Re: [solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

[Kevin Mark]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> Kevin Mark wrote:
> > I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or
> > the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is
> > different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> It turned out to be /etc/papersize
> 
> /===
> mybox:/etc# cat /etc/papersize
> a4
> \===

That was my hunch. Great that it worked out ;-)

> 
> did it.
> 
> Funny though, that dvips obeys the document specific paper size, while
> ps2pdf ignores the document's settings. At the same time dvips has an
> option to change the paper size 'on the fly', while ps2pdf does not.
> 
> (Latex users should be able select a paper size within the document
> "documentclass[a4paper]..." etc. and not via /etc/papersize, IMHO. On
> the other hand applications like iceweasel -- where a system wide paper
> size makes much more sense: all printers on a system typically offer the
> same paper size -- ignore /etc/papersize and always use "letter". )

Is there a bug report in this? Is this expected/documented behavior? 

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Re: Listing packages

[Daniel Burrows]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
was heard to say:
> In the manual the description of the '%t' says
> "The archive in which the package is found."
> 
> And aptitude seems to list the archive with the lowest priority.
> So my advice about the aptitude command is indeed misleading since
> aptitude does not tell from which archive the installed version of the
> package was taken.
> Thanks for correcting me.
> Therefore the script of David Clymer is the only working solution.

  You should be able to get the same result with

aptitude search -F "%p %t" "~S~i~Aexperimental"

  .  In fact, in that case you don't need to print the archive, since
all and only the installed experimental packages will be displayed.

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Re: getting scim to work on KDE

[Wei Chen]

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H.S. wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>> On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I tried with xcim:
>>> $> cat .xinput.d/en_CA
>>> #
>>> # Use "X input Method" for all applications
>>> #
>>> # Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is activated
>>> # not only for old X-applications but also for GTK and QT appplication.
>>> #
>>> # If a user wish to use, GTK Input Method, (s)he can right-click input
>>> # area and select "Input Methods" and change from "X input Method" to
>>> # "SCIM Input Method".
>>> #
>>>
>>> XIM=SCIM
>>> XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim
>>> XIM_ARGS="-d"
>>> GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
>>> #GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
>>> QT_IM_MODULE=xim
>>> #QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
>>> DEPENDS="scim,scim-anthy|scim-canna|scim-chewing|scim-pinyin|scim-hangle|scim-prime|scim-skk|scim-tables-additional|scim-m17n|scim-uim|scim-tables-ja|scim-tables-ko|scim-tables-zh"
>>>
>>> With xim, it doesn't work at all. I just get the scim keyboard in the
>>> panel but not its toolbar and neither can I change the input.
>>>
>>> Using scim, however, it works except in KDE applications.
>>>
>>> Here are the packages I have related to scim:
>>> $> dpkg -l *scim* *m17n* | grep ^i | gawk '{print $2}'
>>> libm17n-0
>>> libscim8c2a
>>> m17n-contrib
>>> m17n-db
>>> scim
>>> scim-bridge
>>> scim-bridge-agent
>>> scim-bridge-client-gtk
>>> scim-bridge-client-qt
>>> scim-gtk2-immodule
>>> scim-m17n
>>> scim-modules-socket
>>>
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?
>> Not any really great ones, but you could check your environmental variables
>> (type "env" on the command line) to make sure they are right (environmental
>> variables can be overridden depending on the read order of files they are 
>> in).
>>
>> XIM_PROGRAM=scim -d
>> QT_IM_MODULE=scim
>> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> I have:
> $> env | grep -i im
> QT_IM_MODULE=scim
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
> 
> 
> so XIM_PROGRAM=scim -d  is missing. I will try by including that.
> 

I believe that it is im-switch that sets all needed environment
variables and launch the input method when the session starts.

So one should not have to worry about these as long as one's locale is
properly set.

> 
>> (I am not using scim-bridge, I think it is just a way to work around C++
>> version issues, which you shouldn't have in Debian)
>>
> 
> Okay.
> 
> 
>> Also, are you using Debian stable or testing or what?
> 
> Testing.
> 
> 
>> In the scim setup window, does your input method have its own listing under
>> "IMEngine"? If so, does it have an on/off or trigger setting that
>> agrees with the
>> "global setup" setting? (I am not sure this is needed, but that is how mine 
>> is.)
> 
> I only have Global Setup which has all the keyboard layouts. I can
> choose any of them successfully in all application except KDE ones.
> 

scim is only an input method platform. Input method modules should be
installed based on it in order for it to work. They should appear in the
IMEngine section of the setup window.

> thanks,
> ->HS
> 
> 
>> These might help:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM/Kubuntu
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kelly
>>
>>
> 
> 

HTH

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Re: Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

[Ron Johnson]

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On 10/25/07 16:38, Pantor wrote:
> Hi lads,
> 
> Start Open Office 2.0 Writer,
> press File then New,
> go to Templates and Documents,
> then press Templates icon,
> then choose any from the list,
> and get shit instead of document.

Run it from an xterm using strace.  That should give you and us some
hints.

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Re: Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

[Marc Shapiro]

Pantor wrote:

Hi lads,

Start Open Office 2.0 Writer,
press File then New,
go to Templates and Documents,
then press Templates icon,
then choose any from the list,
and get shit instead of document.

Andrius



Seems to be working OK here.  Using 2.0.4.

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Re: getting scim to work on KDE

[H.S.]

Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I tried with xcim:
>> $> cat .xinput.d/en_CA
>> #
>> # Use "X input Method" for all applications
>> #
>> # Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is activated
>> # not only for old X-applications but also for GTK and QT appplication.
>> #
>> # If a user wish to use, GTK Input Method, (s)he can right-click input
>> # area and select "Input Methods" and change from "X input Method" to
>> # "SCIM Input Method".
>> #
>>
>> XIM=SCIM
>> XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim
>> XIM_ARGS="-d"
>> GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
>> #GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
>> QT_IM_MODULE=xim
>> #QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
>> DEPENDS="scim,scim-anthy|scim-canna|scim-chewing|scim-pinyin|scim-hangle|scim-prime|scim-skk|scim-tables-additional|scim-m17n|scim-uim|scim-tables-ja|scim-tables-ko|scim-tables-zh"
>>
>> With xim, it doesn't work at all. I just get the scim keyboard in the
>> panel but not its toolbar and neither can I change the input.
>>
>> Using scim, however, it works except in KDE applications.
>>
>> Here are the packages I have related to scim:
>> $> dpkg -l *scim* *m17n* | grep ^i | gawk '{print $2}'
>> libm17n-0
>> libscim8c2a
>> m17n-contrib
>> m17n-db
>> scim
>> scim-bridge
>> scim-bridge-agent
>> scim-bridge-client-gtk
>> scim-bridge-client-qt
>> scim-gtk2-immodule
>> scim-m17n
>> scim-modules-socket
>>
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Not any really great ones, but you could check your environmental variables
> (type "env" on the command line) to make sure they are right (environmental
> variables can be overridden depending on the read order of files they are in).
> 
> XIM_PROGRAM=scim -d
> QT_IM_MODULE=scim
> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]


I have:
$> env | grep -i im
QT_IM_MODULE=scim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
GTK_IM_MODULE=scim


so XIM_PROGRAM=scim -d  is missing. I will try by including that.


> (I am not using scim-bridge, I think it is just a way to work around C++
> version issues, which you shouldn't have in Debian)
>

Okay.


> 
> Also, are you using Debian stable or testing or what?

Testing.


> In the scim setup window, does your input method have its own listing under
> "IMEngine"? If so, does it have an on/off or trigger setting that
> agrees with the
> "global setup" setting? (I am not sure this is needed, but that is how mine 
> is.)

I only have Global Setup which has all the keyboard layouts. I can
choose any of them successfully in all application except KDE ones.

thanks,
->HS


> 
> These might help:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM/Kubuntu
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Kelly
> 
> 


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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:11:15AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> >
> > Have you grepped that USB ID from the source to confirm it's in there?
> > Despite what the website says, if the USB ID isn't in there, then it
> > won't get loaded. Also, it looks like you're installing the module
> > from the build tree instead of from the usual
> > /lib/modules/... location, maybe your depmod hasn't picked it up.

> 
> Well, I am still fairly new to linux, so if you please help me a bit
> more:

no problem.

> How can i grep that USB ID from the source?

grep is a tool that allows you to search through files looking for
particular strings and if it finds those strings, it will display the
lines it found the string in. In your case I would:

cd /path/to/source/directory

grep -r 'USBID' .

the first command is to change you to the source directory for the
upstream package you are using. This is the tarball you downloaded
from the gspca website. it will be a directory called
gspca-something-or-other.

in the second command, you should replace USBID with the actual usb id
reported for the device. it will look through all the files in the
present directory (that's what '.' means) and all the subdirectories
(that what '-r' means) looking for USBID. It will display the lines
that contain USBID. If it doesn't find USBID, then that driver won't
work because it won't be able to identify the camera.

> How can i install install the module from the usual /lib/

the usual method for doing this is very simple. 

first, install the kernel headers for your system:

aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`

then download the upstream tarball from the website and unpack it

tar -xzvf name-of-tarball.tar.gz

this will make a directory called name-of-tarball, change to it:

cd name-of-tarball

configure the package (may not be necessary):

./configure

build the package:

make

install the package (do this as root):

make install

and that should do it. since this is a module you're building, its
usually a good idea to then run

depmod

which will run through all the modules and build a dependency tree so
that you can get things to work properly. 

Finally, plug the camera in and look at /var/log/syslog to see what
happens.



> Sorry, but with my knowledge, I am feeling like I am reading ancient Greek!!!

Keep at it, you'll get it. The effort is worth it as the reward is a
computer that *you* control!

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Log Messages

[Jeff Grossman]

I am getting the following lines in my /var/log/secure file:

Oct 25 20:10:01 apple CRON[5511]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened 
for user news by (uid=0)
Oct 25 20:10:01 apple CRON[5511]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed 
for user news


Here is my syslog.conf setup:

*.info;cron.none;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none  /var/log/messages

authpriv.*  /var/log/secure

mail.*  /var/log/maillog

cron.*  /var/log/cron


How can I set it so those messages only go to /var/log/cron and not 
/var/log/secure?


Thanks,
Jeff


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Re: Debian Sid, Xorg - mouse doesn't work

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:36:24PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> MRH([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. It 
> > seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. The 
> > result is I have no working mouse in X - it displays cursor, that's it. I 
> > managed to operate the mouse with keyboard 'emulation', but it's very 
> > inconvenient. I got the latest today - still no change.
> > I'm sure the mouse is OK - it works on other PCs. This is USB mouse; and 
> > it's configured both as evdev and /dev/mice (the reason for the double 
> > config is that the mouse is connected through a KVM, but it worked before; 
> > moreover I tried also 'standard' config with /dev/mice only - still doesn't 
> > work). When I switch to console as root and do
> > # cat /dev/mice
> > I receive lots of 'garbage' when I move the mouse - so the system sees it.
> >
> > I removed xserver-xorg-input-evdev temporarily as it messed my keyboard; 
> > but I still have problems with the mouse.
> >
> > May I get some help - what can I do? Or should I wait for some update which 
> > eventually fixes the problem?
> 
> No relief here, your running sid, so all you can do is wait.
> 
> I have the same problem here on lenny.  Gpm & libgpmg1 both at version
> 1.19.6-25. Upgraded this morning.


If you're running sid, you really should do two things: 

aptitude install apt-listbugs

and watch this list closely before you upgrade. I try to upgrade every
day, but never before skimming the list. I love all you poor saps
running a timezone a few hours ahead of mine ;-) Saved me from a
disastrous upgrade on more than one occaision.



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Re: fetchmail authorization failure

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I replaced the stock nv driver under Etch with the nVidia proprietary
> driver, and logged out and back in. When I did so, fetchmail was no
> longer able to get authorization from my mail server. I should note
> that it has been months since I've logged out, and the graphics driver
> change is probably irrelevant.

probably so.

> 
> Gnus and web browsing work OK. 
> 
> Fetchmail reports the error:
> 
>   fetchmail: Authorization failure on 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.registeredsite.com
>   fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> 
> It looks to me like fetchmail is sending a garbled address to the mail
> server.  However, the ~/.fetchmailrc file is unchanged: 
> 
> poll pop.registeredsite.com
> user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"


it doesn't look garbled to me, but run fetchmail as

fetchmail -cv

to get a nice verbose console output about what it's doing with out
actually fetching the mail.

> 
> At the time the system ceased working, there was a burst of unusual
> reports in my messages log. 
> 
>   Oct 25 15:35:42 teufel gconfd (brownh-8670): Failed to send buffer

.. snipped gconf errors...


surely not related. provided you've got a normal network running,
fetchmail should work. It doesn't give a rat's ass about gconf.

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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:35:10PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > 
> > >> Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported
> > >> by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning
> > >> eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking
> > >> tools.  In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with 
> > >> a
> > >> non-functional driver.
> > 
> > > Looks like my last post didn't make it here. I had a solid, dependable 
> > > working MB NIC until a couple of weeks ago, when Sid suddenly started 
> > > renaming it to eth1 during boot (without explanation) and then saying 
> > > eth0 
> > > didn't exist. I didn't notice (not exactly the kind of thing you expect), 
> > > disabled it and installed a PCI card, then when that didn't work, had to 
> > > alter my interfaces file to eth1. I think the MB NIC is probably not 
> > > faulty, but I'm short of time at the moment and it isn't urgent.
> > >
> > > Not exactly standard Debian behaviour, or at least it wasn't once.
> > 
> > well. I'm silly for jumping into this, but the important word above is
> > 'Sid'.
> > 
> > I suspect that's 'nuff said. :)
> 
> There's probably some way to get udev to be consistant with device
> names.  If you know the module that gets installed, I wonder if putting
> it in /etc/modules would cause it to name consistantly.  
> 
> Also, I vaguely remember that pre-udev, pre-devfs, there was a way to
> identify the unit-number based on MAC address when the module was
> loaded.  I think it was aliases in /etc/modules.conf.  That file doesn't
> exist on my box.  So I guess you'll have to learn about udev to get
> persistant naming.

I think there is pretty good persistent netowrk interface naming at
this point. I was just pointing out that the OP above was complaining
about it not working in sid... which is pretty standard expectation
for Debian behavior. 

Regardless, though, its pretty straightforward to get persistent
naming provided you can get some bit of unique info about the device
out of the kernel. Once that's done, you *can* make a symlink with a
good name that will always point to the desired device, regardless of
what that device might be named...

not at my usual machine to provide a link to the udev rules tutorial,
but its pretty easy to find.

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Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:07:18PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:22AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Thanks Keith!  Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub.  Can 
> > something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using 
> > Lilo?
> >
> 
> I *think* you can just add kernel commands after specifying the
> image. So if the image you want to but is linked to vmlinuz then you
> could type
> 
> vmlinuz init=1
> 
> or
> 
> vmlinuz init=/bin/bash

IIRC, since you can pause the boot process, and to boot the default
entry just type "boot", I think you can just type "boot -s".

Doug.


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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 
> >> Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported
> >> by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning
> >> eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking
> >> tools.  In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with a
> >> non-functional driver.
> 
> > Looks like my last post didn't make it here. I had a solid, dependable 
> > working MB NIC until a couple of weeks ago, when Sid suddenly started 
> > renaming it to eth1 during boot (without explanation) and then saying eth0 
> > didn't exist. I didn't notice (not exactly the kind of thing you expect), 
> > disabled it and installed a PCI card, then when that didn't work, had to 
> > alter my interfaces file to eth1. I think the MB NIC is probably not 
> > faulty, but I'm short of time at the moment and it isn't urgent.
> >
> > Not exactly standard Debian behaviour, or at least it wasn't once.
> 
> well. I'm silly for jumping into this, but the important word above is
> 'Sid'.
> 
> I suspect that's 'nuff said. :)

There's probably some way to get udev to be consistant with device
names.  If you know the module that gets installed, I wonder if putting
it in /etc/modules would cause it to name consistantly.  

Also, I vaguely remember that pre-udev, pre-devfs, there was a way to
identify the unit-number based on MAC address when the module was
loaded.  I think it was aliases in /etc/modules.conf.  That file doesn't
exist on my box.  So I guess you'll have to learn about udev to get
persistant naming.

Doug.


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fetchmail authorization failure

[Haines Brown]

I replaced the stock nv driver under Etch with the nVidia proprietary
driver, and logged out and back in. When I did so, fetchmail was no
longer able to get authorization from my mail server. I should note
that it has been months since I've logged out, and the graphics driver
change is probably irrelevant.

Gnus and web browsing work OK. 

Fetchmail reports the error:

  fetchmail: Authorization failure on 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop.registeredsite.com
  fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)

It looks to me like fetchmail is sending a garbled address to the mail
server.  However, the ~/.fetchmailrc file is unchanged: 

poll pop.registeredsite.com
user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

At the time the system ceased working, there was a burst of unusual
reports in my messages log. 

  Oct 25 15:35:42 teufel gconfd (brownh-8670): Failed to send buffer
  Oct 25 15:35:42 teufel last message repeated 3 times
  Oct 25 15:36:10 teufel gconfd (brownh-8670): 
GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
  Oct 25 15:36:10 teufel gconfd (brownh-8670): Exiting
  Oct 25 15:39:08 teufel gconfd (brownh-19277): 
starting (version 2.16.1), pid 19277 user 'brownh'
  Oct 25 15:39:08 teufel gconfd (brownh-19277): 
Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" 
to a read-only configuration source at position 0
  Oct 25 15:39:08 teufel gconfd (brownh-19277): 
Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/brownh/.gconf" to a 
writable configuration source at position 1
  Oct 25 15:39:08 teufel gconfd (brownh-19277): 
Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to 
a read-only configuration source at position 2
  Oct 25 15:39:08 teufel gconfd (brownh-19277): 
Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults" 
to a read-only configuration source at position 3
  Oct 25 15:39:08 teufel gconfd (brownh-19277): 
Resolved address "xml:readonly:/var/lib/gconf/defaults" to a 
read-only configuration source at position 4
  
The problem here is that I don't use a GNOME (or any) desktop,
although I run a few GNOME applications. I've no idea what's going on
here, but it seems to involve resolving an address. 

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Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[Mumia W..]

On 10/25/2007 11:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Keith!  Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub.  
Can something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting 
using Lilo?


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Re: Set up fcitx in VNC ?

[Michael Yang]

Hi

Appreciated of your suggestions.
I tried some other key for calling fcitx app, but can't get it invoked.

Now I'm not sure if there is any problem on the setting of fcitx.
However, it works fine on the local display with CTRL_SPACE.

Is there any leads to check where could the problem arise from?

Thanks so much!
- Michael

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> u'd better set CTRL_SPACE key to another key. Windows use
> GetMeessage-TranslateMessage-SendMessage to process key event. before
> that, cross.exe will get hardware event and translate to key event.
> CTRL_SPACE key event will be translate to system event and program
> will not recive, just like some other keys. Ctrl+Atl+Del is the most
> femose one, maybe you know VNC client how to process it. If VNC client
> wanna process this kind of key by slef. It must change the procession
> which cross.exe normally do. Far as I know, most of VNC client don't
> do that.
> BTW, when u use VNC client under linux, It'll be all right.
> Because IM is processed by program slef under linux. It could hook
> CTRL_SPACE event and process it frist. However, Ctrl+Atl+Del still
> don't work.
>
> Michael Yang 写道:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I want to access my linux box with vncserver installed - Debian
> > lenny/sid
> > But I couldn't use my fcitx in vncviewer, the CTRL_SPACE key is
> > conflicted with the windows input methods.
> >
> > I have installed the vnc4server and vnc-common package, the xstartup
> > script is as follows:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
> > # unset SESSION_MANAGER
> > # exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> > [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
> > [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
> > xsetroot -solid grey
> > startxfce4&
> > export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
> > export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
> > export XIM=fcitx
> > export XIM_PROGRAM=fcitx
> > export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
> > export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
> > fcitx&
> >
> > Could anybody give any leads to set it up correctly?
> >
> > Appreciated for your helps.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > - Michael
> >
> >
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Re: Debian Sid, Xorg - mouse doesn't work

[Wayne Topa]

MRH([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. It 
> seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. The 
> result is I have no working mouse in X - it displays cursor, that's it. I 
> managed to operate the mouse with keyboard 'emulation', but it's very 
> inconvenient. I got the latest today - still no change.
> I'm sure the mouse is OK - it works on other PCs. This is USB mouse; and 
> it's configured both as evdev and /dev/mice (the reason for the double 
> config is that the mouse is connected through a KVM, but it worked before; 
> moreover I tried also 'standard' config with /dev/mice only - still doesn't 
> work). When I switch to console as root and do
> # cat /dev/mice
> I receive lots of 'garbage' when I move the mouse - so the system sees it.
>
> I removed xserver-xorg-input-evdev temporarily as it messed my keyboard; 
> but I still have problems with the mouse.
>
> May I get some help - what can I do? Or should I wait for some update which 
> eventually fixes the problem?

No relief here, your running sid, so all you can do is wait.

I have the same problem here on lenny.  Gpm & libgpmg1 both at version
1.19.6-25. Upgraded this morning.

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Re: Can't Remove Files

[Telly Williams]

>   It looks like your USB device has gotten corrupted (did you pull it
> out without unmounting first?).  I would suggest running
> "fsck -r /dev/sde1" to fix the problems -- you might lose some files,
> but odds are they aren't accessible any more anyway.
> 
>   Daniel

Daniel,

Thanks.  I had already tried that but then went at it again
after what you wrote.  I kept getting an error like:

"no fsck.vfat"

I found that I needed to install dosfstools and link the dosfsck
to the fsck.vfat like this:

ln -s /sbin/dosfsck /sbin/fsck.vfat

After that the command that you wrote worked, as well as deleted
the file that I was having trouble with.

I'm being verbose so that anyone else with this problem can
follow this thread.
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Re: HELP! apache2 won't start

[Rick Pasotto]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:59:54PM -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
> 2007/10/25, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > When I try to start apache all I get is
> >
> > # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> > Starting web server: apache2 failed!
> >
> > The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is?
> >
> > The config was working fine until I had to reboot.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> check the error_log, that will help.

Duh! Of course. Thanks. That solved the problem. The reason I didn't
look just now is that I *had* looked and there was nothing to indicate a
problem but then after trying (and changing) several things I failed to
look again.

All seem well now.

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Re: HELP! apache2 won't start

[Raquel]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:55:45 -0400
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When I try to start apache all I get is 
> 
> # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> Starting web server: apache2 failed!
> 
> The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is?
> 
> The config was working fine until I had to reboot.
> 
> -- 

What changes did you make to any of the config files between boots? 
I even had one site that I linked manually, which didn't work ...
for some reason.  When I used a2ensite, it worked.  Dunno.  I just
report the facts.

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liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his
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Re: HELP! apache2 won't start

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

2007/10/25, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> When I try to start apache all I get is
>
> # /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> Starting web server: apache2 failed!
>
> The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is?
>
> The config was working fine until I had to reboot.


Hello,

check the error_log, that will help.

Best regards,
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HELP! apache2 won't start

[Rick Pasotto]

When I try to start apache all I get is 

# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
Starting web server: apache2 failed!

The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is?

The config was working fine until I had to reboot.

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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Thierry Chatelet]

>
> Have you grepped that USB ID from the source to confirm it's in there?
> Despite what the website says, if the USB ID isn't in there, then it
> won't get loaded. Also, it looks like you're installing the module
> from the build tree instead of from the usual
> /lib/modules/... location, maybe your depmod hasn't picked it up.
>
> hth.
>
> A

Well, I am still fairly new to linux, so if you please help me a bit more:
How can i grep that USB ID from the source?
How can i install install the module from the usual /lib/
Sorry, but with my knowledge, I am feeling like I am reading ancient Greek!!!
Thierry


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Search for debian package for m560x kernel module package

[Jabka Atu]

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Good evening,.

Does any one have a m560x kernel driver as a debian package ?
since im new to packgaging and i didn't had any relevent experiance
with kernel module i would like to ask that some one will package it.

How can i create a source package that could be used in m-a ?


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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > where did you get these drivers? if they are from debian stable,
> > they're probably just not up-to-date enough. Either pull the source
> > from upstream or from lenny/sid and rebuild it.
> >
> 
> As said I am indeed running Etch!!!

woops, missed that.

> I tried sources from upstream, but no 
> luck!

Have you grepped that USB ID from the source to confirm it's in there? 
Despite what the website says, if the USB ID isn't in there, then it
won't get loaded. Also, it looks like you're installing the module
from the build tree instead of from the usual
/lib/modules/... location, maybe your depmod hasn't picked it up.

hth.

A


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[Thierry Chatelet]

This printer is working, printing and scanning. If you are under Etch, 
download the latest hplip sources, install it, and that's it!!!
Scan and printing are OK. ( As on October 25 2007)
Thierry


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Debian Sid, Xorg - mouse doesn't work

[MRH]

Hi,

I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. 
It seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. 
The result is I have no working mouse in X - it displays cursor, that's 
it. I managed to operate the mouse with keyboard 'emulation', but it's 
very inconvenient. I got the latest today - still no change.
I'm sure the mouse is OK - it works on other PCs. This is USB mouse; and 
it's configured both as evdev and /dev/mice (the reason for the double 
config is that the mouse is connected through a KVM, but it worked 
before; moreover I tried also 'standard' config with /dev/mice only - 
still doesn't work). When I switch to console as root and do

# cat /dev/mice
I receive lots of 'garbage' when I move the mouse - so the system sees it.

I removed xserver-xorg-input-evdev temporarily as it messed my keyboard; 
but I still have problems with the mouse.


May I get some help - what can I do? Or should I wait for some update 
which eventually fixes the problem?


Cheers,
Michal R. Hoffmann


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Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

[Pantor]

Hi lads,

Start Open Office 2.0 Writer,
press File then New,
go to Templates and Documents,
then press Templates icon,
then choose any from the list,
and get shit instead of document.

Andrius


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Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

[Wakko Warner]

Again, please do not top post.  Also, keep list mails on the list.

Pawe?? G??ga wrote:
> i have a kernel compiled fod 4gb , can this be the reason of these lacks ?

The way it works, there are 3 memory models.  1gb, 4gb, and 64gb.  This is
NOT the amount of memory in your machine.

1gb will give you access to upto 900mb but definately not 1024mb if you have
1gb actually installed.  For this, you need 4gb.

4gb will give you access to upto about 3072mb of memory.  This would be used
if you have more than 1gb of memory but not more than 3gb.

64gb will give you access to all of your memory (I do not know the upper
limit on this, but I'm almost certain it's not 64gb).  This also enabled PAE
extensions.  I don't know what motherboards support PAE, my original
understanding was that only machines that handle more than 4gb of physical
memory supported PAE and kernels compiled for PAE would only run on those
machines.  I was wrong on that.  Most recent boards I've dealt with (pIII
class and above) work just fine with PAE extensions even though hold less
than 1gb of memory.  This also enables 64-bit memory addressing (I think
that was the term.  See the kconfig for the option).

Be sure that your replies also go to the list.

> 2007/10/24, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > pgega wrote:
> >
> > Please do not top post.
> >
> > > I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does
> > > not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub.
> > >
> > > I completly do not know what  to do now.
> >
> > I'm using i386 debian with a custom kernel.  I'm running on xeon dual core
> > processors.  I did not set mem= on anything, but I do have the kernel
> > compiled for 64gb ram.  Using 2.6.23 and I notice no slowdowns having 4gb
> > of
> > ram.
> >
> > > On Oct 24, 1:20 am, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > > Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations.
> > > >
> > > > > For many years there have been 32-bit server motherboards that
> > > > > accept and use (in both Linux and Windows) up to 64GB RAM.
> > > >
> > > > I have a SuperMicro X7DA3+ board with 4gb of memory installed.  Here's
> > what
> > > > I see:
> > > > # uname -a
> > > > Linux vegeta 2.6.20-pae #4 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 4 18:10:06 EDT 2007
> > i686 GNU/Linux
> > > > # free
> > > >  total   used   free sharedbuffers
> > cached
> > > > Mem:   4150372 7098243440548  0 143332
> > 247752
> > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 3187403831632
> > > > Swap:0  0  0
> > > > #
> > > >
> > > > I have not compiled my kernel for 64-bit yet.  Given this I may
> > not.  I
> > > > really don't want to change my userland to 64-bit right now.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >  Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals
> > > >  Got Gas???
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Re: About bluez-pin package

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:36:02PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> With Sarge there was a package named bluez-pin, not available in Etch.  Does
> anyone know what will the correspondent Etch package be?  I wish to pair my
> phone with the PC without any desktop applets.
i think they have removed the package, have a look in the 
/usr/share/doc/bluez there is some source for a pin package or install the 
gnome or kde gui package
> 
> Thanks
> Rodolfo
> 
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Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

[Adrián Ribao Martínez]

El Jueves, 25 de Octubre de 2007, Tyler Smith escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can
> successfully connect to my home wireless using:
>
> iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794
> dhclient ath0
>
> and to unencrypted public access points using:
>
> ifconfig ath0 down
> iwconfig ath0 key off
> ifconfig ath0 up
> iwconfig ath0 ap any
> dhclient ath0
>
> However, my University uses WPA, TKIP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAP v2. I was
> advised to try network manager, but I couldn't get either
> network-manager-gnome or kdenetwork-manager to work on my laptop
> running fluxbox. network-manager-gnome reported that network manager
> wasn't running even when it was, and kdenetwork-manager reported that
> it could not find any network devices.
>
> I couldn't figure this out, so I removed network manager et al and
> installed wpa_supplicant. I read the man page, and wrote the following
> wpa_supplicant.conf script:
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=tyler
>
> network={
> ssid="SMU_PUBLIC"
> key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X NONE
> pairwise=TKIP
> eap=MSCHAPV2 PEAP
> identity="my-university-user-name"
> password="my-university-password"
> }
>
> I've attached the error message for this below. At this point I have
> no idea what to do. I don't know if the problem is the
> wpa_supplicant.conf, my wireless driver (madwifi), something needed in
> interfaces? If anyone can point me in the right direction that would
> be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler
>
> root:tyler# wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
> Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver
> 'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A' Configuration file
> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' Reading
> configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
> ctrl_interface_group='tyler' (DEPRECATED)
> Line 11: removed CCMP from group cipher list since it was not allowed for
> pairwise cipher Priority group 0
>id=0 ssid='SMU_PUBLIC'
> Initializing interface (2) 'ath0'
> EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
> EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
> EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
> EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
> EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> Interface ath0 set UP - waiting a second for the driver to complete
> initialization SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=20 WE(source)=13 enc_capa=0xf
>   capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
> Own MAC address: 00:16:cf:1d:c9:e4
> wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
> wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
> RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 10 usec
> ctrl_interface_group=1000 (from group name 'tyler')
> Added interface ath0
> Ignore event for foreign ifindex 6
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Trying to get current scan results first without requesting a new scan to
> speed up initial association Received 760 bytes of scan results (3 BSSes)
> Scan results: 3
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Try to find WPA-enabled AP
> 0: 00:16:c7:dc:00:e1 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
>skip - SSID mismatch
> 1: 00:16:c7:db:e8:e0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
>skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> 2: 00:16:c7:dc:00:a0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
>skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> Try to find non-WPA AP
> 0: 00:16:c7:dc:00:e1 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
>skip - SSID mismatch
> 1: 00:16:c7:db:e8:e0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
>skip - SSID mismatch
> 2: 00:16:c7:dc:00:a0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
>skip - SSID mismatch
> No suitable AP found.
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Scan timeout - try to get results
> Received 1002 bytes of scan results (4 BSSes)
> Scan results: 4
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Try to find WPA-enabled AP
>
> 
>
>   C-c C-cCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
> Removing interface ath0
> State: SCANNING -> DISCONNECTED
> wpa_driver_wex

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Scott Lair wrote:
OK, now I'm wondering what the differences are between genuine  
Postscript and

BR-script.and if those differences may cause trouble later on.


In the past, when I've run into trouble with off-brand  
implementations of Postscript, it's always been when printing from  
Adobe software.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, they tend to use features of  
Postscript that other people don't.  Adobe products also have  
problems printing to PCL6 printers -- it's common, at least under  
Windows, to have Adobe Acrobat Reader print pages that are mirror  
images of what they're supposed to be on PCL6 printers.  It's  
frustrating and comical at the same time.  Using PCL5e always seemed  
to fix it.


Note that having a "real" implementation of Postscript isn't always a  
guarantee, either -- I've had print jobs from Adobe Acrobat Reader  
error out with Postscript errors even on printers that supposedly had  
Adobe-licensed copies.


I wouldn't worry about it too much.  If you have trouble, you can  
always switch to foomatic and have it re-interpret the print job to a  
lower Postscript level, or send it as PCL.  Your computer will have  
to do a little more work, but your printouts will come out fine.  And  
you'll still have all the advantages of a networked printer.  I won't  
even buy printers without ethernet ports anymore -- it's just so much  
more convenient when I can plug them into the network.



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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:24, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> If you Google a bit, I think that you shall find that others have
> experienced difficulty with the gspca driver.
>
> If you are able to return the unit and purchase another, get a Philips
> SPC900NC/27.  It has glass optics (not plastic), it has superior
> performance in situations with low-illumination, and I found that it
> works with Debian etch.  About US$80.
>
> RLH

Well, I will have to find some one with $W, and resell it to them. I bought it 
on the net, and you never get a full description of what you are going to 
get. I bought it because I tried one with the same description, and it 
worked!!
Maybe I will be able to exchange it with that friend, but it *** me, because 
he is always teasing me to go back to $W, and I don't want to give him a 
chance to criticize Linux.
Thank you for your answer.
Thierry


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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> where did you get these drivers? if they are from debian stable,
> they're probably just not up-to-date enough. Either pull the source
> from upstream or from lenny/sid and rebuild it.
>
>
> A

As said I am indeed running Etch!!! I tried sources from upstream, but no 
luck!
Thank you anyway
T


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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

>> Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported
>> by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning
>> eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking
>> tools.  In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with a
>> non-functional driver.

> Looks like my last post didn't make it here. I had a solid, dependable 
> working MB NIC until a couple of weeks ago, when Sid suddenly started 
> renaming it to eth1 during boot (without explanation) and then saying eth0 
> didn't exist. I didn't notice (not exactly the kind of thing you expect), 
> disabled it and installed a PCI card, then when that didn't work, had to 
> alter my interfaces file to eth1. I think the MB NIC is probably not 
> faulty, but I'm short of time at the moment and it isn't urgent.
>
> Not exactly standard Debian behaviour, or at least it wasn't once.

well. I'm silly for jumping into this, but the important word above is
'Sid'.

I suspect that's 'nuff said. :)

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Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

[Pasi Oja-Nisula]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:04:59PM -, pgega wrote:
> I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does
> not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub.

Well, the mem-parameter is mainly used in limiting the available memory,
not the other way round. I would use that after you see all the 
memory, but the system is still slow. 

I don't think that you have mentioned your graphics card yet. 
As someone mentioned, at least in 32 bit world that memory is
taken away from memory under 4GB. That might not be your problem,
but something related to bios might very well be. I would concentrate the
effort to this before going on with the operating system. It might
be helpful to also search Windows users experiences with 4GB on
that motherboard. 

I was going to say that while you have tested all ram modules
separately, maybe the fourth ram socket on motherboard is faulty.
But I understand that the problem (slow boot etc) occurs only
when the fourth socket is occupied, but the bios reports the
same amount of available memory? 

Pasi


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Re: file system on / grew over night?

[Owen Heisler]

On Thu, 2007.10.25 10:08, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine
> is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one
> partition as per the installer suggestions.  I've cleared off
> enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk
> seems full: 
> 
> /dev/hda1  71G   65G  3.0G  96% /
> 
> But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB
> in use.  So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that
> I cannot find.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble
> shoot this?

A deleted file that is still open would cause the difference between df and du; 
run:

lsof | grep deleted

and perhaps large file(s) will be listed.


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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Joe]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote:

El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??:

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote:

I had the same problem.
The mistake was made while installing.
It is not possible to change things, e.g. having to configure more
than one ethernetcard.
I made a script of my own need and everythings works as I wanted it
to work. So, first man ifconfig, then man route and if needed, you might
start your script with init.d.
At next installing don't mention any NIC at all. The debian way to do
is a kind of mystery. When there's enough time I will rebuild it.

Are you seriously telling people that you can't add a NIC to Debian
without re-installing?  Get a life.

Now, if you're using some pointy-clicky lindows thingy, perhaps.  Get
rid of it.  


udev should find all your hardware.  If you find it doesn't, do the
old-fashioned method.  Find the right module (read the kernel-docs, read
the chips on your NIC, match them up), and insmod it.  If you need
parameters its easier (if you want a bit of a GUI) to install modconf
which will ask for the parameters and put them in the right place.

Your module name would go under /etc/modules and be loaded at each boot.

Once you have an eth* you can then go ahead and put it in
/etc/network/interfaces.

Done.

The Debian way isn't a mistery.  Read the debian-manual, man pages, and
if necessary, ask here.  


Could you, forget the theoretical explanation and show it by a simple
example? i have the same problem, and it can not be solve by ifconfig,
iwconfig, route and others. Broadcom card 4311, Compaq Presario v3019US.



1.
Looking in
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/networking/ \
bcm43xx.txt.gz it says its for Broadcom BCM43xx chips.

It mentions needing a firmware file.  I'm assuming this is some
	wireless stuff that I know diddly about.  

	To me, either a driver works or it doesn't.  


2.
aptitude search ~dbroadcom
shows up bcm43xx-fwcutter

3.  Both places refer the reader to http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

4.  It says that the page won't be updated anymore, to go to
http://linuxwireless.org

Which doesn't seem to help any.


Since I don't have a wireless card, there's no reason for me to install
bcm43xx-fwcutter.

It seems that the linux driver for your card requires that you steal the
firmware from another driver and stick it into the linux driver.  Good
luck with that.

Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported
by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning
eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking
tools.  


In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with a
non-functional driver.

Looks like my last post didn't make it here. I had a solid, dependable 
working MB NIC until a couple of weeks ago, when Sid suddenly started 
renaming it to eth1 during boot (without explanation) and then saying 
eth0 didn't exist. I didn't notice (not exactly the kind of thing you 
expect), disabled it and installed a PCI card, then when that didn't 
work, had to alter my interfaces file to eth1. I think the MB NIC is 
probably not faulty, but I'm short of time at the moment and it isn't 
urgent.


Not exactly standard Debian behaviour, or at least it wasn't once.


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Re: Sendmail Problem

[Jeff Grossman]

> I just set up a Debian system using testing as the source.  I moved from a
> Gentoo Linux system.  I installed Sendmail.  I am able to send and receive
> e-mail outside of this box with no problems.  But, cron is not able to
> send any e-mails from within the box.  Here is the error message:
>
>- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
> jeff
> (reason: 530 5.7.0 Authentication required)
> (expanded from: jeff)
>
> It wants to authenticate local mail to local users.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff

I have done some digging around with my problem.  Here is some more
information.  I have the two lines in my sendmail.mc files:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, NAME=MTA-v4, Port=smtp')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, NAME=MSP-v4, Port=submission, M=Ea')dnl

With those two lines I get the following error when using mailx:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/mail # mail -v jeff
Subject: Test Message
This is a test
.
Cc:
jeff... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] port 587 via relay...
220 apple.stikman.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9; Thu, 25 Oct
2007 12:35:54 -0700; (No UCE/UBE) logging access from:
localhost(OK)-localhost [127.0.0.1]
>>> EHLO apple.stikman.com
250-apple.stikman.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
>>> STARTTLS
220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
>>> EHLO apple.stikman.com
250-apple.stikman.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
>>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=47 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
530 5.7.0 Authentication required
root... Using cached ESMTP connection to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
>>> RSET
250 2.0.0 Reset state
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1071
530 5.7.0 Authentication required
postmaster... Using cached ESMTP connection to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
>>> RSET
250 2.0.0 Reset state
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=2095
530 5.7.0 Authentication required
MAILER-DAEMON... Saved message in /var/lib/sendmail/dead.letter
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 apple.stikman.com closing connection
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 69

If I change the two lines in my sendmail.mc file to this:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, NAME=MTA-v4, Port=smtp')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, NAME=MSP-v4, Port=submission')dnl

Then the mail works as expected.  I had the following line in my old
sendmail.mc file when I was using Gentoo:

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Name=MSA, M=Ea')

Because I want port 587 to require authentication and cron worked fine. 
But, when I put the M=Ea in the Debian version of Sendmail, I am not able
to send mail using cron.  Is it possible to me to require authentication
on the 587 port, but still allow local mail on the server to work?

Sorry for the lengthy e-mail.  But, thanks for any help that you guys can
offer me.

Jeff


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Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:17:33PM -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to make a smooth transition fom windows to Debian in my work PC.

:)

> 
> I needed to be sure that not having win on this machine wouldn't affect
> my work, since unfortunatelly we use many windows-based applications.
> For that, I thought of first installing a proof-of-concept Debian inside
> a VM. This way, I could go on installing Debian and all the tools I
> needed without having to break my workflow.
> 
> Since I wanted to make the move from MS to freedom, before I started
> with the adventure, I freed space in my HD and told the VM to use my
> physical disk instead of creating a virtual one. At the moment, I have a
> fully working Debian Lenny that runs smoothly inside the VM.
> 
> The current situation is as follows:
> 
> When I boot the PC, I am presented with a GRUB menu with three options:
> Debian's stock kernel, the same kernel but single-user, and Windows.
> Currently, I am only able to boot Windows. After doing that, When I boot
> the VM, I get the same GRUB menu and can boot Debian without a problem.

the path to the root partition is different depending on whether you
are in the VM or not. Probably its one of two things:

1. a driver issue. the drivers needed to boot in the VM don't work on
the actual hardware but since the initrd was built inside the VM, the
actual hardware drivers aren't present and it can't boot or

2. the devices are named differently depending on whether you're in
the VM or the actual hardware resulting in the kernel looking in the
wrong place to mount the root file system.

> 
> The problem is when I want to boot Debian directly on the PC and not
> inside the VM. The boot process starts normally, but then hangs. The
> last lines that appear in the boot are:
> 
> Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
> Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
> Done.
> Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
> 
> And from there, I can only Control-Alt-Delete or do a cold reset.

actually, from there you can *wait* and it should drop you to a
busybox shell. it takes a few minutes before it gives up. (this
assumes busybox is built into your initrd. I think that's the
default). 

from there you can poke around and see what there is too see. look at
the contents of $ROOT (echo $ROOT) to see where it thinks root should
be located. look in /dev and see what partitions are available and see
if they match up. you *might* be able to just reset $ROOT to the right
partition, exit, and carry on with the boot. 

I suspect its the second of the two problems and you simply need to
develop two boots stanzas for debian, one for the VM and one for the
hardware. then you just choose the one you need. 

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Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

[Sven Joachim]

Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When I configure apt.conf.d/proxy, then things work...  I use apt-get
> and aptitude with sudo as a non root user.  Might be the the
> environment variables are lost with sudo?

Exactly that.  If you want to preserve them, you should add a line
with

Defaults!env_reset

or modify existing lines.   Note that this may be a security problem
on multi-user systems where people are supposed to only have limited
access to sudo, but on your home PC you probably don't care.

Cheers,
   Sven


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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Russell L. Harris]

* Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071025 07:35]:
> Hi,
> I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site 
> (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', 
> unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work.
> It is suppose to use module gspca.
> Here are the output of what I tried:
> lsusb:
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0471:032d Philips
> 
> When it the webcam is plugged in, it should load the module, but it doesnot. 
> So I did modprobe gspca, and here is the output of dmesg:
> 
> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> usbcore: registered new driver gspca
> /build/buildd/linux-modules-extra-2.6-2.6.18/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64_gspca/gspca_core.c:
>  
> gspca driver 2.6.18 registered
> 
> Now, on the maintener site the product ID 032d indicate a Philips SPC210NC, 
> and the sticker on mine indicate SPC215NC.
> 
> What else can I try to have it recognize?
> 
> Oh: I am running AMD64-Etch, and I tried the cam at a friend place running 
> $W, 
> it is working.
> Thanks
> Thierry
> 

If you Google a bit, I think that you shall find that others have
experienced difficulty with the gspca driver.

If you are able to return the unit and purchase another, get a Philips
SPC900NC/27.  It has glass optics (not plastic), it has superior
performance in situations with low-illumination, and I found that it
works with Debian etch.  About US$80.

RLH


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Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote:
> 
> > >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at
> > >>4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB
> > >>job?
> > >>
> 
> > >>What other options are there?
> > >>
> > >
> > >Why roll your own when there are *MANY* disk wipers out there.
> > >Everything from srm & sfill in the secure-delete package, to wipe,
> > >to dban.sourceforge.net.
> > 
> > Thank you, reading up on them now.  I was just wondering if there was 
> > another standard device I could use on all systems.
>  
> 
> OpenSSL has rand
> 
> If you have another source of data the size of your drive, run openssl
> enc on the raw partition.  It all depends on the non-repeat-length you
> need.

you could do this.

modprobe dm-crypt
head -c 64 /dev/urandom |cryptsetup create tempcrypt /dev/to/be/wiped 
dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/tempcrypt

this would fill the disk with encryption which while not strictly
random, does at least look like encrypted data. I'm not sure how
secure this is, but it does run pretty fast. I get between 25 and 30
MB/s

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Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> Hi,
> I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site 
> (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', 
> unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work.
> It is suppose to use module gspca.
> Here are the output of what I tried:
> lsusb:
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0471:032d Philips
> 
> When it the webcam is plugged in, it should load the module, but it doesnot. 
> So I did modprobe gspca, and here is the output of dmesg:
> 
> Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> usbcore: registered new driver gspca
> /build/buildd/linux-modules-extra-2.6-2.6.18/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64_gspca/gspca_core.c:
>  
> gspca driver 2.6.18 registered

where did you get these drivers? if they are from debian stable,
they're probably just not up-to-date enough. Either pull the source
from upstream or from lenny/sid and rebuild it. 


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Re: file system on / grew over night?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:08:14AM -0400, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine
> is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one
> partition as per the installer suggestions.  I've cleared off
> enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk
> seems full: 
> 
> /dev/hda1  71G   65G  3.0G  96% /
> 
> But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB
> in use.  So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that
> I cannot find.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble
> shoot this?

follow Ralph's advice and reboot to a live-cd. 

In cases of suddenly full drives, start looking in /var/log first for out
of control logs or /var/cache fro some runaway thing. 

hth

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Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:22AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks Keith!  Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub.  Can 
> something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using 
> Lilo?
>

I *think* you can just add kernel commands after specifying the
image. So if the image you want to but is linked to vmlinuz then you
could type

vmlinuz init=1

or

vmlinuz init=/bin/bash

from the lilo prompt. That would get you into runlevel 1 or into just
a bash shell respectively.

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Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:41:35PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can
> successfully connect to my home wireless using:
> 
> iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794
> dhclient ath0
> 
> and to unencrypted public access points using:
> 
> ifconfig ath0 down
> iwconfig ath0 key off
> ifconfig ath0 up
> iwconfig ath0 ap any
> dhclient ath0

I'm responding as I need to learn about this stuff and maybe can help,
but I don't know much... 

> 
> However, my University uses WPA, TKIP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAP v2. I was
> advised to try network manager, but I couldn't get either
> network-manager-gnome or kdenetwork-manager to work on my laptop
> running fluxbox. network-manager-gnome reported that network manager
> wasn't running even when it was, and kdenetwork-manager reported that
> it could not find any network devices.
> 
> I couldn't figure this out, so I removed network manager et al and

I agree with this. network-manager, althought it does some good
things, seems kind of cryptic and hides what's happening. IMO. 

I've read over your output below and have some comments about what I'm
reading, but as to whether its a hardware/driver issue, I can't say,
so take this with appropriate salt...

> installed wpa_supplicant. I read the man page, and wrote the following
> wpa_supplicant.conf script:
> 
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=tyler
> 
> network={
> ssid="SMU_PUBLIC"
> key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X NONE
> pairwise=TKIP
> eap=MSCHAPV2 PEAP
> identity="my-university-user-name"
> password="my-university-password"
> }
> 
> 

okay.

> root:tyler# wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
> Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 
> 'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
> Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
> ctrl_interface_group='tyler' (DEPRECATED)

you could replace 'tyler' with 1000 which is what it does below and
probably get rid of the (DEPRECATED) warning, but I assume that's no
big deal. might be worth it to see what its been replaced with though.


> Line 11: removed CCMP from group cipher list since it was not allowed for 
> pairwise cipher
> Priority group 0
>id=0 ssid='SMU_PUBLIC'

great, ssid is set.

> Initializing interface (2) 'ath0'
> EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
> EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
> EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
> EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
> EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
> Interface ath0 set UP - waiting a second for the driver to complete 
> initialization
> SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=20 WE(source)=13 enc_capa=0xf
>   capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5

might be worthwhile to research what those two setting mean...

> Own MAC address: 00:16:cf:1d:c9:e4
> wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
> wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
> RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 10 usec
> ctrl_interface_group=1000 (from group name 'tyler')

see what I mean about group? 

> Added interface ath0
> Ignore event for foreign ifindex 6
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
> RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
> RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
> State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Trying to get current scan results first without requesting a new scan to 
> speed up initial association

okay. this is interesting. it seems like it first looking in some
cached results somewhere instead of doing an actual scan.

> Received 760 bytes of scan results (3 BSSes)
> Scan results: 3
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> Try to find WPA-enabled AP

you're trying to connect with WPA, so this makes sense.

> 0: 00:16:c7:dc:00:e1 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
>skip - SSID mismatch
> 1: 00:16:c7:db:e8:e0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
>skip - no WPA/RSN IE
> 2: 00:16:c7:dc:00:a0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
>skip - no WPA/RSN IE

the three results returned from that cache are shown and

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

[Martin Marcher]

Forgot :)

to me the wpa config file looks ok.

this is what I have there:


# WPA-PSK/TKIP

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
ssid="the_essid"
#key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
#proto=WPA
#pairwise=TKIP
#group=TKIP
scan_ssid=1
psk="geheim"
}

--EOF

please note that I have commented out most of the TKIP, AES stuff as
wpa_supplicant usually is capable of finding it by itself, also in
/usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples there's a "catch-all" file IIRC
that just tries everything (radius as well as non radius)




2007/10/25, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can
> > successfully connect to my home wireless using:
>
> in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this:
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>   wpa-driver wext
>   wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> this make ifup and ifdown work "as expected" - bring up wpa_supplicant
> and then the interface.
>
> hth
> martin
>
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Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

[Martin Marcher]

2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can
> successfully connect to my home wireless using:

in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this:

iface eth0 inet dhcp
  wpa-driver wext
  wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

this make ifup and ifdown work "as expected" - bring up wpa_supplicant
and then the interface.

hth
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Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

[Steve Lamb]

Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
> Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
> Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
> Done.
> Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...

> And from there, I can only Control-Alt-Delete or do a cold reset.

> The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX280 P4-HT with 2GB RAM and a 80Gb IDE HD.

> Any ideas?

First off what VM are you using?  The most common would be VMWare but
that is not the only option.  If we talk about solutions based on a bad
presumption it would lead to frustration.

When I last messed with running Debian inside a VM as well as booting
natively (back in, *cough*'01*cough*) I recall it taking some doing to
get the mounts to line up inside the VM and outside the VM.

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Waiting for root file system... ...

[Cassiano Bertol Leal]

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Hi

I am trying to make a smooth transition fom windows to Debian in my work PC.

I needed to be sure that not having win on this machine wouldn't affect
my work, since unfortunatelly we use many windows-based applications.
For that, I thought of first installing a proof-of-concept Debian inside
a VM. This way, I could go on installing Debian and all the tools I
needed without having to break my workflow.

Since I wanted to make the move from MS to freedom, before I started
with the adventure, I freed space in my HD and told the VM to use my
physical disk instead of creating a virtual one. At the moment, I have a
fully working Debian Lenny that runs smoothly inside the VM.

The current situation is as follows:

When I boot the PC, I am presented with a GRUB menu with three options:
Debian's stock kernel, the same kernel but single-user, and Windows.
Currently, I am only able to boot Windows. After doing that, When I boot
the VM, I get the same GRUB menu and can boot Debian without a problem.

The problem is when I want to boot Debian directly on the PC and not
inside the VM. The boot process starts normally, but then hangs. The
last lines that appear in the boot are:

Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...

And from there, I can only Control-Alt-Delete or do a cold reset.

The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX280 P4-HT with 2GB RAM and a 80Gb IDE HD.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Cassiano Leal
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Re: ping www.yahoo.co.uk - connect: Invalid argument

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:02:14AM +0100, Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
> Does anybody know why I would get a response of connect: Invalid argument
> when I:
> 
> ping www.yahoo.co.uk
> I also get this error when I run commands like apt-get upgrade.

Please post the *exact* output (use copy-paste) including the command.

Regards,
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Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[Keith Christian]

Quoting Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> - Original Message 
> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:17:58 AM
> Subject: boot process hangs on init of mysqld
>
> When my boot process starts mysqld, it hangs.  How can I get it
> unstuck?  I cannot ssh into the machine because the boot process
> hasn't progressed far enough.  So, I cannot edit the init scripts to
> remove mysqld.
>
> Is there some key-stroke sequence I might be able to try to interrupt
> the init.d scripts?  I've tried the obvious (ctl-C, ctl-D, etc.)
>
>
>
> You'll want to boot into "single user" mode.  Try these steps:
>
> 1. Boot the machine --- be ready at the console keyboard to press  
> "e" as in step 2 below.
>
> 2. At the GNU GRUB screen, press "e" within 1 - 2 seconds to stop  
> the boot process, to edit the kernel's boot parameters.
>
> 3. Press the down arrow key to highlight the line that looks similar   
>  to the following:
>
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2-6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro
>
> 4. With the highlight on that line, press "e" once again.
>
> 5. Screen changes to one where the line can be edited (See "Minmal  
> BASH-like line editing is supported", and a prompt "grub edit >".)
>
> 6. The cursor is at the end of the line, type "single" (the line now   
>  reads thus:)
>
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2-6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
>
> 7. Press the Return key.
>
> 8. The GNU GRUB screen reappears, press "b" to boot the system.
>
> 9. See a few screens of kernel messages, then a prompt "(or type  
> Control-D to continue:)"
>
> 10. Type the root password (if you type Control-D, the boot process  
> continues as if you weren't booting into single user mode.)
>
> 11. See a # shell prompt.  Make changes to the init scripts - you  
> may want to do this with the update-rc.d utility, for help, type
>
>man update-rc.d
>
> 12. When done with changes to the init script links, type "exit" at  
> the # prompt, and the machine continues the boot process as usual.
>
>
> ==Keith



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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:17:22 AM
Subject: Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld
Thanks Keith!  Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub.  
Can something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting   
using Lilo?
-- Mark



I don't have a machine with LILO on it to test with, but, try the word "single" 
at the LILO: prompt, e.g.

LILO: single

Press RETURN. This should bring it to single user mode, no guarantees, since I 
can't test.

==Keith


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Re: Alpine and Maildir

[Jeff Grossman]

> Jeff Grossman wrote:
>> Thank you.  I noticed it said that a Maildir patch exists for the Pine
>> package on Debian.  I did a search on packages.debian.org and did not
>> see
>> Pine listed.  Is that still a package that is available?
>
> http://packages.debian.org/pine-tracker
>
> Pine itself has to be built from source due to an abnoxious license.

OK.  Thanks for the information.

Jeff


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Re: Alpine and Maildir

[Joey Hess]

Jeff Grossman wrote:
> Thank you.  I noticed it said that a Maildir patch exists for the Pine
> package on Debian.  I did a search on packages.debian.org and did not see
> Pine listed.  Is that still a package that is available?

http://packages.debian.org/pine-tracker

Pine itself has to be built from source due to an abnoxious license.

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Re: Alpine and Maildir

[Jeff Grossman]

> Jeff Grossman wrote:
>> I am using Debian testing.  Is it possible to set Alpine up to use
>> Maildir
>> instead of mbox style mailboxes?=20
>
> Not until #405762 is fixed.

Thank you.  I noticed it said that a Maildir patch exists for the Pine
package on Debian.  I did a search on packages.debian.org and did not see
Pine listed.  Is that still a package that is available?

Thanks,
jeff


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Re: file system on / grew over night?

[Wayne Topa]

Michael A. Miller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine
> is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one
> partition as per the installer suggestions.  I've cleared off
> enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk
> seems full: 
> 
> /dev/hda1  71G   65G  3.0G  96% /
> 
> But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB
> in use.  So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that
> I cannot find.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble
> shoot this?


find / -size +2G -print
or

du -chs /root
and /var, etc

aptitude autoclean | clean

W

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Re: file system on / grew over night?

[Ralph Katz]

On 10/25/2007 10:08 AM, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine
> is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one
> partition as per the installer suggestions.  I've cleared off
> enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk
> seems full: 
> 
> /dev/hda1  71G   65G  3.0G  96% /
> 
> But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB
> in use.  So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that
> I cannot find.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble
> shoot this?
> 
> Thanks, Mike
> 

I'm no expert, but since you have no replies...  Why not play it safe,
shutdown the system.  Reboot with a rescue CD or knoppix to examine the
system safely.  For example, if you've been rooted, all the executables
would be suspect, thus leading you to not see the 18 GB.

Keep us posted.

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Re: Alpine and Maildir

[Joey Hess]

Jeff Grossman wrote:
> I am using Debian testing.  Is it possible to set Alpine up to use Maildir
> instead of mbox style mailboxes? 

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Alpine and Maildir

[Jeff Grossman]

I am using Debian testing.  Is it possible to set Alpine up to use Maildir
instead of mbox style mailboxes?  If not, I guess I can connect to the
inbox using imap, but how do I set up Alpine to also see my folders in the
~/Maildir directory?

Thanks,
Jeff


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Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

[Javier Vasquez]

On 10/25/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> was heard to say:
> > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages
> > through a proxy server whenever required.
> >
> > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with
> > no luck...  Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them.  Does
> > any one know how to overcome this?  Also, I liked the environment
> > variables solution because it can be temporally enabled/disabled,
> > without having to edit a config file everytime one wants to change...
> > I've tried looking in the man page, but didn't find anything...
>
>  How are you running aptitude and apt-get (command-lines)?  In particular,
> are you running aptitude as a user and then automatically su-ing to root?
> I wouldn't be 100% confident that this preserves environment variables.
>
>  Other than that, I'm not sure what could be happening: aptitude
> doesn't clear out the environment, and the code that reads http_proxy is
> used in both aptitude and apt-get.
>
>  Daniel

When I configure apt.conf.d/proxy, then things work...  I use apt-get
and aptitude with sudo as a non root user.  Might be the the
environment variables are lost with sudo?  I don't recall if when I
used apt-get with the environment variables I did it so under root and
not with sudo.  I can't tell...  I'd prefer using environment
variables, just to avoid overwriting configuration file every time...

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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? (followup)

[p]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:57:40AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my
> questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to
> reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon
> rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no
> effect, i.e. eth0 was still there (meaning that
> suspending isnt what caused it to vanish).
> 
> Since i cant repeat the problem i dont know what to do
> to try and solve it. But i am keeping the messages
> around so that if it does happen again i will be
> ready.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Jen
>

//

glad to hear you got eth0 upon reboot.   

for what it's worth, on one of my etch boxen, i 
don't have "sound" _sometimes_ unless i reboot.  
weird.

b.

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wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

[Tyler Smith]

Hi,

I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can
successfully connect to my home wireless using:

iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794
dhclient ath0

and to unencrypted public access points using:

ifconfig ath0 down
iwconfig ath0 key off
ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 ap any
dhclient ath0

However, my University uses WPA, TKIP, PEAP and EAP-MSCHAP v2. I was
advised to try network manager, but I couldn't get either
network-manager-gnome or kdenetwork-manager to work on my laptop
running fluxbox. network-manager-gnome reported that network manager
wasn't running even when it was, and kdenetwork-manager reported that
it could not find any network devices.

I couldn't figure this out, so I removed network manager et al and
installed wpa_supplicant. I read the man page, and wrote the following
wpa_supplicant.conf script:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=tyler

network={
ssid="SMU_PUBLIC"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X NONE
pairwise=TKIP
eap=MSCHAPV2 PEAP
identity="my-university-user-name"
password="my-university-password"
}

I've attached the error message for this below. At this point I have
no idea what to do. I don't know if the problem is the
wpa_supplicant.conf, my wireless driver (madwifi), something needed in
interfaces? If anyone can point me in the right direction that would
be great.

Thanks,

Tyler

root:tyler# wpa_supplicant -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default' 
ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
ctrl_interface_group='tyler' (DEPRECATED)
Line 11: removed CCMP from group cipher list since it was not allowed for 
pairwise cipher
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='SMU_PUBLIC'
Initializing interface (2) 'ath0'
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
Interface ath0 set UP - waiting a second for the driver to complete 
initialization
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=20 WE(source)=13 enc_capa=0xf
  capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf
WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
Own MAC address: 00:16:cf:1d:c9:e4
wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
Setting scan request: 0 sec 10 usec
ctrl_interface_group=1000 (from group name 'tyler')
Added interface ath0
Ignore event for foreign ifindex 6
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'ath0' added
State: DISCONNECTED -> SCANNING
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Trying to get current scan results first without requesting a new scan to speed 
up initial association
Received 760 bytes of scan results (3 BSSes)
Scan results: 3
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
Try to find WPA-enabled AP
0: 00:16:c7:dc:00:e1 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
   skip - SSID mismatch
1: 00:16:c7:db:e8:e0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
   skip - no WPA/RSN IE
2: 00:16:c7:dc:00:a0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
   skip - no WPA/RSN IE
Try to find non-WPA AP
0: 00:16:c7:dc:00:e1 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x11
   skip - SSID mismatch
1: 00:16:c7:db:e8:e0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
   skip - SSID mismatch
2: 00:16:c7:dc:00:a0 ssid='' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=0 caps=0x1
   skip - SSID mismatch
No suitable AP found.
Setting scan request: 0 sec 0 usec
Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
Scan timeout - try to get results
Received 1002 bytes of scan results (4 BSSes)
Scan results: 4
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
Try to find WPA-enabled AP



  C-c C-cCTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
Removing interface ath0
State: SCANNING -> DISCONNECTED
wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)
WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa
wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
wpa_driv

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[debian-guy]

Thanks Keith!  Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub.   
Can something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting  
using Lilo?


-- Mark

Quoting Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


- Original Message 
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:17:58 AM
Subject: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

When my boot process starts mysqld, it hangs.  How can I get it
unstuck?  I cannot ssh into the machine because the boot process
hasn't progressed far enough.  So, I cannot edit the init scripts to
remove mysqld.

Is there some key-stroke sequence I might be able to try to interrupt
the init.d scripts?  I've tried the obvious (ctl-C, ctl-D, etc.)



You'll want to boot into "single user" mode.  Try these steps:

1. Boot the machine --- be ready at the console keyboard to press   
"e" as in step 2 below.


2. At the GNU GRUB screen, press "e" within 1 - 2 seconds to stop   
the boot process, to edit the kernel's boot parameters.


3. Press the down arrow key to highlight the line that looks similar  
 to the following:


kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2-6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro

4. With the highlight on that line, press "e" once again.

5. Screen changes to one where the line can be edited (See "Minmal   
BASH-like line editing is supported", and a prompt "grub edit >".)


6. The cursor is at the end of the line, type "single" (the line now  
 reads thus:)


kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2-6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single

7. Press the Return key.

8. The GNU GRUB screen reappears, press "b" to boot the system.

9. See a few screens of kernel messages, then a prompt "(or type   
Control-D to continue:)"


10. Type the root password (if you type Control-D, the boot process   
continues as if you weren't booting into single user mode.)


11. See a # shell prompt.  Make changes to the init scripts - you   
may want to do this with the update-rc.d utility, for help, type


man update-rc.d

12. When done with changes to the init script links, type "exit" at   
the # prompt, and the machine continues the boot process as usual.



==Keith


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Sendmail Problem

[Jeff Grossman]

I just set up a Debian system using testing as the source.  I moved from a
Gentoo Linux system.  I installed Sendmail.  I am able to send and receive
e-mail outside of this box with no problems.  But, cron is not able to
send any e-mails from within the box.  Here is the error message:

   - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
jeff
(reason: 530 5.7.0 Authentication required)
(expanded from: jeff)

It wants to authenticate local mail to local users.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff


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Re: DNS CNAME question

[Michael Shuler]

On 10/25/2007 07:51 AM, Rogelio wrote:
> Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so,
> please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything "wrong" RFC
> or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server?
>  
> (I'm using EveryDNS.net, and I'd like to make my CNAME records
> ns1->4.myDomain.com  correspond to
> ns1->ns4.EveryDNS.net.)

While aliasing your name servers might work, it also may not, depending
on the various DNS server software implementations and configurations
around the planet.  With that in mind, aliasing your name servers
introduces a high probability of problematic DNS resolution, query
failure, and "improper" authority.

RFC 1034 [0]
4.2.1. Technical considerations:

"One of the goals of the zone structure is that any zone have all the
data required to set up communications with the name servers for any
subzones.  That is, parent zones have all the information needed to
access servers for their children zones.  The NS RRs that name the
servers for subzones are often not enough for this task since they name
the servers, but do not give their addresses.  In particular, if the
name of the name server is itself in the subzone, we could be faced with
the situation where the NS RRs tell us that in order to learn a name
server's address, we should contact the server using the address we wish
to learn.  To fix this problem, a zone contains "glue" RRs which are not
part of the authoritative data, and are address RRs for the servers."

If you alias to some other zone, then you potentially run into a state
of gluelessness - expect issues and possibly failures.  By using aliases
for your NS hosts, you have intentionally moved full resolution of your
zone records, as well as those zones dependent on your name servers
outside of the ability to have all the data they need in the current
authority chain.  In addition, a glue record can never be an alias, as
this completely defeats the entire purpose of seeding the authority
chain.  See section 6 of RFC 1034 for details on authority.

RFC 1035 [1]
3.3.11. NS RDATA format

"NSDNAME A  which specifies a host which should be
 authoritative for the specified class and domain.

The NS RR states that the named host should be expected to have a zone
starting at owner name of the specified class."

NS records should point to a *host* - a host is an A record:

3.2.2. TYPE values

"A   1 a host address"

If you alias your NS records to some other name server hosts, then your
name server will be intentionally stating, "I don't have the expected
information you are asking for - go somewhere else and ask..." - expect
issues and possibly failures.

==

OK, enough with RFCs and on to my opinion...

>From experience in running large-scale DNS services, the only "real"
reason for doing what you wish to do, when you strip out the seemingly
logical justifications for doing so, is vanity...  You wish to appear to
the world, or your vhost customers, or for whatever reason you may have,
as personally performing your own DNS services and maintaining a larger
infrastructure than you really have.

Use the proper NS hosts of the DNS service provider that you are
actually using - give them the credit for providing you (in the case of
everydns.net, for free (have you donated?)) a robust DNS setup, and have
your customers use the proper everydns.net NS hosts, if this is the
case.  Glue records, authority chaining, forward/reverse records of
those in authority, etc. will all be "proper", and you give public
props, via whois database entries, to the folks that are actually
providing the service and servers you are using.

If you absolutely must have vanity NS records pointing to someone else's
hosts, they must be A records, and you must provide glue at the TLD name
server, if you are using your own vanity NS names for your own domain.
Expect serious issues when everydns.net needs to move IP addresses.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Michael Shuler

[0] http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=1034
[1] http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=1035


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Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[Keith Christian]

- Original Message 
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:17:58 AM
Subject: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

When my boot process starts mysqld, it hangs.  How can I get it  
unstuck?  I cannot ssh into the machine because the boot process  
hasn't progressed far enough.  So, I cannot edit the init scripts to  
remove mysqld.

Is there some key-stroke sequence I might be able to try to interrupt  
the init.d scripts?  I've tried the obvious (ctl-C, ctl-D, etc.)



You'll want to boot into "single user" mode.  Try these steps:

1. Boot the machine --- be ready at the console keyboard to press "e" as in 
step 2 below.

2. At the GNU GRUB screen, press "e" within 1 - 2 seconds to stop the boot 
process, to edit the kernel's boot parameters.

3. Press the down arrow key to highlight the line that looks similar to the 
following:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2-6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro

4. With the highlight on that line, press "e" once again.

5. Screen changes to one where the line can be edited (See "Minmal BASH-like 
line editing is supported", and a prompt "grub edit >".)

6. The cursor is at the end of the line, type "single" (the line now reads 
thus:)

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2-6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single

7. Press the Return key.

8. The GNU GRUB screen reappears, press "b" to boot the system.

9. See a few screens of kernel messages, then a prompt "(or type Control-D to 
continue:)"

10. Type the root password (if you type Control-D, the boot process continues 
as if you weren't booting into single user mode.)

11. See a # shell prompt.  Make changes to the init scripts - you may want to 
do this with the update-rc.d utility, for help, type

man update-rc.d

12. When done with changes to the init script links, type "exit" at the # 
prompt, and the machine continues the boot process as usual.


==Keith


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Re: Can't Remove Files

[Daniel Burrows]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:56:39PM -0600, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
was heard to say:
>   I mounted to device as: "mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/usbdisk".
>   I tried mounting as "-t usbfs" but I only got four files in
>   there: 001, 002, 003, devices.  I also manually unmounted and
>   then mounted with the "-o rw" option, but no dice.

  It looks like your USB device has gotten corrupted (did you pull it
out without unmounting first?).  I would suggest running
"fsck -r /dev/sde1" to fix the problems -- you might lose some files,
but odds are they aren't accessible any more anyway.

  Daniel


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Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

[Daniel Burrows]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
was heard to say:
> I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages
> through a proxy server whenever required.
> 
> However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with
> no luck...  Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them.  Does
> any one know how to overcome this?  Also, I liked the environment
> variables solution because it can be temporally enabled/disabled,
> without having to edit a config file everytime one wants to change...
> I've tried looking in the man page, but didn't find anything...

  How are you running aptitude and apt-get (command-lines)?  In particular,
are you running aptitude as a user and then automatically su-ing to root?
I wouldn't be 100% confident that this preserves environment variables.

  Other than that, I'm not sure what could be happening: aptitude
doesn't clear out the environment, and the code that reads http_proxy is
used in both aptitude and apt-get.

  Daniel


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Re: mouse emulation with X

[westk]

> How to move the pointer across the screen, using keyobard combinations?
> I remember there were X deafult keys. Any hints?
> How to customize keys?
>
> Thank you
>

Shift-Numlock should turn your numeric keypad into a "mouse". I don't
recall the clicks off-hand, but the pointer will move with the 1-9 keys
except for the 5, which I believe is the click. Some of the keys at top,
IIRC, convert the click to a left-, middle-, or right-click. I believe the
keys at the bottom are a click-and-hold and click-and-release.

I have no idea how to customize the keys.

Shift-Numlock again will return your keypad to normal function.

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Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:00:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/25/07 08:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the responses.  We do now use microfocus, but that is running
> >>> on SCO.  I was looking for a Linux version less expensive.  Licensing
> >>> for Microfocus on Linux is $500,000 for everything.  This is too keep
> >>> from having to go to Windows environment.
> >> $500,000???  There's a lot of "everything" that you're not telling
> >> us about.  Dozens of developer seats, thousands of CALs, "gold"
> >> service contract, etc?
> >>
> >> Is it that much more expensive than the SCO or Windows license?
> > 
> > Which certainly changes the potential answers to the "why COBOL"
> > question I asked that was never answered by the OP.
> 
> Probably because they have a ton of code already written in COBOL.
> Certainly it would cost more than $500K to port (and debug) all that
> code to another language.

Agreed.  

> 
> Besides, for the problem sets that COBOL is aimed at, it's a damned
> sight better than anything else out (there except maybe PL/I).

Ada seems to do a better job in any domain where its been tried.  The
code is more reliable (since the compiler catches so many mistakes that
would otherwise show up at runtime as bugs sometime down the road).  

Doug.


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Re: xkb settings messed up, seems to be two keyboards installed

[Micha Feigin]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:13:13 -0400
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:57:20 +0200
> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I have two keymaps that I used to switch between with xkb alt_shift_toggle.
> > At some point it stopped working. xfce xkb applet shows that the keyboard is
> > switching but it doesn't do anything, sometimes it decides to start
> > switching between US and en_US instead of IL. setxkbmap does change the
> > keyboard.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I've had trouble with the xfce applet with a very similar setup;
> removing the applet solved my problem.  Do you see the same problem
> without the applet?
> 

The applet doesn't seem to be the problem. It looks like I had the evdev driver
loaded without configuring a keyboard and it thus decided to configure the
keyboard by itself.

> [One sign I had that the applet is buggy is that it would frequently
> show "Null" for my alternate layout instead of the image it was
> supposed to display.]
> 
> Celejar
> --
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> ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator
> 
> 


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About bluez-pin package

[Rodolfo Medina]

With Sarge there was a package named bluez-pin, not available in Etch.  Does
anyone know what will the correspondent Etch package be?  I wish to pair my
phone with the PC without any desktop applets.

Thanks
Rodolfo


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Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

[pietia]

Wakko Warner pisze:


pgega wrote:

Please do not top post.

  

I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does
not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub.

I completly do not know what  to do now.



I'm using i386 debian with a custom kernel.  I'm running on xeon dual core
processors.  I did not set mem= on anything, but I do have the kernel
compiled for 64gb ram.  Using 2.6.23 and I notice no slowdowns having 4gb of
ram.
  


hi
Maybe it's issue of ram sticks - if one alone works
and there are problems with dual channel ?


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boot process hangs on init of mysqld

[debian-guy]

When my boot process starts mysqld, it hangs.  How can I get it  
unstuck?  I cannot ssh into the machine because the boot process  
hasn't progressed far enough.  So, I cannot edit the init scripts to  
remove mysqld.


Is there some key-stroke sequence I might be able to try to interrupt  
the init.d scripts?  I've tried the obvious (ctl-C, ctl-D, etc.)


FYI, the hardware is a Dell PowerEdge 1750.

Thanks for any help,

Mark


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mouse emulation with X

[xpol]

How to move the pointer across the screen, using keyobard combinations?
I remember there were X deafult keys. Any hints?
How to customize keys?

Thank you 

--
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file system on / grew over night?

[Michael A. Miller]

I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine
is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one
partition as per the installer suggestions.  I've cleared off
enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk
seems full: 

/dev/hda1  71G   65G  3.0G  96% /

But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB
in use.  So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that
I cannot find.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble
shoot this?

Thanks, Mike


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Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

[Ron Johnson]

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On 10/25/07 08:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote:
>>> Thanks for the responses.  We do now use microfocus, but that is running
>>> on SCO.  I was looking for a Linux version less expensive.  Licensing
>>> for Microfocus on Linux is $500,000 for everything.  This is too keep
>>> from having to go to Windows environment.
>> $500,000???  There's a lot of "everything" that you're not telling
>> us about.  Dozens of developer seats, thousands of CALs, "gold"
>> service contract, etc?
>>
>> Is it that much more expensive than the SCO or Windows license?
> 
> Which certainly changes the potential answers to the "why COBOL"
> question I asked that was never answered by the OP.

Probably because they have a ton of code already written in COBOL.
Certainly it would cost more than $500K to port (and debug) all that
code to another language.

Besides, for the problem sets that COBOL is aimed at, it's a damned
sight better than anything else out (there except maybe PL/I).

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? (followup)

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my
questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to
reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon
rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no
effect, i.e. eth0 was still there (meaning that
suspending isnt what caused it to vanish).

Since i cant repeat the problem i dont know what to do
to try and solve it. But i am keeping the messages
around so that if it does happen again i will be
ready.

Thank you!

Jen

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Set up fcitx in VNC ?

[Michael Yang]

Hi All:

I want to access my linux box with vncserver installed - Debian lenny/sid
But I couldn't use my fcitx in vncviewer, the CTRL_SPACE key is 
conflicted with the windows input methods.


I have installed the vnc4server and vnc-common package, the xstartup 
script is as follows:


#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
startxfce4&
export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
export XIM=fcitx
export XIM_PROGRAM=fcitx
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
fcitx&

Could anybody give any leads to set it up correctly?

Appreciated for your helps.

Thanks.
- Michael


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Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the responses.  We do now use microfocus, but that is running
> > on SCO.  I was looking for a Linux version less expensive.  Licensing
> > for Microfocus on Linux is $500,000 for everything.  This is too keep
> > from having to go to Windows environment.
> 
> $500,000???  There's a lot of "everything" that you're not telling
> us about.  Dozens of developer seats, thousands of CALs, "gold"
> service contract, etc?
> 
> Is it that much more expensive than the SCO or Windows license?

Which certainly changes the potential answers to the "why COBOL"
question I asked that was never answered by the OP.

Doug.


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Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote:

> >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at
> >>4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB
> >>job?
> >>

> >>What other options are there?
> >>
> >
> >Why roll your own when there are *MANY* disk wipers out there.
> >Everything from srm & sfill in the secure-delete package, to wipe,
> >to dban.sourceforge.net.
> 
> Thank you, reading up on them now.  I was just wondering if there was 
> another standard device I could use on all systems.
 

OpenSSL has rand

If you have another source of data the size of your drive, run openssl
enc on the raw partition.  It all depends on the non-repeat-length you
need.

Doug.


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Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:45:54PM -0700, francisco wrote:
> El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 22:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote:
> > > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote:
> > > > > I had the same problem.
> > > > > The mistake was made while installing.
> > > > > It is not possible to change things, e.g. having to configure more
> > > > > than one ethernetcard.

> > > > Are you seriously telling people that you can't add a NIC to Debian
> > > > without re-installing?  Get a life.
 
> > > Could you, forget the theoretical explanation and show it by a simple
> > > example? i have the same problem, and it can not be solve by ifconfig,
> > > iwconfig, route and others. Broadcom card 4311, Compaq Presario v3019US.
> > > 
 > 
> > It seems that the linux driver for your card requires that you steal the
> > firmware from another driver and stick it into the linux driver.  Good
> > luck with that.
> > 
> > Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported
> > by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning
> > eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking
> > tools.  
> > 
> > In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with a
> > non-functional driver.
> 
> Ah, ok i understand that you can not do it!. You can only in theory!
> 

You challenged me on setting up two NICs in Linux, not about getting a
half-assed driver to work.  Two different problems.

Doug.


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DNS CNAME question

[Rogelio]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, please
point me to a better listserv), but is there anything "wrong" RFC or best
practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server?

(I'm using EveryDNS.net, and I'd like to make my CNAME records ns1->
4.myDomain.com correspond to ns1->ns4.EveryDNS.net.)

Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

[Thierry Chatelet]

Hi,
I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site 
(http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', 
unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work.
It is suppose to use module gspca.
Here are the output of what I tried:
lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0471:032d Philips

When it the webcam is plugged in, it should load the module, but it doesnot. 
So I did modprobe gspca, and here is the output of dmesg:

Linux video capture interface: v2.00
usbcore: registered new driver gspca
/build/buildd/linux-modules-extra-2.6-2.6.18/debian/build/build_amd64_none_amd64_gspca/gspca_core.c:
 
gspca driver 2.6.18 registered

Now, on the maintener site the product ID 032d indicate a Philips SPC210NC, 
and the sticker on mine indicate SPC215NC.

What else can I try to have it recognize?

Oh: I am running AMD64-Etch, and I tried the cam at a friend place running $W, 
it is working.
Thanks
Thierry


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grub boot problem with md

[Greg Vickers]

Hi all,

I've got a Dell PowerEdge 830 that I've set up md raid1 on.  grub was 
installed as part of the installation process and I recently installed 
grub on sdb with the following commands:

grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)

The root partition is 1 on both these drives (see fdisk output below).

Here is the default boot from menu.lst:
title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686
root(hd0,1)
kernel  /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/md3 ro
initrd  /initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686

Here are the relevant bits from mdstat:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md3 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdc3[2](S) sdb3[1]
  979840 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdc2[2](S) sdb2[1]
  289088 blocks [2/2] [UU]

Here are the relevant mounted paritions:
# mount
/dev/md3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/md2 on /boot type ext3 (rw)

And output from fdisk:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   1   7   56196   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *   8  43  289170   fd  Linux raid 
/dev/sda3  44 165  979965   fd  Linux raid


# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   1   7   56196   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdb2   *   8  43  289170   fd  Linux raid 
/dev/sdb3  44 165  979965   fd  Linux raid


I power down the server and remove the first HDD, then power up the 
server and set the BIOS to boot off the second HDD.  As the server 
starts, I *think* I see the message "GRUB ..." for about five 
microseconds before the screen goes black and the only thing that is on 
the screen is the following message:

"Console redirection code"

And the server does not boot off the second HDD.  I've looked through 
all of menu.lst and console redirection is not configured to be active. 
 I have also copied the MBR from sda to sdb and the same problem 
happens.  Have I done something wrong with grub or is this something 
weird and Dell specific?


Thanks,
Greg


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ftp.us.d.o/http.us.d.o updated

[Josip Rodin]

Hi,

I just wanted to let people know that we changed the ftp.us.debian.org
and http.us.debian.org aliases to match, and include five mirrors
(up from two and four, resp.).

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Re: Listing packages

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

David Fox wrote:
> On 10/24/07, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> 
>>> aptitude can do that:
>>>
>>> aptitude -F '%p %t' search '~i'
> 
> That produces (imho) misleading output. It is telling me that I have
> many more packages that come from unstable then I believe I should
> have on a testing system. I have set pinning to prefer testing over
> stable, but I've also installed a few packages from unstable - mostly
> those that relate to X and nvidia stuff that isn't available in
> testing (specifically, nvidia-kernel-source && nvidia-glx).
> 
> Yet, for instance, it says 'tar' comes from unstable.
> 
> apt-cache policy says:
> 
> tar:
>   Installed: 1.18-2
>   Candidate: 1.18-2
>   Version table:
>  1.19-1 0
> 600 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
>  *** 1.18-2 0
> 990 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> So, what is that aptitude command telling me?
> 
> 

In the manual the description of the '%t' says
"The archive in which the package is found."

And aptitude seems to list the archive with the lowest priority.
So my advice about the aptitude command is indeed misleading since
aptitude does not tell from which archive the installed version of the
package was taken.
Thanks for correcting me.
Therefore the script of David Clymer is the only working solution.
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Slow scp/graphics connection.

[Rosin, Angela]

Apologies if you are seeing this twice: for some reason my account started 
bouncing the group yesterday and I had to resub.

I have a suite of 11 computers running debian etch (2.6.18-3-686 server, 
2.6.18-4-686 on the nodes).  We use Condor and nfs to manage user accounts from 
a central server.  Recently I've noticed an intermittent problem with graphical 
login: it takes a long time to log in and applications are slow.  This is odd 
as it's only the home directory that is exported - everything else is managed 
on the node.  I've also had a problem today with scp.  A 12MB file takes 2 
minutes and spents a lot of time stalled.  The network team have checked that 
it isn't a problem their end so I'm assuming it's a problem with this machine, 
either with the network card or transfer protocal compatibility issues.  I've 
had a mooch round the web but networking is so far out of my comfort zone I'm 
practically perching on broken glass and my normal response would be to restart 
the server.  As I've users running long jobs I'd appreciate some pointers to 
fixing it without resorting to a restart.

What I have done so far:  I've checked that the nfsd daemons are running.  I've 
restarted portmap.  I've run top to see if there is a rogue process running, 
ditto ps.  The machines use KDE as default and we are on 3.5.  Does anyone have 
an idea of where I should be looking to improve performance/iron out a problem. 
 I've attached ping output as well as ifconfig for the server.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Ang


Outward ping (server to node) is
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6009ms rtt 
min/avg/max/mdev = 8.020/35.689/41.240/11.334 ms

Inward ping (node to server) is
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7005ms rtt 
min/avg/max/mdev = 27.802/32.252/37.664/3.603 ms

Output of ifconfig -a
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:72:75:15:E2
  inet addr:138.253.199.46  Bcast:138.253.199.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::213:72ff:fe75:15e2/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:588806152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:3795714138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
  RX bytes:3204959342 (2.9 GiB)  TX bytes:2429011615 (2.2 GiB)
  Base address:0xdcc0 Memory:dfee-dff0

eth1  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
80-75-00-13-15-E2-72-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
  BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:767193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:767193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:1554133767 (1.4 GiB)  TX bytes:1554133767 (1.4 GiB)

sit0  Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
  NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

[Bob]

Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote:
  

if you type
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s

whereas
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0932449 seconds, 549 MB/s

Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at
4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB
job?

Maybe we could use 10 (or 100) files on RAM disk each 1MB in size filled
by /dev/urandom, then use /dev/random and some algorithm to determine
what portion of what file to use, using random to string together chunks
of pseudo-random files, you could also randomly replace/refill files,
it's not ideal but it should be good enough and if we could get it fast
enough so that it's the drive write speed that the bottle neck that
would be perfect.

What other options are there?



Why roll your own when there are *MANY* disk wipers out there.
Everything from srm & sfill in the secure-delete package, to wipe,
to dban.sourceforge.net.


Thank you, reading up on them now.  I was just wondering if there was 
another standard device I could use on all systems.



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Xorg keyboard and mouse problems (was: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X)

[Florian Kulzer]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:59:12 -0700, javi78 wrote:
> 
> Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work
> properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed "up"
> direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc.
> Then I saw in this forum that the package xserver-xorg-input-evdev could
> have a problem with other modules related to xorg. To remove
> xserver-xorg-input-evdev with apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-evdev solved
> my problem.

It seems that this issue is fixed now, at least as far as the non-US
keyboard layouts are concerned. Today I upgraded to hal 0.5.10-2 and
reinstalled xserver-xorg-input-evdev (1:1.2.0~git20070819-3). My ES
keyboard still works even when I force Xorg to load the evdev module.

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Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:59:12 -0700, javi78 wrote:
>
>Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work
>properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed
>"up" direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc.  Then I saw in this
>forum that the package xserver-xorg-input-evdev could have a problem
>with other modules related to xorg. To remove xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>with apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-evdev solved my problem.
>Thank you very much for your help.

It turns out the easier solution is to get rid of
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-xx-input.fdi.  It caused evdev
to be used in X.

It seems my latest update (in Sid) has removed the file from that
location.  Things are now back to normal again :-)

/M

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[solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

[Johannes Wiedersich]

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Kevin Mark wrote:
> I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or
> the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is
> different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions?

Thanks!

It turned out to be /etc/papersize

/===
mybox:/etc# cat /etc/papersize
a4
\===

did it.

Funny though, that dvips obeys the document specific paper size, while
ps2pdf ignores the document's settings. At the same time dvips has an
option to change the paper size 'on the fly', while ps2pdf does not.

(Latex users should be able select a paper size within the document
"documentclass[a4paper]..." etc. and not via /etc/papersize, IMHO. On
the other hand applications like iceweasel -- where a system wide paper
size makes much more sense: all printers on a system typically offer the
same paper size -- ignore /etc/papersize and always use "letter". )

Johannes
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Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

[Rob Mahurin]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:19:59PM +0800, Bob wrote:
> if you type
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s
> 
> whereas
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0932449 seconds, 549 MB/s
> 
> Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at 
> 4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB job?

Most scientific libraries have fast, high-quality random number
generators.  If you have libgsl0-dev installed, compile the attached
program with

$ make gsl_rng_info CFLAGS+="-lm -lgsl -lcblas -O6"

I get about 150 MB/s with the generator gfsr4:

$ time GSL_RNG_TYPE=gfsr4 ./gsl_random_spew spew | head -c 500m > 
/dev/null 
GSL_RNG_TYPE=gfsr4
generator type: gfsr4
seed = 0
first value = 2901276280

real  0m3.467s
user  0m2.612s
sys   0m0.672s

My computer has a different bus speed from yours, etc., so experiment.
I don't know whether this generator fills all 32 bits of each
generated number, or its period; those are in the GSL info manual
(from which I cribbed most of this program).  If you care about those
sorts of details, you might follow another poster's advice and
consider an existing solution.

Nota bene: don't call this program without redirecting stdout :)

Rob

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#include 
#include 
 
gsl_rng * r;  /* global generator */
#define CHUNKSIZE	(1024*1024)

/*
 * Calling this program with any arguments will spew infinite amounts
 * of binary data to your terminal.  Caveat emptor.
 */
int main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
	const gsl_rng_type * T;
 
	gsl_rng_env_setup();
 
	T = gsl_rng_default;
	r = gsl_rng_alloc (T);
   
	fprintf (stderr,"generator type: %s\n", gsl_rng_name (r));
	fprintf (stderr,"seed = %lu\n", gsl_rng_default_seed);
	fprintf (stderr,"first value = %lu\n", gsl_rng_get (r));

	if (argc==1)	return 0;
	else {
		/* spew binary data to stdout */
		unsigned long random_chunk[CHUNKSIZE];
		int i =0; 
		while (1) {
			for (i = 0; i

Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

[Kevin Mark]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:41AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have two etch machines with practically very similar configuration.
> Due to some mechanism that is rather mysterious to me, if I convert the
> very same ps-file the page size is changed on one of the two machines,
> while the same command works correctly on the other machine.
> 
> ps2pdf a.ps a.pdf
> 
> produces a pdf with page size 210x297 mm on machine A and a pdf with the
> wrong size of 215.9x279.4 mm on machine B.
> 
> The ps file is A4 (210 × 297 mm):
> 
> /=== a.ps 
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
> %%Title: Blatt02.dvi
> %%Pages: 2
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
> %%DocumentFonts: Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-Oblique
> %%+ PazoMath-Italic Palatino-Italic PazoMath CMR10 Palatino-Roman CMSY10
> %%+ CMEX10
> %%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
> %%EndComments
> 
> 
> \=== a.ps 
> 
> I can't find any hints on page settings in ps2pdf's documentation or how
> to force it or how it gets the idea of seemingly arbitrarily changing
> the page size.
> 
> Thanks,

I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or
the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is
different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions?
-K
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ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

[Johannes Wiedersich]

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Hello all,

I have two etch machines with practically very similar configuration.
Due to some mechanism that is rather mysterious to me, if I convert the
very same ps-file the page size is changed on one of the two machines,
while the same command works correctly on the other machine.

ps2pdf a.ps a.pdf

produces a pdf with page size 210x297 mm on machine A and a pdf with the
wrong size of 215.9x279.4 mm on machine B.

The ps file is A4 (210 × 297 mm):

/=== a.ps 
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software
%%Title: Blatt02.dvi
%%Pages: 2
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
%%DocumentFonts: Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-Oblique
%%+ PazoMath-Italic Palatino-Italic PazoMath CMR10 Palatino-Roman CMSY10
%%+ CMEX10
%%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
%%EndComments


\=== a.ps 

I can't find any hints on page settings in ps2pdf's documentation or how
to force it or how it gets the idea of seemingly arbitrarily changing
the page size.

Thanks,

Johannes
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Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

[Ron Johnson]

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On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote:
> if you type
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s
> 
> whereas
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0932449 seconds, 549 MB/s
> 
> Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at
> 4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB
> job?
> 
> Maybe we could use 10 (or 100) files on RAM disk each 1MB in size filled
> by /dev/urandom, then use /dev/random and some algorithm to determine
> what portion of what file to use, using random to string together chunks
> of pseudo-random files, you could also randomly replace/refill files,
> it's not ideal but it should be good enough and if we could get it fast
> enough so that it's the drive write speed that the bottle neck that
> would be perfect.
> 
> What other options are there?

Why roll your own when there are *MANY* disk wipers out there.
Everything from srm & sfill in the secure-delete package, to wipe,
to dban.sourceforge.net.

- --
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Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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