Re: FreeAgent USB HDD

[andy]

joseph lockhart wrote:

The new seagate usb hard drives spin down after aprox
3 min, this then causes the computer to get a
"waiting" response that it interperates as a bad
device while the device spins back up, but being
logged as a bad device it will not let you access the
drive. basically you need to clear the log so that it
doesn't show up as a bad device, and then write a
script to touch the drive every two minutes or so

hope that helps

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Thanks for that info Joseph - I wasn't aware that they did that. 
Certainly doesn't mention that in the booklet that came with the drive. 
Interestingly enough however, I can click the desktop icon, and the file 
will open up suggesting that from my machine's perspective, the drive is 
still mounted and operational. Or have I completely misunderstood how 
these things work?


Cheers

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Re: OT: Programming Robots

[Adrian Levi]

On 30/11/2007, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots.
> Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux
> applications that he should consider?  If so, how best to get started?
>
> Tom

For me part of the solution is to learn a programming language that
can do bitwise operations is a great start, C and pascal can
communicate directly to hardware fairly easily. Learning to program to
an old style parallel port can be useful, there are a ton of things
you can do with a parallel port. Very simply you can have 4 "address"
lines using LF FF Paper-out and online and 8 bits data. Use the 8 bits
data to turn things on and off and the address lines as limit switches
etc. You can interface to the port using common ttl type logic gates.
One IC he might like to look into is a ULN2003. In 1 IC package there
are 8 high current sinking transistors with protection (for turning on
and off relays etc).

He can also use an old style game port for an analogue input (for
position sensing).

All in all the posibilities are endless.

He is going to have a lot of fun.

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RE: vi issue in etch

[Joseph L. Casale]

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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: vi issue in etch

Joseph L. Casale wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console every key works
> correctly. In vi though everything is messed up! The standard
> shortcuts don't work. While following a tutorial, after an apt-get of
> a series of apps I noticed it start working like it should?
>
> Is there something specific to Debian I am unaware of?

Could be. But your question lacks important details such as what exactly you 
meant by "everything is messed up", "standard shortcuts". Please be specific.

While you are at it, consider using vim instead of vi unless you have a good 
reason not to do so.

hth
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Well, therein lies my lack of experience! I didn't even know there was a 
difference, vim is what I "meant" to use but didn't know I wasn't, hence the 
apt-get install vim made it all good! :)

Thanks!

Re: vi issue in etch

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console every key works
> correctly. In vi though everything is messed up! The standard shortcuts
> don't work. While following a tutorial, after an apt-get of a series of
> apps I noticed it start working like it should?
> 
> Is there something specific to Debian I am unaware of?

Could be. But your question lacks important details such as what exactly you
meant by "everything is messed up", "standard shortcuts". Please be
specific.

While you are at it, consider using vim instead of vi unless you have a good
reason not to do so.

hth
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Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

> Still having to manually delete the "To:" address after hitting
> "Reply-to-all" though.
> 

Try knode instead of icedove. It has better support for mailing lists. In
particular, you can have a shortcut to reply to a post and it gets sent to
the mailing list automatically.

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Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

[Owen Heisler]

On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote:
> Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are 
> ignored.  
> If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch 
> and 
> the command fails.  In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably 
> would have worked, with "startx" being run.  The enter key is also affected, 
> so 
> maybe I'd have had to hit it twice.  This is frustrating, obviously.  This
>  - does not seem to be related to system temperature,
>  - does not happen in X,
>  - doesn't seem to be happening consistently,
>  - and affects logging in (username & password) too.

I fixed this by upgrading dbus from 1.0.2-1 to 1.1.1-3.


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LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

[Bob Goldberg]

OK;

I agree - problem is DEFINITELY ldap authentication; forget about exim

my exchange server is setup to accept clear text, and anonymous OK (even
though I'm not trying to be anon).

here's the thing - I have no idea what is going on between ldapsearch, and
my exchange server.

I've tried netcat'g the host:389  to see if I could evesdrop, but to no
avail.
I've tried telnet'g to the host:389, and DO connect, but have no idea what
the communication should look like, and I get no responses at all regardless
of what I try.

ldap is definitely running - I can run custom queries, and ldap://queries
thru my windows browser with success.

the problem IS debian authenticating w/ the exchange server.

Can someone tell me some way to diagnose just what is happening in this
communication between ldapsearch & ldap server ???
Or can someone point me / show me   how a structured communication to the
ldap server would look like, so I can try sending it thru telnet - just to
see if I can get it to work that way Then I can try & figure out what
ldapsearch is sending...



TIA - Bob

random keystrokes ignored on console

[Owen Heisler]

Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are ignored. 
 
If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch and 
the command fails.  In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably 
would have worked, with "startx" being run.  The enter key is also affected, so 
maybe I'd have had to hit it twice.  This is frustrating, obviously.  This
 - does not seem to be related to system temperature,
 - does not happen in X,
 - doesn't seem to be happening consistently,
 - and affects logging in (username & password) too.

This is on a new ThinkPad running Debian Lenny/Sid amd64.  I thought this 
problem could be hardware-related, so I ran the hardware tests available on the 
Rescue & Recovery disc included with the laptop.  Two tests failed:
 System Board: USB Port Test - Abnormal Exit
 SMBIOS: Standards Test - Failed
but they don't seem related to the problem.

Any thoughts?  Thanks.


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vi issue in etch

[Joseph L. Casale]

Hi everyone,
I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console every key works correctly. In 
vi though everything is messed up! The standard shortcuts don't work. While 
following a tutorial, after an apt-get of a series of apps I noticed it start 
working like it should?

Is there something specific to Debian I am unaware of?

Thanks!
jlc

[debian-user] Browser Question -- Not urgent --respond if you have time

[Ted Hilts]

I am trying to pin down a general kind of problem occuring with a number 
of applications on both Windo and Linux.  This is not urgent so look 
at this problem if you have time or interest.


I am having a problem with a number of capture type applications one of 
which is a  Firefox add-on. But this is just one application I use as an 
example as it looks to me like the same or similar kind of problem is 
occurring to several applications running on several machines and I have 
even experiences this same or similar kind of problem on both Windo 
as well as Linux OS platforms.


Here goes -- remember my firefox add-on which is a capture type 
application is just an example.   I think I might better understand the 
source of the problem if I knew better the browser protocol when 
responding to a URL and the RSS protocol. One (of several) applications 
I am having a problem with is called scrapbook but my question is more 
general.  I am trying to figure out if the problem is the result of my 
limited bandwidth (dial up) because the process failure behavior closely 
resembles a failed browser completion or download completion while 
downloading or capturing a web page or other file and the fetch often 
process just hangs part way through the process.  I note that with a 
browser there is the reload or equivalent operation which restarts the 
browser.  With my dial up ISP connection it is very common for me to 
have to reload -- often several times over when the Internet traffic is 
slow and some servers are also slow and the web page is large.  So this 
has got me thinking that my problem with the scrapbook (and other 
capture type) application might be closely related to my problem with 
browsers and I would like to understand that fetching process better.  
For example the he scrapbook web page capture application puts out 
little messages like, connecting, loading, transfer of data, and since 
it is a web page capturing application it indcates capture of the web 
page into a file.  My question is more about the connecting, loading and 
transfer of data which are probably the same kind of operations and 
protocol that a browser uses.  What exactly is the difference between 
loading and transfer of data?  I think loading involves the file names 
and/or sections within the web page and transfer of data involves the 
data in those files -- for example, the CSS file or the use of 
Javascript or tables, etc.  But this is just an educated guess based on 
building web pages and I wanted to get the opinion of others more 
knowledgeable on brower and capture operations. The reason I don't want 
to talk about the scrapbook application specifically is because I have 
the same kind of problem with other capture type applications such as 
Offline Explorer and others and the problem occurs on all my computers.  
All these applications involve interaction with the Internet and the 
acquirement of web pages.  Some of my applications are more robust and 
recover from a broken dial up connection and some don't.  My data 
aquisition  tasks are  (capture of web pages) all done on 3 or 4  
Windozz machines because a lot of these particular applications 
either are not available on Linux. But I have several Linux machines 
doing this kind of acquisition and the problem is the same but fewer 
applications on Linux. For example, the firefox add-ons are often not 
available on Linux.  I did several years ago try to run wget and wput 
and other applications inside perl and bash scripts and even then I 
encountered this hanging problem. 
I am looking for confirmation or other opinions from the Debian user 
group because I may be missing something significant.  I have this 
nagging worry that perhaps OS resources (about which I know little in 
the way of socket operation, etc.) on both Windoz as well as Linux 
may also be involved that may result is time-outs because of a slow and 
crowded Internet connection. I have now waited 2 years for a fast 
Internet connection and it should be soon here and I don't want to find 
out to my surprise that I still have this problem to the same degree.


Any advise from anyone having had similar problems would be very welcome.

Thanks -- Ted
BTW, everyone have a nice day! Our temperature low here in North 
Alberta, Canada is about -15 degrees Celsius. Add in the wind factor and 
the layer of snow and we are talking COLD although I've seen it much 
colder out here. The fast Internet people came out yesterday and they 
could not install the connection because of the ice all over the 
scaffolding and roof.  Waited 2 years and now still waiting.



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adduser / chfn asking for root password

[Pigeon]

When I try to add a new user, adduser is calling chfn in such a
way as to cause chfn to ask for the root password. Output from
adduser looks like this:

# adduser test
Adding user test' ...
Adding new group test' (1010) ...
Adding new user test' (1010) with group test' ...
The home directory /home/test' already exists.  Not copying from /etc/skel'.
Enter new UNIX password: (password for "test" supplied)
Retype new UNIX password: (password for "test" reentered)
passwd: password updated successfully
Password: (root password supplied)
Changing the user information for test
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []: 
Room Number []: 
Work Phone []: 
Home Phone []: 
Other []: 
Is the information correct? [y/N] y
#

If I don't enter the root password I get this:

# adduser test
Adding user test' ...
Adding new group test' (1010) ...
Adding new user test' (1010) with group test' ...
The home directory /home/test' already exists.  Not copying from /etc/skel'.
Enter new UNIX password: (password for "test" supplied)
Retype new UNIX password: (password for "test" reentered)
passwd: password updated successfully
Password: (null password, or any password other than root, supplied)
chfn: PAM authentication failed
adduser: /usr/bin/chfn test' returned error code 1. Exiting.
# 

'ps ax' while waiting at the anomalous password prompt shows that chfn is
waiting.

adduser version: 3.102, passwd 1:4.0.18.1-7, perl: 5.8.8-7etch1

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Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

[s. keeling]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  On Nov 28, 8:40 pm, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bob Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > >  at the end of the day, this is what I want: my
> > >  debian(etch)/exim machine to accept all internet Email to my
> > >  domain, ignore all else, and relay on to my exchange5.5
> > >  server. This means I want exim to validate email recipients
> > >  thruldaplookups.
> >
> > Have you googled "exim ldap"?  You appear to be reinventing the
> [snip]
>  The closest thing to ANY success i've had is with ldapsearch as
>  follows:
>  ldapsearch -h exchange.domain.com -D
>  "CN=exim,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" -x -w "password" -b
>  "CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" "(memberOf=CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com)"
> 
>  this command at least seems to communicate w/ the exchange server,
>  and tells me "invalid credentials".  I can only ASSUME that means a
>  problem w/ the user/password, but I KNOW that info IS valid.

Then it's a problem communicating those credentials.  One's using md5
hashes and the other's expecting crypt/PAM/Kerberos?!?/...

>  I don't have a clue how to start figuring out what's wrong with
>  credentials I KNOW are good.

Then it's not the credentials, it's how they're being communicated
from one process to the other.  I'd ignore exim on this for now.  I'd
say your problem's ldap.  Sort it out and exim should fall into line.
Yes, ldap can be bloody frustrating depending on the existing LAN
software.

>  is debian REALLY talking to my exchange server? have no clue...  it
>  would help if I could telnet to my exchange server & submit a query
>  & see it work... but no one can even tell me if this can be
>  done!?!?

What?  Is the server accepting telnet connections?  I don't do
Windows, but surely it has some sort of telnetd/sshd by now?


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Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

[s. keeling]

Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  s. keeling:
> > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> 
> >>  e) Skype seems secure, but the Germans[1] might have cracked
> >> it and be blowing smoke in order to get Bad Guys to use
> >> encrypted Skype,
> >>
> >>  [1] 
> >> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3D5&objectid=3D104=77899
> >
> > "Might have cracked it and be blowing smoke?"  That's not how I read
> > that.  It reads here like the German police are just as averse to
> > Gestapo tactics as is the rest of Germany, and they're intent on
> > staying well into "letter of the law" territory (as well as being
> > _seen to be there_), with keen eyes on "intent of the law."
> 
>  I am not sure whether I understand you correctly, but if you are saying

Sorry, I was merely commenting on that article.  I've seen and read
quite a bit of recent German police intentions, as you've so well
documented below, but this article looked a lot different.  Perhaps
the policeman being interviewed was uninformed of the party line?

>  To appease critics, there are plans to deposit the source code of the

Recently, the British discovered they had a judge who didn't know what
a website was.

Excellent report, thanks.


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Re: OT: Programming Robots

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Thomas;

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Thomas H. George wrote:

> My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots.
> Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux
> applications that he should consider?  If so, how best to get started?

You might want to look at:

http://oap.sourceforge.net/

>
> Tom
>
>
>

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Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

[Klein Moebius]

* David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-28 18:56:04 -0800]:


> Could you share setup scripts and/or howto's ? I started to get this
> working when I migrated to gmail a few months ago, but never got it
> working the way I wanted. There was some confusion on how to set up
> ssl certificates (and there was a lot of mention about how to make
> this more secure than by default) so I only got the fetchmail part of
> it working. But the sending part still needs to be worked on. I have
> used postfix in the past with my other email domain, which no longer
> is available.

This is why I use msmtp to send mail from mutt.  Postfix is set up for
local local delivery only, and does not operate chrooted re the Debian
SELinux wiki on selinux setup.  msmtp allows multiple accounts for
sending, selectable within mutt, and is quite easy to set up.  Postfix,
on the other hand, is a bit more arcane in it's setup procedures - and
does not readily allow multiple smtp accounts for sending mail. ssl is
fully supported with msmtp as well.

So: fetchmail-procmail for popping external mail, msmtp for sending
external mail via smtp with ssl, and postfix-procmail for system
messages (logs and the like) delivered to my inbox.

Regards,
Klein

> 
> I sort of miss not having the mail stored locally on my computer, and
> the web interface to mail is slower than sylpheed and mutt of course.
> But then again, gmail is extending me a lot more free space for mail
> than I have space for to bring down it all :) and always growing --
> every day it seems my storage space is increasing by a few megabytes
> :).
> 
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Klein
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Re: FreeAgent USB HDD

[joseph lockhart]

The new seagate usb hard drives spin down after aprox
3 min, this then causes the computer to get a
"waiting" response that it interperates as a bad
device while the device spins back up, but being
logged as a bad device it will not let you access the
drive. basically you need to clear the log so that it
doesn't show up as a bad device, and then write a
script to touch the drive every two minutes or so

hope that helps

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Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

[bobg . hahc]

On Nov 28, 8:40 pm, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>
> >  at the end of the day, this is what I want: my debian(etch)/exim machine to
> >  accept all internet Email to my domain, ignore all else, and relay on to my
> >  exchange5.5 server. This means I want exim to validate email recipients
> >  thruldaplookups.
>
> Have you googled "eximldap"?  You appear to be reinventing the
> wheel.  :-)  The first hit I see is a ppt, "Using Exim WithLDAP".  And
> I see FreeBSD has exim-ldap...
>

hi s.

yes, I have... but none of my searches has revealed any information
that actually works.

All I can get out of exim is "Unrouteable address". no matter what
I've tried.
The ppt presentation you referred to looked like it had potential, but
not 1 single LDAP query in that ppt seemed to work correctly on my
windows browser. I figured if the information in there, which DID look
fairly straightforward, doesn't work right, then how can I trust
anything that follows.?

I certainly accept the notion that the problem is ME. But I can't seem
to find a place to start diagnosing what I'm doing wrong... I can't
seem to get even the simplest of things to work correctly when it
comes to using exim w/ ldap.

I consider myself expert, when it comes to most things *nix. But
working with ldap has been the most frustrating experience i've had in
a long time.

The closest thing to ANY success i've had is with ldapsearch as
follows:
ldapsearch -h exchange.domain.com -D
"CN=exim,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" -x -w "password" -b
"CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" "(memberOf=CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com)"

this command at least seems to communicate w/ the exchange server, and
tells me "invalid credentials".
I can only ASSUME that means a problem w/ the user/password, but I
KNOW that info IS valid.

I don't have a clue how to start figuring out what's wrong with
credentials I KNOW are good.
is debian REALLY talking to my exchange server? have no clue...
it would help if I could telnet to my exchange server & submit a query
& see it work... but no one can even tell me if this can be done!?!?


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LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

[Bob Goldberg]

Apologies for any duplicate posts I'm reading this thread on google
(groups), and I apparently can't reply/post from there

reply to s.:
hi s.

yes, I have...(google searches) but none of my searches has revealed any
information that actually works.

All I can get out of exim is "Unrouteable address". no matter what I've
tried.
The ppt presentation you referred to looked like it had potential, but not 1
single LDAP query in that ppt seemed to work correctly on my windows
browser. I figured if the information in there, which DID look fairly
straightforward, doesn't work right, then how can I trust anything that
follows.?

I certainly accept the notion that the problem is ME. But I can't seem to
find a place to start diagnosing what I'm doing wrong... I can't seem to get
even the simplest of things to work correctly when it comes to using exim w/
ldap.

I consider myself expert, when it comes to most things *nix. But working
with ldap has been the most frustrating experience i've had in a long time.

The closest thing to ANY success i've had is with ldapsearch as follows:
ldapsearch -h exchange.domain.com -D "CN=exim,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" -x
-w "password" -b
"CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" "(memberOf=CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com)"

this command at least seems to communicate w/ the exchange server, and tells
me "invalid credentials".
I can only ASSUME that means a problem w/ the user/password, but I KNOW that
info IS valid.

I don't have a clue how to start figuring out what's wrong with credentials
I KNOW are good.
is debian REALLY talking to my exchange server? have no clue...
it would help if I could telnet to my exchange server & submit a query & see
it work... but no one can
even tell me IF this can be done!?!?

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

[Bill Smith]

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, 
icedove

is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I
attempt to read a message.

I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid.



Try running iceweasel with the -safe-mode option and see if the 
problem is

reproducible then also.



Thanks for the tip. Iceweasel stopped crashing in safe-mode. I have 
then disabled all addons and enabled them one at a time to determine 
what is causing the crash. It turned out that the "Reply to list" 
extension was the culprit. Updating the extension did not help, so I 
just disabled it. It was not working anyway. Now icedove appears to be 
happy :)
Yes I discovered that a couple of days ago, the mail function was ok but 
if I tried
to access a news group Iceweasel just ground to a halt, strange, I have 
never been
able to get that extension working on any version of T'bird/Iceweasel on 
any OS.




Still having to manually delete the "To:" address after hitting 
"Reply-to-all" though.


Thanks,
Raj Kiran





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Re: [OT] LaTeX

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I
> > entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter
> > 'vim-addons show' I get:
> > 
> > Addon: latex-suite
> > Status: broken
> > Description: comprehensive set of tools to view, edit, and compile LaTeX 
> > documents
> > 
> > What is it that is broken? How do I fix it?

Found it: http://bugs.debian.org/446080

And the addon is not used unless you edit a latex file, so either you 
edit an existing file that starts with \documentclass... or you should 
':setf tex' (ex. for a new file).

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LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

[Bob Goldberg]

at the end of the day, this is what I want: my debian(etch)/exim
machine to accept all internet Email to

my domain, ignore all else, and relay on to my exchange 5.5 server.
This means I want exim to validate

email recipients thru ldap lookups.

seems like a simple enough task, even one that many people have
probably done. Can I find any examples

of an exim config file that demonstrates this? NO! doc's suck. So I
have no idea if my router config is

even close or not. I don't think I need an acl, but i'm not sure. such
a simple task, you'd think

there'd already be a sample config file out there somewhere

Having said that, I'm trying to figure out why my ldap lookup's aren't
working, so that leads me down a nasty diagnostic path.

1) can you do ldap queries using telnet? I seem to connect to my
server fine, but every query I insert,

returns nothing.

2) i'm trying to do ldap lookups using ldapsearch, and I'm not having
any luck at all, and i'm getting "invalid credential" error messages.

3) ldap is definitely running on exchange, because an ldap://server/query
entry in a browser, brings up a dialog box that will successfully search
using a custom ldap string,
and it all works.

4) if I can't use telnet to try to diagnose what's going on - where should I
start?
TIA - Bob

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

[David]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
snip


Note that I run an Athlon64 3800+ with one 1 GB stick.  Runs just fine.
4GB is not a "minimum size"


There are a lot of CPUs around now that people are installing into 
things like personal PCs and word processor/spreadsheet work stations 
that will operate just fine on 1Gb.


If you want that CPU to perform in the environment it was designed for, 
as it does in a high-end graphics workstation, you'll notice the difference.


If you're running one stick on a dual core, you're only running on half 
a CPU.

 and with one stick no DDR either.  Get the

fastest ram supported by the board (mine uses 800) and go with a good
brand.  Athlon/Opterons are very picky on ram.  They expect that ram
will meet the specs they say they do.  If it doesn't, things will be
unreliable.

Doug.

Regards,

David.


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Re: get info about memory and CPU

[Danesh Daroui]

Thank you so much it worked...

Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:20:02 +0100
> Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there
>> is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available
>> memory via command line. Is it possible? If yes, how?
>> 
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/meminfo
>
>   
>> Regards,
>>
>> Danesh
>> 
>
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Re: ATI X1050 fglrx freezes garbage

[Bernhard Kuemel]

Hi!

> The card works perfect with the r300 driver. What was your problem?

I just switched back to the xorg ati/radeon diver since I could not
remember. So ...

Flightgear (fgfs) says:

*WARN_ONCE*
File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 471
Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag
***

And takes a few seconds per frame even with very simple views. When
I hit escape to get the quit dialog it says:

*WARN_ONCE*
File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 470
Software fallback:ctx->Line.StippleFlag
***

Second life is down to 4-6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (actually quite independent
of the window size). After a while the monitor signal was lost
(screen blanked and Monitor LED went to standby). Computer had
crashed completely, didn't even send ARP replys when I tried to ping it.

glxgears fps is down to 1120, but at 20% CPU (AMD K7 2600+, 1,9
GHz). Usually it would use full CPU.

I'm having artefacts on my desktop background: I can see the kdm
login screen (Welcome to b, Username:, Password:) and some stripes
from the bars that open when enlightenment starts. Don't have that
with fglrx and nvidia (but with nv).

I'm attaching glxinfo  'lspci -nn'  Xorg.0.log  xorg.conf.

Bernhard

PS: I'm off the list (reading via archives) so there's no
References: header. Is this a problem?

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server glx version string: 1.2
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GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, 
GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, 
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
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GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
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GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, 
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, 
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, 
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20060815 AGP 8x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.1
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, 
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, 
GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, 
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, 
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, 
GL_MESAX_texture_float, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, 
GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_window_pos, 
GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, 
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, 
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, 
GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_copy_texture, 
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, 
GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, 
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, 
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, 
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GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, 
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, 
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, 
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object, 
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, 
GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, 
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, 
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, 
GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_MESA

Re: get info about memory and CPU

[Celejar]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:20:02 +0100
Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there
> is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available
> memory via command line. Is it possible? If yes, how?

cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/meminfo

> Regards,
> 
> Danesh

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get info about memory and CPU

[Danesh Daroui]

Hi all,

I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there
is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available
memory via command line. Is it possible? If yes, how?

Regards,

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Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

[andy]

andy wrote:

Hi all

Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard 
drive. I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and 
all was fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at 
all. There is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my 
system is concerned, it has ceased to exist.


How can I load this manually and how can I prevent this from happening 
again? I am not even sure how to debug this, so any help on that score 
would be useful too. It has something like 100GB of data on it from 
yesterday which I am extremely loathe to lose.


Thanks for any assistance.

Andy



This is the next exciting instalment:

I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the 
system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I 
have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being 
automounted the way they used to be (although, I cannot determine a 
turning point in this). They used to trigger an icon to be placed on my 
Gnome desktop once I inserted the stick but now I have to manually open 
the filesystem and click on the USB drive to mount it. I have double 
checked my prefs under Gnome for storage devices, and the option to 
automount and auto-browse are selected, so I don't know what is going on 
with that.


Anyway, crisis with the FreeAgent drive is over. Now I only have this 
mild curiosity re: the automount/auto-browse issue. Anyone have some 
light to shine on this?


Cheers.

Andy

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Re: getaddrinfo broken on amd64 etch system

[Aaron Hall]

[Resending (after joining whitelist) since original reply didn't show up
after 2 days. Apologies if this *does* appear twice.]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Bill Kelly wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> This is my first post here, so I hope I'm following the protocols
> correctly.
>
> I've done a netinstall of etch 4.0r1 with amd64 architecture on both a
> vmware system, and a real AMD Opteron system.  (glibc version
> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2)
>
> On both systems, getaddrinfo() seems to fail to do a reverse lookup
> from an IP address to the canonical hostname.  It doesn't return an
> error code, it just returns the original IP address that was passed
> in.  (Note, the `host` program, from the command line, works fine.)

Forgive me if I am missing something obvious, but don't you want
getnameinfo() for that purpose? As I understand it (and despite the
comment about replacing getipnodebyaddr() at the top of its manpage),
getaddrinfo() is not supposed to perform reverse lookups.

As near as I can tell, it was a bug that that behavior ever worked.

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Re: Problem with cheapo USB hub

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:


On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:

Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're
no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through
repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, with no devices actually appearing:

Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 41
Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
Nov 28 11:23:20 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 41


...


might be a power issue. How many devices plugged in there? are they
self-powered or pulling from USB? SOme of the hubs have a location to
provide power to the hub, but don't come with a brick for it :(

just a thought though.

A



And a good one, but not immediately correct. Interestingly: this comes 
with a brick. When the brick is *not* plugged in, I get no errors when 
plugging the hub in; when the brick is plugged in, I do:


Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: port 3 disabled by hub (EMI?), 
re-enabling...
Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 86
Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: usb 1-3: new low speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 90
Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: input: Logitech Trackball as /class/input/input4
Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] 
on usb-:00:0b.0-3
Nov 29 12:53:43 joehill kernel: usb 1-6: new full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 91
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: hub 1-6:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: hub 1-6:1.0: 4 ports detected
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: usb 1-6.3: new full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 92
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: usb 1-6.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: hub 1-6.3:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 29 12:53:44 joehill kernel: hub 1-6.3:1.0: 4 ports detected
Nov 29 12:53:54 joehill kernel: usb 1-6.3: reset full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 92
Nov 29 12:53:54 joehill kernel: usb 1-6.3: device not accepting address 92, 
error -110
Nov 29 12:53:54 joehill kernel: usb 1-6.3: reset full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 92
Nov 29 12:54:05 joehill kernel: usb 1-6.3: reset full speed USB device using 
ohci_hcd and address 92
Nov 29 12:54:05 joehill kernel: hub 1-6.3:1.0: hub_hub_status failed (err = 
-110)
Nov 29 12:54:05 joehill kernel: hub 1-6.3:1.0: get_hub_status failed

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FreeAgent USB HDD

[andy]

Hi all

Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive. 
I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was 
fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There 
is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my system is 
concerned, it has ceased to exist.


How can I load this manually and how can I prevent this from happening 
again? I am not even sure how to debug this, so any help on that score 
would be useful too. It has something like 100GB of data on it from 
yesterday which I am extremely loathe to lose.


Thanks for any assistance.

Andy

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Re: lost key

[joseph lockhart]

ran aptitude update again and the key seems to be
back, it was kind of strange though

thanks anyways

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Re: Install Question

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Install Question

> 
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > If a controller manufacturer makes drivers for your OS, but the OS
doesn't have them natively, how does one install Debian on to this
controller as the boot device?

 
>  Invariably this will involve some bit of hackery either in the
> installer itself, or in installing to some other disk and then
> migrating over.


> That was what I was kind of after. So it's not straight forward then
> :) I assume a kernel w/ drivers compiled in is going to be faster
> than one without and having a module loaded? How does one choose a
> new kernel (say one I compiled in a vm on esx for the sake of ease
> with my new driver) during a fresh install?

please turn on line-wrapping in your MUA.

Straightforwardness is of course relative. 

Speed is only an issue at boot time. Once the module is loaded and
hardware is detected then there would be no difference in performance
between a statically compiled kernel driver or a loaded module, ISTM. 

We're getting into specifics now without enough specific information,
but for installation purposes, I would probably compile the module on
another machine, against the right headers, and then insert that
module into the initrd image during install. You can switch over to a
VT and do quite a lot inside the installer. I would think (haven't
tried it) that you could edit the conf files for the initrd builder
and get that module loaded (off a floppy or something) into it. Of
course you need the module to see the disk during install too, don't
you? 

Again there are many ways to do this stuff, and the specifics of the
situation matters. It's not something I've had to do, so I can't
really address it in more than this general way...

A


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Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

[Wu-Kung Sun]

On Nov 28, 2007 6:17 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It offers a couple of option to disable/configure it. However what I
> find disturbing is how gmail 'knows' what extensions I have installed on
> my machine. Is there a bug in iceweasel/firefox that leaks out some
> information on extensions to the remote servers?
>

It is definitely possible to detect some/many of a user's extensions.
In fact, not long ago someone released code to block users with the
adblock extension.  Here is some more info:
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060823/detecting-firefox-extentions/
http://www.ush.it/2007/10/11/detect-noscript-poc/

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Re: Problem with cheapo USB hub

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're 
> no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through 
> repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, with no devices actually appearing:
>
> Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using 
> ohci_hcd and address 41
> Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
> Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
> Nov 28 11:23:20 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 41

...


might be a power issue. How many devices plugged in there? are they
self-powered or pulling from USB? SOme of the hubs have a location to
provide power to the hub, but don't come with a brick for it :(

just a thought though.

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Re: OT: Programming Robots

[Paul Csanyi]

2007/11/29, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2007/11/29, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots.
> > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux
> > applications that he should consider?  If so, how best to get started?
> >
> > Tom
>
> Hello,
>
> wow ! great for your grandson, and you for supporting him. What kind
> of robot does he have ?  A Lego Mindstorm ?  Or does he want to build
> his own robot ? For example those that follows light or a white line
> ...
>
> Best regards,
> Sergio

For me the question is also interesting.
I have Lego Mindstorms.

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Disk Spin-down problems: nmbd to blame

[brian]

Hi running Debian etch on an NSLU2. USB2 Disk will spin-down by itself 
after 10 minutes idle. /dev and /var/log are on RAMFS.


Slug2:~# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda2 on /public type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
ramfs on /mnt/tmpdev type ramfs (rw,maxsize=128)
/dev on /dev.state type none (rw,bind)
/mnt/tmpdev on /dev type none (rw,bind)
ramfs on /mnt/tmpvar type ramfs (rw,maxsize=256)
/var/log on /var.log.state type none (rw,bind)
/mnt/tmpvar on /var/log type none (rw,bind)

/dev/sda1 is also mounted with "noatime".

As long as nmbd is not started spin-down works perfectly.
I used strace to look at the nmbd process, there I can see that it is 
the access to /var/cache/samba/browse.dat that is causing the disk to be 
continually re-read.


# strace -t -p1924 -etrace=open,close,read,write
Process 1924 attached - interrupt to quit
17:26:54 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:27:15 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:27:35 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:27:55 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:27:55 close(16)  = 0
17:28:16 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:28:36 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:28:56 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:29:16 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:29:37 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:29:57 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:30:07 close(16)  = 0
17:30:17 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:30:38 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:30:58 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:31:02 open("/var/cache/samba/browse.dat.", 
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 16

17:31:02 write(16, "\"HOME\"c00010"..., 216) = 216
17:31:02 close(16)  = 0
17:31:22 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:31:33 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:32:04 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:32:04 close(16)  = 0
17:32:24 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:32:41 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:33:12 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:33:32 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:33:52 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:34:13 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
17:34:13 close(16)  = 0

So I added a symlink as follows:

/var/cache
# ls -l
insgesamt 28
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2007-11-14 09:33 apt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2007-07-02 20:52 apt-show-versions
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2007-10-02 21:10 debconf
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2007-06-27 19:19 dictionaries-common
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2006-08-06 10:51 locate
drwxr-sr-x 16 man  root 4096 2007-06-27 18:30 man
drwxrwxr-x  2 mt-daapd root 4096 2007-11-29 16:40 mt-daapd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   14 2007-08-26 17:30 samba -> /var/log/samba

/var/cache/samba now is symlinked to /var/log/samba, which is on the ramfs.

I can cat /var/cache/samba/browse.dat OK and it shows the correct 
contents. Seems like I maybe haven't done this correctly. /var/log/samba 
has its own contents:


/var/log/samba
# ls -l
insgesamt 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  216 2007-11-29 17:20 browse.dat
drwx-- 4 root root0 2007-08-20 21:36 cores
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3321 2007-11-29 16:40 log.nmbd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1396 2007-11-29 16:40 log.smbd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 2007-08-23 07:45 printing

So I am wonderering what else may be wrong. Seems like nmbd is really 
only accessing this file (According to strace at least).


Could anyone give me  some ideas on debugging this?

Cheers Brian



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Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:30:10PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I have a big disk that I cannot backup due to space constraints and want
> to encrypt it.  It is an ext3 external WD MyBook drive.  I keep movies
> music and backups on there so its nothing I cannot lose, but I would
> hate to spend time ripping all my CDs and DVDs again.

you may have to, assuming you don't want to spend the money on another
drive. 

> 
> I run Debian Etch on the laptop it is attached to and I mount the MyBook
> manually, not relying on automounting.
> 
> Is it as "simple" as running the following:
> 
> cryptsetup create  root /dev/sda1 -v -y -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -h sha1 -s 128
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/mapper/root bs=512 skip=0 seek=0.

it would be that simple if you really wanted to wipe your disk...

to my knowledge, you cannot "convert" a drive, you have to move
everything off of it. One really kludgey solution, provided the sizes
are appropriate, is to kill *part* of the drive leaving enough space
to add a partition to store the data and then convert half the disk at
a time. But then you'll end up with two encrypted partitions, which
may not be what you want. 

> 
> Do I have all the tools I need in Etch?  I installed Etch with encrypted LVM 
> partition option, so
> I assume I have all I need?

yup.

It comes down to this. Backups -- if its something you don't want to
have to go through the work to replace, then you should back it
up. Even if it's something that can't be "lost" because you have
original cds lying around, is the *effort* to re-rip it all something
you don't want to "lose". 

my recommendation is: pick up another drive, slap it in a cheap
IDE-USB box and copy that stuff. Then, when you're done with the
change, you'll have a lovely backup you can stick in your safe... and
you'll have a spare drive floating around for when one dies. 

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Re: Logitech mouse V220 : tilt wheel buttons not working

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

strawks wrote:

Hello,

I have two inputdevice sections because I have 2 mice. Where did you get 
the advice not to use evdev? Here is one of them:


I would like to use evdev since the tilt buttons won't work with the
mouse driver. The problem is that the Device option (/dev/input/event6
in your config file) change depending on what devices are connected and
the order in which they are connected and so I can't use this option.
It seems that my config is correct and the bug comes in fact from the
evdev driver itself
(http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg69202.html)



Absolutely correct: those event numbers change, depending what you boot.

Hugo


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Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:


Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, icedove
is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I
attempt to read a message.

I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid.



Try running iceweasel with the -safe-mode option and see if the problem is
reproducible then also.



Thanks for the tip. Iceweasel stopped crashing in safe-mode. I have then 
disabled all addons and enabled them one at a time to determine what is 
causing the crash. It turned out that the "Reply to list" extension was 
the culprit. Updating the extension did not help, so I just disabled it. 
It was not working anyway. Now icedove appears to be happy :)


Still having to manually delete the "To:" address after hitting 
"Reply-to-all" though.


Thanks,
Raj Kiran


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Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Celejar wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:56:23 +0530
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

privacy implications? Disabling javascript renders most sites pretty 
useless. I have played around with noscript for a couple of months 
before turning it off.


"Most sites pretty useless"?  Not most sites that I use.


FOSS sites are well behaved when it comes to supporting standards. But 
most of the rest, banking sites, airline and railway sites for example, 
are mortally dependent on javascript and do not degrade gracefully in 
its absence. A rather unfortunate trend that is apparently becoming more 
common.



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Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:44:28AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> reliable drive space can be a pain.  Where can I buy a new drive under 8
> GB for my 486?  It calls any larger drive an error.

go to the BIOS and set it to "no drive is present" for such a drive.
You cannot use it as boot drive (but you can boot from floppy or cd or
another drive), but once booted Linux will use it.

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nvidia quadro nvs 140 and etch

[Anders Lennartsson]

Is it difficult (possible?) to backport the nvidia 100.14.19 packages
to etch?

I have noted some changes in the packaging, placing and naming of some
files that is evident in the pre/post inst and rm scripts. Anything
else to take into consideration?


Background is that I'm helping a collegue with a new Dell D830 laptop
which has a nVidia NVS Quadro 140 graphics card. The version of
nvidia-graphics-drivers in etch does not support this card (and vesa
seems to fail to, at least in the native resolution).

The documentation to nvidia's drivers says it needs xorg >= 6.7 or
so. But the Debian/sid packages at version 100.14.19 requires xorg >
2:1.4 which corresponds to xorg 7.4 (I think). Etch ships with 2:1.1.*
corresponding to 7.1. So the nvidia drivers should be usable with etch.



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Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Kelly Clowers wrote:


Firebug sets the value of the DOM element window.console to "Firebug" and
creates the elements window.console.firebug and console.firebug



Thank you for that info. This indeed should be the way gmail detects the 
 presence of firebug. I just hope sites do not start taking things like 
this into account when generating dynamic content.


Thanks,
Raj Kiran


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Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Ron Johnson wrote:



  Disabling javascript renders most sites pretty
useless. I have played around with noscript for a couple of months
before turning it off.


Why?  Noscript is great...


Sure, it is. Maybe I should give it another try, but it was too much of 
a bother to "Temporarily allow..." sites and reload them when something 
does not work.




Is there some way to keep javascript enabled while limiting the amount
of information the remote site can "see"?


Be careful what you store in your web browser.


I generally save only harmless passwords in the browser and try to 
remember the rest. Unless there is a serious security bug, I do not 
think remote sites would be able to access them. In any case, I am 
confident such bugs would get fixed in sid rather rapidly. I was more 
worried about sites trying to get smart depending on the browser 
version/os/installed plugins, etc.


Thanks,
Raj Kiran


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Re: OT: Programming Robots

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

2007/11/29, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots.
> Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux
> applications that he should consider?  If so, how best to get started?
>
> Tom

Hello,

wow ! great for your grandson, and you for supporting him. What kind
of robot does he have ?  A Lego Mindstorm ?  Or does he want to build
his own robot ? For example those that follows light or a white line
...

Best regards,
Sergio


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OT: Programming Robots

[Thomas H. George]

My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots.  
Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux 
applications that he should consider?  If so, how best to get started?


Tom


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Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

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On 11/29/07 08:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>  
>> Hard drives aren't *that* expensive, are they?
> 
> This is a pervasive attitude.  Yes, unless you have a recent box, adding
> reliable drive space can be a pain.  Where can I buy a new drive under 8
> GB for my 486?  It calls any larger drive an error.

Linux shouldn't do that.

Besides, Wal-Mart sells new Linux boxes for US$200.

>   I don't know if I
> could put an 80 GB drive in my PII.  

Why not?

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Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:23:24PM +0900, David wrote:
> I.E.Broadbent wrote:
> >AN UPDATE:
> >
> >Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug,  ... some further news I have
> >just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs
> >(BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities
> >for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?)   ... he has spotted (must get myself
> >a new pair of specs or even learn to read... I looked on gigabytes site
> >but I misseed this) that Patriot modules (which is what we have used for
> >this) are not listed as being tested/approved by gigabyte.  It could be
> >that they are drawing too much current and that would explain the
> >stuttering, and also why when Thierry upped the power it worked.  (You
> >might not have used Patriot chips Thierry...but it could be that they
> >too were out of recommended bounds for power needs.)
> >
> >I'm going to get the Patriot units swapped for 4 'listed' modules and
> >see what happens then will update the list with the results... but
> >if this is the root then others may want to take note that the Gigabyte
> >board/set-up seems to be power-critical (sensitive) if all slots are
> >populated.
> >
> Sounds like you're onto something.
> 
> And sorry for stating what might appear to be the obvious, but make sure 
>  your modules are matched pairs also.

Note that I run an Athlon64 3800+ with one 1 GB stick.  Runs just fine.
4GB is not a "minimum size" and with one stick no DDR either.  Get the
fastest ram supported by the board (mine uses 800) and go with a good
brand.  Athlon/Opterons are very picky on ram.  They expect that ram
will meet the specs they say they do.  If it doesn't, things will be
unreliable.

Doug.


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Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:11:39PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 7:06 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > AIUI, enabling JavaScript enables the remote site to run javascript on
> > your box.  It doesn't do any sort of audit of what it will run.  So I
> > would assume tht it can do whatever javascript is capable of.
> >
> > Can javascript read my .ssh directory and grab my id_rsa or id_dsa?
> 
> Javascript the language can - i.e. you could write a script file in JS
> instead of Perl. However, JS that is run in a web page is sandboxed.
> If it could read your files it would be considered a (very) major security
> flaw in that browser's JS implementation and the news would be all
> over the tech sites.
> 

So how big is the sandbox?  What is the worst that a mal JS could do?
So we don't keep site passwords in the browser's "shall I remember this
for the future" but instead keep it in a separate file in the home
directory.  I would assume then that after visiting a site where I had
to enter a password, I should exit and restart the browser before
visiting another site?

Doug.


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Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
 
> Hard drives aren't *that* expensive, are they?

This is a pervasive attitude.  Yes, unless you have a recent box, adding
reliable drive space can be a pain.  Where can I buy a new drive under 8
GB for my 486?  It calls any larger drive an error.  I don't know if I
could put an 80 GB drive in my PII.  

Doug.


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no sound through HDMI

[Chris Purves]

Hello,

I have posted on the alsa-user mailling list two days ago with no
response, so I thought I would see if the Debian community can help me
out.

I have been trying for the last week to get sound through my HDMI port with no
success.  I have a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard
http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2579
with a Realtek ALC889A audio CODEC.  I am running Debian Lenny on a 2.6.18
kernel.  Originally I was using the ALSA drivers included with the kernel and
the Debian packaged ALSA libraries and utilities.  With that configuration I
was able to use the analogue output.  The S/PDIF connector was listed by
aplay, but not the HDMI audio.

I downloaded the ALSA drivers from the Realtek website
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3
and configured and installed the drivers while still using the Debian
libraries and utilities.  I am now able to see the HDMI device listed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC882 Digital [ALC882 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 0: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


I have tried to test the sound

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/sounds/alsa$ aplay -D plughw:1,0 test.wav
Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo

but there is no sound from the TV speakers.

The driver being used is snd-hda-intel and it is being loaded by udev.  I
would appreciate any help that can be provided.

Thanks.

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Re: Top-posting (was Re: CD to acc)

[Pantor]

David Brodbeck wrote:


On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Robert Hodgins wrote:




But then some genius gave us the > sign to allowed us to select how 
far back in a thread we wished to read and also saved our scroll 
wheels many many miles of rolling through text that we had already 
read only to find a one-liner at the bottom of the message.


Actually, that's a drawback, not a benefit.  Because people who top-post 
don't have to roll through the previous text to add their comments, they 
forget to trim out the irrelevant parts.  This results in huge messages 
with lots of deeply indented text.  This is highly annoying to people 
who read in digest mode.



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Thank you, lads, very much. Now it is clear for me a story and 
preferences is changed.



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4.0: Problems with samba browser of the Konqueror

[Tero Mäntyvaara]

Hi

I have problems to get samba browser of the Konqueror work in my
workgroup. How could I reset the all networking setting to state as they
where after Debian installation? Or should I do some changes to
Konqueror settings?


Tero Mäntyvaara


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Re: [OT] LaTeX

[Samuel Bächler]

Ctan.org recommends
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/
as a document to start with.

Cheers

Sam


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Re: aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

[Romain JACQUET]

Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit :

Romain JACQUET wrote:
  

When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there
is no candidate version!



[...]
  

aptitude  why fglrx-driver
No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed.


This only tells you if fglrx-driver is a dependency of which package
(aptitude(8)).
  

aptitude show fglrx-driver|grep Version
Version: 8.43.2-1



Maybe you have to change something in your apt configuration.
What is the output of

apt-cache policy fglrx-driver

?
  
You are right! My /etc/apt/preferences has been tweaked. After deleting 
my /etc/apt/preferences, aptitude successfully install fglrx-driver.


Thanks you for answering.


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Re: Font problem with GTK in KDE

[Jochen Schulz]

ispmarin:
> 
> I'm using KDE from debian lenny, and some GTK apps, like icedove. When
> I log on my session, the fonts from the GTK apps have the wrong size -
> they are all much bigger than I configured. I have to manually start
> gnome-control-center and use the Font Manager - as soon I click the
> Font Manager, all the fonts on GTK applications changes. I have to
> close the GTK apps and open it again to the fonts be in the correct
> size. I have installed gtk2-engines-qtpixmap and qtk-qt-engine.

You need to either run gnome-settings-daemon on every login or configure
gtk appearance in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

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Font problem with GTK in KDE

[ispmarin]

Hello all,

I'm using KDE from debian lenny, and some GTK apps, like icedove. When
I log on my session, the fonts from the GTK apps have the wrong size -
they are all much bigger than I configured. I have to manually start
gnome-control-center and use the Font Manager - as soon I click the
Font Manager, all the fonts on GTK applications changes. I have to
close the GTK apps and open it again to the fonts be in the correct
size. I have installed gtk2-engines-qtpixmap and qtk-qt-engine.

Any hints?

Thanks.

Ivan


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Re: apache2 freezes @sarge

[Raquel]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:11:39 +0100
Miro Dietiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi list
> 
> I trapped into an apache2 freeze thing (debian sarge, apache2 
> libapache2-mod-php4)
> 
> After certain time (from few minutes to many hours) apache simply
> freezes. Freeze meaning here: Processes still present but no
> processing time on  them. Each request is not responded but queued
> (showing status bar till  timeout).
> 
> When i restart apache2 anything is fine again - at least for some
> minutes.
> 
> Trying to trace it down to some buggy script execution i checked
> logs  and found nothing similar between those events.
> This is a live installation and we're suffering... System load at
> ~1.0  .. 2.0
> The issue started at one specific day, where we didn't change
> anything  by intention. Replacing the whole hardware also didn't
> help.
> 
> Is there someone to show me ways to debug this issue or any idea?!
> 
> (Personal contacts also apreciated.)
> I'm happy to hear any input about this one.
> 
> -- 
> Miro Dietiker
> 

I had the same problem on a machine with a new Etch install of
Apache 2 and PHP5.  For a week I struggled with the problem and it
finally came down to the php5-clamav module while already running
clamav on the machine.  Since you're running PHP4 though, I don't
know.

For my problem, there was nothing I could find in any of the logs,
and Apache would freeze at varying minutes/hours after it had been
restarted.  I removed Apache modules but the problem persisted.  I
ran memtest86+ on my memory modules, but the problem persisted.  And
Google was not my friend.  Finally, since I'd tested everything in
the machine and I'd removed all unnecessary Apache modules, to no
avail, I started on PHP modules that weren't critical.  That's how I
found my problem.

I'm sorry not to be much help, but I wish you luck.  ;-)

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others.
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Re: aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Romain JACQUET wrote:
> When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there
> is no candidate version!
> 
[...]
> aptitude  why fglrx-driver
> No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed.
This only tells you if fglrx-driver is a dependency of which package
(aptitude(8)).
> 
> aptitude show fglrx-driver|grep Version
> Version: 8.43.2-1
> 
Maybe you have to change something in your apt configuration.
What is the output of

apt-cache policy fglrx-driver

?
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Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

[David]

I.E.Broadbent wrote:

AN UPDATE:

Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug,  ... some further news I have
just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs
(BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities
for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?)   ... he has spotted (must get myself
a new pair of specs or even learn to read... I looked on gigabytes site
but I misseed this) that Patriot modules (which is what we have used for
this) are not listed as being tested/approved by gigabyte.  It could be
that they are drawing too much current and that would explain the
stuttering, and also why when Thierry upped the power it worked.  (You
might not have used Patriot chips Thierry...but it could be that they
too were out of recommended bounds for power needs.)

I'm going to get the Patriot units swapped for 4 'listed' modules and
see what happens then will update the list with the results... but
if this is the root then others may want to take note that the Gigabyte
board/set-up seems to be power-critical (sensitive) if all slots are
populated.


Sounds like you're onto something.

And sorry for stating what might appear to be the obvious, but make sure 
 your modules are matched pairs also.

Regards,

David.


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Re: Font size under X

[Florian Kulzer]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 14:25:31 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> I am facing a peculiar problem. Currently am running debian unstable.
> The fonts under X are too small.

What do you mean by that? Did you check the absolute sizes with a ruler?
One "point" should correspond to 1/72 of an inch; a 12pt font, for
example, should have a height of 1/6 of an inch (4.2 mm) on your screen.

>  I can get around this problem by
> playing with the dpi setting under gnome, but I feel that is not the
> correct way of doing it. 

I would simply use the correct DPI setting, calculated from the width
and height of your screen and the number of pixels in each direction.
You can also specify the dimensions of your screen explicitly in the
Monitor Section of your xorg.conf (Option "DisplaySize"). This should
override incorrect settings if X gets the wrong idea from DDC-probing
the monitor.

It might furthermore be necessary to put

Xft.dpi: 96

into your ~/.Xresources to ensure consistent font sizes for all
applications. (Replace "96" with the correct DPI value for your screen.)

> What surprises me is that of the 4 machines I am using (all debian sid),
> only two exhibit this problem. Both of those machines have a CRT monitor
> while the other two have an LCD monitor. 

Compare the output of

xdpyinfo | grep resolution
xrdb -query | grep Xft

on the different machines.

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apache2 freezes @sarge

[Miro Dietiker]

Hi list

I trapped into an apache2 freeze thing (debian sarge, apache2 
libapache2-mod-php4)


After certain time (from few minutes to many hours) apache simply freezes.
Freeze meaning here: Processes still present but no processing time on 
them. Each request is not responded but queued (showing status bar till 
timeout).


When i restart apache2 anything is fine again - at least for some minutes.

Trying to trace it down to some buggy script execution i checked logs 
and found nothing similar between those events.
This is a live installation and we're suffering... System load at ~1.0 
.. 2.0
The issue started at one specific day, where we didn't change anything 
by intention. Replacing the whole hardware also didn't help.


Is there someone to show me ways to debug this issue or any idea?! 
(Personal contacts also apreciated.)

I'm happy to hear any input about this one.

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How to get colors and spinners in boot messages?

[Klein Moebius]

OK, here goes.  I would really like to be able to modify my bootup
messages to have some color, similar to what a Knoppix boot does.  Maybe
not as garish, something to my taste.

I've looked at bootsplashes, but they tend to be bulky and usually ugly
in execution.  The bootsplash package requires a kernel patch and
initrd, and I'm limited to initramfs by certain other restrictions.

So: How do I modify boot console to add color and stuff?

Regards,
Klein



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aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

[Romain JACQUET]

When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there 
is no candidate version!


aptitude  install fglrx-driver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for fglrx-driver
No candidate version found for fglrx-driver
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

aptitude  why fglrx-driver
No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed.

aptitude show fglrx-driver|grep Version
Version: 8.43.2-1


I really do not understand. Any solutions to install fglrx-driver?

Thanks in advance.


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Font size under X

[Sridhar M.A.]

I am facing a peculiar problem. Currently am running debian unstable.
The fonts under X are too small. I can get around this problem by
playing with the dpi setting under gnome, but I feel that is not the
correct way of doing it. 

What surprises me is that of the 4 machines I am using (all debian sid),
only two exhibit this problem. Both of those machines have a CRT monitor
while the other two have an LCD monitor. 

Searched for any similar bug reports and found none. Does anyone have
any pointers to this problem?

Regards,

-- 
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Landru! Guide us!
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Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

[I.E.Broadbent]

AN UPDATE:

Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug,  ... some further news I have
just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs
(BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities
for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?)   ... he has spotted (must get myself
a new pair of specs or even learn to read... I looked on gigabytes site
but I misseed this) that Patriot modules (which is what we have used for
this) are not listed as being tested/approved by gigabyte.  It could be
that they are drawing too much current and that would explain the
stuttering, and also why when Thierry upped the power it worked.  (You
might not have used Patriot chips Thierry...but it could be that they
too were out of recommended bounds for power needs.)

I'm going to get the Patriot units swapped for 4 'listed' modules and
see what happens then will update the list with the results... but
if this is the root then others may want to take note that the Gigabyte
board/set-up seems to be power-critical (sensitive) if all slots are
populated.


Ian


...

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:13 +, I.E.Broadbent wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:29 +0900, David wrote:
> > Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote:
> > >> Anyone have any comments or suggestions please.
> > >>
> > >> Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks, Ian
> > > 
> > > Hi, I got a similar problem, which was soulve by increasing the voltage 
> > > on the 
> > > memories sticks. No idea if it can help, sorry, but it's worth a try.
> > > Thierry
> > > 
> > > 
> > I'm currently building a similar box, so this is topical.
> > 
> > If you are running identical boxes, with identical installs, and you 
> > only have trouble on one, it's a fault in one lot of hardware or in a 
> > config difference.
> > 
> > You are running what I would consider the bare minimum of ram for a 64 
> > box, but if you have one box running ok on that, that's not the problem 
> > either.
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with the board - I'm building with an Asus one with a 
> > 6000 AMD CPU, but Gigabyte make good boards and that shouldn't be the 
> > problem either.(Did anybody have access to the build area and pick 
> > things up "just for a look?" - even doing this to a ram chip could be 
> > enough).
> 
> No, ...just me and I've swapped over modules from another (running
> properly) machine to check and it's the same... it's a real swine this
> one
> I'm intrigued that you consider 4 gig to be the minimum setup for such a
> setup... having read this I then took two modules from the 'running' box
> to see how it would fair... and although it was noticeable it wasn't
> demonstrating the 'stuttering' of the other so I am fairly confident
> that it's not the fact that 4 gig isn't enough... one of the issues
> seems to be unrelated to the volume of RAM (certainly between 2 and 4
> gig-worth)... It's the fact that the damned thing won't boot at all with
> 4 slots populated (with any size of RAM).
> 
> I'm going to try tweaking the voltage as suggested by Thierry and see
> what happens (knowing my luck of late I'll probably fry the blasted
> things.)
> 
> 
> Ian  
> 
> 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > David.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

[I.E.Broadbent]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:29 +0900, David wrote:
> Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote:
> >> Anyone have any comments or suggestions please.
> >>
> >> Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above?
> >>
> >> Thanks, Ian
> > 
> > Hi, I got a similar problem, which was soulve by increasing the voltage on 
> > the 
> > memories sticks. No idea if it can help, sorry, but it's worth a try.
> > Thierry
> > 
> > 
> I'm currently building a similar box, so this is topical.
> 
> If you are running identical boxes, with identical installs, and you 
> only have trouble on one, it's a fault in one lot of hardware or in a 
> config difference.
> 
> You are running what I would consider the bare minimum of ram for a 64 
> box, but if you have one box running ok on that, that's not the problem 
> either.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the board - I'm building with an Asus one with a 
> 6000 AMD CPU, but Gigabyte make good boards and that shouldn't be the 
> problem either.(Did anybody have access to the build area and pick 
> things up "just for a look?" - even doing this to a ram chip could be 
> enough).

No, ...just me and I've swapped over modules from another (running
properly) machine to check and it's the same... it's a real swine this
one
I'm intrigued that you consider 4 gig to be the minimum setup for such a
setup... having read this I then took two modules from the 'running' box
to see how it would fair... and although it was noticeable it wasn't
demonstrating the 'stuttering' of the other so I am fairly confident
that it's not the fact that 4 gig isn't enough... one of the issues
seems to be unrelated to the volume of RAM (certainly between 2 and 4
gig-worth)... It's the fact that the damned thing won't boot at all with
4 slots populated (with any size of RAM).

I'm going to try tweaking the voltage as suggested by Thierry and see
what happens (knowing my luck of late I'll probably fry the blasted
things.)


Ian  


> Regards,
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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