Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian
Shachar Or wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:12, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Yes, Shachar. I was running Etch on this motherboard when Etch >> was "testing". Since I'm tracking "testing" and not Etch, my "testing" >> automatically became "Lenny". But Etch did run with no problems then so I >> don't see why it wouldn't run now. > > Does the S/PDIF work? Do all the sound plugs work correctly? Can you > please paste some outputs like lspci -nn and lshw? > >> Cheers, >> Jonathan >> -- >> Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ > Hi Shachar, I never tried RAID but Paul has answered that question. All my sound plugs work correctly. I have always used the precompiled linux-image packages for my kernel. I never put any parameters except telling it to ignore a certain hard disk. (/dev/hdb) --- ~$ lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge [1106:3188] (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:b188] 00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller [1106:3044] (rev 46) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4320] (rev 13) 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60) 00:11.6 Communication controller [0780]: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller [1106:3068] (rev 80) 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100] 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101] 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102] 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] [1002:4153] 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary) [1002:4173] - The output to lshw is rather lengthy so I'll try an attachment if the news group permits this. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ ~$ sudo lshw attila description: Desktop Computer product: To Be Filled By O.E.M. vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M. width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp-1.4 smp configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=1 uuid=48C9B774-4B28-D911-8CC2-90A1B5477937 *-core description: Motherboard product: K8VSEDX vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. physical id: 0 version: Rev 2.00 serial: MB-1234567890 *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: American Megatrends Inc. physical id: 0 version: 1004.006 (08/03/2004) size: 64KiB capacity: 448KiB capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification *-cpu description: CPU product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 4 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] version: 15.12.0 serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M. slot: Socket 754 size: 2200MHz capacity: 2400MHz width: 64 bits clock: 200MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up ts fid vid ttp *-cache:0
Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 22:16:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:21:23PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 흍㒲횛漨꺋帢ᚯ禫 > > > > Paul, > > > > is your client hosed, or mine, or something else? The last two emails > > you sent only showed what is quoted above. On my screen it looks like > > asian writting and some block char and has one line. > > well, Paul's original mail looks good here in mutt/urxvt, though what > you've quoted clearly doesn't look right... Paul's messages appear fine here also, but comparing his messages with those of others using GPG signing (and hence using quoted-printable), the difference is that there is no 'charset' declared: (Paul) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Damon) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Andrew) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (Various others) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (One other) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable And so on. With no charset value, maybe the strange characters are because of some weird default character set on the system used to view the message? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
Alexander Fortin wrote the following on 24.07.2008 23:09 hi want to comment on the bugreport be my guest: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307 -- bye Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
>> # startx ...works >> $ startx ...does not > I would start by looking in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and making sure the > "allowed_users" line equals "console". less /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config [snip] allowed_users=console nice_value=0 I also tried to post less /var/log/Xorg.0.log but failed twice - maybe the file was too long? Anyhow I do not expect the problem to be in the X-Server Configuration because Xorg.0.log has no error messages (EE). In /home/sam/.xsession-errors I can see Xsession: X session started for sam at Fre Jul 25 09:07:21 CEST 2008 open: Permission denied So, in my opinion this says that users do not have permission to start X. Thanks for the inputs so far. sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Comprendiendo la Psicología del Cliente - Gotas de Aprendizaje de Ventas & Servi
Estimado Lector ¿Cuántas veces nuestros clientes nos comunican su insatisfacción?. ¿Usted lo sabe? El 96% de los clientes descontentos nunca va a protestar por la forma en que los hemos tratado, el 90% le contará por lo menos a otras 9 personas lo descontento que está con nuestra compañía. El 13% comunicará a un mínimo de 20 personas lo mal que ha sido tratado, estos porcentajes u otros muy parecidos seguramente los hemos visto en otras oportunidades, sin embargo, ¿Cuántas veces nos hemos detenido a reflexionar sobre lo que esto representa para nuestro negocio? En cada caso particular si conoce una estimación razonable de quejas multiplíquelas por 20 y observará lo alarmante que es no dar un buen servicio a las personas que nos vienen a comprar. Hagamos un ejemplo: usted durante el mes pasado detectó 10 quejas de clientes insatisfechos, uno de ellos se han convertido en ex cliente. De esos 9 ex clientes 8 se lo comunicarán a 9 de sus conocidos o amigos, el noveno que no es tan discreto seguramente se lo contó a un mínimo de 20 personas. Un simple cálculo matemático nos demuestra que el mal servicio que le hemos brindado a 10 perosnas ahora lo saben 101. ¿Por qué sus clientes han actuado de esa manera? ¿Por qué no le han permitido a usted conocer su insatisfacción? Una medición realizada nos indica que los clientes tiene pensamientos que si pudiéramos escuchar nos dirían sus sentimientos del por qué están descontentos, enumerando algunos de ellos podríamos decir que los clientes nos dirían: No se preocupan por mí. Es difícil que pueda decirle que estoy insatisfecho Por qué tengo que hacerle el trabajo corrigiéndoles sus propios errores. Ni siquiera merece mis comentarios. La mayor parte de esta gente piensa que si realmente su organización los trata así es porque realmente tienen toda la intención de hacerlo. Pero a usted si le importa y mucho que el cliente esté satisfecho y también le importa a sus empleados. Ahora bien, si no tiene la habilidad de comunicar este sentimiento de manera contundente sus clientes no le creerán. “Debe buscar en todo tiempo medios efectivos para comunicar a sus clientes su intención de que queden satisfechos. Debe convencerlos igualmente, de que está dispuesto a remediar cualquier caso de insatisfacción”. Capacite a "todo su personal" en el Servicio al Cliente, notará la diferencia en su economia y en la publicidad boca a boca. America´s Business Consulting & Services, S.C. Suscribase a estos articulos enviandos en el sujeto, "Deseo suscribirme a Gotas de Aprendizaje de Ventas & Servicio al Cliente" . Para un mejor envio de estas Gotas de Aprendizaje por favor indiquemos su nombre completo, ciudad y pais. Es nuestra intencion difundir estas notas a la mayor cantidad de personas en Latinoamérica, ayúdenos enviandonos los emails de 5 personas a las que usted cree que este tipo de lectura pueda ser de su interes. Muchas Gracias. ¿Desea conocer mas sobre los cursos de Servicio al Cliente? ¿Quiere saber como medir el actual Servicio al Cliente de su compañia? ¿Le gusto esta nota? ¿Quiere hacer algun comentario? Usted puede hacerlo escribiendo a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su dirección fue obtenida por un contacto de nuestra compañía con usted o referencia dada a nosotros por alguno de sus conocidos y nuestra intención es informarle de nuestra propuesta, le pedimos disculpas si no resultase de su interés. Si no desea recibir más estas gotas de aprendizaje envienos un email a [EMAIL PROTECTED] indicando REMOVE Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, , Argentina t: 54 11 4701 9252 f: 54 11 4701 9252 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | w: www.ambinc.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/
Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 흍㒲횛漨꺋帢ᚯ禫 Paul, is your client hosed, or mine, or something else? It must be somewhere towards your end, because Paul's responses appear as perfectly legible text/plain here. Is it only his emails that get mangled for you? - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:21:23PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 흍㒲횛漨꺋帢ᚯ禫 > > Paul, > > is your client hosed, or mine, or something else? The last two emails > you sent only showed what is quoted above. On my screen it looks like > asian writting and some block char and has one line. well, Paul's original mail looks good here in mutt/urxvt, though what you've quoted clearly doesn't look right... A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
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Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 흍㒲횛漨꺋帢ᚯ禫 Paul, is your client hosed, or mine, or something else? The last two emails you sent only showed what is quoted above. On my screen it looks like asian writting and some block char and has one line. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 +1000, stabbyjones wrote: > I have a static ip from my new isp and apparently it's been banned > from http://forums.debian.net/ > > Is there any way to get it unbanned? because it's banned i can't find > any admin to contact and i can't browse posts. it also can't be > changed without paying. And if it's the entire netblock that's banned, that might not even help. Why bother with some unofficial forum when you've got the official mailing list right here anyway? Way easier to use and manage than a forum, and always accessable. > alternatively a way to cut debian forums out of google search results > would stop me getting my hopes up. Append the string on the next line to the ends of searches to avoid hitting that forum: -site:forums.debian.net -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 13:09 +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:12, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Yes, Shachar. I was running Etch on this motherboard when Etch > > was "testing". Since I'm tracking "testing" and not Etch, my "testing" > > automatically became "Lenny". But Etch did run with no problems then so I > > don't see why it wouldn't run now. > > Did you ever try the RAID controller, please? My experience with RAID on Linux is that 99 times out of 100, it just works. Linux is way ahead of Windows in terms of hardware support, as long as you avoid nVidia's video cards... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:28:37 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/22/2008 07:05 PM, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hello Celejar. > > > My xorg.conf files used to have sections such as these: > > [... sections snipped ...] > > My current xorg.conf doesn't. I seem to recall reading on this list > > that current xorg.conf's are simpler, but where did all the > > configuration options go? Am I supposed to add back the sections that > > I need manually, in order to set the options that I need? E.g., > > currently my Synaptics touchpad's scrollbar is inoperable. > > > > Yes, you'll need to add those sections back. Your current xorg.conf > might actually work. X allows for alternate configuration files under > /etc/X11, so your "old" xorg.conf can be named xorg-old.conf, and you > could start it like so: > > startx -- :1 -config xorg-old.conf > > If that works, you have a good candidate for the real xorg.conf; if not, > you can continue adjusting the file till it does work. > > Someone was nice enough to post this link for me: > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 Thanks. I'll be playing with this stuff next time I start X, as per my other messages in this thread. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:17:27 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > On 2008-07-23 20:06, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... > > > Once you KNOW to look under xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (really > > > intuitive, that, it should just be /usr/share/doc/synaptics, how are > > > you supposed to know to look for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics?) > > > > $ aptitude search synaptics > > i gsynaptics - configuration tool for Synaptics > > touchpad > > p libsynaptics-dev- library to access the synaptics > > touch pad > > p libsynaptics0 - library to access the synaptics > > touch pad > > p xfree86-driver-synaptics- dummy package to upgrade to X.Org > > new mod > > v xorg-driver-synaptics - > > i A xserver-xorg-input-synaptics- Synaptics TouchPad driver for > > X.Org/XFree > > > > gives you the hint. I knew about the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package; I was just thrown by the new style of xorg.conf. I really should have checked /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. > > gsynaptics, by the way, is a graphical configuration tool to configure > > the touchpad 'on the fly'. I don't know if it can be used to disable the > > touchpad while typing thing, but you already found a solution. I've played with it in the past, but I've never done much experimentation with synaptics options. We'll soon change that. > > Another handy tool I use is unclutter, which hides the mouse curser > > after some time, so it doesn't get into the way while you're just reading. I've been using it for a while; one of the many great things I learned from this list. > > Johannes > Damon L. Chesser Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:48:45 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-07-23 16:50, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad > > > > http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/speed-up-your-synaptics-touchpad-in-ubuntu/ > > > > http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/disable-the-synaptics-touchpad-when-typing/ > > > > Really, the first is enough to get your touchpad working with some advanced > > options. > > or just look at > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.Debian > > which should be sufficient to get you going^^^scrolling. > > 8-D Thanks. I should be okay now, as per my other messages on this thread; I'll certainly return if I'm not :) > Johannes Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:50:45 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > After sleeping I pulled out my laptop and got these links: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad > > http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/speed-up-your-synaptics-touchpad-in-ubuntu/ > > http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/disable-the-synaptics-touchpad-when-typing/ > > Really, the first is enough to get your touchpad working with some advanced > options. Thanks again. Now that I understand that I'll just have to add the sections back to xorg.conf, I think I'll be okay; the disappearance of my previously existing sections just confused me. > Damon L. Chesser Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:29:59 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:05:12 pm Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My xorg.conf files used to have sections such as these: ... > > My current xorg.conf doesn't. I seem to recall reading on this list > > that current xorg.conf's are simpler, but where did all the > > configuration options go? Am I supposed to add back the sections that > > I need manually, in order to set the options that I need? E.g., > > currently my Synaptics touchpad's scrollbar is inoperable. > > > > Celejar > In a word, Yes. > > For an example you can see /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and > the > ever present/cryptic man synaptics. ... > http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title=Synaptics_Touchpad > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics > > HTH Thanks. I'll be giving this stuff a try next time I restart X. > Damon L. Chesser Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] iw page scroll speed
Le vendredi 25 juillet 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > Hi, > > I want to make the page scroll speed in iceweasel 3 with my > mousewheel more responsive. It's way too slow now. I sit twiddling > the wheel and nothing happens. > > Browsing the forums brings no solution. > > Anyone have a suggestion? > > Hugo There was an extension in iceweasel 2 which did that, I don't know if it still exists in iceweasel 3. I think the name was smoothwheel. Regards -- Why Debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[OT] iw page scroll speed
Hi, I want to make the page scroll speed in iceweasel 3 with my mousewheel more responsive. It's way too slow now. I sit twiddling the wheel and nothing happens. Browsing the forums brings no solution. Anyone have a suggestion? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:34:14AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns > > servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being > > filled > > with values different from the ones I want. > > > > Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked > > (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). > > Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it > > must > > be created every time. > > > > Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? > > sounds more like a problem with your provider, they normally provide > these details in the connection forget about this, later email it seems like you are getting the information its just not being written to the file > > > > > Thanks for any help > > Rodolfo > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" > -- Lily Tomlin -- "My mom often used to say, The trouble with W -- although she didn't put that to words." - George W. Bush 04/03/2002 Washington, DC signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Will Lenny stable have gnome-panel 2.22 or 2.20
Gnome-panel, will it be 2.22 or 2.20 when Lenny is released. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns > servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled > with values different from the ones I want. > > Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked > (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). > Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must > be created every time. > > Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? sounds more like a problem with your provider, they normally provide these details in the connection > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
>> # startx ...works >> $ startx ...does not > I would start by looking in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and making sure the > "allowed_users" line equals "console". less /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config # Xwrapper.config (Debian X Window System server wrapper configuration file) # # This file was generated by the post-installation script of the x11-common # package using values from the debconf database. # # See the Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for more information. # # This file is automatically updated on upgrades of the x11-common package # *only* if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of that package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command as root: # dpkg-reconfigure x11-common allowed_users=console nice_value=0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:27:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 > player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations > all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which > probably has something to do with the fat32 file system and size > of the FAT table. [snip] > I plan to let this tar command run its natural course to see > what happens, but is there anything I can do with the existing > system to optimise the performance? I usually load my usb stick with async and have found this to improve performance greatly, but you must use sync to flush the buffers > > Thanks. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
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Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
On Jul 24, 6:50 pm, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy. > Which version do you use? > > If you have a locked account without that expiry and use either of the above > just 'lock' that account again and then take a look at /etc/shadow. I'm on Lenny: klingon:/home/alieno# dpkg -l *passwd*|grep ^ii ii base-passwd 3.5.17 ii passwd 1:4.1.1-2 I previously fixed it using "usermod -L" as suggested by Sven Joachim, and it was working fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -S root root L 07/23/2008 0 9 7 -1 (no warnings and cronjobs ok) klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -l root Password changed. klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -S root root L 07/23/2008 0 9 7 -1 klingon:/home/alieno# head -1 /etc/shadow root:!$1$MwKDBs6O$H.ZfnYq7C.xzVUdHRmwL31:14084:0:9:7::1: So the "passwd -S" output is the same. But: klingon:/home/alieno# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator su: User account has expired (Ignored) klingon:/home/alieno# head -1 /etc/shadow root:!$1$MwKDBs6O$H.ZfnYq7C.xzVUdHRmwL31:14084:0:9:7::1: and from syslog: Jul 24 22:44:01 klingon CRON[4998]: User account has expired klingon:/home/alieno# passwd Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -S root root P 07/24/2008 0 9 7 -1 #klingon:/home/alieno# head -1 /etc/shadow root:$1$0pbophfn$B3EpqcFkcezuOYY1D6mNr/:14084:0:9:7::1: klingon:/home/alieno# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator su: User account has expired (Ignored) Locking back with usermod doesn't work anymore! klingon:/home/alieno# usermod -L root klingon:/home/alieno# head -1 /etc/shadow root:!$1$b/Xw.zn6$qMfTmi6zbxeM2nWIDqgMR.:14084:0:9:7::1: klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -S root root L 07/24/2008 0 9 7 -1 klingon:/home/alieno# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator su: User account has expired (Ignored) (and of course root cronjobs not working anymore) It works if i do klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -u root klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -S root P 07/24/2008 0 9 7 -1 klingon:/home/alieno# head -1 /etc/shadow root:$1$b/Xw.zn6$qMfTmi6zbxeM2nWIDqgMR.:14084:0:9:7::: klingon:/home/alieno# usermod -L root klingon:/home/alieno# passwd -S root L 07/24/2008 0 9 7 -1 klingon:/home/alieno# head -1 /etc/shadow root:!$1$b/Xw.zn6$qMfTmi6zbxeM2nWIDqgMR.:14084:0:9:7::: klingon:/home/alieno# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su klingon:/home/alieno# and cronjobs are running ok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 22:35:01, Thilo Six wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 22:04 > > > >> well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy. > >> Which version do you use? > > > > I'm not the OP. > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > I think that doesn't matter in this regard. You have said your passwd doesn't > behave as mentioned in the manpage, which would be clearly a bug. I never said *my* passwd doesn't lock, but the OP confirmed that his doesn't but usermod does. I just tested and on my machine 'passwd -l' and 'usermod -L' have the same effect, at least in the /etc/shadow file. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 19:49:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # startx ...works > $ startx ...does not It would be useful to see the error messages on that one. Also /var/log/Xorg.0.log might have some clues. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/08 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone > > > # startx ...works > $ startx ...does not > > The last thing I can remember I was doing before > the problem started was > > $ xauth extract mykey :0 > # xauth merge mykey > # fooprogramm & Why? > What I already tryed to solve the problem: > > (I) > # aptitude --purge > # aptitude --purge > # aptitude --purge > > ...and after reinstalled it. > > (II) > Removed .Xauthority-file of the normal user and > of root. > > Maybe the problem lies somewhere else. Looking > forward to your inputs. Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log have anything useful in it? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiI6ZwACgkQS9HxQb37Xmf4ZQCfYmxsXuGi+sDLkqtp/SqYf1+R Cq8An1i4miFjbv0YJiUev210DeGb9Ed4 =bgDe -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone > > > # startx ...works > $ startx ...does not I would start by looking in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and making sure the "allowed_users" line equals "console". -- Kent West <*)))>< http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 22:04 >> well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy. >> Which version do you use? > > I'm not the OP. > > Regards, > Andrei I think that doesn't matter in this regard. You have said your passwd doesn't behave as mentioned in the manpage, which would be clearly a bug. I said i can reproduce exactly the behaviour mentioned in manpage and therefore seeking for an explanation of that divergence which resulted in the question which version you use. -- bye Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't start X-Server as normal user
Hi everyone # startx ...works $ startx ...does not The last thing I can remember I was doing before the problem started was $ xauth extract mykey :0 # xauth merge mykey # fooprogramm & What I already tryed to solve the problem: (I) # aptitude --purge # aptitude --purge # aptitude --purge ...and after reinstalled it. (II) Removed .Xauthority-file of the normal user and of root. Maybe the problem lies somewhere else. Looking forward to your inputs. Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with >> browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns >> servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled >> with values different from the ones I want. >> >> Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked >> (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). >> Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must >> be created every time. >> >> Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pavlos Parissis) writes: > man resolvconf, should help you out Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Install resolvconf Thanks. I installed resolvconf and, as suggested at: http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration , I added the following line: dns-nameservers 193.70.152.25 193.70.192.25 to the file /etc/network/interfaces. Now I can browse, but still the ppp connection log shows the following values: primary DNS address 10.11.12.13 secondary DNS address 10.11.12.14 , that are not the ones I want. It may be important because the connection is slower than it's supposed to be, and this may be related to the matter. Thanks for further hints. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On 07/24/2008 01:42 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] . Now, suppose I want the following ppp connection log output: local IP address 151.82.24.152 remote IP address 10.6.6.6 primary DNS address 193.70.152.25 secondary DNS address 193.70.192.25 . In /etc/resolv.conf I suppose I have to put the lines: nameserver 193.70.152.25 nameserver 193.70.192.25 . How do you suggest I should edit /etc/network/interface? Thanks Rodolfo If you use pppd, removing the "usepeerdns" option from /etc/ppp/options should work; however, on my Etch system, pppd writes its file to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, and the script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/userpeerdns merges the data into /etc/resolv.conf, so I would remove execute permissions on /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/usepeerdns. You probably only need to do one of those things--not both. What OS/distribution are you using? P.S. I'm using dialup, and my /etc/resolv.conf is unchanged from when I last set it up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 18:47:20, Thilo Six wrote: > well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy. > Which version do you use? I'm not the OP. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:42 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: SNIP > > > > Thanks. My `/etc/network/interface' is very poor: > > > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > > . Now, suppose I want the following ppp connection log output: > > local IP address 151.82.24.152 > remote IP address 10.6.6.6 > primary DNS address 193.70.152.25 > secondary DNS address 193.70.192.25 > > . In /etc/resolv.conf I suppose I have to put the lines: > > nameserver 193.70.152.25 > nameserver 193.70.192.25 > > . How do you suggest I should edit /etc/network/interface? > > Thanks > Rodolfo Rodolfo, I do not know what you need for PPP and we will have to wait for someone who knows to respond. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with >> browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns >> servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled >> with values different from the ones I want. >> >> Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked >> (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). >> Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must >> be created every time. >> >> Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rodolfo, > > I don't understand your issue. Are you using dhcp, you must be, and as > a result, your resolve.conf changes with input from the dhcp server. > Use static IP in /etc/network/interfaces, edit resolv.conf, you are > done. > > Here is a copy of my files: > > cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain damtek.org > search damtek.org > nameserver 68.87.68.162 > nameserver 68.87.74.162 > nameserver 192.168.200.1 > > cat /etc/network/interfaces > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > # address 192.168.200.15 > # netmask 255.255.255.0 > # network 192.168.200.0 > # broadcast 192.168.200.255 > # gateway 192.168.200.1 > # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed > dns-nameservers 192.168.200.1 > dns-search damtek.org > address 192.168.200.15 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.200.1 > > > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.200.16 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.200.1 > > > My dns servers do not now change as a result. If you use dhcp (and have > to use it) then in my case the name servers are given to me by my > router/dns server which gets it from the ISP. I do not have resolveconf > package installed. Does this help? Thanks. My `/etc/network/interface' is very poor: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback . Now, suppose I want the following ppp connection log output: local IP address 151.82.24.152 remote IP address 10.6.6.6 primary DNS address 193.70.152.25 secondary DNS address 193.70.192.25 . In /etc/resolv.conf I suppose I have to put the lines: nameserver 193.70.152.25 nameserver 193.70.192.25 . How do you suggest I should edit /etc/network/interface? Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Greetings and question
Mumia W.. escribió: On 07/23/2008 06:37 PM, Juan Ignacio wrote: Hi [...] Hi Juan. Why isn't [gtk-qt-engine] in the repositories? I want this package because Firefox looks so awful. [...] Others showed you how to grab gtk-qt-engine from Sid. However, it's much less risky to just install a theme into Firefox. Almost any theme will look better than the default (system theme). The fact is that I'm using Firefox 3.0 and Thunderbird with the binaries I downloaded at Mozilla webpage. I installed them in /opt If you could suggest me a good theme that goes well with kde, I'd appreciate it very much. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I presume 91.102.227.98 is your public Internet address (eth2 on the > gateway), you don't see any return packets, which is strange ? If you > do the same test on the gateway you see the return packets ? I asked today my ISP whether has changed anything and they say they changed my public IP Address. They send to me e-mail back two days but that e-mail I can't to open then to see this information. So I cleared in the /etc/shorewall/masq file the ADDRESS column to be empty. That solve my problem! Thank you all for replies and for the help! :) -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 18:28 <--- man 1 passwd - -l, --lock Lock the named account. This option disables an account by changing the password to a value which matches no possible encrypted value, and by setting the account expiry field to 1. -> > Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set > account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is > wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd. > > Regards, > Andrei well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy. Which version do you use? If you have a locked account without that expiry and use either of the above just 'lock' that account again and then take a look at /etc/shadow. -- bye Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
Hi, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set > account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is > wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd. It sets a value to "1" in my /etc/shadow when I last used it. I assume that would be the expiry field? I've got passwd 1:4.1.1-2 installed (from testing). Regards, Ansgar -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get new package management capability
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 07:10:15, Daniel Burrows wrote: > You do need to run aptitude once to transfer the information. It > should move the automatic flags to the apt database and clear them from > its own when you start it (run it without any arguments). Will this be documented in the release notes? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Greetings and question
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 10:42:21, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtk-qt-engine.html > > It should be available in 7 days but we are in the freezing phase for the > next > Debian stable so maybe you'll have to wait more. I think it's just libraries > which are getting frozen now so it should be good. The full freeze should happen next week, but packages already in unstable will migrate as usual. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 11:06:47, Thilo Six wrote: > Alexander Fortin wrote the following on 24.07.2008 10:03 > > > > > Yep, using usermod instead of passwd seems to work fine! > > So, to report a bug or not to? Which mailing list? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 Interesting, the manpage passwd(1) says that 'passwd -l' should also set account expiry to 1, but it doesn't. Either passwd or the manpage is wrong, so I think this should be reported against the package passwd. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-07-23 20:06, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > All ready covered two emails ago. > >>> In a word, Yes. > > Oooops, sorry for not reading the thread careful enough. > > > Notice I said ADVANCED options? I find killing the touchpad while > > typing while still using the alt and ctrl keys with out killing the > > touchpad a useful feature as is circular scrolling. > > > > Once you KNOW to look under xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (really > > intuitive, that, it should just be /usr/share/doc/synaptics, how are > > you supposed to know to look for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics?) > > $ aptitude search synaptics > i gsynaptics - configuration tool for Synaptics > touchpad > p libsynaptics-dev- library to access the synaptics > touch pad > p libsynaptics0 - library to access the synaptics > touch pad > p xfree86-driver-synaptics- dummy package to upgrade to X.Org > new mod > v xorg-driver-synaptics - > i A xserver-xorg-input-synaptics- Synaptics TouchPad driver for > X.Org/XFree > > gives you the hint. > > gsynaptics, by the way, is a graphical configuration tool to configure > the touchpad 'on the fly'. I don't know if it can be used to disable the > touchpad while typing thing, but you already found a solution. > > Another handy tool I use is unclutter, which hides the mouse curser > after some time, so it doesn't get into the way while you're just reading. > > HTH, > > Johannes I must confess, I did not do aptitude search synaptics. Sometimes the basics hit you the hardest. The gui tools do not give you the most options, but they do work. I tested gsynaptics out. I prefer the good ole text edit for more control. > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:35 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns > servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled > with values different from the ones I want. > > Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked > (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). > Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must > be created every time. > > Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo > Rodolfo, I don't understand your issue. Are you using dhcp, you must be, and as a result, your resolve.conf changes with input from the dhcp server. Use static IP in /etc/network/interfaces, edit resolv.conf, you are done. Here is a copy of my files: cat /etc/resolv.conf domain damtek.org search damtek.org nameserver 68.87.68.162 nameserver 68.87.74.162 nameserver 192.168.200.1 cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static # address 192.168.200.15 # netmask 255.255.255.0 # network 192.168.200.0 # broadcast 192.168.200.255 # gateway 192.168.200.1 # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed dns-nameservers 192.168.200.1 dns-search damtek.org address 192.168.200.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.200.1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.200.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.200.1 My dns servers do not now change as a result. If you use dhcp (and have to use it) then in my case the name servers are given to me by my router/dns server which gets it from the ISP. I do not have resolveconf package installed. Does this help? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: 2.6.25 Issues with IDE (via82xx)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/08 00:22, David Baron wrote: > Any one had problems with this? > > Hal startup finds bad opcode, "busy" and resets IDE killing DMA, 32-bit > access, etc. All this can be restored using hdparm afterwards. > > However, this may be causing other errors on the HD as well. > > No problems with 2.6.23 Please attach a snippet from dmesg or /var/log/syslog. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiIhncACgkQS9HxQb37XmfcHgCghGHf0bDXmhJKgVCtQJI+Uacf VaAAoKQF0gHbVG5aUnw65LTKaOL5VJ/A =Yn06 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.
I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which probably has something to do with the fat32 file system and size of the FAT table. I started by doing rm -r -f music which is the one and only main directory. That took about 2 hours to complete and then it was time to reload it from the Linux computer. The Linux computer is a 500-MHZ Pentium running a 2.6.5 kernel and the usb2 port is, by definition 13 Mb so it is slow, about 10-meg Ethernet slow under normal conditions. What actually happens is much worse. After doing the rm -r -f, I started with an empty drive but the tar program started running very slowly. It takes at times, 10 minutes to load one tune that would normally play in 2 or 3 minutes. Just for fun, I let it plod slowly along and it has been running now for about 36 hours and is 75% complete but what is happening? If I look at the health of the system, it isn't that bad all be it busy. $ uptime 07:21:58 up 2 days, 23:37, 2 users, load average: 4.00, 4.13, 4.19 It is July 24 and ps ax -Olstart shows me that tar has been running a very long time: 22986 Tue Jul 22 23:35:01 2008 D pts/13 00:00:40 tar xf /home/martin/musicmain.tar I tried renic-ing tar and the usb mass storage daemon which has had no effect, either good or bad. I do remember once that if there is a time lapse of several minutes between the rm -r -f command to wipe the FAT table clean and the tar command that initial performance is much better so there must be a cleanup routine going on somewhere. This is also true if you unmount the drive and remount it empty. I seem to remember that it only took a couple of hours to reload the entire drive when I did things that way. I did a top command and I am either missing something or nothing much is wrong: Tasks: 42 total, 2 running, 40 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 99.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem:126424k total, 124572k used, 1852k free, 1604k buffers Swap: 377488k total,0k used, 377488k free, 102308k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 23560 martin16 0 2160 1084 1880 R 0.3 0.9 0:00.03 top 1 root 16 0 1492 528 1336 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.26 init 2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.13 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.02 kblockd/0 10 root 7 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 9 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.06 kswapd0 11 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsIO I plan to let this tar command run its natural course to see what happens, but is there anything I can do with the existing system to optimise the performance? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb compilation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerônimo Bezerra wrote: > Hello Mr Eugene, thanks for your answer. > > I made apt-src install courier-maildrop. It downloaded 3 files and 1 > folder: > > drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 2008-07-24 10:58 courier-0.53.3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root src122318 2007-02-13 07:02 courier_0.53.3-5.diff.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 1196 2007-02-13 07:02 courier_0.53.3-5.dsc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 10531155 2006-10-13 10:02 > courier_0.53.3.orig.tar.gz > > in courier-0.53.3 folder: > > # ls -1 config* > config.guess > config.sub > configure > configure.in > > There isn't a config.log or another file that could help me. > I need to know what was the ./configure line used by maintainer. see courier-0.53.3/debian/rules file - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiIp6wACgkQchorMMFUmYxhBACgyTHUH7t3o+/clH5Xj+gazgU9 fbcAnRyfUTrrDBhCtLcFJB8fxG1X2sv9 =TbGZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb compilation
Ansgar Burchardt escreveu: Hi, Please do not put your answer before the quoted text (and only quote the relevant part). It makes you mail easier to read. Hi Mr. Ansgar, I'm sorry for my mistake. And thank you for your answer. It helped me a lot. Jeronimo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
The Thursday 24 July 2008 17:35:59 Rodolfo Medina, you wrote : > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper > dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being > filled with values different from the ones I want. > > Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked > (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). > Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it > must be created every time. > > Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo What did you try in dhclient.conf ? The option do-forward-updates set to true should be the answer. -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.
The Thursday 24 July 2008 15:27:01 Martin McCormick, you wrote : > I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 > player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations > all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which > probably has something to do with the fat32 file system and size > of the FAT table. > > I started by doing rm -r -f music which is the one and > only main directory. That took about 2 hours to complete and > then it was time to reload it from the Linux computer. > > The Linux computer is a 500-MHZ Pentium running a 2.6.5 > kernel and the usb2 port is, by definition 13 Mb so it is slow, > about 10-meg Ethernet slow under normal conditions. > > What actually happens is much worse. After doing the rm > -r -f, I started with an empty drive but the tar program started > running very slowly. It takes at times, 10 minutes to load one > tune that would normally play in 2 or 3 minutes. > > Just for fun, I let it plod slowly along and it has been > running now for about 36 hours and is 75% complete but what is > happening? > > If I look at the health of the system, it isn't that bad > all be it busy. > > $ uptime > > 07:21:58 up 2 days, 23:37, 2 users, load average: 4.00, 4.13, 4.19 Wow, a load average of 4 ? It should be that CPU hungry I think. It shouldn't need lots of CPU to make a transfert. Did you try with another key ? Try the dd command suggested by Elijah. If it's fast, then you'll be sure it's not a USB problem. Maybe a badly written driver ? I don't know, I never heard of something like that. > > It is July 24 and ps ax -Olstart shows me that tar has > been running a very long time: > > 22986 Tue Jul 22 23:35:01 2008 D pts/13 00:00:40 tar xf > /home/martin/musicmain.tar > > I tried renic-ing tar and the usb mass storage daemon > which has had no effect, either good or bad. > > I do remember once that if there is a time lapse of > several minutes between the rm -r -f command to wipe the FAT > table clean and the tar command that initial performance is much > better so there must be a cleanup routine going on somewhere. > > This is also true if you unmount the drive and remount it empty. > I seem to remember that it only took a couple of hours to reload > the entire drive when I did things that way. > > I did a top command and I am either missing something or nothing > much is wrong: > > Tasks: 42 total, 2 running, 40 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 99.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% > si Mem:126424k total, 124572k used, 1852k free, 1604k buffers > Swap: 377488k total,0k used, 377488k free, 102308k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 23560 martin16 0 2160 1084 1880 R 0.3 0.9 0:00.03 top > 1 root 16 0 1492 528 1336 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.26 init > 2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.13 ksoftirqd/0 > 3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 > 4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.02 kblockd/0 >10 root 7 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 > 9 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.06 kswapd0 >11 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsIO > > I plan to let this tar command run its natural course to see > what happens, but is there anything I can do with the existing > system to optimise the performance? > > Thanks. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get new package management capability
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:12:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu,24.Jul.08, 04:03:17, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I remember seeing that apt-get can do orphan packages automatic removal > > now. Does it need special setup? > > > > Package installed in my long-overhauled Debian was by debfoster, then > > aptitude. Can I just use apt-get for automatic packages clean up now? > > How can I transfer the "knowledge" from debfoster/aptitude to apt? > > > > Can anyone show me steps in managing package only by apt-get, or > > point me to the right web page? > > aptitude is the recommended package manager, why do you want to switch > to apt-get? > > Anyway, the logic for auto-installed packages has moved from aptitude to > libapt so all package managers can take advantage of it. If you run > lenny or sid (you didn't say) all you have to do is run > 'apt-get autoremove'. AFAIR apt-get will tell you when there are > packages to be autoremoved. You do need to run aptitude once to transfer the information. It should move the automatic flags to the apt database and clear them from its own when you start it (run it without any arguments). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.
Say your flash disk is /dev/sdc and has 1 FAT partition where the music is stored: cd ~ dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=zenstone2g.img bs=64M mkdir /mnt/zenstoneimg mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg ---delete anything in /mnt/zenstoneimg/music you don't want - cp -R /path/to/my/music/* /mnt/zenstoneimg/music/ umount /mnt/zenstoneimg dd if=zenstone2g.img of=/dev/sdc1 bs=64M You'd only need to run the commands before "mount" once, then keep the image around for the future. I don't actually know if this will speed things up, but the idea is that you are bypassing the filesystem layer over the USB bottleneck for disk writes. You make all the filesystem changes to a disk image on your hard disk, then you stream the bits in that image to the flash disk. The "bs=64M" is the block size and can be increased or decreased depending on your situation. AFAIK, it basically acts like a buffer in situations like this. Be very careful with the syntax of dd; one misplaced character and you could wipe your hard disk or flash drive. Just an idea. Let me know if it works out. -Elijah On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 > player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations > all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which > probably has something to do with the fat32 file system and size > of the FAT table. > >I started by doing rm -r -f music which is the one and > only main directory. That took about 2 hours to complete and > then it was time to reload it from the Linux computer. > >The Linux computer is a 500-MHZ Pentium running a 2.6.5 > kernel and the usb2 port is, by definition 13 Mb so it is slow, > about 10-meg Ethernet slow under normal conditions. > >What actually happens is much worse. After doing the rm > -r -f, I started with an empty drive but the tar program started > running very slowly. It takes at times, 10 minutes to load one > tune that would normally play in 2 or 3 minutes. > >Just for fun, I let it plod slowly along and it has been > running now for about 36 hours and is 75% complete but what is > happening? > >If I look at the health of the system, it isn't that bad > all be it busy. > > $ uptime > > 07:21:58 up 2 days, 23:37, 2 users, load average: 4.00, 4.13, 4.19 > >It is July 24 and ps ax -Olstart shows me that tar has > been running a very long time: > > 22986 Tue Jul 22 23:35:01 2008 D pts/13 00:00:40 tar xf > /home/martin/musicmain.tar > >I tried renic-ing tar and the usb mass storage daemon > which has had no effect, either good or bad. > >I do remember once that if there is a time lapse of > several minutes between the rm -r -f command to wipe the FAT > table clean and the tar command that initial performance is much > better so there must be a cleanup routine going on somewhere. > > This is also true if you unmount the drive and remount it empty. > I seem to remember that it only took a couple of hours to reload > the entire drive when I did things that way. > > I did a top command and I am either missing something or nothing > much is wrong: > > Tasks: 42 total, 2 running, 40 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 99.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > Mem:126424k total, 124572k used, 1852k free, 1604k buffers > Swap: 377488k total,0k used, 377488k free, 102308k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 23560 martin16 0 2160 1084 1880 R 0.3 0.9 0:00.03 top >1 root 16 0 1492 528 1336 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.26 init >2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.13 ksoftirqd/0 >3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 >4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.02 kblockd/0 > 10 root 7 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 >9 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.06 kswapd0 > 11 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsIO > > I plan to let this tar command run its natural course to see > what happens, but is there anything I can do with the existing > system to optimise the performance? > >Thanks. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: before I could ping, now I can't
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: before I could ping, now I can't >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:00:38 +0300 > >>On Wed,23.Jul.08, 17:51:02, Vwaju wrote: >> >>> 13 #I added the following lines (following Linux System Admin p. >13) >>> 14 #netmask and network are guesses, because ISP RCN won't give >info >>> 15 auto-eth0 >>> 16 iface eth0 inet static >>> 17address 207.237.37.110 >>> 18netmask 255.255.255.0 >>> 19network 207.237.37.0 >>> >>> ifup eth0 reports: >>> >>> /etc/network/interfaces:15: option with empty value >>> ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces" >> >>Is this the entire file or did you omit something? >> >>> Because RCN has refused to give me the network IP address, >netmask, >>> and gateway, I expect trouble configuring the interface. Any >advice >>> you have about this is welcome. >> >>How are you supposed to configure it then, via DHCP? The netmask and > >>network options are not mandatory, but without a gateway... >>You could try 207.237.37.1 or .254 for gateway. How did you get it >to >>work before? >> >>Regards, >>Andrei >>-- >>If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. >>(Albert Einstein) >> How about configuring the interface for DHCP temporarily. The protocol with the ISP will then transfer the gateway and network info which you could then use to reconfigure the interface as static? Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
Hi, On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns > servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled > with values different from the ones I want. > > Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked > (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). > Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must > be created every time. > > Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo Install resolvconf Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb compilation
Hi, Please do not put your answer before the quoted text (and only quote the relevant part). It makes you mail easier to read. Jerônimo Bezerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made apt-src install courier-maildrop. It downloaded 3 files and 1 folder: > There isn't a config.log or another file that could help me. > I need to know what was the ./configure line used by maintainer. > > Is there another way to find this information? You can rebuild the package with the same options the maintainer used by running `debuild' [1]. Otherwise you can take a look at the file debian/rules, and the `build' target there. More information about the source layout of Debian packages can be found for example in the Debian New Maintainer's Guide [2]. I think sections 4.4 and 6 might be of interest to you. Regards, Ansgar [1] You need to install `devscripts' for this to work. [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.25 kernel and NVIDIA driver
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: >> pardon me if this was already beat to death, but I was away last >> week.. Today I booted into my new 2.6.25-2 kernel and I tried to run >> my normal NVIDIA...-pkg1.run script. It complained about the XEN >> kernel and failed. So > > > > I can't use the vga= kernel parameter in 2.6.25-2: did you use it? > > What is your kernel command line? > > Hugo > > # grep vga /etc/lilo.conf # can be obtained by booting with vga=ask and pressing [Enter]. vga=0x31A works ok here and thanks Paul, I hadn't got the new kernel and drivers to go until now. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb compilation
Hello Mr Eugene, thanks for your answer. I made apt-src install courier-maildrop. It downloaded 3 files and 1 folder: drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 2008-07-24 10:58 courier-0.53.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src122318 2007-02-13 07:02 courier_0.53.3-5.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 1196 2007-02-13 07:02 courier_0.53.3-5.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 10531155 2006-10-13 10:02 courier_0.53.3.orig.tar.gz in courier-0.53.3 folder: # ls -1 config* config.guess config.sub configure configure.in There isn't a config.log or another file that could help me. I need to know what was the ./configure line used by maintainer. Is there another way to find this information? Thanks again Jeronimo Eugene V. Lyubimkin escreveu: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerônimo Bezerra wrote: Hello All, I need recompile a Debian package and I would like to know how it was compiled by maintainer. How is it possible? I already tried to talk with him, but he didn't answer me. The package is courier-maildrop Thanks for any advice. Jeronimo Use apt-src install, or (longer way) man dpkg-source + man dpkg-buildpackage - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiIecsACgkQchorMMFUmYz1vgCeIhsureWtvE4ZVGRuQuhcP2cH ZtoAn2TYnR0+7RE/tFhYZQB3IfnmWuNf =FoeL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.
Correction: mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg should read: mount -o loop -t msdos zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg Material Safety Data Sheets do not play a part here. :-) You might also try -t vfat, one of them should work. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, elijah r. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Say your flash disk is /dev/sdc and has 1 FAT partition where the > music is stored: > > cd ~ > dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=zenstone2g.img bs=64M > mkdir /mnt/zenstoneimg > mount -o loop -t msds zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg > ---delete anything in /mnt/zenstoneimg/music you don't want - > cp -R /path/to/my/music/* /mnt/zenstoneimg/music/ > umount /mnt/zenstoneimg > dd if=zenstone2g.img of=/dev/sdc1 bs=64M > > You'd only need to run the commands before "mount" once, then keep the > image around for the future. > I don't actually know if this will speed things up, but the idea is > that you are bypassing the filesystem layer over the USB bottleneck > for disk writes. > You make all the filesystem changes to a disk image on your hard disk, > then you stream the bits in that image to the flash disk. > The "bs=64M" is the block size and can be increased or decreased > depending on your situation. AFAIK, it basically acts like a buffer > in situations like this. > > Be very careful with the syntax of dd; one misplaced character and you > could wipe your hard disk or flash drive. > > Just an idea. Let me know if it works out. > > -Elijah > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Martin McCormick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 >> player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations >> all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which >> probably has something to do with the fat32 file system and size >> of the FAT table. >> >>I started by doing rm -r -f music which is the one and >> only main directory. That took about 2 hours to complete and >> then it was time to reload it from the Linux computer. >> >>The Linux computer is a 500-MHZ Pentium running a 2.6.5 >> kernel and the usb2 port is, by definition 13 Mb so it is slow, >> about 10-meg Ethernet slow under normal conditions. >> >>What actually happens is much worse. After doing the rm >> -r -f, I started with an empty drive but the tar program started >> running very slowly. It takes at times, 10 minutes to load one >> tune that would normally play in 2 or 3 minutes. >> >>Just for fun, I let it plod slowly along and it has been >> running now for about 36 hours and is 75% complete but what is >> happening? >> >>If I look at the health of the system, it isn't that bad >> all be it busy. >> >> $ uptime >> >> 07:21:58 up 2 days, 23:37, 2 users, load average: 4.00, 4.13, 4.19 >> >>It is July 24 and ps ax -Olstart shows me that tar has >> been running a very long time: >> >> 22986 Tue Jul 22 23:35:01 2008 D pts/13 00:00:40 tar xf >> /home/martin/musicmain.tar >> >>I tried renic-ing tar and the usb mass storage daemon >> which has had no effect, either good or bad. >> >>I do remember once that if there is a time lapse of >> several minutes between the rm -r -f command to wipe the FAT >> table clean and the tar command that initial performance is much >> better so there must be a cleanup routine going on somewhere. >> >> This is also true if you unmount the drive and remount it empty. >> I seem to remember that it only took a couple of hours to reload >> the entire drive when I did things that way. >> >> I did a top command and I am either missing something or nothing >> much is wrong: >> >> Tasks: 42 total, 2 running, 40 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 99.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si >> Mem:126424k total, 124572k used, 1852k free, 1604k buffers >> Swap: 377488k total,0k used, 377488k free, 102308k cached >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND >> 23560 martin16 0 2160 1084 1880 R 0.3 0.9 0:00.03 top >>1 root 16 0 1492 528 1336 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.26 init >>2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.13 ksoftirqd/0 >>3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 >>4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.02 kblockd/0 >> 10 root 7 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 >>9 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.06 kswapd0 >> 11 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 jfsIO >> >> I plan to let this tar command run its natural course to see >> what happens, but is there anything I can do with the existing >> system to optimise the performance? >> >>Thanks. >> >> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >> Systems Engineer >> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject
Re: 2.6.25 Issues with IDE (via82xx)
On Thursday 24 July 2008 17:21:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > Any one had problems with this?
> >
> > Hal startup finds bad opcode, "busy" and resets IDE killing DMA, 32-bit
> > access, etc. All this can be restored using hdparm afterwards.
> >
> > However, this may be causing other errors on the HD as well.
> >
> > No problems with 2.6.23
>
> Please attach a snippet from dmesg or /var/log/syslog.
This is what follow hald start on bootup. Hal is not mentioned in the log,
however!
Jul 22 17:58:03 d_baron kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jul 22 17:58:03 d_baron kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jul 22 17:58:03 d_baron kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Jul 22 17:58:03 d_baron kernel: hdd: DMA disabled
Jul 22 17:58:03 d_baron kernel: ide1: reset: success
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Re: How to fix resolv.conf?
> When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns > servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled > with values different from the ones I want. > > Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked > (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). > Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must > be created every time. > > Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? man resolvconf, should help you out Cheers, Pavlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to fix resolv.conf?
When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled with values different from the ones I want. Googling around I experimented many possible solutions but none worked (e.g. edit the file /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf). Even putting off the write permissions over resolv.conf did not work: it must be created every time. Does anyone have any experience about a real solution? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb compilation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerônimo Bezerra wrote: > Hello All, > > I need recompile a Debian package and I would like to know how it was > compiled by maintainer. How is it possible? I already tried to talk with > him, but he didn't answer me. > > The package is courier-maildrop > > Thanks for any advice. > > Jeronimo > > Use apt-src install, or (longer way) man dpkg-source + man dpkg-buildpackage - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiIecsACgkQchorMMFUmYz1vgCeIhsureWtvE4ZVGRuQuhcP2cH ZtoAn2TYnR0+7RE/tFhYZQB3IfnmWuNf =FoeL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] >> This is working from gateway. I'm trying it from LAN behind the >> gateway/firewall, from desktop machine. > > If this is working from the gateway then I would presume that the > problem is at the gateway, for you local LAN clients, all their traffic > has to go through the gateway > >> tcpdump now shows traffic, when I ping www.google.com from desktop >> machine. >> >> I run on gateway command: >> sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 port 53 or host 62.108.117.6 >> >> listening on eth2, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes >> 09:42:10.158205 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? >> www.google.com. (32) >> 09:42:15.153786 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? >> www.google.com. (32) > I presume 91.102.227.98 is your public Internet address (eth2 on the > gateway), you don't see any return packets, which is strange ? If you > do the same test on the gateway you see the return packets ? I did the same test on the gateway and tcpdump give to me these lines: 12:37:08.773167 IP 62.108.117.6.53 > 91.102.231.33.1028: 26739 1/4/0(151) 12:37:09.752199 IP 91.102.231.33.1028 > 62.108.117.6.53: 41421+ PTR? 103.91.249.66.in-addr.arpa. (44) 12:37:09.769013 IP 62.108.117.6.53 > 91.102.231.33.1028: 41421 1/4/0(151) 12:37:10.743902 IP 91.102.231.33.1028 > 62.108.117.6.53: 52686+ PTR? 103.91.249.66.in-addr.arpa. (44) Now we can see the return packets, right? > can you supply the output of > > ip a (shows your ip address) > ip r (shows the routing information) > iptables -nvL -t nat (show the iptables / firewall information for > natting) >From the gateway I give the commands: ip a 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:e0:7d:fc:1a:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.1/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fefc:1ab2/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: eth1: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:e0:7d:fc:1a:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.2.1/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global eth1 inet6 fe80::2e0:7dff:fefc:1ab0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: eth2: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:14:04:31:19:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 91.102.231.33/28 brd 91.102.231.47 scope global eth2 inet6 fe80::214:4ff:fe31:199f/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 5: sit0: mtu 1480 qdisc noop link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 eth2 is my interface to the internet providers server. I have a public IP address given to my by my ISP, but this IP address should to be: 91.102.227.98 and not the abowe shown 91.102.231.33. Mybe ISP changed my public IP address? I shall to ask him. ip r 91.102.231.32/28 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 91.102.231.33 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.1 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.1 default via 91.102.231.46 dev eth2 sudo iptables -nvL -t nat - iptables-firewall_natting_info Description: natting info -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm
Making Kmail attachments available to OOo
Hello On my wife's Etch machine, running KDE, she is experiencing a problem opening attachments with OOo (any component - writer, impress, calc, etc.) once they have been in her inbox for a while. I *think* that what is happening is that Kmail stores these in .kde/tmp (not the correct path) and for whatever reason OOo is just not searching there to open the attachments. Instead, it throws an error message that does not exist (or cannot be found - sorry I am doing this from memory). How do I go about fixing this and ensuring that the directory Kmail uses to store attachments is in OOo's search path? Thanks Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: directory to deb
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:26:37AM +, T o n g wrote: > I have a second thought, since checkinstall accept any install command, > can I do > > checkinstall rsync -vua . / > > from the directory that I prepared to create a .deb file? if the command rsync -vua . / is really what you want to do, then instead give a look to dh_builddeb and/or other dh_* commands My script instead was for an _alredy installed_ package, for example when you as user do a ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/NN/packagename-version/;make;make install (where /usr/local/NN/packagename-version is a pre-existing directory owened by the user). Sorry for having misunderstood your problem. Also, give a look at ckeckinstall (really, installwatch) bugs; for example be SURE that your installation does not modify /etc/passwd or any other (inportant) file which exists before the installation. -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
The Thursday 24 July 2008 10:47:23 Thomas Preud'homme, you wrote : > > This is working from gateway. I'm trying it from LAN behind the > > gateway/firewall, from desktop machine. Sorry I missed this sentence. Forget what I said -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
Alexander Fortin wrote the following on 24.07.2008 10:03 > Yep, using usermod instead of passwd seems to work fine! > So, to report a bug or not to? Which mailing list? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183 > Alex HTH -- bye Thilo key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > This is working from gateway. I'm trying it from LAN behind the > gateway/firewall, from desktop machine. If this is working from the gateway then I would presume that the problem is at the gateway, for you local LAN clients, all their traffic has to go through the gateway > > tcpdump now shows traffic, when I ping www.google.com from desktop > machine. > > I run on gateway command: > sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 port 53 or host 62.108.117.6 > > listening on eth2, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes > 09:42:10.158205 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > 09:42:15.153786 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > 09:42:20.153200 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > 09:42:25.152719 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > > 4 packets captured > 4 packets received by filter > 0 packets dropped by kernel > I presume 91.102.227.98 is your public Internet address (eth2 on the gateway), you don't see any return packets, which is strange ? If you do the same test on the gateway you see the return packets ? > but I get error message on the command line on desktop (LAN): > $ ping www.google.com > ping: unknown host www.google.com > > tcpdump now shows traffic, when I 'ping 62.108.117.6' from desktop > machine. > > I run the command on gateway: > sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 > > 09:46:56.951551 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id > 63003, seq 10, length 64 > 09:46:57.083584 IP 91.102.227.98.50927 > 213.244.255.2.53: > 58759+[|domain] > 09:46:57.951463 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id > 63003, seq 11, length 64 > 09:46:58.951366 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id > 63003, seq 12, length 64 again no return packets > > but at the command line on desktop machine I get nothing: > > $ ping 62.108.117.6 > PING 62.108.117.6 (62.108.117.6) 56(84) bytes of data. > > Then I cancel it with Ctrl-C: > > --- 62.108.117.6 ping statistics --- > 13 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 12008ms > > Well, I think that that something is wrong in my network setup, but > what? can you supply the output of ip a (shows your ip address) ip r (shows the routing information) iptables -nvL -t nat (show the iptables / firewall information for natting) > > -- > Regards, Paul Csanyi > http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- World tensions have, if anything, increased in the quarter century since H. G. Wells uttered his glum warning: "There is no more evil thing on earth than race prejudice, none at all. I write deliberately -- it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." -- Sydney Harris signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: before I could ping, now I can't
Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the contents of etc/network/interfaces: > [...] > 15 auto-eth0 Should be "auto eth0" rather than "auto-eth0". Fix that and try the "ifup eth0" again. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Greetings and question
On 07/23/2008 06:37 PM, Juan Ignacio wrote: Hi [...] Hi Juan. Why isn't [gtk-qt-engine] in the repositories? I want this package because Firefox looks so awful. [...] Others showed you how to grab gtk-qt-engine from Sid. However, it's much less risky to just install a theme into Firefox. Almost any theme will look better than the default (system theme). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
The Thursday 24 July 2008 09:52:22 Csanyi Pal, you wrote : > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> >> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> > On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: > >> >> >> I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. > > > > [snip] > > > >> > /sbin/route > >> > > >> > when executed on the gateway machine. > >> > >> Kernel IP routing table > >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > >> Iface 91.102.231.32 * 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 > >> eth2 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 > >> 0 eth1 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 > >> 0 eth0 default 46-231-102-91.r 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 > >> 0 eth2 > > > > [snip] > > > > looking at your route table I would suggest something like > > > > tcpduump -pni eth2 port 53 or host > the first one in the resolv.conf file> > > > > this will show you all the packets leaving via eth2 that are on port 53 > > (dns) or are destined or have come from you isp's dns server. > > > > if this is working from the gateway, try it from one of the remote > > machines, the tcpdump should be still run on the gateway machine > > This is working from gateway. I'm trying it from LAN behind the > gateway/firewall, from desktop machine. > > tcpdump now shows traffic, when I ping www.google.com from desktop > machine. > > I run on gateway command: > sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 port 53 or host 62.108.117.6 > > listening on eth2, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes > 09:42:10.158205 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > 09:42:15.153786 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > 09:42:20.153200 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > 09:42:25.152719 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? > www.google.com. (32) > > 4 packets captured > 4 packets received by filter > 0 packets dropped by kernel > > but I get error message on the command line on desktop (LAN): > $ ping www.google.com > ping: unknown host www.google.com > > tcpdump now shows traffic, when I 'ping 62.108.117.6' from desktop > machine. > > I run the command on gateway: > sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 > > 09:46:56.951551 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id > 63003, seq 10, length 64 > 09:46:57.083584 IP 91.102.227.98.50927 > 213.244.255.2.53: > 58759+[|domain] > 09:46:57.951463 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id > 63003, seq 11, length 64 > 09:46:58.951366 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id > 63003, seq 12, length 64 > > but at the command line on desktop machine I get nothing: > > $ ping 62.108.117.6 > PING 62.108.117.6 (62.108.117.6) 56(84) bytes of data. > > Then I cancel it with Ctrl-C: > > --- 62.108.117.6 ping statistics --- > 13 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 12008ms > > Well, I think that that something is wrong in my network setup, but > what? > > -- > Regards, Paul Csanyi > http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm When you do a dhclient you get the IP address of the DHCP server which offer you your IP. Could you try a ping on this address and if it works on the DNS address you get in /etc/resolv.conf ? -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Greetings and question
The Thursday 24 July 2008 01:37:16 Juan Ignacio, you wrote : > Hi I'm new here, I've been using Ubuntu, but the last edition hardy > it's too bugged in my opinion, so I changed to Debian. I installed it > from the netinstall cd. And I must say it so fast and stable. > > Well here is the question, I used apt-get install gtk-qt-engine and it > says that the package couldn't be found. Why isn't the package in the > repositories? I want this package because Firefox looks so awful. > > My regards > > PD: Sorry for my English, I'm from Argentina > > -- > Juan Ignacio Villarejo http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtk-qt-engine.html It should be available in 7 days but we are in the freezing phase for the next Debian stable so maybe you'll have to wait more. I think it's just libraries which are getting frozen now so it should be good. -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny
On Jul 23, 6:50 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I partially agree with the useless of the feauture, but Debian > > installer is asking if you want to allow root login or not, so I'm > > Only in expert mode ;) Uhm... well I always find difficult to define what a (Debian) expert need to know to be called so... Anyway, can you manually partition disks with raid and lvm stuff when you are not in expert mode? 'Cause actually it's the only "expert" thing I need to do at install time :D > I'm not an expert, but a quick read through passwd(1) says account > expiry should be set to '1', while your 'passwd -S' shows '-1', just > like a normal account. > > How about trying to lock it again? Lock-unlock doesn't work On Jul 23, 8:10 pm, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A comment in that bug suggests using "usermod --lock root" to lock the > root account, that does seem to work. Yep, using usermod instead of passwd seems to work fine! So, to report a bug or not to? Which mailing list? Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system
On 2008-07-23 20:06, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > All ready covered two emails ago. >>> In a word, Yes. Oooops, sorry for not reading the thread careful enough. > Notice I said ADVANCED options? I find killing the touchpad while > typing while still using the alt and ctrl keys with out killing the > touchpad a useful feature as is circular scrolling. > > Once you KNOW to look under xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (really > intuitive, that, it should just be /usr/share/doc/synaptics, how are > you supposed to know to look for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics?) $ aptitude search synaptics i gsynaptics - configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad p libsynaptics-dev- library to access the synaptics touch pad p libsynaptics0 - library to access the synaptics touch pad p xfree86-driver-synaptics- dummy package to upgrade to X.Org new mod v xorg-driver-synaptics - i A xserver-xorg-input-synaptics- Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree gives you the hint. gsynaptics, by the way, is a graphical configuration tool to configure the touchpad 'on the fly'. I don't know if it can be used to disable the touchpad while typing thing, but you already found a solution. Another handy tool I use is unclutter, which hides the mouse curser after some time, so it doesn't get into the way while you're just reading. HTH, Johannes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> > On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: >> >> >> I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. >> >> >> > [snip] > >> > /sbin/route >> > >> > when executed on the gateway machine. >> >> Kernel IP routing table >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface >> 91.102.231.32 * 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 eth2 >> 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 >> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 >> default 46-231-102-91.r 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth2 > [snip] > looking at your route table I would suggest something like > > tcpduump -pni eth2 port 53 or host the first one in the resolv.conf file> > > this will show you all the packets leaving via eth2 that are on port 53 > (dns) or are destined or have come from you isp's dns server. > > if this is working from the gateway, try it from one of the remote > machines, the tcpdump should be still run on the gateway machine This is working from gateway. I'm trying it from LAN behind the gateway/firewall, from desktop machine. tcpdump now shows traffic, when I ping www.google.com from desktop machine. I run on gateway command: sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 port 53 or host 62.108.117.6 listening on eth2, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 09:42:10.158205 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? www.google.com. (32) 09:42:15.153786 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? www.google.com. (32) 09:42:20.153200 IP 91.102.227.98.46197 > 62.108.117.6.53: 1661+ A? www.google.com. (32) 09:42:25.152719 IP 91.102.227.98.50360 > 213.244.255.2.53: 1661+ A? www.google.com. (32) 4 packets captured 4 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel but I get error message on the command line on desktop (LAN): $ ping www.google.com ping: unknown host www.google.com tcpdump now shows traffic, when I 'ping 62.108.117.6' from desktop machine. I run the command on gateway: sudo tcpdump -pni eth2 09:46:56.951551 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id 63003, seq 10, length 64 09:46:57.083584 IP 91.102.227.98.50927 > 213.244.255.2.53: 58759+[|domain] 09:46:57.951463 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id 63003, seq 11, length 64 09:46:58.951366 IP 91.102.227.98 > 62.108.117.6: ICMP echo request, id 63003, seq 12, length 64 but at the command line on desktop machine I get nothing: $ ping 62.108.117.6 PING 62.108.117.6 (62.108.117.6) 56(84) bytes of data. Then I cancel it with Ctrl-C: --- 62.108.117.6 ping statistics --- 13 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 12008ms Well, I think that that something is wrong in my network setup, but what? -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get new package management capability
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 04:03:17, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I remember seeing that apt-get can do orphan packages automatic removal > now. Does it need special setup? > > Package installed in my long-overhauled Debian was by debfoster, then > aptitude. Can I just use apt-get for automatic packages clean up now? > How can I transfer the "knowledge" from debfoster/aptitude to apt? > > Can anyone show me steps in managing package only by apt-get, or > point me to the right web page? aptitude is the recommended package manager, why do you want to switch to apt-get? Anyway, the logic for auto-installed packages has moved from aptitude to libapt so all package managers can take advantage of it. If you run lenny or sid (you didn't say) all you have to do is run 'apt-get autoremove'. AFAIR apt-get will tell you when there are packages to be autoremoved. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Greetings and question
On Thu,24.Jul.08, 00:59:13, Juan Ignacio wrote: > Sorry I didn't say that I'm using debian lenny. Is there a problem if I > install a package from another version? Yes and no. We usually advise against it, but with lenny you sometimes have to. Put a line with APT::Default-Release "testing"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. If the file doesn't exist you will have to create it. "lenny" instead of "testing" won't work (unless the bug has been fixed) so will have to take care when lenny gets released. Add a source for sid and try to install that package with apt-get install -t your-sid-package If it doesn't pull any or just a few packages it *should* be pretty safe, but if it breaks you get to keep both pieces ;) There is also a page somewhere that tells you why (and how long it should take) the package is not in testing. Maybe you want to wait for a few days? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: before I could ping, now I can't
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 17:51:02, Vwaju wrote: > 13 #I added the following lines (following Linux System Admin p. 13) > 14 #netmask and network are guesses, because ISP RCN won't give info > 15 auto-eth0 > 16 iface eth0 inet static > 17address 207.237.37.110 > 18netmask 255.255.255.0 > 19network 207.237.37.0 > > ifup eth0 reports: > > /etc/network/interfaces:15: option with empty value > ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces" Is this the entire file or did you omit something? > Because RCN has refused to give me the network IP address, netmask, > and gateway, I expect trouble configuring the interface. Any advice > you have about this is welcome. How are you supposed to configure it then, via DHCP? The netmask and network options are not mandatory, but without a gateway... You could try 207.237.37.1 or .254 for gateway. How did you get it to work before? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
