Re: tar on flash drive

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote:
> I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will 
> likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the 
> home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, keeping 
> permissions. I'll use a live cd to do the salvage work (lenny live, knoppix, 
> knoppix STD or slax -- I have all available) and write to a 4GB usb flash 
> drive. 
> 
> Is this the proper syntax? I believe the -c must be first and the -f last.
> 
> tar -chpvf /mnt/sda1/homebackup.tar /mnt/hda2/home
> 
> -c is create a new archive
> -h is retain symlinks but not the files to which they point
> -p is preserve permissions
> -v is verbose
> -f is indicating that the destination file name follows immediately after
> 
> Is -h the best way to handle symlinks?
> Is having the destination file on a flash drive a potential problem? 
> 
> On my older desktop machine running sarge drag and drop with the flash drive 
> in K3b doesn't work well and it loaths umounting the flash drive. Sarge on 
> the hard drive was occasionally problematic, too. Slax lists my partitions on 
> the console as /mnt/sda1 (or /media/sda1 -- the flash drive) and /mnt/hda2 
> (or /media/hda2 -- it's the partition with the problem). 
> 
> Your input is appreciated. Please cc me as I am not currently subcribed to 
> the list.

have a look at rdiff-backup

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tar on flash drive

[postid]

I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will 
likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the 
home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, keeping 
permissions. I'll use a live cd to do the salvage work (lenny live, knoppix, 
knoppix STD or slax -- I have all available) and write to a 4GB usb flash 
drive. 

Is this the proper syntax? I believe the -c must be first and the -f last.

tar -chpvf /mnt/sda1/homebackup.tar /mnt/hda2/home

-c is create a new archive
-h is retain symlinks but not the files to which they point
-p is preserve permissions
-v is verbose
-f is indicating that the destination file name follows immediately after

Is -h the best way to handle symlinks?
Is having the destination file on a flash drive a potential problem? 

On my older desktop machine running sarge drag and drop with the flash drive in 
K3b doesn't work well and it loaths umounting the flash drive. Sarge on the 
hard drive was occasionally problematic, too. Slax lists my partitions on the 
console as /mnt/sda1 (or /media/sda1 -- the flash drive) and /mnt/hda2 (or 
/media/hda2 -- it's the partition with the problem). 

Your input is appreciated. Please cc me as I am not currently subcribed to the 
list.

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Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Eric Higgins  
was heard to say:
> Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:
> 
> It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
> filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?

  It looks like it got replaced by the postinst for wamerican.  You
could just replace it with an empty file and then reinstall coreutils,
but you should be aware that this is probably some sort of filesystem
corruption.  It's possible that this is the only thing that's wrong
and that you won't see any more problems, but I wouldn't count on it.
It's probably a good idea to back up any important data just in case
the situation gets worse.

  Just out of curiosity: what happened to the postinst for wamerican?
It should be /var/lib/dpkg/info/wamerican.postinst.

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(resolved) Re: blkid gets it info from where?

[whollygoat]

For the sake of anyone who may have been looking for an
answer to this besides myself, I'd like to report two things

1) removing and recreating /etc/blkid.tab and /etc/blkid.tab.old
   seems to have fixed things.  The boot process is not
   interrupted by fsck errors;

2) while researching something unrelated to this problem, I 
   came across something that leads me to believe that the 
   reason there are incorrect associations between an ext2
   file system label and two raid drives is the design of the ext
   file system.  If I understood the article correctly, ext2
   somehow associates a label with any devices the filesystem
   is connected to.  My guess would be that the LVM partition
   containing the ext3 fs is located on raid stripes on the 
   drives that show up in blkid.tab.

I could be wrong in point two, but things are back to working,
so I guess it doesn't really matter.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:36:28 -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org said:
> I've a file server that is dropping to a maintenance prompt 
> at boot because fsck.ext3 is unable to check a device.  But, 
> it shouldn't be looking at that device anyway.  
> 
> --- begin log excerpt ---
> Checking file systems fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/hdk1
> Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
> --- end log excerpt ---
> 
> hdk1, along with hde1, hdg1, hdi1, hdm1 and hdo1
> are component devices in a raid5 array (hdo1 is a spare) partition
> type da (non-fs data).  
> 
> I tried:
> 
>   $ ls -lFR /dev/disk | grep hdk
> 
> which turned up a symbolic link under /dev/disk/by-label named 
> XprtHome pointing to hdk1.  That should not be there.  The label
> is a valid ext3 partition label, but it was given to an LVM
> logical volume on top of the raid5 array that hdk1 is part of.
> 
> I noticed that the time stamp of the link was boot time, so I've 
> tried to find what puts it there:
> 
>   for i in /boot /etc /lib /usr /initrd
>   do
> grep -R XprtHome $i
>   done
> 
> whick led me to /etc/blkid.tab.  There are 3 entries there
> sporting the ext3 label XprtHome.  One is correct referencing
> the logical volume holding the e3 partition, one is the hdk one
> and another is for hdm1, another raid component device.
> 
> blkid.tab also has a boot time timestamp, so I guess it must be
> getting its information from somewhere else, but I can't figure 
> out where.
> 
>   blkid -c /dev/null 
> 
> gave the same crap.  
> 
> Tried renaming blkid.tab and blkid.tab.old by tagging "_DISABLED" 
> to the end and rerunning blkid, but that returned the same false 
> entries.  Even tried rebooting with only the disabled version of 
> the files.  Two new files were created with the same bad entries, 
> though fsck.ext3 did not interrupt the boot process.
> 
> It's funny, given that blkid.tab shows entries for both hdk1 and hdm1 
> that only hdk1 is listed under /dev/disk/by-label.
> 
> I've looked in /etc/udev, but nothing there seems obvious (in fact, it 
> all seems rather obscure:)
> 
> bug #463787 looks like it might be related, but I didn't understand
> much of the nitty gritty.  (I'm using e2fsprogs
> 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1
> which is the most recent for etch)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> wg
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Re: VFS panic in 2.6.28

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:30:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>Cannot open root UUID=blah-blah-fa6507 or unknown-block(0,0)
> The big difference between Now and Then is that I also moved from 
> booting off of /dev/hda using lilo to /dev/sda using grub2. 
> In my home-rolled kernel, I don't use an initrd because I compile in 
> the relevant fs and chipset drivers.
[snip]
> $ grep EXT[23] /usr/src/linux/.config
[snip]
> Any (helpful) thoughts?

what about scsi (or sata?) and scsi disk support in your
/usr/src/linux/.config ?

Moreover, if you think that grub2 is responsable (which seems unlikely,
but who knows) you can try installing lilo in the boot sector of sda1
(or whatever) and chain load such a lilo boot sector from the
mbr-installed grub2

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Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

[Marc Shapiro]

Marc Shapiro wrote:

Marc Shapiro wrote:
I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use 
Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups 
that I have been having.


My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and 
an Athlon XP 800+ CPU.


This is what I have done:
changed my etc/apt/sources.list to point to Lenny
ran aptitude update
ran aptitude install dpkg apt aptitude
ran aptitude safe-upgrade
   I had to run this several times before it completed without
   errors and showed no packages still to be upgraded
ran aptitude full-upgrade
   had to uninstall wine and sane to get this to run without errors

ran startx
   got the following errors:

(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
Emulator asked to make a suspect byte access to port 4 (0x0004); 
terminating.


Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c91ce]
1: [0xe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(x_outb+0x57) [0xb7b21f17]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so [0xb7b291d4]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(X86EMU_exec+0xab) [0xb7b3871b]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(xf86ExecX86int10+0x55) 
[0xb7b2ece5]

6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so(VBESaveRestore+0xb5) [0xb7f2ece5]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b17a8f]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b1866e]
9: /usr/bin/X(AddScreen+0x1f7) [ox8073db7]
10: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x236) [0x8073db7]
11: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2b1) [0x8074591]
12: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7cec455]
13: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x21d) [0x8073a81]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

giving up.
xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X 
server

xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.


Any help in getting X to run will be greatly appreciated.  I am 
hoping that this is just a question of a manual config change, but I 
don't know enough about X configs to know where to start.


Is there a known current problem with wine and sane?  Wine is 
probably not much of an issue, but without sane my scanner is not 
going to function.
  
OK.  I can now get into X.  Why worry about manually reconfiguring 
xserver-xorg when I can use dpkg-reconfigure, as it says in the 
comments at the top of the xorg.conf file, which I should have read 
first.


But now I have another X problem.  If I try to use Ctl-Alt-F1 (or any 
Fn key) to switch to a virtual console, then X dies.  This is a big 
problem since my wife, my daughter and I are always logged onto this 
computer and we each have X sessions on separate vts.  I use vt07, my 
wife is on vt08 and my daughter is on vt09.  This way we can each have 
our own configuration, files, etc. and it only take a single key 
combination to switch between them.



I really need help getting this working.

Another thing to note is that after I get into X, even if I exit through 
my wm's exit command I get the error:


Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


Also, I am getting occasional artifacts on the X screen.  This happened 
to me in Etch when I used the SiS driver, so I changed to the vesa 
driver and the artifacts went away.  This doesn't even seem to be an 
option in the new xorg.conf file.  Is it somewhere else?


Something must be configured incorrectly, but I don't know what, or where.

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Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

[whollygoat]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:44:11 +1100, "Alex Samad" 
said:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:45:24PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org
> wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if that would have helped with the larger drives.  Too late:)
> > The smaller drives shouldn't have been bad.  All I did to them was fail 
> 
> once you fail them they are marked as failed, plus if you did them one
> by one they would have different event id and be out of sync :(

Hmm,  I've already recreated the array with the larger drives and
restored
the filesystem from backups, but I think I will try your --assume-clean
on the smaller drives to see if I can recover them.  Could be a useful
little thing to have some practice with.

Thanks for the info.  Bit by bit it's helping me to understand how md
works (and how to interpret the man page:)

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Re: package version numbers

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:56:30PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade
> with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal,
> which is not in lenny.

If you really want to use old packages on modern debian distributions,
you can manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to correct dependencies.

In this case this means

cp -pai /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.SAVED

$EDITOR /var/lib/dpkg/status

search for libglib1.2 in the "Depends: " lines and change it to 
libglib1.2 | libglib1.2ldbl

(you can also do such kind of things after a manual download of a
$PACKAGE.deb and a dpkg --force-depends -i $PACKAGE.deb )

Note that you can use archive.debian.org and/or snapshot.debian.net in
your /etc/apt/sources.list (and perhaps also adjust /etc/apt/preferences
according to man 5 apt_preferences)

Note also that that these operations are UNSUPPORTED. I do them
routinely and they work fine for me (infact, my reasons to use debian
are these kinds of extreme configurability), but: NO WARRANTY.

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Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

[NN_il_Confusionario]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins wrote:
>  files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename

the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list seems to be corrupted.
Check it (and possibly also the filesystem)

In case of dubt, you could try

mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list.CORRUPTED
touch /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list
apt-get --reinstall install coreutils

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Re: laptop lenny + TV

[Bob Cox]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 17:07:51 -0800, consultores1 (consultor...@gmail.com) 
wrote: 

> El lun, 19-01-2009 a las 01:27 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev escribió:
> > consultores1 wrote:
> > 
> > > After 1 year working on it, i went to Nvidia web page, but i found the
> > > same weird situation; "incongruent information". I can not install the
> > > GeForce 6150 v2 driver, because i could not identify and download it. It
> > > looks for me as if it was really better when "KISS" was a premise!
> > > Following a pig, it is found the pigs world.
> > > 
> > > PS:
> > > I am not able to continue whit this, thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I just did an upgrade at my fathers notebook and could download the nvidia
> > driver. It was easy and intuitive. Don't know what kind of problem you've
> > had with it. Try again or just try the X native nv driver.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> I would like to try again with the private Nvidia drivers, could you
> send me the link? I went to GiForce, then i found series 1-2-3-4-5-6; i
> choose 6, and there, there were not anything related to my "Nvidia
> Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)"

If you haven't already, you ought to read the Debian Nvidia Graphics
Drivers Wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers which
includes links to lists of supported cards.

One of those links is to
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/appendix-a.html
which is "Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products" and
which has these listed:
GeForce 6150
GeForce 6150 LE
GeForce Go 6150
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

That third one above looks like yours.

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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Allan Wind wrote:

> On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't
> > ignore them?
>
> I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with
> thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably testing his personal mail
> configuration.  *As such* my preference is to automate processing of such
> messages as I already do for other subjects like spam.  If it cannot be
> done in a way that benefit all members of this mailing list and at the
> same time educates the sender, then perhaps a per-user solution would be
> an interest to a subset of this audience.  *As such* it seemed
> constructive to inquire if anyone had already solved this technical
> problem.  [My emphasis]
>

I object to messages which use the phrase "as such" to mean "so", or
"therefore", or whatever it is you think it means.  But it would be as silly
to try to filter on semi-literate uses of "as such" as it would be to try to
filter on irrelevant uses of "test" or "help" or other often legitimate
words.  This mailing list is an open list.  As such [a correct usage], it
accepts all messages, dumb or not (including this one).

Patrick

Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

[Eric Higgins]

Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:

It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?

# cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by installdeb-wordlist
case "$1" in abort-install|remove)

/usr/sbin/remove-default-wordlist wamerican

if [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ] ; then
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
db_purge
fi
esac

# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_installdebconf
if [ "$1" = purge ] && [ -e /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ]; then
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
db_purge
fi
# End automatically added section



On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Daniel Burrows  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins 
>  was heard to say:
>> Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade:
>>
>> # apt-get -fm install dpkg
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Suggested packages:
>>   lzma
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   dpkg
>> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B/2039kB of archives.
>> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
>> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack):
>>  files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
>
>  Do you see anything unusual in the file list for coreutils?  (i.e.,
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list)  For instance, are there empty lines?
> Does it look obviously corrupted?
>
>  I would try "fixing" the problems that stop dpkg from processing the
> files list, then downloading the .deb for the *exact version* you have
> installed, and running "dpkg --install" on it to make sure the list is
> correct.  NB: make sure it doesn't have anything that belongs to another
> package first!
>
>  I've attached the files list for coreutils on my computer for
> comparison.
>
>  Daniel
>


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Re: read only nfs root and var

[Andrew Reid]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 21:21, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file
> > system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting
> > it's own disk and then linking some files from etc.

>   It's provided by a kernel module, but the modules are packaged
> for Debian "etch", and I think the functionality is included in
> the kernel source itself for 2.6.24 (etchnhalf) and 2.6.26 (lenny),
> but I'm not 100% sure of that -- the machines I do this for
> are still vanilla "etch", so as I say, I'm not sure of the
> etchnhalf or lenny status.
>

  OK, replying to myself here, I just had a quick look 
around, and it seems that lenny has migrated to "aufs", which
is an alternate implementation of "stackable" filesystems, but
as far as I can tell, stackable file-system functionality
is not packaged in etchnhalf -- is that right, or am I 
missing something?
  Neither aufs nor unionfs are built by the source package 
linux-modules-extra-2.6-etchnhalf, and the user-space versions
(unionfs-fuse, and/or funionfs) only appear in lenny and sid.

  So, let me pass this on -- anyone know how to do unionfs
in etchnhalf?

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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Ron Johnson]

On 01/18/2009 07:22 PM, Allan Wind wrote:

On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't 
ignore them?


I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with 
thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably testing his personal mail 
configuration.  As such my preference is to automate processing of such 


I totally understand.

The problem is that the words "test", "testing" and "works" are 
generic and can have other uses.


And still, test messages are pretty rare.

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VFS panic in 2.6.28

[Ron Johnson]

Hi,

(Note that I've been rolling my own kernels since 2.6.0, and was 
even able to make 2.6.27 work.)


The boot error is:
   Cannot open root UUID=blah-blah-fa6507 or unknown-block(0,0)

The big difference between Now and Then is that I also moved from 
booting off of /dev/hda using lilo to /dev/sda using grub2.


In my home-rolled kernel, I don't use an initrd because I compile in 
the relevant fs and chipset drivers.


Here are the (I think) relevant portions of grub.cfg:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set root=(hd1,2)
search --fs-uuid --set [snip]fa6507
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd1,2)
search --fs-uuid --set [snip]fa6507
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
set root=(hd1,2)
search --fs-uuid --set ec2cfda3-185d-4d41-a708-01472ffa6507
menuentry "Linux 2.6.28smp64" {
   set root=(hd1,2)
   linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28smp64 root=UUID=[snip]fa6507 ro
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-1-amd64" {
   linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-1-amd64 root=UUID=[snip]fa6507 ro
   initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-amd64
}


$ grep EXT[23] /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y

Any (helpful) thoughts?

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Re: read only nfs root and var

[Andrew Reid]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file
> system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting
> it's own disk and then linking some files from etc.
>
> The only problem I'm running into is var which should be partially from the
> head node (looks like most of var/lib) and some local (var/run it seems).
> How do I setup var to play nicely with a readonly root file system (it is
> possible to symlink what needs to be write enabled to the local disk if
> needed)

  I've used unionfs for this -- it's a scheme that lets you mount
a read-only file system and a read-write "overlay", with
copy-on-write semantics, which is to say, when you write a 
file, it creates a new copy of the file on the rw filesystem, 
and uses that in the future.

  It's mainly used for overlaying RAMFS filesystems over
CD-ROMs on various LiveCD distros, but it also works
for rw local disk over ro NFS.  It's fairly straightforward
to mount, and fstab understands it.

  It's provided by a kernel module, but the modules are packaged
for Debian "etch", and I think the functionality is included in 
the kernel source itself for 2.6.24 (etchnhalf) and 2.6.26 (lenny),
but I'm not 100% sure of that -- the machines I do this for
are still vanilla "etch", so as I say, I'm not sure of the 
etchnhalf or lenny status.

  My limited experience (I inherited this configuration from the
previous sysadmin) is that you definitely need to write to 
parts of "var" (/var/run, /var/tmp, and of course /var/log,
but possibly elsewhere), you may need to write to parts of
/etc (the famous /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules),
and if you run a graphical desktop, it might want to put
lock-files in /media when it mounts CDs and things.  And there's
/tmp, of course, which however might be a separate filesystem.

  The configuration I'm maintaining uses two unionfs overlays, 
one for /var and one for /etc, a small ramfs for /media, and
a separate filesystem for /tmp.





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Re: Aptitude help

[M. Lewis]

Daniel Burrows wrote:

I don't know what the timeline is on that; AFAIK there aren't any 2.6.28
packages anywhere in the archive.  In fact,


moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64


  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 doesn't seem to exist at all in
Debian.  Maybe you got it from some other site and they can provide you
with a matching kbuild?

  Daniel




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Re: Aptitude help

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:35:56PM -0600, "M. Lewis"  was 
heard to say:
>
> How can I resolve this dependency?
>
> Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that  
> linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet:
>
> moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild
> linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26
>
> So how am I to resolve the dependencies by hand as Aptitude suggests as  
> a solution?

  If the package you're trying to install depends on a package which
isn't available, you'll just have to wait until it becomes available.
I don't know what the timeline is on that; AFAIK there aren't any 2.6.28
packages anywhere in the archive.  In fact,

> moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64

  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 doesn't seem to exist at all in
Debian.  Maybe you got it from some other site and they can provide you
with a matching kbuild?

  Daniel


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Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins  
was heard to say:
> Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade:
> 
> # apt-get -fm install dpkg
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   lzma
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   dpkg
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/2039kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename

  Do you see anything unusual in the file list for coreutils?  (i.e.,
/var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list)  For instance, are there empty lines?
Does it look obviously corrupted?

  I would try "fixing" the problems that stop dpkg from processing the
files list, then downloading the .deb for the *exact version* you have
installed, and running "dpkg --install" on it to make sure the list is
correct.  NB: make sure it doesn't have anything that belongs to another
package first!

  I've attached the files list for coreutils on my computer for
comparison.

  Daniel


coreutils-filelist.bz2
Description: Binary data

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Allan Wind]

On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't 
> ignore them?

I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with 
thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably testing his personal mail 
configuration.  As such my preference is to automate processing of such 
messages as I already do for other subjects like spam.  If it cannot be 
done in a way that benefit all members of this mailing list and at the 
same time educates the sender, then perhaps a per-user solution would be 
an interest to a subset of this audience.  As such it seemed 
constructive to inquire if anyone had already solved this technical 
problem.  Of course the catch 22 might be that people that solved this 
problem would be ignoring this thread already :-)


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Re: Aptitude help

[Kelly Clowers]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:35, M. Lewis  wrote:
>
> How can I resolve this dependency?
>
> Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that
> linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet:
>
> moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild
> linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26


I did this a while ago for .27, I had to build a kbuild deb myself.
However a .27 orig.tar.gz is/was available to build from at
http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-kbuild-2.6/

I don't know if the same one could be used or modified and
used for .28 (I have no idea what is in kbuild)

That's all I know on this subject, hope it helps a little.


Cheers,
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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[dan]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 22:44:32 Allan Wind wrote:
> Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test
> messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests?  If not
> does anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so?
If you are using mutt, just use mailfiler and delete the mail from the 
server before you download it. 

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Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

[Ken Irving]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:07:11PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> I used to have an option for 'automatically start X when computer boots', 
> which
> I would disable. What is the 'Debian Way' for this? ;)

Unless you want it for other users, simplest is probably to remove
gdm and install xinit (if not already there) for startx.  

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Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

[JoeHill]

Mike Castle wrote: 

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, JoeHill  wrote:
> > The funny thing is, I already have this in my .bash_profile:
> >
> >  # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
> >PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> > fi  
> 
> I don't think .bash_profile gets sourced when you log in via an
> XDM/GDM type session. (After all, when would it, since you don't
> really have a login shell.)
> 
> Personally, I have it in my .bashrc, though that has it's own set of
> drawbacks.
> 
> If you do some searches about debian and sourcing login shells and
> gdm, you'll find more than enough reading material to keep you busy
> for hours.

Or, I could just set it up the way I always used to have it, no GDM (goddamned
display manager?), just a text-mode login.

I used to have an option for 'automatically start X when computer boots', which
I would disable. What is the 'Debian Way' for this? ;)

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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Chris Jones]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:33:04PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/18/2009 04:44 PM, Allan Wind wrote:
> >Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test 
> >messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests?  If not does 
> >anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so?
> 
> Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't 
> ignore them?

True.. hundreds of posts on this list I couldn't care less about that I
routinely delete..

But then, I would imagine s/o subscribes to a list because they have
something to say..

In the sake of efficience, I post whatever..  and if it works fine ..
if it doesn't .. I have my failed post and another headache to fix.

I mean, they're welcome to post "Chris Jones is a twit" if they can't
think of anything else.

Allan Wind .. be a sport .. ignore them..


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Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

[JoeHill]

Mike Castle wrote: 

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, JoeHill  wrote:
> > The funny thing is, I already have this in my .bash_profile:
> >
> >  # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
> >PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> > fi  
> 
> I don't think .bash_profile gets sourced when you log in via an
> XDM/GDM type session. (After all, when would it, since you don't
> really have a login shell.)
> 
> Personally, I have it in my .bashrc, though that has it's own set of
> drawbacks.
> 
> If you do some searches about debian and sourcing login shells and
> gdm, you'll find more than enough reading material to keep you busy
> for hours.

Or, I could just set it up the way I always used to have it, no GDM (goddamned
display manager?), just a text-mode login.

I used to have an option for 'automatically start X when computer boots', which
I would disable. What is the 'Debian Way' for this? ;)

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Re: laptop lenny + TV

[consultores1]

El lun, 19-01-2009 a las 01:27 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev escribió:
> consultores1 wrote:
> 
> > After 1 year working on it, i went to Nvidia web page, but i found the
> > same weird situation; "incongruent information". I can not install the
> > GeForce 6150 v2 driver, because i could not identify and download it. It
> > looks for me as if it was really better when "KISS" was a premise!
> > Following a pig, it is found the pigs world.
> > 
> > PS:
> > I am not able to continue whit this, thanks
> > 
> > 
> 
> I just did an upgrade at my fathers notebook and could download the nvidia
> driver. It was easy and intuitive. Don't know what kind of problem you've
> had with it. Try again or just try the X native nv driver.
> 
> regards
> 
> 

Thanks for help.

I would like to try again with the private Nvidia drivers, could you
send me the link? I went to GiForce, then i found series 1-2-3-4-5-6; i
choose 6, and there, there were not anything related to my "Nvidia
Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)"

PS
nv driver is what i am using now, but i can not connect tv+portatil.


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Video tag (was Re: some questions about debian-installer)

[Ron Johnson]

On 01/18/2009 06:18 PM, Celejar wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:45:47 +0100
schoappied  wrote:


Hi,

I want to make a custom live-cd and have some questions about the debian 
installer:


1) is it possible to enable a windows installer, which makes users able 
to install Debian when in Windows? (Like Ubuntu has)


See

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/

BTW, I notice that this link:

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/demo.html

complains that:

[Your browser does not support the video element. Firefox 3.1 supports
it.]

I'm running IW 3.0.5, current for Sid.  What's up with the message?
Are they really requiring 3.1?  Is this that user-agent string nonsense?


They are using a feature of HTML5 which few browsers support.

Note, though, the "Direct link to video", which runs the video in a 
separate window.


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Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

[Eric Higgins]

Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade:

# apt-get -fm install dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  lzma
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dpkg
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2039kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Eric Higgins  wrote:
> Tried that, here are the results.
> I'm not sure what the difference is between apt-get and aptitude. It
> seems like it may be trying to remove some things I may need for my
> system, since it's an ARM based device.
>
> # aptitude upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>  apex-nslu2 aptitude at bc bind9-host catsboot dc devio dhcp3-client
>  dhcp3-common dictionaries-common dnsutils doc-debian doc-linux-text
>  dselect ed finger flash-kernel ftp gettext-base groff-base iamerican
>  ibritish info installation-report iptables ispell klogd laptop-detect
>  less libasn1-6-heimdal libbind9-0 libconsole libcupsys2 libdns22 libedit2
>  libevent1 libgc1c2 libgssapi2 libgssapi4-heimdal libisc11 libisccc0
>  libisccfg1 libkrb5-17-heimdal liblwres9 libnfsidmap2 libpci2
>  libroken16-heimdal librpcsecgss3 libsasl2 libsemanage1 libslp1 locales
>  lsof m4 man-db manpages mpack mtools mtr-tiny mutt nano ncurses-term
>  netcat nslu2-utils ntpdate openssh-client openssh-server patch pciutils
>  pidentd policycoreutils portmap procmail procps python python-central
>  python-minimal python-newt python-selinux python-semanage python-support
>  python2.4 python2.4-minimal reportbug samba samba-common samba-doc
>  selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted sharutils slugimage smbclient smbfs
>  strace swat sysklogd tasksel tasksel-data tcsh telnet texinfo time
>  traceroute ucf usbutils w3m wamerican wget whois winbind
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  avahi-daemon cpio dbus debconf debconf-i18n dpkg initramfs-tools
>  initscripts libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
>  libavahi-compat-howl0 libavahi-core4 libc6 libdbus-1-3 libfreetype6
>  libgnutls13 libkrb53 libpcre3 libssl0.9.8 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2
>  libvorbisfile3 linux-image-2.6.18-6-ixp4xx mt-daapd openssl perl
>  perl-base perl-modules rsync sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tzdata
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
>  libnss-mdns perl-doc psmisc
> 34 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 110 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2039kB/27.5MB of archives. After unpacking 163MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Get:1 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu etch/main dpkg 1.13.26 [2039kB]
> Fetched 2039kB in 10s (195kB/s)
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing apex-nslu2 (--remove):
>  files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  apex-nslu2
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM, subscriptions
>  wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 21:33 +0100, Eric Higgins wrote:
>>>
>>> # apt-get upgrade
>> ...
>>> Preconfiguring packages ...
>>> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack):
>>>  files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb
>>> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> Try to remove
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb
>>
>> and try again with:
>> aptitude update
>> aptitude safe-upgrade
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rob
>>
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Re: How to loop spdif through to speakers

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Andreas Theofilu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have the problem, that my sound card doesn't offer the ability to pass
> the input from the spdif directly to the speakers. This is what I have:

use sox or combination (pipe) arecord | aplay

input the spdif output the soundcard

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Aptitude help

[M. Lewis]

How can I resolve this dependency?

Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that 
linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet:


moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild
linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26

So how am I to resolve the dependencies by hand as Aptitude suggests as 
a solution?


Thanks,
Mike

moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 791kB of archives. After unpacking 10.8MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which is a 
virtual package.

Unable to resolve dependencies!  Giving up...
The following packages are BROKEN:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 791kB of archives. After unpacking 10.8MB will be used.
aptitude failed to find a solution to these dependencies.  You can solve 
them yourself by hand or type 'n' to quit.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-1-amd64: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which is a 
virtual package.

Resolve these dependencies by hand? [N/+/-/_/:/?] n
Abort.
moe:/tmp/kde-cajun#

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Re: laptop lenny + TV

[Emanoil Kotsev]

consultores1 wrote:

> After 1 year working on it, i went to Nvidia web page, but i found the
> same weird situation; "incongruent information". I can not install the
> GeForce 6150 v2 driver, because i could not identify and download it. It
> looks for me as if it was really better when "KISS" was a premise!
> Following a pig, it is found the pigs world.
> 
> PS:
> I am not able to continue whit this, thanks
> 
> 

I just did an upgrade at my fathers notebook and could download the nvidia
driver. It was easy and intuitive. Don't know what kind of problem you've
had with it. Try again or just try the X native nv driver.

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Re: some questions about debian-installer

[Celejar]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:45:47 +0100
schoappied  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to make a custom live-cd and have some questions about the debian 
> installer:
> 
> 1) is it possible to enable a windows installer, which makes users able 
> to install Debian when in Windows? (Like Ubuntu has)

See

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/

BTW, I notice that this link:

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/demo.html

complains that:

[Your browser does not support the video element. Firefox 3.1 supports
it.]

I'm running IW 3.0.5, current for Sid.  What's up with the message?
Are they really requiring 3.1?  Is this that user-agent string nonsense?

Celejar
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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Ken Irving]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test 
> messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests? 

Yes, as the list is run using procmail filters (smartlist).  Refer to
the archives for the many reasons it's not going to happen.

> ... If not does 
> anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so?

I don't use maildrop, but google yields this example:

http://www.dotfiles.com/files/18/288_mailfilter

###
#
# Example 9:
# Software I don't wanne read about.
#
###


if (/^Subject:.*(exim|sendmail|[x]?emacs|gdm|xdm|imap|cgi|[ ]?deb[ ])/)
{
to Mail/trash
}

Ken

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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Ron Johnson]

On 01/18/2009 04:44 PM, Allan Wind wrote:
Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test 
messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests?  If not does 
anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so?


Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't 
ignore them?


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some questions about debian-installer

[schoappied]

Hi,

I want to make a custom live-cd and have some questions about the debian 
installer:


1) is it possible to enable a windows installer, which makes users able 
to install Debian when in Windows? (Like Ubuntu has)


2) It is possible to let the installer set UUID in the /etc/fstab? (I 
probably want to use a Sidux kernel).



3) is it possible to enable sudo in the install process? So new users 
are added also to the sudo group?



Thanks in advance,

\d


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Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

[Allan Wind]

Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test 
messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests?  If not does 
anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so?


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Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

[Lisi Reisz]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:37:38 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."  wrote:
> > >> "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling
> > >> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license."
> > >>
> > >> True.
> > >
> > >Given the fact that attacking Sun (the largest  donator of OpenSOurce
> > > software) is definitely FUD, we can safely ignore your post.
> >
> > I not sure how you characterize this as "attacking Sun".  Is it not true
> > that Sun released the CDDL?  Is it not true that parts of cdrtools are
>
> Using the word "unfortunately" in relation with a OSS donation is a really
> bad attack. Please tell me why Sun was attacked?

Sun wasn't attacked, so noone can tell you why it was.

It would appear that English is not your native language since you seem 
frequently just to misunderstand what is said.  Are you perhaps 
(mis)translating into another language?  Or are you perversely deliberately 
misundersanding?

Anyhow, I apologise to the rest of you for having lost my battle with myself 
and fed the troll.  But that last statement is such linguistic and semantic 
nonsense, I could no longer resist.

Perhaps we should all now go home to tea and leave the troll to feed himself?

Lisi


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Re: package version numbers

[Carlos Sousa]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:56:30 -0500
Rick Pasotto  wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:46:32PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto  was 
> > heard to say:
> > > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude
> > > tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other
> > > packages aptitude says:
> > > 
> > >   Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable
> > 
> >   What this means is that the solution to your dependencies that
> > aptitude calculated didn't leave libglib1.2 on your system.  Probably
> > the message should say "it is not going to be installed", not
> > "it is not installable".
> > 
> >   In order to give you a more specific answer I'd need to know what you
> > were trying to upgrade and ideally see all the output from aptitude.
> 
> After reading Carlos Sousa's reply I was able to figure out a little
> more what's happening. I get hesitant when aptitude tells me it wants to
> remove programs that I use.
> 
> Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade
> with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal,
> which is not in lenny. Why not? There are several reasons I prefer
> multi-gnome-terminal to gnome-terminal:

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460784

It apparently died upstream, and had to be removed from Debian
due to dependency on incompatible (newer) Gnome libs.

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Re: sound card not detected

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 15:59:12 -0500, Tamas Hegedus wrote:
>> I think this card needs the snd-intel8x0 module, not snd-hda-intel.
> Hmmm. It seems you are right.
>
>> That would have been the right moment to ask for help here.
> First I always try to solve myself. And I could do it on my other  
> computer 2 months ago...

Fair enough. Just keep in mind that I can be less sure that my
suggestions for solutions will work as intended since I don't know all
the details of your modifications to the standard Debian configuration. 

>> You seem to have a broken mix of the Debian and the non-Debian ALSA
>> modules. Can you revert to a clean Lenny install?
> I do not know how to revert to a clean Lenny install.
> Is it:
> 1. "make uninstall" for each installed-from-the-source alsa stuff?
> 2. aptitude install 'alsa-packages'

Maybe it is better to first have a closer look what is going on with the
system as it is. After booting, post the output of:

lsmod | grep snd

If shows any snd* modules loaded, unload them as root, e.g. "modprobe -r
snd-hda-intel", "modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss", etc.

Then run these commands as root

modprobe -v snd-hda-intel
modprobe -v snd-intel8x0

and post their output here. I would also be interested in the result of

grep "install snd " /etc/modprobe.d/*

to see the install command that modprobe complains about.

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mutual mounting of network filesystems via init scripts

[Micha Feigin]

I'm setting up a computational cluster in my uni lab. It is being set up to
support batch execution (torque/maui) for mpi programs.

The problem is that the batch system runs different processes on different
machines so they thus need a shared file system for accessing the required
files for the run.

I tried setting up mutual nfs sharing, i.e mount all machines in the cluster
under /remote, that is to have
/remote/machine1
/remote/machine2
...

The problem is that the machines don't come up at the same time so there is a
problem mounting each other from the init scripts.

Is there any solution to mutual access via the init scripts? (i.e something
like lazy mounting. Something like what cifs seems to be doing, that is if the
connection was lost to try to reconnect on request, but also at mount time and
not only on connection loss).

Is glusterfs a solution to this?

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read only nfs root and var

[Micha Feigin]

I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file system.
I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting it's own disk
and then linking some files from etc.

The only problem I'm running into is var which should be partially from the
head node (looks like most of var/lib) and some local (var/run it seems). How
do I setup var to play nicely with a readonly root file system (it is possible
to symlink what needs to be write enabled to the local disk if needed)

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Re: Homemade FTP server

[Celejar]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:35:55 -0600
Kumar Appaiah  wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:05:16PM -0800, talikarng.use...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience building their own ftp server for use
> > on a hoem network? I would like to build a small headless server
> > (remote login) for file storage (low traffic, preferably low power,
> > perhaps even have a torrent client on it)
> > 
> > I would like the project to be small (2x shoebox sized if possible) so
> > what hardware would be recommended?
> > Do people find that debian works well for servers?
> 
> See if the NSLU2 works for you. The NSLU2 (Slug) is a headless device,

I've been toying for a while with getting a Buffalo Linkstation for
this sort of thing.  Manufacturer recertified models are often
available for as little as $60-$80 USD.  These prices include a HDD of
several hundred GB, and the HW seems to be superior to the Slug in at
least several ways (1000Mbit ethernet, internal HDDs plus USB
support).  There's a pretty active hacking community:

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Main_Page

and they have a Debian page:

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Debian

But I ultimately don't know if linux is as well supported on them as it
is on the Slug.  Anyone have a more informed, experienced verdict on
these Buffalo devices?

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profilling help

[Micha Feigin]

I am playing with some optimization options for c++. I just change all loops in
the program to float and added some extra tests on the loop limits to reduce
the work and while the Intel compiler drops the runtime to a third (with full
optimization) gcc actually gets me triple the runtime for some reason.

I tried compiling with profiling turned on (-pg and gprof) and again, intel's
compiler gives me runtime and call count information for all functions but gcc
only gets me the (wrong) runtime for main and nothing else.

How do I profile this program to figure out where the compiler is going wrong?

This is with gcc 4.3 from unstable.

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Re: package version numbers

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:46:32PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto  was 
> heard to say:
> > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude
> > tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other
> > packages aptitude says:
> > 
> > Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable
> 
>   What this means is that the solution to your dependencies that
> aptitude calculated didn't leave libglib1.2 on your system.  Probably
> the message should say "it is not going to be installed", not
> "it is not installable".
> 
>   In order to give you a more specific answer I'd need to know what you
> were trying to upgrade and ideally see all the output from aptitude.

After reading Carlos Sousa's reply I was able to figure out a little
more what's happening. I get hesitant when aptitude tells me it wants to
remove programs that I use.

Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade
with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal,
which is not in lenny. Why not? There are several reasons I prefer
multi-gnome-terminal to gnome-terminal:

1)  Though the gnome-terminal help page mentions it, the actual
preference setting gives me no way to stop the cursor from blinking.
I can't stand a blinking cursor!

2)  My prefered font, the one I've been using for years, neep, is not in
the list of available fonts. It's in the xfonts-jmk package.

3)  Not really a problem, but a convenience. multi-gnome-terminal gives
me the option to open a tab as root.

4)  multi-gnome-terminal has many other options that I've become
accustomed to that are missing from gnome-terminal.

If someone could suggest how to solve those problems, I think I'll be ok.

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Re: aptitude freezes after install

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich  was 
heard to say:
> Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me:
>
> dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
> (Reading database ... 112547 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace aptitude 0.4.10-1 (using  
> /aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement aptitude ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptitude:
>  aptitude depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6; however:
>   Package libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6 is not installed.

  Ouch.  I forgot that the apt ABI had changed.  So much for that clever
idea.  I don't think we want to get into downgrading your apt.

  But the one thing you did confirm is that apparently 0.4.11-2 doesn't
exhibit this bug.  That gives us a starting point (and also limits how
far back we need to go, which will be a help).  I think the version
range is narrow enough for "hg bisect" to be useful.

  First, install the build dependencies of aptitude.  You'll also want
mercurial.

# aptitude build-depends aptitude build-essential+ mercurial+

  Now, get a copy of the aptitude source in the current directory:

$ hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/aptitude/head aptitude
$ cd aptitude

  Tell "hg bisect" that the last known-good revision is 0.4.11:

$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11
$ hg bisect --bad tip

  Mercurial will tell you that it's checked out a changeset for you to
test:

> Testing changeset 1499:79935933f5ba (305 changesets remaining, ~8 tests)
> 136 files updated, 0 files merged, 8 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  Now, compile aptitude by running

$ sh ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --disable-werror
$ make -C src

  When you're done, run ./src/aptitude as root:

# ./src/aptitude

  If you can reproduce the bug, mark the current revision as bad:

$ hg bisect --bad

  If not, mark it as good:

$ hg bisect --good

  Then in theory you can just continue compiling aptitude (using the
steps above) and running it, telling "hg" at each step whether the
revision is good or bad.  If you hit a revision that you can't compile,
you can try this:

$ hg bisect --skip

  If that doesn't work, post the output of "hg identify" and the
compile error, and I'll see if I can figure out a workaround for you.
Otherwise, keep going (should take about 8 tries) until mercurial says
what it thinks the first bad revision is, then post the output here.

Thanks,
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Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

[Celejar]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:21 -0600
Dennis Wicks  wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network 
> down so much that I can't do much of anything else that 
> wants to get to the internet, either on the machine running 
> aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is there anyway 
> that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monopolize the 
> entire bandwidth?
> 
> I have already tried using ionice but it didn't make any 
> noticeable difference.

Others have posted various solutions, but for a generic and simple
solution to this sort of problem, look at trickle (apt-cache show
trickle).

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Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-01-18 04:08 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password.
> To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not
> over the network.
> It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since
> I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins).

Setting the login shell of the user to /bin/true disables local and
remote logins on a terminal, but should allow logins with XDM, see
http://bugs.debian.org/5212.  Not sure whether it will work with GDM,
though.

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Re: APT Help

[Dean Chester]

Thanks Daniel that did the trick
Dean

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Daniel Burrows  wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:45:55PM +, Dean Chester <
> dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com> was heard to say:
> > GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently.
>
>   Ah, sorry.  I somehow misread / hallucinated that you got the message
> "ghc-pkg: command not found".  If you had, my fix would have worked
> great. :-)
>
>  According to http://bugs.debian.org/507338, the fix here is to edit
>
>
> /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/highlighting-kate-0.2.1/installed-pkg-config
>
>  and remove the reference to "parsec".  That is, change
>
> depends: base-3.0.1.0 containers-0.1.0.1 parsec-2.1.0.0
> pcre-light-0.3.1 xhtml-3000.0.2.1 base-3.0.1.0 filepath-1.1.0.0
>
>  to
>
> depends: base-3.0.1.0 containers-0.1.0.1
> pcre-light-0.3.1 xhtml-3000.0.2.1 base-3.0.1.0 filepath-1.1.0.0
>
>  Daniel
>
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Re: problem with USB cdc-acm

[Wim de Vries]

Hi,
Some additional information:
when unplug the power supply, I can get it working for a few minutes
(ttyACM0). Then the same errors appears.
Unplugging and plugging it in again results in a change to ttyACM1.
regards, wim.

Wim de Vries wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to connect a (serial) USB device to my asus eee pc 900 with
> Dedian.
> The device connects OK on my HP compaq 6910p with Suse 10.3:
> dmesg:
> usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
> usb 7-1: new device found, idVendor=04d8, idProduct=000a
> usb 7-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 7-1: Product: PIC18 USB CDC
> usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Microchip
> usb 7-1: SerialNumber: V1.1FS
> usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: This device cannot do calls on its own. It
> is no modem.
> cdc_acm 7-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
>
> so it should ánd can use cdc-acm
>
> on the eee pc (the cdc-acm module is installed):
>
> [  216.648044] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
> [  216.704127] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  217.888078] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
> [  218.031991] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  218.088093] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  219.128078] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
> [  219.277888] usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all
> [  219.277888] usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -71
> [  219.336093] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  220.368043] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9
> [  220.424086] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  221.608071] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 10
> [  221.750199] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  221.808058] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  222.848077] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 12
> [  222.990081] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  223.048063] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  224.088066] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 14
> [  224.144103] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  225.328076] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 15
> [  225.476010] usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start: -71
> [  225.476010] usb 2-1: chopping to 0 config(s)
> [  225.483627] usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> [  225.491359] usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> [  225.499051] usb 2-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> [  225.499051] usb 2-1: no configuration chosen from 0 choices
> [  225.499051] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04d8, idProduct=000a
> [  225.499051] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
> SerialNumber=3
> [  225.499051] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 15
> [  226.568073] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 16
> [  226.710080] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  226.768103] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  227.808075] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 18
> [  227.950081] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  228.008095] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  229.068076] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 20
> [  229.125840] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  230.288075] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 21
> [  230.430184] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  230.488094] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  231.528176] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 23
> [  231.670199] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  231.728102] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  232.768075] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 25
> [  232.824102] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  234.008069] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 26
> [  234.150081] usb 2-1: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> [  234.208090] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  235.248078] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 28
> [  235.304101] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  236.488081] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 29
> [  236.638138] usb 2-1: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all
> [  236.638138] usb 2-1: can't read configurations, error -71
> [  236.696109] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
> [  237.728077] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 
> 31
> 

Re: sound card not detected

[Tamas Hegedus]

I think this card needs the snd-intel8x0 module, not snd-hda-intel.

Hmmm. It seems you are right.


That would have been the right moment to ask for help here.
First I always try to solve myself. And I could do it on my other 
computer 2 months ago...



You seem to have a broken mix of the Debian and the non-Debian ALSA
modules. Can you revert to a clean Lenny install?

I do not know how to revert to a clean Lenny install.
Is it:
1. "make uninstall" for each installed-from-the-source alsa stuff?
2. aptitude install 'alsa-packages'
???

Thanks!
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Re: package version numbers

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto  was 
heard to say:
> There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude
> tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other
> packages aptitude says:
> 
>   Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable

  What this means is that the solution to your dependencies that
aptitude calculated didn't leave libglib1.2 on your system.  Probably
the message should say "it is not going to be installed", not
"it is not installable".

  In order to give you a more specific answer I'd need to know what you
were trying to upgrade and ideally see all the output from aptitude.

  Daniel


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Re: Motherboard drivers?

[Frank Lanitz]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:26:13 +0200
"Dotan Cohen"  wrote:

> 2009/1/18 Frank Lanitz :
> > In most cases not, but this is depending on your board. If there is
> > a S-ATA/RAID controller onboard which doesn't have any suitable
> > driver inside Linux kernel, you might need a driver CD.
> >
> 
> I see, thanks. So it is a matter of works | not works as opposed to
> works | works better.

Well, in some cases there is just no big difference between the free
drivers and maybe closed source drivers. In other cases you just don't
have a choice because of hardware vendors only provide closed source
drivers (you may remember Nvidia's and ATI's graphic card drivers in
past). So here in such cases it is really a matter of it works or not
works at all. 

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Re: APT Help

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:45:55PM +, Dean Chester 
 was heard to say:
> GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently.

  Ah, sorry.  I somehow misread / hallucinated that you got the message
"ghc-pkg: command not found".  If you had, my fix would have worked
great. :-)

  According to http://bugs.debian.org/507338, the fix here is to edit

/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/highlighting-kate-0.2.1/installed-pkg-config

  and remove the reference to "parsec".  That is, change

depends: base-3.0.1.0 containers-0.1.0.1 parsec-2.1.0.0
 pcre-light-0.3.1 xhtml-3000.0.2.1 base-3.0.1.0 filepath-1.1.0.0

  to

depends: base-3.0.1.0 containers-0.1.0.1
 pcre-light-0.3.1 xhtml-3000.0.2.1 base-3.0.1.0 filepath-1.1.0.0

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Re: Motherboard drivers?

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/1/18 Frank Lanitz :
> In most cases not, but this is depending on your board. If there is a
> S-ATA/RAID controller onboard which doesn't have any suitable driver
> inside Linux kernel, you might need a driver CD.
>

I see, thanks. So it is a matter of works | not works as opposed to
works | works better.

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Re: how to download Java Applet

[subscriptions]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 19:17 +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I saw on remote server an applet running I want to download it, I
> saved
> the file, I checked the files are downloaded comprising the applet (at
> least with that name), when I ran it locally, it didn.t work !!!
> Here for example an animation for trees
> http://people.ksp.sk/~kuko/bak/
> 
> thanks for help
> bela

Save the applet on a webserver where you can read the access log files.

Load the applet through you browser and see in the log which other files
the applet tries to load.

If the URLs in the applet has full URL references, it would not show up
in the logs -> then use a sniffer.

Best,

Rob




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Re: sound card not detected

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:36:35 -0500, Tamas Hegedus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running debian/lenny.
> I have an integrated sound card:
> 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
> 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

I think this card needs the snd-intel8x0 module, not snd-hda-intel.

> It was recognized by the system but did not work.

That would have been the right moment to ask for help here.

> So I installed the alsa-driver, lib, utils as described at:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-hda-intel
> Plus: toos, oss, plugins

This makes things much more difficult, because it introduces a mix of
modules and messes up Debian's configuration files.

> The only 'unusual' thing during installation: I had to run ./snddevices
> to have the /dev files

Udev will take care of device node creation when the snd modules are
loaded; don't mess around in /dev unless you really know what you are
doing.

> But my card is not recognized now. If I run alsaconf, it does not find
> it. The sound modules are not loaded at bootup.
>
> If I run "modprobe snd-hda-intel" I get:
> WARNING: Error running install command for snd

You seem to have a broken mix of the Debian and the non-Debian ALSA
modules. Can you revert to a clean Lenny install?

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Re: Loopmount install other OS in Debian Lenny

[Andrew Malcolmson]

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:

Last time I tried using Lubi inside Debian Lenny amd64 with Ubuntu
8.10 iso, it won't work. I got a few errors and it won't find the boot
partition.



Sorry, can't help you with Lubi (looks cool, though).  However, there 
are lots of other ways to create a bootable image file from an ISO, for 
example with qemu:


#Create the image file - file size will start small and grow as space is 
used


qemu-image create -f qcow2 ubuntu.img 5G

#Run qemu with ISO attached as virtual CDROM

qemu -hda ubuntu.img -cdrom ubuntu.iso

For faster performance, see the Debian wiki on setting up acceleration 
for qemu/kvm:


http://wiki.debian.org/QEMU


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Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

[Joerg Schilling]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."  wrote:

> >> "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling
> >> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license."
> >>
> >> True.
> >Given the fact that attacking Sun (the largest  donator of OpenSOurce
> > software) is definitely FUD, we can safely ignore your post.
>
> I not sure how you characterize this as "attacking Sun".  Is it not true 
> that Sun released the CDDL?  Is it not true that parts of cdrtools are 

Using the word "unfortunately" in relation with a OSS donation is a really bad 
attack. Please tell me why Sun was attacked? 

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how to download Java Applet

[Abdelkader Belahcene]

Hi,
I saw on remote server an applet running I want to download it, I saved
the file, I checked the files are downloaded comprising the applet (at
least with that name), when I ran it locally, it didn.t work !!!
Here for example an animation for trees
http://people.ksp.sk/~kuko/bak/

thanks for help
bela


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Re: Setting up TAP interface at boot?

[Andrew Malcolmson]

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot
time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as
root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do
have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this:

auto tap0
iface tap0 inet static
  address 192.168.5.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0

but this won't work if the interface doesn't exist, so I end
up having to do everything by hand.

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower



To bring up a TAP interface, optionally readable by a non-root user, do:

iface mytap inet static
address 10.0.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up /usr/sbin/tunctl -u username -t mytap



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Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

[Reid Priedhorsky]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:10:05 +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
>> I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only
>> one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the
>> directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync.
> 
> You set LABEL to the same one.

This works great! I used tune2fs to set the labels (they're ext3) and then
here's the line from /etc/fstab that works.

LABEL=backup-r  /mnt/backup   auto  noauto,user,sync,noatime0  0

> Then /dev/disk/by-label/* should be the
> same for both.  LABEL can be set for FAT system using mlabel command
> from mtools package.  (Or MS-DOS label command)

I was about to complain that I don't have a /dev/disk/by-label, but then
it appeared. It seems to automagically appear when a partition with a
label is plugged in, but not if a label is added to a partition which was
already online.

Thanks!!

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sound card not detected

[Tamas Hegedus]

Hi,

I am running debian/lenny.
I have an integrated sound card:
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

It was recognized by the system but did not work.

So I installed the alsa-driver, lib, utils as described at:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-hda-intel
Plus: toos, oss, plugins

The only 'unusual' thing during installation: I had to run ./snddevices
to have the /dev files

But my card is not recognized now. If I run alsaconf, it does not find
it. The sound modules are not loaded at bootup.

If I run "modprobe snd-hda-intel" I get:
WARNING: Error running install command for snd

I tried to google, but I could not solve and I do not know how to
proceed. Thanks for your help in advance,
tamas

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Re: Motherboard drivers?

[Frank Lanitz]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:49:23 +0200
"Dotan Cohen"  wrote:

> Most new motherboards come with a driver disk for Windows XP. Is there
> a need for drivers in Debian as well? In XP, the system will run
> without installing the drivers, but it runs better with. Is there a
> similar issue in Debian?

In most cases not, but this is depending on your board. If there is a
S-ATA/RAID controller onboard which doesn't have any suitable driver
inside Linux kernel, you might need a driver CD. 

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Re: package version numbers

[Carlos Sousa]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:42:26 -0500
Rick Pasotto  wrote:

> There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude
> tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other
> packages aptitude says:
> 
>   Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable
> 
> However, 'apt-cache policy libglib1.2' shows:
> 
> libglib1.2:
>   Installed: 1.2.10-17
>   Candidate: 1.2.10-17
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.2.10-17 0
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It is in stable as well. Don't you have stable in your sources.list?

Package libglib1.2 appears to have been replaced by libglib1.2ldbl, and
it shouldn't be depended upon by any package.

The only exception seems to be the package xmovie, and I'd say it's a
bug. So don't install xmovie for now.

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Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

[Guillermo Garron]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dennis Wicks  wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much that
> I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, either
> on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is there
> anyway that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monopolize the entire
> bandwidth?
>
> I have already tried using ionice but it didn't make any noticeable
> difference.
>
> I am running lenny on a P4 2.x GHz, 100 mps lan to Shorewall and a 768kbs
> link to the Inet.
You may be interested in this.

http://www.go2linux.org/traffic-shaping-with-linux

And if you have more than one Debian PC on that connection you may
also be interested in:

http://www.go2linux.org/debian-ubuntu-package-proxy-server

apt-cacher can be configured to use only an specific amount of bandwidth,

Hope that helps.

regards,

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Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:05:21 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much 
> that I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, 
> either on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. 
> Is there anyway that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monopolize 
> the entire bandwidth?

Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting:

Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7";  // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate

(I never tried this myself, I just copied it from
/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz.)

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Re: aptitude freezes after install

[microwaverich]

Daniel Burrows wrote:

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich  was 
heard to say:

I don't know if I'm "up to" it, but I'd love to give it a go.


  Cool.  Thanks!  Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my
computer. :-(

If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above  
aptitudes (in reverse order?) and then installing some other package  
(any package?).


  Yes -- starting with the most recent ones, install each aptitude
version (just the ones I listed would be fine for now), then try
installing or removing some small package.  I use xsoldier for this
sort of test, but you can pick a different victim if you like.  The
goal is to find the most recent broken version (i.e., the one where
the breaking change was introduced).

Thanks,
  Daniel


Well, I began already with a "Quicksort" type of approach: begin in the 
middle and work outward.


I went to 
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/12/17/debian/pool/main/a/aptitude/
and downloaded aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb and tried installing that.  I 
didn't see a k7 version, if that matters.


It told me I needed libcwidget1, as you said it might, so I went back 
and got that, and it seemed to install just fine.


Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me:

dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
(Reading database ... 112547 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace aptitude 0.4.10-1 (using 
/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement aptitude ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptitude:
 aptitude depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6; however:
  Package libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6-4.6 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing aptitude (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 aptitude
RESULT=1

I don't see such a libapt-pkg ... in the Lenny repository.

I next tried installing the older version 0.4.5.3-1, but the installer 
refused to replace the 0.4.10-1 version due to dependencies with tasksel.


So I tried the newest one in your list: 0.4.11-2
It installed with no errors.

I invoked aptitude in a console and checked Help->About to verify that I 
had the 0.4.11-2 version.


Then I searched for kstars, selected it (+), and hit 'g'.  aptitude 
advised of three dependencies it would load (e.g., kstars data) and that 
libcwidget3 would be removed.  I hit 'g' and off it went. When it 
returned, it responded to commands and exited properly when I selected 'q'.


:-)   :-)   :-)

What next, Doc?


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How can I throttle down aptitude?

[Dennis Wicks]

Greetings;

When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network 
down so much that I can't do much of anything else that 
wants to get to the internet, either on the machine running 
aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is there anyway 
that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monopolize the 
entire bandwidth?


I have already tried using ionice but it didn't make any 
noticeable difference.


I am running lenny on a P4 2.x GHz, 100 mps lan to Shorewall 
and a 768kbs link to the Inet.


Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Dennis


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Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

[owens]

>
>
>
> Original Message 
>From: winfr...@tilanus.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X
>Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:28:50 +0100
>
>>On 01/18/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>> Can anyone that cares (or, perhaps, is 
>>> schooled in formal logic and needs some exercise) back me up on
>that 
>>> assertion?
>>
>>Maybe it is time to stop discussing and look at this discussion from
>a
>>distance.
>>
>>Jörg didn't produce solid evidence for two of his statements:
>>- CDDL is compatible with GPL and the DFSG.
>>- Debian is violating his rights on his intellectual property.
>>The only behaviour I see from Jörg right now, is repeating the
>>statements but ignoring requests to produce evidence, although he
>claims
>>he has the evidence.
>>
>>It is very unfortunate he is not giving evidence for his statements:
>I
>>respect his contribution to the free software community very much,
>Jörg
>>has been an incredible pioneer. But IMHO his current behaviour makes
>him
>>loose his credibility very fast. It is painful to see such a
>respected
>>programmer getting more and more damaged by his own behaviour.
>>
>>I wish I had the means to resolve this discussion once and for all,
>>there is already too much damage done. But I am just as empty-handed
>as
>>everybody else in this duscussion.
>>
>>best wishes,
>>
>>Winfried
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I have been an "expert" on close to a dozen patent/copyright suits. 
Unfortunately in situations like these there is only one ultimate
solution-someone has to sue someone and get the issue resolved in
court.  Although the arguements presented here come from bright
people they are, albeit educated, merely opinions.  Also if either
side would cousult some plethora of lawyers we would not have a
resolution, merely a plethore more opinions.  Although I am a
neophyte in the Debian community I humbly suggest that this thread be
dropped.
Larry
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Re: APT Help

[Dean Chester]

GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently.
Dean

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Burrows  wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Djingo Cacadril <
> cacad...@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> > From: Dean Chester 
> > > When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it
> > > doesn't update does anyone know  how i can fix it?
> > > Here is the out put in the console:
> > [snip]
> > > Removing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev ...
> > > ghc-pkg: cannot find package highlighting-kate-0.2.1
> >
> > Sid is like this. Use testing instead.
> >
> > Or wait a few days, till somebody uploads a fixed set of packages.
>
>   Since that's a preremoval script, waiting won't help.  Luckily, the
> fix is simple: he needs to get ghc-pkg onto his system.  Installing
> the package "ghc6" should do the trick.
>
>  Daniel
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Re: aptitude freezes after install

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 18 January 2009, Daniel Burrows  wrote 
about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install':
>  The problem is, the earliest version of aptitude which is known to be
>free of the bug is so old that it no longer builds with the current
>toolchain in Debian.  And if you run "hg bisect", giving that version as
>the starting point, "bisect" picks a version that requires a version of
>libcwidget-dev that is no longer in the archive.
>
>  I'm trying to find a way of doing this without posting the horribly
>convoluted instructions that would be necessary to deal with that
>situation.

At this moment, I am particularly glad IANADD.  ;)
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Re: APT Help

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Djingo Cacadril  
was heard to say:
> From: Dean Chester 
> > When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it 
> > doesn't update does anyone know  how i can fix it?
> > Here is the out put in the console:
> [snip] 
> > Removing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev ...
> > ghc-pkg: cannot find package highlighting-kate-0.2.1
> 
> Sid is like this. Use testing instead.
> 
> Or wait a few days, till somebody uploads a fixed set of packages.

  Since that's a preremoval script, waiting won't help.  Luckily, the
fix is simple: he needs to get ghc-pkg onto his system.  Installing
the package "ghc6" should do the trick.

  Daniel


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Re: aptitude freezes after install

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:56:27AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." 
 was heard to say:
> On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows  wrote 
> about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install':
> >On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich  
> was heard to say:
> >> If I understand you correctly, I should try installing the above
> >> aptitudes (in reverse order?) and then installing some other package
> >> (any package?).
> >
> >  Yes -- starting with the most recent ones, install each aptitude
> >version (just the ones I listed would be fine for now), then try
> >installing or removing some small package.  I use xsoldier for this
> >sort of test, but you can pick a different victim if you like.  The
> >goal is to find the most recent broken version (i.e., the one where
> >the breaking change was introduced).
> 
> Wow, this sounds like a job for "git bisect".  Unfortuntely, I can't use 
> that method as the issue doesn't manifest itself on any of my systems.

  The problem is, the earliest version of aptitude which is known to be
free of the bug is so old that it no longer builds with the current
toolchain in Debian.  And if you run "hg bisect", giving that version as
the starting point, "bisect" picks a version that requires a version of
libcwidget-dev that is no longer in the archive.

  I'm trying to find a way of doing this without posting the horribly
convoluted instructions that would be necessary to deal with that
situation.

  Daniel


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Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

[Winfried Tilanus]

On 01/18/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

Hi,

> Can anyone that cares (or, perhaps, is 
> schooled in formal logic and needs some exercise) back me up on that 
> assertion?

Maybe it is time to stop discussing and look at this discussion from a
distance.

Jörg didn't produce solid evidence for two of his statements:
- CDDL is compatible with GPL and the DFSG.
- Debian is violating his rights on his intellectual property.
The only behaviour I see from Jörg right now, is repeating the
statements but ignoring requests to produce evidence, although he claims
he has the evidence.

It is very unfortunate he is not giving evidence for his statements: I
respect his contribution to the free software community very much, Jörg
has been an incredible pioneer. But IMHO his current behaviour makes him
loose his credibility very fast. It is painful to see such a respected
programmer getting more and more damaged by his own behaviour.

I wish I had the means to resolve this discussion once and for all,
there is already too much damage done. But I am just as empty-handed as
everybody else in this duscussion.

best wishes,

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package version numbers

[Rick Pasotto]

There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude
tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other
packages aptitude says:

Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable

However, 'apt-cache policy libglib1.2' shows:

libglib1.2:
  Installed: 1.2.10-17
  Candidate: 1.2.10-17
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.10-17 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Isn't 1.2.10-17 greater than 1.2.0?

Could someone please explain this to me?

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Re: video MOV

[Antonio Macchi]

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:

just install w32codecs package after you enabled multimedia repo
http://debian-multimedia.org/



installed w32codecs

but it does not works for me...

anyhow, if you can see it, it's a real good news for me... I'll find.
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Re: video MOV

[Antonio Macchi]

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:

just install w32codecs package after you enabled multimedia repo
http://debian-multimedia.org/



NO NO NO
WELL WELL WELL

WORKS

thanks a lot
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Re: APT Help

[Djingo Cacadril]

From: Dean Chester 
> When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it 
> doesn't update does anyone know  how i can fix it?
> Here is the out put in the console:
[snip] 
> Removing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev ...
> ghc-pkg: cannot find package highlighting-kate-0.2.1

Sid is like this. Use testing instead.

Or wait a few days, till somebody uploads a fixed set of packages.

Cacadril



  


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Re: video MOV

[Antonio Macchi]

What player were you trying to use to view it?



standard mplayer from etch... maybe lenny has a new version of it?


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Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 18 January 2009, Joerg Schilling 
 wrote about 'Re: k3b & brasero don't 
work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X':
>"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."  wrote:
>> On Saturday 17 January 2009, Joerg Schilling
>>  wrote about 'Re: k3b & brasero
>> don't
>> work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X':
>> >Chris Bannister  wrote:
>> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/
>> >Everything starting with the word "Unfortunately" in this article is
>> > plain FUD.
>> Could please take it point by point?  Here's my take:
>>
>> "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling
>> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license."
>>
>> True.
>Given the fact that attacking Sun (the largest  donator of OpenSOurce
> software) is definitely FUD, we can safely ignore your post.

I not sure how you characterize this as "attacking Sun".  Is it not true 
that Sun released the CDDL?  Is it not true that parts of cdrtools are 
licensed under the CDDL?  I agree that the the bias instilled by the 
work "Unfortunately" is unfair, but I believe the statement is otherwise 
factual.  Sun is a large contributor of OSI-open, FSF-free, and DSFG-free 
code; I do not mean to make false statements about their behavior.

Also, I think it is unfair to "ignore [my] post" since my remaining points 
did not depend on this point.   Can anyone that cares (or, perhaps, is 
schooled in formal logic and needs some exercise) back me up on that 
assertion?
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Re: Logging passwords of SSH attacks

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/1/18 Florian Mickler :
>> > people
>> > often confuse which password they have to enter where, and thus
>> > valid passwords would wander into the logs for malicous people to
>> > collect and use at other sites.
>>
>> auth.log is only readable to sysadmins.
>>
>  oh what a wonderful world 
>
> The only way to prevent misuse of such information is to _not_ _log_
> _it_.
>

Naturally, I would not log invalid password attempts on a machine to
which valid users log into remotely. But if I am being attacked, then
I would like to log that info. Maybe they know my password and not my
username? Or an older password? It is entirely possible, as I change
the username each time I install but not always the password.

> If you really need to satisfy your curiosity hack the sources or look
> at 'john' or something like that.
>

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APT Help

[Dean Chester]

Hi
When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it
doesn't update does anyone know  how i can fix it? Here is the out put in
the console:
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 267846 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev ...
ghc-pkg: cannot find package highlighting-kate-0.2.1
dpkg: error processing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Reading package info from
"/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/highlighting-kate-0.2.1/installed-pkg-config"
... done.
ghc-pkg: dependency parsec-2.1.0.0 doesn't exist (use --force to override)
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.

Dean

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

[mouss]

s. keeling a écrit :
> Hi.  I'd rather it ran from inetd. 

don't. if you don't have a lot of mail, reduce the number of processes
in postfix master.cf.

> These are single user systems,
> intended to be fed via pop3/fetchmail/procmail/mutt, flowing back via
> my ISP's smarthost.  I've fought with Sendmail successfully in the
> past, limped along with exim* for years, and now Postfix.  What're my
> most obvious blunders?  Exim allowed me to supply my ISP password in
> passwd.client.  How's that done in Postfix?  Suggest config/log files
> I can show you?  My systems are all behind a router on 192.*, and my
> ISP (not me) is nucleus.com (shouldn't matter).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>   
> (127) newmil [root] /var/log_ apt-cache policy postfix
> postfix:
>   Installed: 2.5.5-1.1
>   Candidate: 2.5.5-1.1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.5.5-1.1 0
> 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
> 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> 
> Jan 16 01:13:56 newmil postfix/master[2782]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, 
> configuration /etc/postfix
> Jan 16 01:13:57 newmil postfix/master[2782]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
> Jan 16 18:23:20 newmil postfix/pickup[21212]: E2196BBF7: uid=1000 
> from=
> Jan 16 18:23:20 newmil postfix/cleanup[21707]: E2196BBF7: 
> message-id=<20090117012320.ga21...@newmil.nucleus.com>
> Jan 16 18:23:20 newmil postfix/qmgr[2845]: E2196BBF7: 
> from=, size=2517, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/smtp[21710]: E2196BBF7: 
> to=, relay=smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14]:25, delay=0.4, 
> delays=0.06/0.02/0.29/0.02, dsn=5.1.8, status=bounced (host 
> smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14] said: 550 5.1.8  
> Invalid address (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

newmil.nucleus.com doesn't exist in DNS, so your ISP refuses it.

you can use smtp_generic_maps so that your "fantasy" domain is rewritten
when mail is forwarded via smtp:

smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic

== generic:
keel...@newmil.nucleus.com  keel...@nucleus.com

see
http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html


> Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/cleanup[21707]: 4E2AABBFA: 
> message-id=<20090117012321.4e2aab...@newmil.nucleus.com>
> Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/qmgr[2845]: 4E2AABBFA: from=<>, size=4409, 
> nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/bounce[21711]: E2196BBF7: sender non-delivery 
> notification: 4E2AABBFA
> Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/qmgr[2845]: E2196BBF7: removed
> Jan 16 18:23:22 newmil postfix/local[21712]: 4E2AABBFA: 
> to=, relay=local, delay=1.2, 
> delays=0.01/0.11/0/1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: 
> /usr/bin/procmail)
> Jan 16 18:23:22 newmil postfix/qmgr[2845]: 4E2AABBFA: removed
> Jan 16 22:48:31 newmil postfix/master[2782]: terminating on signal 15
> Jan 16 22:49:18 newmil postfix/postfix-script[2655]: fatal: the Postfix mail 
> system is not running
> Jan 16 22:49:21 newmil postfix/master[2890]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, 
> configuration /etc/postfix
>   
> 
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Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password.
> To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not
> over the network.
> It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since
> I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins).

I used to add an extra line to /etc/pam.d/gdm to allow a list of users
(using pam_listfile.so) to login before checking their passwords.

Assuming you don't use XDMCP, this only allows local logins.

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Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

[Joerg Schilling]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."  wrote:

> On Saturday 17 January 2009, Joerg Schilling 
>  wrote about 'Re: k3b & brasero don't 
> work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X':
> >Chris Bannister  wrote:
> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/
> >
> >Everything starting with the word "Unfortunately" in this article is
> > plain FUD.
>
> Could please take it point by point?  Here's my take:
>
> "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling
> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license."
>
> True.

Given the fact that attacking Sun (the largest  donator of OpenSOurce software)
is definitely FUD, we can safely ignore your post.

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Re: Setting up TAP interface at boot?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 18 January 2009, Jesse Sheidlower  wrote 
about 'Setting up TAP interface at boot?':
>Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot
>time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as
>root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do
>have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this:
>
>auto tap0
>iface tap0 inet static
>  address 192.168.5.1
>  netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>but this won't work if the interface doesn't exist, so I end
>up having to do everything by hand.

Create and statically configure the device during the post-up of the 
interface it depends upon.  For example, I have a OpenVPN that I want to 
come up on eth0.  I added the line "openvpn $vpn_name" to the 
configuration for the eth0 device.

If you are not doing openvpn, you may have to write your own script and use 
the normal /etc/network/if-up.d interface.

If this is something to do with virtualization, so may want the device 
create (and configure) script attached to the "lo" device.

If you are happy with having to run a command as root to create the device, 
you could also run "ifup tap0" immediately after that command to save a 
little manual work.
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Re: Exim4 --> Postfix. /etc/exim4/passwd.client --> ?

[mouss]

s. keeling a écrit :
> My ISP insists I use my login passwd to talk to its smtp server.
> Where do I do that in Postfix?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
In particular:
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl

in short,
- postfix must be built with cyrus-sasl support (dovecot sasl only does
"server side sasl").
- use smtp_sasl_passwd_maps to set the login:password for the ISP. you
probably already use relayhost to pass mail to your ISP. the entry in
relayhost must be the same as the one used in smtp_sasl_passwd_maps.

Followup on the postfix mailing list


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Re: video MOV

[Arthur Marsh]

Antonio Macchi wrote, on 2009-01-18 19:19:

Hi
my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't 
read properly.



I have upload a very little example (1.3MB):
www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV

can someone tell me if can view this video?


file reports:

/tmp/test2.MOV: Apple QuickTime movie (unoptimized)

I viewed it alright with mplayer (saw panning across the inside of a 
window with curtains and venetian blinds).


What player were you trying to use to view it?

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Setting up TAP interface at boot?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot
time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as
root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do
have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this:

auto tap0
iface tap0 inet static
  address 192.168.5.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0

but this won't work if the interface doesn't exist, so I end
up having to do everything by hand.

Thanks.

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Re: video MOV

[Umarzuki Mochlis]

just install w32codecs package after you enabled multimedia repo
http://debian-multimedia.org/

2009/1/18 Antonio Macchi :
> Hi
> my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't read
> properly.
>
>
> I have upload a very little example (1.3MB):
> www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV
>
> can someone tell me if can view this video?
>
>
> thanks
>
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video MOV

[Antonio Macchi]

Hi
my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't 
read properly.



I have upload a very little example (1.3MB):
www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV

can someone tell me if can view this video?


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Re: gtkam not recognizing camera any more

[Arthur Marsh]

Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-18 15:26:

I'm having more problems since my upgrade to Lenny.

My digital camera, a Kodak Easyshare C813, is no longer recognized by 
gtkam.  It worked before, on Etch.  I had to add the VendorID and 
ProductNumber to (I believe) /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules to get it to 
work.  I don't remember if I had to do anything else.  When I upgraded 
to Lenny, the above file was rewritten, wiping out my changes.  I 
checked the output of lsusb, however, and got the VendorID and 
ProductNumber and added them to /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules.  I then 
rebooted the computer and tried to connect to the camera.  No luck.  The 
most recent libgphoto2 says that it has support for the C813, but I 
would rather stick with the Debian package.  If it worked before then I 
should be able to get it to work now.  Is there something else, other 
than adding a line to /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules with the correct vendor 
and product info, that I need to do to get gtkam to recognize my camera?




You might need to follow the instructions at:

file:///usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/README.Debian

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Re: aptitude freezes after install

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Saturday 17 January 2009, microwaverich  wrote 
about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install':
>3.  run:
>aptitude update
>aptitude install apt
>aptitude install dpkg
>aptitude install aptitude
>aptitude dist-upgrade

I could be completely wrong here (and I would love a correction) but I 
thought the preferred order was:
aptitude update
aptitude install dpkg # Core package handling
aptitude install apt  # Core repository management
aptitude install aptitude # State-of-the-art dependency handling
aptitude full-upgrade # See below

Aptitude for Lenny and above like "safe-upgrade" instead of "upgrade" 
and "full-upgrade" instead of "dist-upgrade".
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