > Look at cdck. The procedure I use is to verify the burn (I happen to use K3B which has a verify option) which calculates the md5sum of the image file and the CD/DVD and compares them. Then I use cdck to do finer-grained testing. Here's the readme for cdck: CD/DVD check tools == Actually cdck is a simple program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future. To get an idea about disc cdck reads it sector by sector, keeping all reading timings and then tells you its verdict. Optionally it can write timing table into text file usable by gnuplot(1) program, so you can draw some graphs out of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing a font for VT
thanx to those who replyed! don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some reply when searching the www did a: consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz and now my VT looks a bit cool tested a lot of those in /usr/share/consolefonts but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have started going CUI with Debian(stable) > in Slackware it gave me a chance to choose > sc.fnt.gz as my VT's font at the insallation process > i love this font so much so would love to have it in Debian too > > does somebody know what this font is called in Debian community? > does simply aptitude intall-ing it will change the look of the > terminal > automatically? > > 2g--- > http://micro.ispretty.com > > -- > Start Yahoo! Auction now! Check out the cool campaign > http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/auction/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2g--- http://micro.ispretty.com -- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Since Etch hasn't been stable for a year and a half, we need some basics: contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list contents of /etc/debian_version When last you did a successful update/upgrade cycle and what package manager you use. I use "apt-get" from the command line as a package manager. I never do "upgrade"...I simply do "apt-get update; apt-get install " whenever I need to upgrade a package. I'm probably updating individual packages at a rate of about once a month. $ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information, especially # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free restricted deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free Thanks for the quick response. -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file
Hi Celejar. Celejar, 06.07.2007 02:25: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:20:19 +0200 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35: >>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 >>> Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383409 > > […] What I meant was that even before > the fixes, the messages in the report indicated that file was reporting > zip, and their problem was that they wanted file to report ODT. My > problem is that file doesn't even seem to realize that it's looking at > a zip archive. Ah yes. Took me a while to figure it out: the solution is the -i option which outputs the MIME type instead of a generic description: > $ file -i foo.odt > foo.odt: application/x-zip Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:20:19 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Celejar. > > Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35: > > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 > > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: > >>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 > >>> Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: [snip] > >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383409 > >>> > > but the discussion indicates that 'file' is > > reporting 'zip'. > Yeah, that’s what OpenDocuments are after all. > >>> Not the point; they are seeing .zip while I'm seeing data. Why? > >> Seems to have been clarified in the mentioned report now. > > > > I don't understand. All the messages I see in the report indicate that > > file is recognizing the document as a zip archive, just not as an ODF > > document. > > Are we talking about the same report? From the report: > > > With the attached diff file, file now displays: > > > > $ file -i magic.odt > > magic.odt: application/x-zip application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text > > And: > > >> The problem is that I don't know it's OK to display two mime types. > >> The file is a real ZIP file and is also an OpenDocument Text file. > > > > no, it should only display one, but i (think) i have already a patch to > > fix that, will be uploaded in the next revision. > > I guess Daniel is just busy, you might want to ask for the current status in > this report. We're talking about the same report. What I meant was that even before the fixes, the messages in the report indicated that file was reporting zip, and their problem was that they wanted file to report ODT. My problem is that file doesn't even seem to realize that it's looking at a zip archive. > Regards, Mathias Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:25:15PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:43:34AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > > > >Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups) > > > > > DomU1: firewall > > > > I understand the need for a small, "separate" firewall. > > > > > > Does this really give any more security than running the firewall as a > > > regular part of the main box? Is it as secure as a separate old > > > computer? These three (plus I suppose a commercial hardware firewall) > > > seem to be the choices. How do they compare for security? > > > > > I don't think there is anything wrong with a debian machine on the net > > with its local firewall as the only thing protecting it. But I think > > if you want anything more sophisticated, some sort of seperate device > > is the way to go. > > > > So what about a virtual box as a firewall? That virtual box may have > less on it but it exists in the same physical box as everything else. > Doesn't the virtualization mean that there is one more thing that could > have a vulnerability? sure. I view it as one additional vulnerability versus the many potential vulnerabilities of a full system. But I am no security expert by any stretch of the imagination. > > In general, I agree with you and with old boxes being free it makes > sense that once one has more than a couple of boxes to have a spare box > as a firewall. I'm all for the old boxes, but at some point the power becomes an issue... much better to have one box running at high capacity than lots of boxes sitting around spinning fans... .02 A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:42:04PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've > recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an > AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install > the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so well, so I > tried to back it out...but I'm still seeing messages for it during boot > time. > Since Etch hasn't been stable for a year and a half, we need some basics: contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list contents of /etc/debian_version When last you did a successful update/upgrade cycle and what package manager you use. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove
Florian Kulzer wrote: BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new trick, the "why/why-not" command: $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins i kde-extras Recommends digikam p digikamConflicts digikamimageplugins This is really useful to figure out what is going on with complicated dependency issues. It is currently only available to Sid users, though (aptitude version 0.4.5.3 or higher). Wonderful new features! I just noticed that 0.4.5.4-1 is now available in Testing. Going to upgrade right away. Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new package has the two packages built-in now? This information is often included in the package description. For digikam you can find this: "All plugins previously provided by the digikamimageplugins package are now included in this package." Ah, that clears up that bit. Thanks, ->HS Failing that, you can download and read the changelog of the package before installing or upgrading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues
My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so well, so I tried to back it out...but I'm still seeing messages for it during boot time. But first things first...here's the first error message I see during boot: kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. [] kobject_add+0x146/0x16c [] class_device_add+0x9d/0x3b2 [] kobject_get+0xf/0x13 [] class_device_create+0x79/0x99 [] oss_init+0xac/0x12a [sound] [] sys_init_module+0x1732/0x18b5 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Here's a link to my entire dmesg output: http://robinsonhome.org/dmesg.txt I'm new to kernel upgrades so any ideas explaining the error messages is greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:11:39PM +0200, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote: > > I tried now to connect to the Debian machine via FTP but this doesn't work. > Can both boxes connect to other boxes on the net? Are the cables good and do you get connection lights on the NICs? Can you connect or get a response from the debian machine any other way? Can you ping? Can you ssh? Can you pop? Does the debian machine have an FTP server running with an open port on the network from which you're trying? Do either box have a firewall and if so are they allowing the connections? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndiswrapper problem (solved)
I noticed there was an upgrade to the ndiswrapper source code and tools so installed them and m-a'ed a new ndiswrapper module into the kernel. Voila, problem solved. So, to whoever the developer is that is responsible for maintaining ndiswrapper, Thank you. You have solved but you didn't explain how you have made it, and I know dozens of people that are still knocking the wall with their heads because they don't know how to solve it. You have given no information on how you have solved . Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:43:34AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > >Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups) > > > > DomU1: firewall > > > I understand the need for a small, "separate" firewall. > > > > Does this really give any more security than running the firewall as a > > regular part of the main box? Is it as secure as a separate old > > computer? These three (plus I suppose a commercial hardware firewall) > > seem to be the choices. How do they compare for security? > > I don't think there is anything wrong with a debian machine on the net > with its local firewall as the only thing protecting it. But I think > if you want anything more sophisticated, some sort of seperate device > is the way to go. > So what about a virtual box as a firewall? That virtual box may have less on it but it exists in the same physical box as everything else. Doesn't the virtualization mean that there is one more thing that could have a vulnerability? In general, I agree with you and with old boxes being free it makes sense that once one has more than a couple of boxes to have a spare box as a firewall. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins
Kent West wrote: > Nope; the BIOS is not shutting down the laptop. > I paused the memtest for five minutes, and then let it continue; the > shutdown occurred five minutes later than it had been shutting down. How unfortunate because that would have been easier to handle. > So I restarted the memtest, but this time changed the settings to start > with test #7; now it shuts down within about one minute. (I tested this > a couple of times; I also started with #6 once and it ran for a few > minutes, then I changed it to test #7, and it ran for a minute or so and > then shut down.) > > So the memtest is somehow triggering the shutdown of the laptop. That does sound like it. > Is this indicative of bad RAM, even though I've seen no other indication > of bad RAM, or is it just a coincidence that some pattern during the > random number test is triggering a power-off? I don't know what is in pattern #7 but if it runs on other machines and fails to run on the laptop that would still seem to indicate a problem on the laptop. I would be very nervous about it. Things may still be okay with the machine though. You are not to root cause yet and therefore the behavior not 100% explained does not mean it is broken. It does not succeed either and so that still leaves a nervious suspicious behind. How does it run on tests #8 and beyond? Any other bad hits? I would also try with different ram configurations. How much ram is installed? If you have two dimms can you pull one, test, swap, test? Does the failure happen with both dimms or just one? If you only have one dimm can you swap with another dimm from elsewhere and again does it work or fail? For speed of testing I would try the smallest dimm that I could find. A 64MB dimm should speed through memtest86 much faster than a 1GB dimm and you can more quickly get through a full pass. > Hmmm Yes. Hmm... Good luck Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual System time 'way off
Ernest wrote: Environment: Windows XP with virtual PC 2007, hosting a virtual Fedora FC6 guest. Problem: Virtual system time is ‘way off, by tens of seconds. The same problem appears sometimes with VMware. The obvious solution: 1. Install and configure ntp in your guest. This should fix the drift after startup. 2. Configure your windows to use a time server. You can do this with windows itself or you can use ntp for windows. For example: http://www.meinberg.de/german/sw/ntp.htm NTP timeservers are provided by nearly each university and some big companys. Take a look at http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome. Regards, Berthold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:11:39PM +0200, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote: > Hello! > > I tried now to connect to the Debian machine via FTP but this doesn't work. > > In FileZilla (on Windows machine), I'm getting following error: > > Status: Connecting to 169.254.216.106 ... > Status: Connected with 169.254.216.106. Waiting for welcome > message... > Error:Disconnected from server > Error:Unable to connect! > > I suppose that I have to > > a) make sure that FTP server actually runs on Debian machine and > b) there are FTP user on the FTP server. > > Question: How can I do that? apt-cache search ftp apt-cache search ftp server apt-cache search ftpd server aptitude install fptd and then read /usr/share/doc/ftpd and man ftpd and then if it doesn't work, ask again. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Can not change Screen Resolution
Hi, I was using 1280x768. But after a reboot, my scrren changed to 640x480. Then, I went to Desktop | preference | Screen Resolution and tried to change the resolution back. But the drop down box did not work. The entry just stayed blue and did not show the rest of selections for the screen resolution. I was not able to change it back. Any idea? Thanks Yong Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file
Hi Celejar. Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: >>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 >>> Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: > 'file' reports just 'data' when queried about an Abiword .odt file. Abiword does not support the ODT format yet. What makes you think that it did save in this format? >>> ??? When I open the Save Dialog and click on the Save File As Type >>> button, one of the choices in the drop down list is "OpenDocument >>> (.odt)", and when selected, Abi saves as an .odt file. >> Now that’s odd. I don’t have that option and never had; using version 2.4.6 >> from >> Debian stock. Double-checking … no, nowhere to be found here. > > Apparently ODF support is a plugin, distributed in abiword-plugins. Geez, never knew this package existed. Pulls quite some dependencies but provides some neat stuff. Thanks. >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383409 >>> > but the discussion indicates that 'file' is > reporting 'zip'. Yeah, that’s what OpenDocuments are after all. >>> Not the point; they are seeing .zip while I'm seeing data. Why? >> Seems to have been clarified in the mentioned report now. > > I don't understand. All the messages I see in the report indicate that > file is recognizing the document as a zip archive, just not as an ODF > document. Are we talking about the same report? From the report: > With the attached diff file, file now displays: > > $ file -i magic.odt > magic.odt: application/x-zip application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text And: >> The problem is that I don't know it's OK to display two mime types. >> The file is a real ZIP file and is also an OpenDocument Text file. > > no, it should only display one, but i (think) i have already a patch to > fix that, will be uploaded in the next revision. I guess Daniel is just busy, you might want to ask for the current status in this report. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:44:00 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove > digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below). > Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? Add the "-D" option to get brief explanations for automatic installs and removals. These are the conflicting packages for the testing version of digikam: Conflicts: digikamimageplugins, kipi-plugins (<= 0.1.3~rc0), libkexiv2-0, libexiv2-0.12 Digikamimageplugins is now included in digikam (see below). You have to wait for a newer version of kipi-plugins to come to Lenny (or you can install the Sid version now). BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new trick, the "why/why-not" command: $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins i kde-extras Recommends digikam p digikamConflicts digikamimageplugins This is really useful to figure out what is going on with complicated dependency issues. It is currently only available to Sid users, though (aptitude version 0.4.5.3 or higher). > Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out > if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new package has the > two packages built-in now? This information is often included in the package description. For digikam you can find this: "All plugins previously provided by the digikamimageplugins package are now included in this package." Failing that, you can download and read the changelog of the package before installing or upgrading. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows
Hello! I tried now to connect to the Debian machine via FTP but this doesn't work. In FileZilla (on Windows machine), I'm getting following error: Status: Connecting to 169.254.216.106 ... Status: Connected with 169.254.216.106. Waiting for welcome message... Error: Disconnected from server Error: Unable to connect! I suppose that I have to a) make sure that FTP server actually runs on Debian machine and b) there are FTP user on the FTP server. Question: How can I do that? TIA Dmitri Pissarenko -- http://www.xing.com/profile/Dmitri_Pissarenko http://dapissarenko.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade on box not on Net
John K Masters wrote: > The main reason for wanting to upgrade is > the huge difference in Open Office 2.0 to 2.2. Or could I just install > OO2.2 over the stable package? > One option as you stated is to upgrade to unstable and get open office 2.2 from there. Another choice is to install it from backports. According to http://backports.org/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/ openoffice 2.2 is available in backports. It is up to you as to which option you choose. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I tried to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel 2.6.8. When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message /sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console I did not find any helpful recommendations on the internet but I hope the install disk works. Thanks Gudjon http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r6a/i386/iso-cd/ this could be where you are looking for. s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade on box not on Net
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:25:09 +0100 John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? > > I run etch on my home desktop and sid on my laptop but I have a machine > at work that is not, and never likely to be, connected to the internet. > It currently has etch installed off the 3 DVD set which I downloaded via > jigdo. I know I can create updated DVDs of etch using jigdo but how > could I upgrade from etch to sid with no internet connection? Is this > possible or even advisable? The main reason for wanting to upgrade is This is what the apt-zip package is for. > the huge difference in Open Office 2.0 to 2.2. Or could I just install > OO2.2 over the stable package? > > Regards, John Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)
On Wed July 4 2007 01:28, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi >Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I only had a quick look but I couldn't find any sarge install images. They must exist somewhere but I'm not sure where. >I > tried to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel > 2.6.8. When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message > /sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console > I did not find any helpful recommendations on the internet but I hope the > install disk works. Are you installing the amd64 version of sarge by chance? It requires the 2.6 kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Celejar. > > Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 > > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: > >>> 'file' reports just 'data' when queried about an Abiword .odt file. > >> Abiword does not support the ODT format yet. What makes you think that it > >> did > >> save in this format? > > > > ??? When I open the Save Dialog and click on the Save File As Type > > button, one of the choices in the drop down list is "OpenDocument > > (.odt)", and when selected, Abi saves as an .odt file. > > Now that’s odd. I don’t have that option and never had; using version 2.4.6 > from > Debian stock. Double-checking … no, nowhere to be found here. Apparently ODF support is a plugin, distributed in abiword-plugins. >From that package's changelog: > abiword (1.0.2+cvs.2002.08.10-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * The "Truckin'" release. > * New upstream release (CVS). > * Added OpenWriter plugin. > > -- Masayuki Hatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:37:15 +0900 And from 'dpkg -L abiword-plugins': > /usr/lib/AbiWord-2.4/plugins/libAbiOpenDocument.so > /usr/lib/AbiWord-2.4/plugins/libAbiOpenDocument.la > /usr/lib/AbiWord-2.4/plugins/libAbiOpenWriter.so > /usr/lib/AbiWord-2.4/plugins/libAbiOpenWriter.la > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383409 > > > >>> but the discussion indicates that 'file' is > >>> reporting 'zip'. > >> Yeah, that’s what OpenDocuments are after all. > > > > Not the point; they are seeing .zip while I'm seeing data. Why? > > Seems to have been clarified in the mentioned report now. I don't understand. All the messages I see in the report indicate that file is recognizing the document as a zip archive, just not as an ODF document. > Regards, Mathias Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade on box not on Net
Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? I run etch on my home desktop and sid on my laptop but I have a machine at work that is not, and never likely to be, connected to the internet. It currently has etch installed off the 3 DVD set which I downloaded via jigdo. I know I can create updated DVDs of etch using jigdo but how could I upgrade from etch to sid with no internet connection? Is this possible or even advisable? The main reason for wanting to upgrade is the huge difference in Open Office 2.0 to 2.2. Or could I just install OO2.2 over the stable package? Regards, John -- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backports
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:44:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Strange. I can ping the Debian keyserver: > > $ ping keyring.debian.org > PING keyring.debian.org (192.25.206.59) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from raff.debian.org (192.25.206.59): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=158 ms > > but I cannot get the key from it. This is for a new user "dave": > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key > 4B2B2B9E > gpg: directory `/home/dave/.gnupg' created > gpg: can't open `/gnupg/options.skel': No such file or directory That is bug #412508. The file is /usr/share/gnupg/options.skel in Debian. You can copy it yourself and adjust the permissions: cp -i /usr/share/gnupg/options.skel ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf chmod 600 ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf Then you can look though the file and activate/change settings as desired. (Almost all of it is commented out by default.) You can also delete the first three lines; see the remark in the first line. > gpg: keyring `/home/dave/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created > gpg: keyring `/home/dave/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created > gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org > gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. > gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet > gpg: Total number processed: 0 > gpg: keyserver timed out > gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error I just created my own "dave" and tried the same thing. I could immediately download the key even though I got the same message about options.skel. I think your problem is a network issue. I have sometimes had similar trouble with various keyservers even though my network connection seemed completely fine otherwise. These problems were always temporary and went away without me doing anything. I would not spend too much energy on keyring.debian.org. Downloading keys from there is just as vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack as is downloading from any other keyserver. Just find a reliable keyserver close to you and use that one. If everything else fails then you can use db.debian.org for manual key retrieval. [ snip: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net works better, but not 100%. This might happen because it uses round robin DNS to connect you to a different keyserver every time. ] > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > The "ultimately trusted" key should be your own. Did you experiment with > > gpg in the past and generate a key (pair) which you deleted again? > > The new user "dave" had not previously used gpg. Strange that gpg looks for a specific key ID in that case. > Perhaps I need to configure an ultimately trusted key (for the new user) to > avoid these keyserver errors? That is a quick thing to try, but I don't think this will help (see above). -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins
Kent West wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS power saving settings are configured. I would guess that the BIOS is not seeing any input and therefore turning the machine off because it thinks it is idle. I believe that after the OS is booted it takes over these things. But memtest may not be programmed to do this for that machine while the linux kernel in knoppix does. Just a guess... Not a bad guess. But if that's the case, it must be firm-coded into the BIOS; I could find no power-saving options in the BIOS setup screens. I had not thought about memtest86 perhaps looking idle to the system whereas sitting at a Knoppix boot prompt would not. Your idea gives me an idea for another test; tomorrow I'll see if I can load memtest86 but pause it so it doesn't check memory, and see if it still powers off at 35 mins; if so, that would seem to eliminate faulty RAM as being the cause of the power-down. Thanks! Nope; the BIOS is not shutting down the laptop. I paused the memtest for five minutes, and then let it continue; the shutdown occurred five minutes later than it had been shutting down. So I restarted the memtest, but this time changed the settings to start with test #7; now it shuts down within about one minute. (I tested this a couple of times; I also started with #6 once and it ran for a few minutes, then I changed it to test #7, and it ran for a minute or so and then shut down.) So the memtest is somehow triggering the shutdown of the laptop. Is this indicative of bad RAM, even though I've seen no other indication of bad RAM, or is it just a coincidence that some pattern during the random number test is triggering a power-off? Hmmm -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ktechlab circutes (Examples )
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey list members,... few month ago i said that i post some circutes here but becouse of some bad luck and really hard semester i didn't post them. i uploaded it onto my project on sf (SCEX) btw sorry that i didn't upload the files to the wiki (i can't accses for some strange reason). here is the circutes: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=181653&package_id=237947 i hope to do all the 16 FlipFlops and some counters. also some RAMs (decoder read/ not write CS and all) P.S how can change the name of some subcircutes? how can i save a changable circute (that the user could just change the number of inputs and the compunent will adjust) - -- - -- Could you at least use man ? Jabka Atu (aka mha13/Mashrom Head) - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRo09f29p6JnF9I1qAQL9IA/+Pv1n5bPgnMW+GMnMwTvasB8Ajp7kPkcR /4hP8SeGJiaPHW5Wm5ajX53PKGvp4zs0a1iYyawm5Z3/wY6301fmTdTtr0WGAZqT 6o40vNgjXBC4C8B6Ptkhr0Zi/Umy1HdV+Vl8OnKR0Vp+C0y+W7TQhm1oQf0ZRzfw TRwYDonpNtIkI5RTazW3YWNpn4ZSBQybOxrsykS2GMtviZETo78oLiAWiebGBF7p Ed7LPEvmIe+bZZNvETfChnySs5lqhHvIx1z+VTG50JwAmNVQNoT500oKrw1WZQah 4x3GQyV4lg0CuHXjun9Q3KjzT9Cn2BL89Jj359f62K3EGhfgiUNRVeqia3zjyzOU nDqNEfyIvqUIgrUBSGnWqQqjyiKgC4LStl+y98bXuKoVwU2Ase35Niu29fLbPq8l ocoemyh5ybI2TlvcNLLO3F06/eXeuP0TXbSCg9VMIgVzEi/Hgj7W387uDE4xtl+y moNbrIEu6IxlDSeBINsvvW9Jq1YhpQ4iX2Ne0CeGeekIPHpHwGoPyPfY542NbSUv TimoYwAUvqM9Uq1q8L94PoIhmzp1vgfZ+Gn0j6CWKcrXdVVa8XSiKRdyAemU5r3b 8vlNSDNKT4dM8uuZDLXUSFjteAaYJ6leBT2FT/KbZU8qzLiRCJJA541uyUjW5Mfc xUGXIFym2Iw= =ZyGp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing SMIL File
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 22:11:16 -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia format > I think. Helix-player, available as a Debian package for i386 and powerpc, is capable of handling "Basic SMIL 2.0" (according to the package description; I have never had an occasion to try it myself). Another thing: Please stop using replies to other list messages as a way to start new threads. Many email programs use the In-Reply-To header as the primary basis for threading; this means that your message will be included in an unrelated thread, regardless of the changed subject line. Here is what that looks like with Mutt: 1 L 04.07.07 Tony Heal ( 10K) upgrading to etch 2 L 04.07.07 Sam Leon (0.3K) ├─>Playing SMIL File 3 L 04.07.07 michael AT estone DOT ca (5.3K) ├─>Re: upgrading to etch 4 L 04.07.07 Ivan Aleman (4.4K) ├─> 5 L 04.07.07 Daniel Burrows(4.0K) └─> This practice of "thread-jacking" is problematic: - People who want to follow Tony Heal's thread about upgrading to etch are interrupted by a completely unrelated message. This might annoy them. - Anyone who is not interested in Tony's question might delete the entire thread without realizing that there was a another topic involved. This reduces the number of people who read your message, which obviously decreases your chances of getting help. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |
Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?
Daniel Burrows wrote: When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer versions of packages): dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1] libssp0 Looks to me like dbus-1-utils has been folded into the dbus package. libssp0 is only available in experimental -- it's been removed from stable and testing. Probably it's obsolete and not needed any more? Daniel Thanks everyone. I have proceeded with upgrading dbus. Hopefully nothing will go amiss (main concerns are auto-mounting removable devices). ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installer w/ RAID1, crypto
Sorry, but my is not very clear, so: I tried to setup a new install (using the Lenny install CD (1)), with RAID1, crypto and LVM. Everything went fine during install and I even did execute the steps required as of (2). The only problem I got, was after the install/reboot, when the there seems to be a problem with LVM (3). I also encountered problems before with the Debian 4.0r0 CD which led me to try the Lenny CD. (1) [Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070629-09:05] (2) http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/RAIDvsCrypto (3) mount: Mounting /dev/mapper/magelan-main.root on /root failed: No such device Thank you for your help on this one... tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install: client-error-not-possible
Subject: install: client-error-not-possible Package: install Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** A print error occurred. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'HPLaserJet1022' -J 'KDE Print Test' -H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' -U 'root' -o ' multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-uncollated-copies orientation-requested=3' '/usr/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps' : execution failed with message: client-error-not-possible -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove
Hello, On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below). Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new package has the two packages built-in now? Upgrade output: -- $> sudo aptitude -sV dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libquicktime0 [2:0.9.7-5 -> 2:0.9.10+debian-0.3] The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: libkdcraw-runtime [0.1.0-2] libkdcraw0 [0.1.0-2] libkexiv2-1 [0.1.5-1+b1] The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: digikamimageplugins [2:0.8.2-4] kipi-plugins [0.1.2-3] The following NEW packages will be installed: libkdcraw-runtime [0.1.0-2] libkdcraw0 [0.1.0-2] libkexiv2-1 [0.1.5-1+b1] The following packages will be REMOVED: digikamimageplugins [2:0.8.2-4] kipi-plugins [0.1.2-3] The following packages will be upgraded: digikam [2:0.8.2-4 -> 2:0.9.2~beta3-1] 2 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9869kB of archives. After unpacking 17.7MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libquicktime0: Depends: libavcodec1d (>= 0.cvs20070307) which is a virtual package. Depends: libavutil1d (>= 0.cvs20070307) which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: digikam [2:0.8.2-4 (now)] digikamimageplugins [2:0.8.2-4 (now)] kipi-plugins [0.1.2-3 (testing, testing, testing, now)] libquicktime0 [2:0.9.7-5 (testing, testing, testing, now)] Score is -28 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] - thanks, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:01:40PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:35:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > So I maintain that its good to keep our local fire server isolated by > > operating the DMZ in a xen vm. But I will agree that its not necessary > > to run seperate DomU's for mail and apache. And with multiple vm's > > running their cron jobs over night at roughly the same time, dropping > > one vm would lessen the load significantly (in this case, 25%). > > Why not change the crontab on each so that they run at different times? Because I'm inherently lazy? ;) I did look into this and got distracted. I'll take it up again. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > >Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups) > > > > > > DomU1: firewall > > > > I understand the need for a small, "separate" firewall. > > > > Does this really give any more security than running the firewall as a > regular part of the main box? Is it as secure as a separate old > computer? These three (plus I suppose a commercial hardware firewall) > seem to be the choices. How do they compare for security? I don't really know, but the following things occur to me: 1. its seperate and distinct, serves only one purpose, and thus is less likely to have vulnerabilities. A seperate firewall machine has so few packages installed, that it is more secure just because it has fewer possible vulnerabilities. 2. the seperate machine, if it falls to some attack, is a seperate machine. That means there is one more step to be taken to get to some damaging location. Granted, once you're past the firewall, its a pretty simple step. This assumes that its the firewall that gets cracked and not some other machine behind the firewall that gets cracked. I don't think there is anything wrong with a debian machine on the net with its local firewall as the only thing protecting it. But I think if you want anything more sophisticated, some sort of seperate device is the way to go. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:09:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/03/07 20:53, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>>Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups) > >>> > >>>DomU1: firewall > >>I understand the need for a small, "separate" firewall. > >> > >>>DomU2: dmz mail/imaps server > >>>DomU3: dmz apache server > >>> > >>>the primary reason is as a testbed for me to learn stuff. It has the > >>>nice feature of segmenting functionality without more machines > >>>running. > >>But then you are trying to statically do (allocate CPU and RAM) what > >>the kernel can do so much better. > >> > >What about that if his webserver gets hacked, then his mail server is > >safe and vice versa? > > If you own the web server, it's likely to be "easy" to crack other > machines on the network. > except to get to the other machines, there are only certain allowed ways. For example, assume, from Roberto's comment, that my webserver gets hacked. Which machines are now easier to hack? Certainly nothing on my local (non-DMZ) LAN as those machines are subject to the same firewall rules as they were before. The rules from the net to local are the same as the rules from the DMZ to local. Maybe the mail server is easier (how?) because you are into the DMZ, but the mail server has the same ports open as it always did: 25 and 993. So what's different. I'm not asking to refute your claims, but to learn. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
System freeze when copying files
Hello, There was a thread back in Feb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the power button. The two computers in question are a PPC Oopen Desktop Workstation and a Linksys NSLU2. Both have debian sid installed. hdparm for the PPC. /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support= 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 156301488, start = 0 The NSLU2 has a 1 GB usb keychain (sda) which the os is installed on and a 100 GB external USB hard drive (sdb) for data storage. /dev/sda: readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 121/255/63, sectors = 1952767, start = 0 /dev/sdb: readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0 No matter what I do, the PPC freezes hard if I try to transfer a file larger than 1 GB. The NSLU2 does not freeze. Here are the methods I have tried all of which caused a hard freeze before the file was completely transferred. 1) Mount the partition from the NSLU2 over nfsv4 and cp a file 2) Mount the partition from the NSLU2 over ssh using fuse and cp a file 3) scp the file from PPC to NSLU2 4) scp the file from NSLU2 to PPC 5) wget from the NSLU2 to a file offered up on a webserver located on the PPC. The previous thread noted that DMA should be turned on. Can you do that for a usb external harddrive? And might that be the reason for the hard freeze? Like I said, the NSLU2 does not freeze but the PPC does. Thanks for any advice, Zoho -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to > do > may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn > my > data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content into a > hard > disk I got I/O errors and some directories could not be copied. > > The problem disappeared when I changed the DVD with a brand new one, but now I > feel not sure: how can I know when my actual backup DVD should in case be > damaged as well? Is there any tool for that? > Look at cdck. The procedure I use is to verify the burn (I happen to use K3B which has a verify option) which calculates the md5sum of the image file and the CD/DVD and compares them. Then I use cdck to do finer-grained testing. Here's the readme for cdck: CD/DVD check tools == Actually cdck is a simple program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future. To get an idea about disc cdck reads it sector by sector, keeping all reading timings and then tells you its verdict. Optionally it can write timing table into text file usable by gnuplot(1) program, so you can draw some graphs out of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Floppy disk filesystem
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:47:09AM -, rocky wrote: > > I'm following Pocket Linux Guide from www.tldp.org. The 2nd chapter > 2.3.1 talks about prepare the book disk media. > > I got a blank floppy disk, inserted it in and did the following > $-code1 begin-$ > ronie:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440 > dd: writing `/dev/fd0': Input/output error > 1+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.803137 seconds, 0.0 kB/s > $-code1 end$ If you get an error in one command, don't expect sucess is later commands. '0+0 records out', 'Input/output error'. These things should tell you something. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)
Hi Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I tried to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel 2.6.8. When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message /sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console I did not find any helpful recommendations on the internet but I hope the install disk works. Thanks Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howto for ADempiere ERP under Debian Etch released
Dear community, looking for an ERP system for our purposes we decided to use ADempiere which fulfills all the features we need. We know from experience that to setup ADempiere is not a trivial procedure. So we documented all steps in-depth attaching our ADempiere instance. For all of you interested in ADempiere running on a Debian Etch server you'll find the complete and working step-by-step Howto at http://blog.slashconcept.com/2007/07/04/adempiere-erp-unter-debian-linux-40-etch-howto/ The Howto is written in German but the steps described therein are self-explanatory. With increasing demand I'll translate it into English. So if you like you can leave any questions and proposals using the blog's comment function. Regards, Christoph Pilka
Text focus
Hello, I have a problem with text/cursor focus. I use GNOME from unstable. Sometimes I will start my webbrowser, epiphany, and type in a url I am interested in. Once the page loads I click in a text box on the webpage and type but nothing happens. I have to go back and click on the url text box, type something, and then I can go and type in the text box on the webpage. If this only happened in epiphany I could blame the browser but it happens in evolution mailer, gnome terminal, and gedit with slightly different circumstances. For gedit if I have two tabs open, and I am editing tex files, sometimes when I switch back and forth between tabs I can't type in the new tab. I have to go back to the tab I was just typing in and give it focus, type something, and then I can go back to the second tab. In evolution I haven't discovered why something I can't type but I will open a new message and simply can't type in any text fields. I have to shutdown evolution and start it up again! I use metacity for my window manager if that matters. Does anyone have any ideas of what might be causing this problem? Zoho -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble detecting my network card
Sorry, allright the issue is closed or rather solved. I instellaed it via the cd standard installation. Like I said, that worked. Allthough I do get a error message in the upper Panle that there is no network connection. ??? Whatsoever that means. I guess its the cable! I don't know where I got it from but it's not 4 Twisted-Pairs of wire. Its just two or 1 and a half. Weired. But it works . . . Thanks for the help so far . . . Greetings Philipp -- Hello there, I was trying to install Debian etch on an "older" (2003/ AMD Athlon 1700 + System. But the installer was unable to correctly detect or rather install the correct driver for my network card. It's an OnBoard chip on an AsRock K7VT2 Board using a VIA KT266A Chipset. The installer requests a Floppy with the driver. Oh, by the way: The driver has a download size of 3,05MB. Other Distros like Ubuntu 7.04 do correctly detect it. But I want to use Debian. So is there any way to fix this? Easily? Greetings Philipp - Some more detailed information: Installing Etch in as virtual machine using virtualbox I faced no error. I used the standard installer (textmode). On this AMD-System I tried expert-mode, expertgui-mode, installgui-mode with the mentioned result. Installing as usual the Installer was able to determine and set up my Network Card. Sounds like a problem with the installer? Greetings Philipp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba and files rename
So when you remane the X file to "x", really windows doesn't care about it. I have a samba installed at work and I tested it, and when I rename the file in my Debian its OK, but when I rename the file in Windows is just an ilution (it never remanes if I just change the case). But it changes the name in the server when I change really the name (from "x" to "othe name"). Ok, if i try to rename (from win host) the whole file then the rename is correct (i rewrite whole file) but if i rename only some letters don't happen. Thanks Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Danguardian Problem?
Takes a long long time to start. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disable saving persistent net rules
Hi, How can I prevent udev from saving the MAC address of eth0 into the persistent net rules file? I am using Debian Etch. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem bootstrapping a sarge installation
Hello everybody, I'd like to use some newer packages on an old installation (Suse 7.3, with 2.4.25 running). As there are no new packages available, I'd have to compile them myself; but that would mean upgrading a lot of system libraries, too (like libxml and others), which could make problems with other installed software. So I had the idea to put the binaries in a chroot jail. Sadly that doesn't work, as current (unstable) packages include a newer ld-linux.so which says "FATAL: kernel too old". So I'd like to get a minimum installation of an older debian release. I try /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch i386 sarge /home/flip/download/apache2-deb/ http://http.us.debian.org/debian but get ... I: Validating libcap1 I: Validating libcomerr2 I: Validating libconsole I: Validating libdb1-compat I: Validating libdb2 I: Validating libdb3 E: Couldn't download libdevmapper1.00 Any other ideas? Why can't it download that package? Thank you for your help! Regards, Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backports
Hello Steffen and Florian. Steffen Joeris wrote: > HI mate > [...] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key 4B2B2B9E > gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org > gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" not > changed > gpg: Total number processed: 1 > gpg: unchanged: 1 > > > Works here. Maybe you should check your connection, it should be able to > reach > keyring.debian.org . > Strange. I can ping the Debian keyserver: $ ping keyring.debian.org PING keyring.debian.org (192.25.206.59) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from raff.debian.org (192.25.206.59): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=158 ms but I cannot get the key from it. This is for a new user "dave": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key 4B2B2B9Egpg: directory `/home/dave/.gnupg' created gpg: can't open `/gnupg/options.skel': No such file or directory gpg: keyring `/home/dave/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/home/dave/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet gpg: Total number processed: 0 gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error The public keyserver works on the first occasion: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 4B2B2B9E gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: /home/dave/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: public key "Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 but when I try again I get the message "1 new signature" and the keyserver times out: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chris$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 4B2B2B9E gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" 1 new signature gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: new signatures: 1 gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error Next time I get the message "not changed" and the keyserver times out. $ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 4B2B2B9E gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 gpg: keyserver timed out gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error Florian Kulzer wrote: > The "ultimately trusted" key should be your own. Did you experiment with > gpg in the past and generate a key (pair) which you deleted again? The new user "dave" had not previously used gpg. Perhaps I need to configure an ultimately trusted key (for the new user) to avoid these keyserver errors? -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange symbols in konqueror blank page and metabar
When I open a new tab with no content (about:blank) in konqueror, I get a bunch of Chinese looking symbols. I've pasted the contents below: 㱨瑭氾㱨敡搾㱴楴汥㹡扯畴㩢污湫㰯瑩瑬放㰯桥慤㸼扯摹㸼⽢潤社㰯桴浬 Also, when I open the metabar, such signs show instead of a normal metabar. Does anybody else have this problem? Thanks for any help. Sjoerd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA problem - TV tuner no sound
Michael Bonert wrote: > I recently upgraded kernels (2.6.18-4-k7 -> 2.6.11-1-k7) and sound systems > (OSS -> ALSA). > > Sound, aside from the TV tuner, works fine. > > My TV tuner worked like a snap under OSS and made use of the following > drivers: > bttv > bt878 > > I've discovered that 'bttv' is need for 'xawtv' to load. It appears > to be essential for the video. > bt878, as far as I can tell, is the OSS driver. > > > I thought replacing 'bt878' with 'snd_bt87x' would be the fix -- NOPE. > > I thought things might work with the compatibility package, i.e. > "apt-get install alsa-oss" & "apt-get install oss-compat" -- NOPE. > > > I ran into this problem about 2 years ago (see: > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-01/4381.html ) > -- gave-up and went back to OSS. Seems the problem-- still isn't > resolved cleanly. > > > I blacklisted 'bt878' as described here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29789 > > # vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > - > # added by MB - 2 Jul 2007 > # > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/29789 > blacklist bt878 > - > > # vi /etc/discover.conf > - > # the following was added by MB -- to avoid that the OSS driver loads > # see: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/alsa.html > skip bt878 > - > The two things above avoided that 'bt878' loads on boot-up... but gots me no > further ahead on the TV tuner sound. > > > Software: > - > ALSA version: > $ more /proc/asound/version > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 > 13:55:50 2006 UTC). > > Kernel: > $ more /proc/version > Linux version 2.6.18-4-k7 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) # > 1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:57:15 UTC 2007 > - > > > I read about a problem with artsd (KDE), bttv and ALSA. Turning off the KDE > sound system didn't change things. > > > Looking at the modules... > $ more /proc/asound/modules > 0 snd_emu10k1 > 1 snd_mpu401 > > - > I haven't figured-out what 'snd_mpu401' is... > > > I did try: > # modprobe -r snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart > This didn't make a change I noticed (other sound still worked). > > > It bothers me that I only find my sound card: > # cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SBLive 5.1 [SB0060] > SBLive 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102) at > 0xd400, irq 217 > 1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART > MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10 > - > I'm not sure what 'MPU-401' is. (My sound card uses: 'snd_emu10k1'.) > > > 'lspci' finds the sound hardware: > $ lspci > > 01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video > Capture (rev 02) > 01:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev > 02) > 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) > 01:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07) > > - > > > My impression is that the problem lies at the level of the kernel-- after > looking at the boot log with 'dmesg': > > If I block loading of 'bt878' with blacklisting in > "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" and "/etc/discover.conf" dmesg looks like: > > $ dmesg |grep bt > bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at :01:07.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe400 > bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001 > bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,autodetected] > bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00ff [init] > bttv0: using tuner=19 > bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found > msp3400 2-0040: MSP3430G-A4 found @ 0x80 (bt878 #0 [sw]) > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found > tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw]) > bttv0: registered device video0 > bttv0: registered device vbi0 > bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok > bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). > bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok > bttv0: unloading > bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at :01:07.0, irq: 209, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe400 > bttv0: detected: ATI TV Wonder [card=63], PCI subsystem ID is 1002:0001 > bttv0: using: ATI TV-Wonder [card=63,autodetected] > bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00ff [init] > msp3400 2-0040: MSP3430G-A4 found @ 0x80 (bt878 #0 [sw]) > tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw]) > bttv0: using
Re: Postscript conversion
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 16:38:25 +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: > Just wondering if anybody knows how to convert a color postscript document > to a black and white one? I need to send it though a hylafax and the > quality is better if everything is black and white. You can use ghostscript with the "psgray" device: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=psgray -sOutputFile=gray.ps color.ps You can also try half-toned images produced by "psmono": gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=psmono -sOutputFile=mono.ps color.ps -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
